With Indian contemporary art at an all time high, the Indian Diaspora artists in the U.S. have steadily gained momentum and claimed their turf. Indian Diaspora Art is alive and gearing up for its Fifth Annual exhibition entitled 'Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora' featuring works by 40 artists. The Indo-American Arts Council?s show features an eclectic mix of diverse mediums employed by a group of 40 artists representing myriad styles, mediums and mind sets with one common bond - a shared Indian heritage that has been cultivated in the United States. Now in its fifth year, this traveling exhibition has had a successful showing in California and kicks off in New York at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn. Participating is Suhas Tavkar who has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2006. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com/
23 Mar 2008
Art Buzz (New York) Erasing Borders 2008
Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA United States of America
With Indian contemporary art at an all time high, the Indian Diaspora artists in the U.S. have steadily gained momentum and claimed their turf. Indian Diaspora Art is alive and gearing up for its Fifth Annual exhibition entitled 'Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora' featuring works by 40 artists. The Indo-American Arts Council?s show features an eclectic mix of diverse mediums employed by a group of 40 artists representing myriad styles, mediums and mind sets with one common bond - a shared Indian heritage that has been cultivated in the United States. Now in its fifth year, this traveling exhibition has had a successful showing in California and kicks off in New York at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn. Participating is Suhas Tavkar who has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2006. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com/
With Indian contemporary art at an all time high, the Indian Diaspora artists in the U.S. have steadily gained momentum and claimed their turf. Indian Diaspora Art is alive and gearing up for its Fifth Annual exhibition entitled 'Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora' featuring works by 40 artists. The Indo-American Arts Council?s show features an eclectic mix of diverse mediums employed by a group of 40 artists representing myriad styles, mediums and mind sets with one common bond - a shared Indian heritage that has been cultivated in the United States. Now in its fifth year, this traveling exhibition has had a successful showing in California and kicks off in New York at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn. Participating is Suhas Tavkar who has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2006. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com/
22 Mar 2008
21 Mar 2008
Call for Artists: 'Marcello's Art Factory' in The Hague, Netherlands
Call for Artists: Urban Ready Mades Marcello's Art Factory, den Haag, NL Netherlands
'Marcello's Art Factory' in The Hague, Netherlands is currently hosting a project entitled 'Urban Ready Mades' which comes from the concept of 'ready mades' made famous by artist Marcel Duchamp who was the first to introduce this oevre . Duchamp shook the established art scene and it's foundations by assembling a bike wheel on a bar stool and presenting this as art. Four years later he did it again by signing a urnal 'Fountain' under the alias R. Mutt and sending this to an art show as an artwork. In December 2004, Duchamp's 'Fountain' was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 selected British art world professionals. This concept was successfully adapted by such later artists as Andy Warhol with his 'Brillo Box' and 'Campbell's Soup Cans'. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com/
'Marcello's Art Factory' in The Hague, Netherlands is currently hosting a project entitled 'Urban Ready Mades' which comes from the concept of 'ready mades' made famous by artist Marcel Duchamp who was the first to introduce this oevre . Duchamp shook the established art scene and it's foundations by assembling a bike wheel on a bar stool and presenting this as art. Four years later he did it again by signing a urnal 'Fountain' under the alias R. Mutt and sending this to an art show as an artwork. In December 2004, Duchamp's 'Fountain' was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 selected British art world professionals. This concept was successfully adapted by such later artists as Andy Warhol with his 'Brillo Box' and 'Campbell's Soup Cans'. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com/
20 Mar 2008
The Baroda connection
A few months ago I was in Baroda and when Rameshbhai Pandya, retired professor from the department of fine arts, MS university, found out that I was in town, he very graciously invited me for a preview of an art show at Sarjan Art Gallery. I reached the gallery half an hour after the specified time (in fact quite early according to Bangalore standards) and was surprised to find the place jam-packed, where everyone knew everyone. This despite the fact that there were no cocktails but only tea and snacks (Gujarat is a dry state!). In any case the retrospective exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Ahmedabad based Piraji Sagara, a founder member of Progressive Painters' Group was a delight to see. In a non-conventional approach, the artist had used different mediums, combined them and presented figurative as well as non-figurative works. The 1931 born artist took the trouble to take me around and to show me each of his works and explain the various nuances associated with it. Wood, metal, beads, he had experimented with various mediums and textures. A very interesting show!
Back in Bangalore, I visited artist Jasu Rawal at his studio, who is incidentally also from Gujarat (born 1939), and completed his MFA from M.S. University, Baroda. But he has been living in Bangalore for several decades. Jasu bhai as he is fondly called is a fine artist and a fabulous human being, and he known in the city for his abstracted landscapes that often combine elements of still life. He, in fact, recently had a retrospective exhibition of his works spanning 40 years of his career. He has been awarded twice with the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Award in 1972 and 1980. This particular exhibition was organised by Ananya Drushya, where the photographs of his paintings were displayed at the gallery premises. Now, Ananya Drushya is an organization that aims to create awareness about visual arts in schools and other sections of the society. Readers will remember that about two years ago, the visual chapter of Ananya had started with a group show, where seventy artists from the city had contributed their paintings.
This is a great initiative but it needs more focus and probably greater involvement from its members to make the Karnataka arts scene more vibrant and to be able to reach out to a larger audience.
(Published in Bangalore Mirror)
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