Gallerie Ganesha presents “Joie De Vivre : Celebrating Life” a solo show of artworks by Paris-based Maya Burman, daughter of prominent artists Sakti Burman and Maite Delteil
Burman works mainly in pen & ink and water colour and her paintings are delicate, intricately detailed with a strong fantasy element. “Through this show, joie de vivre is something that I expect to give to people,” says the 46-year-old, “At the same time, I’m not a naive person. I don’t expect humanity to become a Garden of Eden. And I find it is important and very difficult to bring the feeling of joy to people. And perhaps, even to myself first. My painting is not contemplative, neither meditative. There is a lot of dynamics into it. It’s not a cold allegorical image of JOIE DE VIVRE. I show the small joys that we all have in everyday’s life.”
Incidentally, Burman has never attended art college and instead chose to study architecture. And yet, she could not remain immune to all the art that was happening around her. “I had my parents to give me direction. It was an informal training with dialogue more than a technical approach. We discussed more about what is painting and why to paint. But it was 24/ 24 training! They didn’t show me the technical aspects. As it is, we don’t have any similarity in our techniques. It was more a question of observation, and learning from observation.” Burman’s work is a blend of everyday life subjects and surreal imagery that give a dreamlike quality to her paintings. “While the same metaphors can be found in my parents’ works, this is not done purposely, it’s just that I have too much fantasy in my thought process.”
Burman’s work is often termed by art aficionados as having a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau traditions (geometric and floral work) and European middle age architecture in the country where she lives. What then makes her work an interesting melting pot and a meeting ground between two cultures is that it is interlaced with mythical and folk infused imagery and replete with influences of miniature art, that stem from her Indian ancestry.
For instance, a circular work is like a “never ending story”. It is the continuity between days and nights. In a composition in two tones, one moves from a playful and joyful center till you slowly reach the peaceful and resting edges. Another work shows a magical dream like river which gently sweeps over as you sleep, while the tree of life is a chimerical image of a woman and tree.
Burman says,“my training in architecture was very important. It is where all started. I discovered drawing and also that I didn’t want my creativity limited. Still architecture has a massive influence in the way I build my composition. I stay in France and I believe that also makes a real difference for my work. I work with a lot of detail and pattern and that can be linked to Indian miniatures. I think I’m curious. I like to be surprised by unexpected things. All those experiences are getting melted in my work. My work is like a theater, with a lot of characters moving everywhere. I also see my work as journey of life, where nothing is static, hence there is no central figure, all details are important in their own way.”
In order to have better understanding of common Cultural linkage, Cultural and academic relations between India and Iran, one has to know Persian language and literature due to its significant role in strengthening it. Top ranking Sufis conveyed their message of love for humanity through the Persian language.
Iran Culture House, New Delhi has arranged the Persian classes for the beginners as well as for the advance level with modern technique and Iranian teachers. These courses have been carefully designed for those who are keenly interested in developing the skill of reading, writing and speaking.
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).
India Art Festival, a contemporary art fair founded in 2011 is a new model for dialogue and collaborations between art galleries, art dealers, art buyers, artists, interior designer, architects and art connoisseurs who come together every year under roof. India Art Festival (IAF) along with mid-level and major art galleries also provides the opportunity to emerging, independent artists to get discovered and enjoy the attention along with the established artists.
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.
“BODY: ARCHIVE OF MEMORY”
an exhibition of Ceramics and Photography
With the performance: “TRIGGER WARNING”
by Aastha Gandhi & Ankush on
Opening night – 25th Nov 2017 | 7:00pm
About the CERAMISTS
Ela Mukherjee
Ceramic artist, Fulbright Scholar and Charles Wallace awardee, Ela Mukherjee, is a clay artist and art educator. Her works are about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group. The artist lives and works from her studio in Delhi, India.
Elodie Alexandre
Élodie Alexandre is a French ceramic artist and illustrator from Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD) Wales, UK currently based in Delhi, India. Her illustrative constructions are inspired by narratives about feelings of displacement, memories of places and everyday-life anecdotes associated with objects.
Dipalee Daroz
Dipalee Daroz is a ceramic artist based in Delhi, who has studied under Prof Takeshi Yasuda, a world renowned ceramist; as a part of the Charles Wallace award. She has held numerous shows of her works, both in galleries as well as in art institutions of great repute. She has also assisted in the making of various documentaries on ceramics.
Reyaz Badaruddin
Reyaz has studied ceramic design at Banaras Hindu University and Cardiff, UK, in 2009 on a Charles Wallace Fellowship. His practice deals with forms derived from architecture. For him, it is important for the forms to relate to one another, to create an environment, and to establish a relationship and a visible contrast between each other.
Mudita Bhandari
Mudita is a recipient of The Ceramic Art Residency Program of the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (FLICAM) in Fuping China. Her works are in collection with many private art collectors heritage and cultural centres. The artist lives and works from her studio in Indore, India.
About the PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rajesh Kumar Singh
He uses photography as a means to express his interpretation of the world to make photographs that draw audience into the human struggle. His choice of subject stems from a deep interest in the marginal sections of the society . Their story which often remains untold hide stirring tales of human endeavor, of human spirit.
Anushree Fadnavis
Anushree Fadnavis is not just a daily commuter in the Ladies Only section of Mumbai locals but also a prolific photojournalist – one of the most followed Indians on Instagram. Anushree photographs the women she meets on Mumbai’s local trains every day, captures their poignant stories.
About the PERFORMING ARTISTS
Astha Gandhi
Aastha Gandhi is a trained Odissi dancer and a performance researcher. She has participated in performance festivals world over as a dancer and a master class trainer. She also experiments and explores other means of investigating movement such as performance- space, city- space and text. She is currently pursuing her PhD from the school of Art and aesthetics, JNU.
Ankush
Ankush is an artist who is interested in the ‘process’ which spans beyond the ‘events’ of curation and performance. He has been part of performances internationally. He is currently pursuing his PhD from the school of Art and aesthetics, JNU with music and gender as his focus.
‘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.
