Somnath Hore (1921- 2006), or Somnath da as his students and appraisers admiringly addressed him, was born in Barama village in Chittagong, in undivided Bengal (present Bangladesh). His life and art exemplified an artistic practice that drew from a collective ideology of existential amelioration, equality and empathy, all in tandem with Hore’s own personal philosophy […]
The exhibition started on 12th February and will continue till 29th March, 2022 at Emami Art, Kolkata The Politics of Paper assembles together distinct art practices engaging with Paper as a support, a material, a concept, a process and/or other intellectual engagements from individual, formal, historical, socio-cultural, political perspectives to name. The exhibition will address […]
Michelle Poonawalla is delighted to announce she will be showcasing Cosmos and Water Reflections as a part of Contemporary Signatures at Monalisa Kalagram, launching 19 November. Curated by Sapna Kar and Rajneeta Kewalramani, the Co-Founders of TheCurators.art, the exhibition features a collection of 101 artworks by 50 contemporary Indian artists. Alongside Michelle Poonawalla, the exhibition […]
Is AI (Artificial Intelligence) art any good? Is it truly the future of Contemporary art? Does AI re-conceive the human imagination or ready us for its end? Is AI competition or collaborator? Does AI blur the definition of the ‘artist’? EXO-stential – AI Musings on the Posthuman, offers a deep dive and contemplation of this […]
An exhibition to create room for imaginary conversations and unexpected togetherness across artists of diverse and disparate genres. The exhibition is on view from 10th July to 31st August 2021 at Emami Art, Anandapur, Kolkata Emami Art, one of India’s leading contemporary art galleries based in Kolkata is hosting an exhibition ‘Sublime Transferences’. Sublime Transferences […]
Emami Art presents “The (in)Visible and the (un) Revealed: Inside the Secret Worlds of Kartick Chandra Pyne,” the most comprehensive survey exhibition of the artist in the recent times. The exhibition brings together a large body of his works from an extended period of his creative life, mostly from the collection of Emami Art, exploring […]
K Shereef is a creative artist, illustrator, writer, born in 1974 at Kuttyadi, Kozhikode, Kerala. Started his career as a freelance illustrator. He also has worked for the following magazines like Malayalam Literary Survey, Kumkumam weekly, Madhyamam weekly, Bhashaposhini monthly, Deshabhimani weekly, and Pachakuthira monthly etc. Currently he is working as a staff artist in […]
One of India’s biggest art fairs that takes place annually, the India Art Fair welcomed 81 Indian and international art galleries. Mainly focusing on Indian artists, 71% of the floor space was provided to leading Indian art galleries, private foundations, arts charities, national institutions and artists’ collectives, as mentioned by Jagdip Jagpal, the director of […]
The Gujral Foundation is pleased to announce an iconic public art project – commissioning temporary pavilions by selected artists, architects, and designers, that respond to interesting locations. For its inaugural edition, the Foundation will be commissioning a stand-alone pleated pavilion titled ‘The Song of the Earth and the Sky’ at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi designed […]
Kalal Laxma Goud (born 21 August 1940) is an Indian painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He works in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture, and glass painting. He is best known for his early drawings that depict eroticism in a rural context, and also for the originality and quality of his etchings and […]
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce Pranati Panda’s much-awaited first solo show titled Speaking Threads, an exploration of self-hood as a site of art and life practice. Influenced by the same instincts in life as her art, Pranati describes her decision to wait to showcase her work on this scale by analogizing herself as […]
Emami Art, the contemporary art gallery at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC) opened the season with ‘RASA’, the first ever solo exhibition of sculptures by one of India’s eminent artists, Mr. G Ravinder Reddy in Kolkata. The exhibition has been curated by art critic and curator, Anupa Mehta. In this new body of works, […]
Dr. Meenu Kumar, the director of Cosmo Arts (India) Gallery celebrated woman empowerment with the Socio Creative movement SHE-SHAKTI, a solo show which showcased in an opening ceremony of Art Exhibition at Alliance Fracaise de Delhi, Lodhi Estate. She-Shakti is a campaign, which endorses Metoo movement. She-Shakti force within which is awaiting to express with boldness and beauty! She […]
Show Title: Pichvai Tradition & Beyond Curated by Pooja Singhal Open to Public: Saturday, 27th April – Sunday, 5th May 2019 Timings: 11am to 6pm Venue: Bikaner House, New Delhi Pichvai Tradition and Beyond is back in Delhi after a few years to document it’s journey from Tradition to Beyond. Bikaner House is the essence […]
The inspiration behind every tapestry always begins from a deeply personal connect to the theme. In fact, my first tapestry emerged from a deep desire to express “Shrinathji” and install it in my home. The narrative for every tapestry flows from themes that only draw upon the unique aesthetic culture and design forms of traditional […]
Tribal Art Forms, a collaboration between two contemporary galleries Blueprint12 and Exhibit320, which promotes folk and tribal art forms is bringing North East art at the India Art Fair. The exhibition will showcase sculptures by Lanu Pongen from Nagaland and Siva Prasad Marar from Assam; photography on Konyak tribe by Anu Malhotra and textile arts […]
India Art Fair, the leading platform to discover modern and contemporary art from South Asia, announces the full list of participating galleries and programme highlights for the 2019 edition. Taking place from 31 January – 3 February 2019 in partnership with BMW Group India, India Art Fair 2019 will present 75 exhibitors from 24 Indian […]
Benode Behari Mukherjee Spread across both our gallery spaces, this major exhibition curated by R. Siva Kumar features more than 100 artworks from the artist’s estate. Spanning various periods of the artist’s oeuvre, this exhibition presents Mukherjee through multiple lenses including glimpses of him through his own eyes, presented through a series of self-portraits; a […]
Abstraction is a personal journey of each artist with a narrative that is individualistic. In their journey these four artists have woven different ideas . Curatorially the idea of timelessness is explored in varied representations of these four artists in this collection. The whole idea of timelessness is beyond words. The term “timeless” often carries […]
Ganesh Pyne (b.1937-) is synonymously identified with the Bengal School. This judgment is in keeping with the fact that his works have the same detailing, an innate lyricism, a romantic feel, fine handling of forms and a subtle somber palette. Through his symbolic language he conveys an existential angst in reaction to the social conditions that he […]
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is delighted to mount the first retrospective of one of India’s most eminent female artists Aprita Singh. Born in 1937 in what is now Bangladesh, Arpita Singh received her diploma in Fine Arts at the Delhi Polytechnic before taking up the job of a designer at the Weaver’s Service Centres […]
Velu Viswanathan, popularly known as Paris Viswanathan (born 1 January 1940) is an Indian painter, has carved his own domain in the contemporary art scene. He lives in Paris since 1968. He had been selected for the Kerala Lalitakala Academy fellowship for 2008. One says it is by walking that one traces one’s path. Life […]
Sakshi Gallery is delighted to present ‘In-cult,’ an exhibition of installations and drawings by multimedia artist, Shine Shivan. The show previews on January 16 and marks Shivan’s return to Mumbai after a gap of four years. Shivan has, in the past, explored the limits of drawing, gender identity, and indeed life itself, through various disciplines, […]
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is pleased to announce the opening of the first exhibition of 2019, over the edge, crossing the line: five artists from Bengal, at KNMA Noida on 20th January 2019. The exhibitions continues till 30 June 2019. Continuing the extensive explorations of different art movements, regions and artistic ideologies […]
The title of the exhibition is inspired from the famous literary work of Franz Kafka – Parables and Paradoxes. It re-examines and reinterprets some ye olde sayings, parables and tales through the artists’ perspective. In his writing, Kafka tried to explain the complex ironies our life presents us with. And it is this concept that […]
The artist is a young talent painter who works in abstract compositions. The title comes from the calligraphic forms he creates in his compositions that bring to ones mind the memory of small flying beings. In actuality it is, the breaks and stops in life that punctuate ones being that are what he uses as […]
“Nuances of Blue”-an art exhibition showcasing a group of ten young and emerging contemporary Indian artists, who have creatively explored the colour blue in their expressive artworks. On view are heavy impasto paintings, as well as thin transparent layered works; quirky takes on everyday objects ,optical illusions and an exploration of urban themes. The talented […]
ArtBuzz Studios is pleased to announce Surface: 01, an exhibition of emerging artists which will take place at ArtBuzz Studios in Okhla, New Delhi on 13 and 14 October 2018, with a preview on 12 October. ArtBuzz Studios, founded by Anubha Gupta and Amisha Chowbey, is an open, artist-friendly venue for creative individuals and a […]
Rekha Rodwittiya’s solo exhibition at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Rekha@Sixty: Transient Worlds of Belonging celebrates the artist’s 60th birthday through a new body of work that looks back on a physical and spiritual journey across six decades. As one of the pioneering artists of her generation, the Baroda based artist’s work has served as an important […]
ArtBuzz Studios is an open artist-friendly venue for creative individuals and a place where artists can create in a community, meet fellow artists and progress in the field of art. It leaves room for exploration and experimentation, opening up a dialogue and extending the exhibition space to artists outside the gallery. This October, ArtBuzz Studios […]
