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Posted by Prshant Lahoti on 26th October 2009

Generation Next

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

Posted by Prshant Lahoti on 8th April 2009

Recent Works: K G Subramanyan

: K G Subramanyam

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.”

Posted by Prshant Lahoti on 2nd March 2009

Sujata Bajaj

Release of Sujata Bajaj’s Book – L’Qrdre du monde

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

Posted by Prshant Lahoti on 20th January 2009

Experiments with Truth: Video Art

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.

Posted by Prshant Lahoti on 6th January 2009