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GAGAWAKA presents Making Strange
by Vivan Sundaram on December 18th, 8 - 9 pm.
(*Performance by actors, dancers, artists and fashion models.)

Venue: Rabindra Bhavan Galleries
Lalit Kala Akademi
33 Ferozeshah Road
New Delhi 110 001

Vivan Sundaram’s Making Strange opens as an exhibition on December 21st at 5 pm and will remain on view till Dec 27th.

For further information please log on to http://www.gagawaka.com/index.html

 

Quintessential by L.N. Tallur

Presented by Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

Date & Time : on view from 18th December 2011 - 4th February 2012

Venue : Veer Mata Jijabal Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug),
91/A, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road,
Byculla (East) Mumbai
Contact : +91 22 23731234

For further information please log on http://www.bdlmuseum.org

 

INDIA ART COLLECTIVE

Date & Time : 19th Nov, 2011 at 10 am IST and will conclude at 7.00 pm IST on 26th November, 2011

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Presentation and Discussion – Riding Rocinante : From Bombay to Shanghai
Tushar Joag
Date : On Tuesday, 23rd August 2011
Time : 6:30 pm
Venue : Little Theatre, NCPA

Riding Rocinante was a performative art project undertaken by the artist, Tushar Joag in 2010. A journey through Sardar Sarovar and the Three Gorges, the artist embarked upon on a motorcycle that he named ‘Rocinante’, after Don Quixote’s horse. He left Bombay on the August 23, 2010 and reached Shanghai on October 14, 2010. In the past, Chinese monks like Xuanzang, Fa Hein have travelled to India with the intention of learning from the Buddhist masters.The short journey that Prince Siddharth Gautama took (on his horse Kanthaka) through the city of Kapilavastu when he saw the four sights changed his outlook towards life. Prince Siddhartha gave up his riches to embrace asceticism. The long youthful adventure by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara round Latin America on his motorcycle (La Poderosa II) was an initial step towards realizing the revolutionary in him. Tushar Joag's journey has references to these and many such travels that were undertaken by heroes and legendary figures – journeys that changed the course of their lives.

For Joag, this journey is perhaps more Quixotic than heroic, a journey towards his own self. A cross-cultural curatorial experiment, this project culminated in an installation in Shanghai, and was part of “Place • Time • Play: India-China Contemporary Art Exhibition” curated by Chaitanya Sambrani for West Heavens Project of China Academy of Art and Hanart TZ Gallery.

Born in 1966, Tushar Joag completed his Bachelor's degree in sculpture from the Sir J.J. school of art in 1988 and his Masters from the Faculty of Fine Art, M.S.University, Baroda in 1990. He did a 2 year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 1998 to 2000 and was the co-founder of the artist's initiative Open Circle. Having participated in many national and international shows, his work involves gallery practice as well as interventions in the public sphere examining the linkages between aesthetics and politics.

Fieldnotes: tomorrow was here yesterday
by Jitish Kallat

Date : Saturday, 23 April 2011
Time : 6:30 pm to 8.30 pm

Venue:
Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug), 91A
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Byculla East, Mumbai
Tel.: +91 22 23731234
For further information log-on to www.bdlmuseum.org

Lisson Gallery presents Rashid Rana

March 30 – April 30, 2011
For further information please log on to http://www.lissongallery.com/#/current/

He is also presented in two major exhibitions:

21st Century: Art In the First Decade, from 18th Dec to 26th April 2010
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia.
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/21st_Century

The Rising Tide: New Directions in the Art from Pakistan 1990-2010, from 1st Nov 2010 - ongoing
Mohatta Palace Museum,Karachi, Pakistan.
http://www.mohattapalacemuseum.com/THE RISING TIDE.html

GIGI SCARIA AT SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011, OPEN HOUSE

Chemould Prescott Road is proud to present Gigi Scaria in the 3rd edition of the Singapore Biennale

13 March – 15 May 2011
Vernissage 11 & 12 March 2011

Curators: Russell Storer and Trevor Smith
Artistic Director: Matthew Ngui

Venues:
Singapore Art Museum,
SAM at 8Q, National Museum of Singapore,
Old Kallang Airport, Marina Bay

For further information log-on to www.singaporebiennale.org

Hema Upadhyay completes her residency at ATELIER CALDER

Date: September 2010 – January 2011

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Mithu Sen wins the Scoda Art Prize 2011 for her exhibition Black Candy at Chemould Prescott Road in February 2010.

The Škoda Prize, the largest and most prestigious award on the Indian visual arts scene, was instituted in 2010 to recognise and reward an Indian artist under the age of 45 deemed to be responsible for the most outstanding solo exhibition of the preceding year.

It recognises cutting-edge work demonstrating vision, innovation, and a mature understanding of material and form. The Prize brings to public notice exciting trends in contemporary art, highlighting the output of established mid-career artists as well as new voices.

For further information log-on to www.theskodaprize.com

Forthcoming exhibition

Nalini Malini’s SPLITTING THE OTHER
November 1^st – 30^th, 2010

Malani had her first international solo museum exhibition in 2002 at the New Museum, New York curated by Dan Cameron. The Peabody Essex Museum followed with a year-long solo exhibition in 2005/06 comprising of watercolours, drawings and artist’s books from the late eighties and nineties. The exhibition in Bombay is split into two parts. At Chemould Prescott Road the works are built around the seminal 50 feet multi-panel painting, ‘Splitting the Other’ being the title of the show. This has a direct reference to the pogrom in Gujarat of the most horrific divide between the Hindus and Muslims post-partition. At Chatterjee & Lal, there will be an elaborate video/shadow-play called ‘Remembering Mad Meg’. Between the two galleries there will be paintings and two video installations, both having their premier viewings in India. Nalini’s work has constantly reflected on the state of the nation. For her the nightmare of history and the dream of redemption are encapsulated in her practice of working with installations, video and painting. In Malani’s practice, the most notable instance came with the ‘Medea’ project (1993-95), which took up the theme of the Greek myth as retold with a contemporary political edge by German playwright Heiner Mueller who treated it as an allegory for the process of degradation and violence in times of colonial domination. ‘Unity and Diversity’, the video installation, continues to work around the theme of the destruction of the Babri Masjid followed by the more recent devastation in Gujarat in 2002. For Malani to be born in the midnight hour both literally and metaphorically has constantly played a dual role in her life – growing up in the utopian Nehruvian era, as well as living through the trauma of the family’s migration from Karachi to her twin city, Bombay in India during partition in 1948. The duality of these events in her life linked to more recent political happenings since 1992 post Babri Masjid has constantly drawn her to the work of Heiner Muller, Brecht and Greek tragedies. As a woman who has existed in a world of ‘man’-made disasters, Nalini has often referred to the stories of women, such as Aka, Medea, and Mad Meg. The work ‘Remembering Mad Meg’ thus refers to the woman from Flemish folklore who leads an army of pillage to invade hell and comes back to recount the stories as depicted by Pieter Breughel in his painting ‘Mad Meg’.

Shezad Dawood (Artist, India/Pakistan/UK, b. 1974)

Shezad Dawood was born in London in 1974 and trained at Central St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art before undertaking a PhD at Leeds Metropolitan University. Dawood works across installation and film, looking at a discursive model of practice that takes in both mystical and literary/historical narratives. Often drawing on his complex heritage, his projects have been influenced by Sufism as much as Samuel Beckett. His large-scale interventions often work with musicians, actors and other collaborators across a breadth of global locations including the Middle East, Europe, India and the Americas. Recent projects include Inshallah, a restaging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, working with children of Arab immigrants in Milan, and Until the End of the World, a large-scale neon installation at The Third Line in Dubai (both 2008), which was subsequently acquired by the forthcoming Museum of Modern Arab Art in Qatar. Dawood’s work was included in Altermodern curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Tate Britain and the 53rd Venice Biennale (both 2009). He has been involved in exhibitions across the world in Dubai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Fribourg, Hamburg, Sydney, and Singapore. His first solo in India, Cities of the Future (work on textile and neons) is currently on at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (until October 20,2010) Upcoming projects include the Busan Biennale in Korea (2010), collaboration with contemporary dance choreographer Jasmin Vardimon at Sadlers Wells in London (2011) and a feature-length sci-fi film, which will go into production in the summer of 2011. He currently lives and works in London where he is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster.

Riding Rocinante

Tushar left Bombay on the 23rd of August 2010 and is expected to reach The Three Gorges dam by the 9th of October.

He hopes to blog (depending on availability of internet connectivity) every night about his experiences at http://riding-d-rocinante.blogspot.com/

“In the past, Chinese monks like Xuanzang, Fa Hein have travelled to India with the intension of learning from the Buddist masters…This Journey has references to the many such travels that were undertaken by heroes and legendry figures – journeys that changed the course of their lives. The short journey that Prince Siddharth Gautama took (on his horse Kanthaka) through the city of Kapilavastu when he saw the four sights changed his outlook towards life. Prince Siddhartha gave up his riches to embrace ascetism. The long youthful adventure By Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara round Latin America on his motorcycle (La Poderosa II) was an initial step towards realising the revolutionary in him.
My journey is perhaps more Quixotic than heroic but more than a journey from point A to B it is a journey towards myself.”
Tushar Joag

This performative project will culminate in an installation in Shanghai, and is part of Place Time Play an exhibition curated by Chaitanya Sambrani for West Heavens Project of China Academy of Art and Hanart TZ Gallery.

Shezad Dawood’s solo 'Intensive Surfaces', in Denmark
June 26 - August 15, 2010

Shezad Dawood’s solo in India will be presented by
Chemould Prescott Road from September 23 – October 20, 2010

To view the exhibition please Click Here

Rashid Rana - Perpetual Paradox

July 7th - 15th November

The Musée Guimet presents the exhibition Perpetual Paradox and exhibits for the first time in France the contemporary creations of Rashid Rana, considered to be Pakistan’s greatest contemporary artist because of his digital photomontages, sculptures and video installations.

For further information please log on to:
http://www.guimet.fr/Rashid-Rana-Perpetual-Paradoxe

Press Clipping:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/7885932/Rashid-Rana-at-the-Musee-Guimet-review.html

The Launch of Amrita Sher-Gil: A self-portrait in letters & writings introduced, annotated & edited by Vivan Sundaram and published by Tulika Books, Delhi.

29th March, 2010, Jnanapravaha, Mumbai

For more details log on to http://www.jp-india.org/

Aftermath of Desire: A lecture by Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Kashmir, Kashmiris and the Burdens of Representation

27th march 2010 at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai, India
For further information log on to www.jp-india.org

Archana Hande recieves Pro-Helvetia Grant, 2010

Nalini Malani's retrospective, Splitting the other (A retrospective) at the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne.
For further details please log on to www.mcba.ch

Other participating Indian Artists: Nikhli Chopra, Sheela Gowda and Sunil Gawde.

The Director of the 53rd Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, has been Rector of the Staedelschule Frankfurt/Main and its Kunsthalle Portikus since 2001. 'Fare Mondi // Making Worlds', presented in the renewed Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, is a single, large exhibition that articulates different themes woven into one whole. It is not divided into sections. Considering collectives, it comprises works by over 90 artists from all over the world and includes many new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines.

For more details please login to: http://www.labiennale.org

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www.arrangeurownmarriage.com
www.archanahande.com

KHOJ Studios present - the "Free Mithu" project
February 20, 2009, 6:30 pm onwards, @ the KHOJ Studios. The exhibition will be on view till February 27, 2009

In April 2007, Mithu Sen advertised a 'summer dhamaka' online called the "Free Mithu" project, in which she invited friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to send her a "letter with love" in exchange for a free artwork by her in a medium of their choice. For almost two years, Mithu has collected various forms of 'letters' - including two diaries, a box of mangoes, a sweater, works of art, an evening walk, a shared lemon cake, and the dictation of a love letter- from a wide range of participants across the world. Through still-ongoing interactions with these contributors, "Free Mithu" has become part of a personal journey that explores the fragile notions of sincerity, generosity, and gift-giving, and probes the meaning of this project for Mithu's art practice and a broader contemporary market-driven art culture.

From February 20 onwards, Mithu invites you to view and experience the "Free Mithu" project as a total conceptual artwork and experimental form. The presentation at KHOJ will be an event/performance and will include the letters received, individual gift-wrapped works made for each participant, and documentation and analysis of the project to date. Through an online blog, guestbook, and lottery of three 'prize' works to be conducted on site, there will be further opportunities for communication and exchange with the artist.

-Beth Citron

For further details please log on to www.khojworkshop.org

Atul Dodiya, Tushar Joag, Hema Upadhyay, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, Pushpamala N, Jagannath Panda, N.S.Harsha, Gigi Scaria, Kiran Subbaiah, Vivan Sundaram and Anant Joshi, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Ranbir Kaleka amongst others exhibit in Chalo India: A New Era of Indian Art at The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
This full-scale exhibition introduces the most exciting trends in the contemporary art of India - India that has undergone a major transformation since it gained independence sixty years ago.
For more information log on to www.mori.art.museum