The Embassy of France in India in collaboration with Krishnakriti Festival of Art and Culture is organizing a fellowship program to study art in France under an internship at some of the best colleges in the art capital of the world.
Successful candidates will travel to France for a period of 12 months / 6 months and study at some of the best institutions for fine arts in the world.
The process to apply for this fellowship program is completely online and free-of-cost.
Apply now at www.krishnakriti.in. Last date of application is 28-Feb-2010.
Bonjour India – Krishnakriti Festival
The Embassy of India, Cultures France, the Alliance Francaise net work in India with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, will present Bonjour India – The Festival of France in India from December 09 to January 2010.
With more than 150 events from December 2009 to January 2010 across India and featuring close to 250 artists, designers, researchers and entrepreneurs, the Bonjour India festival is France’s most significant rendez-vous with India. From New Delhi to Mumbai, Kolkata to Chennai, moving on to Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and thereon to Pondichery and Jaipur, more than ten Indian cities will usher in the series of exhibitions, concerts, literary and cinematographic events, artistic meets, debates and conferences, economic and scientific exchanges, organised over a period of two months by Culturesfrance and the French Embassy in India.
The French Embassy in India with the Alliance Francaise in Hyderabad, supported by the Krishnakriti Festival, would be hosting an Art camp, art presentations, discussions and talks from 7 January to 11 January 2010 at Kalakriti Art gallery, Hyderabad. The Art camp will inaugurate Bonjour India – the French Festival in Hyderabad section on the 7 January 2010.
The Krishnakriti Festival is aimed at achieving a blend of the three fine aspects of our lives art, culture and education. The art camp will be infused with life by about 15 participating who will gather here from all across the globe, giving one the rare opportunity to see celebrated artists at work and interact with them over a period of five days. Dedicated to the cause of “Art for education”, the Krishnakriti festival is aimed at providing scholarships to deserving students, who will benefit from the proceeds of the sales of the art camp. Till date we are supporting around 150 students of their complete educational needs from Hyderabad, Bangalore, Shantiniketan, Delhi, Baroda and some of them being at the Ecole des beaux arts in Paris.
Kalakriti Art Gallery
&
Aakriti Art Gallery
Presents
Next Generation
Painters & Printmakers
in association with
Seagrams Nine Hills.
On view till 10 November 2009
11am to 7pm
We are proud to announce the winners of the French Embassy – Krishnakriti Fellowship Program 2009-10.
Winners are being notified individually. We thank all the participants for their valuable entries.
7 April to 25 April 2009.
To celebrate K G Subramanyan’s 85th birthday (5th February 2009) The Seagull Foundation for the Arts along with galleries in different places like Santiniketan, Ahmedabad, Baroda, and Hyderabad is traveling this large exhibition of paintings by the artist.
The exhibition that opened in Santiniketan at Kala Bhavana on 5th February is now being presented in Hyderabad along with Kalakriti Art Gallery. This part of the exhibition will showcase Fifty new works by the artist. These include a set of 21 reverse paintings in the artist ‘glass painting tradition and 29 gouache on paper works of various sizes and themes.
After Hyderabad the exhibition will move to Calcutta where the artist will also exhibit 45 new terracotta works.
In the artist’s own words about his process of painting:
“There is no single process. Which is to say that I do not have a one-point agenda. And in their nature, my works are not end-oriented like those of some confirmed professionals. I am a groper. I find what I see around exciting, but at various levels. Sometimes, the sheer look of each unit. Then its configuration. Then the narratives it generates depending upon what I read into them. Covering a whole range of characteristics—liveliness, elegance, oddness, comedy, tragedy, metamorphic overlay, even allegory. My groping leads me to discover these. And I use various representational alternatives to give them body. I do not swear by a method nor stick to a process, as I do not want to lose this mobility, and with that my desire and power, to discover the world afresh.
I look at it from various viewpoints. And represent it through various media, each and all of which have the ability to unlock new perceptions.
I am not always sure how my work moves forward or what ground it covers. I do not want to be over-specific. I want it to flourish (so-to-say) in a ‘cloud of unknowing’. For a centipede like me to start counting my legs is suicidal. It will freeze me into inaction.”
Sujata Bajaj
Dr Alka Pande will introduce the artist.
Venue : Kalakriti Art Gallery
469, Road no 10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad ph: 6656 4466
Date : 4 March 2009
Time : 6.30 pm
Scholarship Details:
Terms & Conditions:
Note: The vast majority of courses in France are offered in French language. It is advisable that candidates acquire functional knowledge of the language equal to 200 Hours of French Language Classes before embarking on the fellowship.
Courses in French language are offered by Alliance Francaise in 12 major cities of India (Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh,, Bangalore, Pondichery, Trivandrum, Bhopal).
Kalakriti Art Gallery & Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
present:
Experiments with
Truth:
Video Art in Germany from the Present to
1963
ON: 20-22 January, 2009
AT: Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills
Program:
Opening: 15:30hrs, January 20
Welcoming Introduction by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion
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15:30hrs, January 21
Presentation by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion
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15:30hrs, January 22
Presentation by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion
OPEN TO ALL
The Cultural Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany has attempted to rescue, preserve and disseminate the cultural heritage of video art. As this medium for preservation has a very short life-span and media art works tend to disintegrate, the project 40YEARSVIDEOART.DE was set up as a study edition giving an overview of this art in Germany as well as the international media art scene. The Goethe-Institut compiled an exemplary selection, a panorama of historic, but also current works made by various artists ranging from 1963 to 2004. A panorama of this highly rich archival resource will be screened in co-operation with Dhaka University Film Society at the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh.
What is video art? Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data and often if not always site-specific. (should not be confused with television or experimental cinema).
More than ever we live in a world where the use and abuse of the moving image has changed our experience and perception of reality. The borders between documentary and fiction are blurring and it seems that our new home is a mesmerizing digital cave, where terror is served like the latest computer game. ‘Experiments with Truth’ shows examples of how have we arrived at this stage and what alternative visions independent and critical artists in Germany have added to this in the last forty years.” Johan Pijnappel
Johan Pijnappel is an independent Dutch art historian/curator who has been critically engaged with computer-, video- and new media art since the last 25 years. He has initiated and edited a series of publications such as ‘Fluxus: Yesterday and Today’, ‘World Wide Video’, ‘Art and Technology’,‘Marina Abramovic-Cleaning the House’ and ‘Video Art in India’. Living in India for almost decade he has been involved with more than fifty international Indian video art presentations in seventeen countries.
Kalakriti Art Gallery is organising an Jazz Concert – CARAVAN QUARTET
on 9 Jan at 7.30pm at Taj Banjara.
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