ART ICHOL presents “Disappearing Dialogues” a unique multi-media, interactive exhibition, Curated by Nobina Gupta.
The project has been supported by MP Tourism and Arts Ananda Trust. Featuring a diverse range of paintings, videos, wood and iron products, textiles and garments to films, book art, photography, furnishings – all created as a collaboration between local communities of Madhya Pradesh and 14 Indian and international artists – the event hopes to bring the focus back on the lost traditions and cultural practices of the area.
The participating practitioners are Clare Elizabeth Kennedy (Architect, Australia), Ulrike Reinhard (Community Service and Traveler, Germany & Madhya Pradesh), Sandeep Dhopate (Photographer, Maharashtra), Trish Bygott & Nathan Crotty (Textile Designers, Australia), Lenny Rubenovitch (Wood and Furniture Artist, Canada), Pipson Sebastian Mampilli (Entrepreneur on Sustainable Living, Karnataka), Shilo Engelbrecht (Fashion and Textile Designer, Australia), Shatarupa Thakurta Roy (Academician and Theoretician, Uttar Pradesh), Amritah Sen (Visual Artist, West Bengal), Rita Banerjee (Filmmaker), Abhishekha Krishnagopal (Nature Educator), Payal Nath ( Product Designer of NGO Kadam India), Shashwati Garai Ghosh ( Odissi dancer), and Nobina Gupta (Visual and Installation artist, West Bengal).
This immersive journey, the first of its kind in India, celebrates the breadth and depth of the relationship between India and France in a way it has never been told before – from technology to culture, from yesterday to tomorrow.
Firmly anchored in a variety of domains, the French links with India are largely unknown and sharply under-estimated. The Experience brings them to the fore, highlighting Indo-French collaborations between artists, writers and thinkers, but also in areas like energy, environment, urbanism and space, in a fully intuitive, experimental way.
‘The Experience’ showcases the strength of our present partnerships, unveiling what France and India have in common, and shows the way to creative involvement in the future – not only in terms of economic and trade alliances, but also through people-to-people exchanges. Its innovative and interactive scenography will transform a long and rich story into a dynamic journey.
‘Art NOW 17’ is a group exhibition portraying the contemporary Indian art trends.
ART NOW! is about art today. The show portrays the current art practices and how they have evolved over the last few years. The exhibition will showcase the works of some distinguished artists that are the faces of Indian art, along with the works of some bright emerging artists who are evolving their distinctive styles. Contemporary art is reaching out to a larger audience and globally evolving. The artists have been experimenting with newer mediums and are responding to the environment around them. The artworks highlight the signature style of each artist, depicting the current cultural and global influences on Indian art, thus creating a deeper interest in art today.
The exhibition is built around philosophical, narrative, visual, pictorial and performing aspects of the Ramayana tradition in classical, folk and contemporary contexts. The theme is presented through manuscripts, sculptures, paintings including miniature painting, wooden, bronze, stone, terracotta arts & crafts, textiles, audio-visual and multimedia presentations.
The exhibition has specifically designed installations to explain abstract philosophical concepts. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the exhibits from the collection of Kashi Naresh, Banaras and original Ramlila paraphernalia from the world acclaimed Ramnagar Ramlila. Museums all across the country are participating in the exhibition by loaning precious and rare exhibits from their collections. A special lecture series is also being organized around the theme of Ramayana. Special workshops for children are a part of this exhibition
Colour, music and dance shape the landscape of two celebrations separated by more than twelve thousand kilometers: Holi and Carnival. It is the time of tradition and transformation, transfiguration and transcendence, in India and in Brazil. In February and March 2017, the Brazilian photographer Ailton Silva and the Indian photographer Natasha Hemrajani embarked on a journey of swapped places, swapped views, to capture through their lenses these national festivities. Just as glitter and gulaal do, creativity, freedom, different gazes, light and shadow impregnated their art
To commemorate 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, The American Center, Kala Care Group and the Motion Picture Distribution Association of India cordially invite you to the exhibition “Hues”.
Note :
* Please carry a valid photo identity card to enter the American Center.
* Mobile phones and laptops are allowed in the American Center. However, photography is prohibited.
* All visitors may be featured in photos or video to be used for promotional purposes or on social media by the American Center or U.S. Embassy.
* The American Center does not provide public parking on its premises
“Evolving Identities – Masters of Bengal”
An exhibition of drawings and paintings tracing the development and evolution of modern art practices.
On view are original works by Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, Ram Kinkar Baij, Jamini Roy, Asit Haldar, L.M. Sen and others
The exhibition also includes some Kalighat paintings.
Curator: Vijay Kowshik
Empowerment is association with the Academy of Art and Design is organizing its seventeenth Annual Art show Expression 2017, Art show of young Artists.
Empowerment is a socio cultural NGO, aims to preserve, promote and disseminate Art, History and Heritage of India to achieve the mission of creating awareness from the grass root level to the International Cultural Exchange level. To this effect Empowerment conducts various art and cultural programs on various socio-cultural themes designed to suit the needs of children, adolescents and youths that are cultural programs, painting competitions, art exhibitions, art camps, workshops, seminars etc.
Empowerment has organized various Art events in association with Ministry of Culture, Lalit Kala Academy, Culture Department Govt. of Uttarakhand, ICCR , Ministry of Women and Child Development, India Sri Lanka foundation, India Bhutan Foundation , Embassy Germany and other reputed organization.
Kumar Vikas Saxena , President Empowerment has curated SAARC Nations Art Camp , India Pakistan Women Artist Residency , India-China Women Artist Residency for ICCR , India-Bhutan Artist Residency, India-Sri Lanka Art Camp , India-Germany Art Camp in Berlin 2014,2015,2016, Artist Camp for Lalit Kala Academy , Artist Camp for Ministry of Culture, Artist Camp for Sparsh Ganga, Artist Camp for Govt of Uttarakhand year 2015, 2016 , International women Day Art Show with ICCR etc.
Empowerment in association with Academy of Art and Design organize every year Art Show for Delhi based Artist.
Guest List ( Artist)
Alka Raghvanshi
Niren Sen Gupta
Gogi Sarojpal
Shampa Sircar Das
Jagadish Dey
Niladri Paul
Kanchan Chander
Hemraj
Pratul Dash
Sangeeta Gupta
Sangeeta Singh
Farhad Hussain
Nupur Kundu
Sanjay Sircar Das
Ritu Kamath
Anoop Kamath
Anjum Khan
Bipasha sen Gupta
Tapan Dash
Vimmi Indira
Sabia Khan
Mousumi Biswas
Hifzul Kabeer
Nawal Kishore
Shuchi Khanna
Shweta Zarotia
`Glorious Ajanta’ photography show on the beautiful paintings and digital restoration of Ajanta Caves in collaboration with Prasadpawar Foundation.
New Delhi World Book Fair 2017.
Website : www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in
SOLO ART SHOW by Mamta Malhotra
“Nature” group show of Paintings by Sukla Bhattacharyya and Uma Bardhan
“Winter Collection” solo show of paintings by Divyaman Singh
The Artist is presenting 22 art works of oil on canvas in this show. The art works are all thought oriented and depict a range of emotions. It is an amalgamation of colours, black and white landscapes and larger than life figures.
“Harappans in the Ganga Valley: New Discoveries”
As part of Indian Archaeology Series.
Speaker: Dr. Bhuvan Vikrama, Archaeological Survey of India
The Harappan presence in the east of Yamuna has been attested at Alamgirpur (Baghpat) and at Hulas (Saharanpur), however, with an admixture of local or regional cultural elements, it represents a diluted form of the Harappans or its rural manifestation with no urban signatures. Recent, discovery of a large collection of copper objects from Harinagar (Bijnor) and a small scale excavation at Sakatpur (Saharanpur) yielding the copper hoard implements with Harappan artefacts has brought us to a point where a rethink of the Harappan presence in Yamuna-Ganga doab and beyond becomes imperative. The present talk will focus on the Harappan evidences found in this region and will discuss their significance and relevance.
“Layers of the Gaze” Drawings on fabric, travel journals and drawing books By Andreia Dulianel, plastic artist from Brazil.
The exhibition also features plastic productions created during her artist residency in India. The works reveal a process of construction through a process of layering, in the veiling and unveiling of forms, through overlaps and transparencies of the elements of visual language
“Ruminating the Purple” Paper collage art show by Sukanta Dasgupta
Display of art works in an uncommon medium, created only by pasting magazine papers with no use of colors or brush.
“Shringar – Paintings in Nathdwara Style” solo show by Yugdeepak Soni from Udaipur
The tradition of Shrinathji pichwai paintings has been a dynamic one and this exhibition tries to capture the same. Shringar or ornamentation is an integral part of Shrinathji seva (service) in Nathdwara
Curator: Gargi Seth
Celebrating Birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil
Lalit Kala Akademi, the premier institution for the promotion of Art and Culture is organizing an International Kala Mela (Arts Festival) wherein artists and groups can showcase their art works.
During the Kala Mela different art workshops and activities like Visual Art Film Festival, Pottery/Pattachitra/Paper Mache workshops, Best from waste workshop, Musical performances, Dance Dramas, Violin making workshop by Sveceny, Czechia, Artist Gup Shup Point, Nukkad Natak, and Live performance. International performances like Violin by Nuno Flores, Portugal; The Troth – Usne Kaha Tha A Story of Love and sacrifice in World War I, by Akademi South Asian Dance, UK; Violin by Jaroslav Sveceny Czechia; Yakshangana by Devika Rao, UK; Paino by Nobert Kale, Hungary and Yaa Devi by Devika Dance Theatre, UK will be taking place for the artists and art lovers.
According to the Administrator LKA Sh. C. S. Krishna Setty, “This is for the first time that the Akademi has planned the International Kala Mela at such a large scale. It is going to prove a boon to especially those artists who cannot afford to exhibit their works of art in the Art Galleries. With a firm commitment to the art fraternity, the Kala Mela will be a great delight to observe the paradigms of the contemporary nuances of the modernistic trends in art. All in all it is intended to be first of its kind and a great milestone event”!
More than 800 artists from all across the country are participating in the event.
Many Embassies and Cultural Centres are participating for making this festival an International success. Some of the countries taking part in the Mela are China,
Venezuela, Peru, Portugal, Srilanka, Poland, Tunisia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Trinidad, Tobago, Fiji, France, Papua New Guinea, Czechia, UK, Spain and Brazil.
There are around 325 stalls for Indian artists and organizations including International representations.
The International Kala Mela is coming at a time when there is a perceptible requirement in the art market for a wide-ranging, global platform for Indian art. The central objective of Kala Mela is to focus on direct interaction between the artist and the connoisseur and also educating and raising awareness about art, which has been the mandate of Lalit Kala Akademi. This comprehensive outreach shall include the participation of National, International level Artists/Art Critics of repute from all over the Globe.
