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Out of the blues, emerges Biennale

Out of the blues, emerges Biennale

“Mark Your Calendars: December 12, 2022 to April 10, 2023”. This post on the Kochi Biennale Foundation’s Instagram handle on June 8 ended months of uncertainty. The fifth edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale should have taken place in 2020-2021 but was deferred twice and finally cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its inception in 2012, the mega art show has over its past…

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Celebrating Indian Artists: A Journey Through Tradition and Innovation

India, a place where there is different societies and rich legacy, has for quite some time been a center for creative articulation. From the old paintings of Ajanta to contemporary magnum opuses gracing worldwide exhibitions, Indian artists have constantly pushed the limits of innovativeness and advancement. This blog digs into the lively universe of Indian artists, investigating their commitments, remarkable styles, and the developing craftsmanship scene.

The Tradition of Indian Workmanship

1. Old Workmanship and Customary Structures

Indian workmanship's foundations can be followed back millennia, with early models remembering rock compositions for Bhimbetka and the choice frescoes of Ajanta and Ellora. These early works frequently portrayed strict subjects, legendary stories, and daily existence, giving a brief look into India's past.

Conventional fine arts like Madhubani, Warli, Pattachitra, and Tanjore painting have been safeguarded and gone down through ages. These styles are portrayed by their many-sided designs, lively tones, and the utilization of regular materials. They keep on being polished by craftsmans across India, safeguarding social legacy and moving present day understandings.

2. Mughal Impact

The Mughal time denoted a huge development in Indian workmanship, presenting Persian impacts and refining methods. Small scale canvases from this period are eminent for their detail and artfulness. Artists like Mir Sayyid Ali and Basawan made works that caught cultured life, hunting scenes, and representations of sovereignty with flawless accuracy.

3. Pilgrim and Present day Craftsmanship Developments

The English pilgrim time frame carried new impacts and difficulties to Indian artists. The Bengal School of Craftsmanship, drove by figures like Abanindranath Tagore, looked to resuscitate Indian conventional fine arts and oppose Western styles. This development established the groundwork for current Indian workmanship, mixing native topics with contemporary methods.

Contemporary Indian Artists

1. M.F. Husain

Known as the Picasso of India, M.F. Husain was a spearheading pioneer who carried Indian craftsmanship to the worldwide stage. His strong utilization of varieties, dynamic organizations, and portrayal of Indian folklore and history made his work famous. Notwithstanding confronting discussion, Husain's commitment to Indian craftsmanship stays unmatched.

2. Tyeb Mehta

Tyeb Mehta's moderate yet strong works mirror the human condition and socio-political subjects. His "Mahishasura" series and "Corner to corner" series are especially remarkable, displaying his dominance of structure and variety. Mehta's work has been commended globally, getting record costs at barters.

3. Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor, a stone carver of Indian beginning situated in the UK, has acquired worldwide recognition for his great establishments and creative utilization of materials. His works, for example, "Cloud Entryway" in Chicago and "Sky Mirror," challenge impression of room and structure, making him perhaps of the most compelling contemporary craftsman.

4. Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher's work investigates subjects of personality, orientation, and social hybridity. Her utilization of bindis as a common theme makes striking visual stories. Kher's establishments and models have been displayed in renowned exhibitions around the world, procuring her acknowledgment as a main contemporary craftsman.

The Advancing Craftsmanship Scene in India

1. Workmanship Fairs and Biennales

India's craft scene has seen critical development, with occasions like the India Workmanship Fair and Kochi-Muziris Biennale giving stages to artists to grandstand their work. These occasions draw in worldwide consideration, encouraging culturally diverse trades and lifting Indian workmanship's worldwide presence.

2. Computerized Workmanship and New Media

The appearance of computerized innovation has opened new roads for Indian artists. Computerized craftsmanship, video establishments, and intuitive media are acquiring prominence, with artists like Raqs Media Aggregate and Shilpa Gupta investigating inventive mediums to resolve contemporary issues.

3. Supporting Arising Artists

Associations and exhibitions in India are progressively zeroing in on sustaining arising ability. Drives like the Kochi Biennale Establishment and residency programs furnish youthful artists with amazing chances to foster their abilities and gain openness. This help is vital for the proceeded with advancement of Indian workmanship.

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Indian artists, through their rich legacy and imaginative methodologies, have altogether added to the worldwide workmanship scene. From customary structures to contemporary articulations, their work mirrors the different social embroidery of India. As the workmanship scene keeps on advancing, the world enthusiastically expects the following rush of inventiveness and brightness from Indian artists. Whether you are a workmanship lover or an easygoing onlooker, investigating crafted by Indian artists offers a significant and enhancing experience.

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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?

Away from the cacophonous chorus of heavily corporatised art festivals, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale hopes to return after three pandemic-ridden years to its foundational purpose: to give back to people their real stories, their strengths, their songs. This year, it adopts storytelling as strategy in myriad ways: words, visuals, poetry, film, music. If there is anything that has the power to pull…

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MASH is a digital platform – founded by the collector and philanthropist Shalini Passi

In line with the mission of the Shalini Passi Art Foundation – to support emerging young artists – MASH hosts a monthly feature on selected artists and their work, and promotes experimental new practitioners through its social media platforms. Additionally, MASH’s Facebook and Instagram pages provide regular updates on current exhibitions, important sales, and significant cultural events around the world.

Founder

Shalini Passi is a Delhi-based art collector, artist, and philanthropist, who sits on the Advisory Board of Khoj Studios since 2012 and serves as a longstanding Patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Her collection includes some of the most coveted names in contemporary art, including Bharti Kher, Anita Dube, Sheba Chhachhi, Zarina Hashmi, and Atul Dodiya, alongside significant international artists such as Jeff Koons and Damian Hirst and Indian modernist masters, such as M.F. Husain, Manjit Bawa, and Ram Kumar. Shalini’s passion for art and design is evident in her vast collection of furniture, tapestries, and rare antiques, which are juxtaposed with cutting-edge contemporary design, including important pieces by Ron Arad, and Vladimir Kagan, and Herve Van Der Straeten. Located within Shalini’s Delhi home, which has been featured in prominent publications such as Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, and Larry’s List, the collection evokes and celebrates a powerful individual narrative that speaks of Shalini’s connection with each piece, each history, and each artist. As a patron and collector, Shalini actively supports emerging artists and fosters arts education through the Foundation’s year-round programming.

She is regularly invited to speak at prominent art and design events, and most recently gave a talk at India Art Fair 2019 and moderated a panel discussion at India Design ID 2019

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Meet the Curator: Shubigi Rao With Kochi Biennale Foundation

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★ Masters and modern artists featured in hybrid exhibition!

March 6, 2021

A Bengaluru arts foundation is using a Google platform to display its two decades of work online.

The Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation has put up a few select works from its latest show, ‘The Masters and the Modern,’ on a platform called Google Arts and Culture. The exhibition is on physical display at Gallery G till March 10.

The foundation first mooted the idea of going with Google Arts and Culture (GAC) to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012.

 Later, founder-trustee Gitanjali Maini recommended it to Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation, based in Bengaluru. “During this five-year-long association with the GAC team, we have had conversations about documenting our foundation’s works. We started working on the project in May 2020 and have been live online since February 26 this year,” she says.  Moving art to different places has always been a challenge, especially when they are “national treasures and registered antiquities”

Salman Khan as painter : 

The showstopper for the current exhibition is a painting by Bollywood actor Salman Khan, titled ‘Immortal: Selfless in A Selfish World’.  “He doesn’t want to be in the commercial space. We are trying to help him by putting hishis works in prominent museums in the country. This is the first showcase of his work – we selected it because the stroke was good. In the limited range, he brings out Mother Teresa really well,” says Gitanjali Maini.Gitanjali has selected two Salman Khan works for GAC. A work called ‘1964’, which she has chosen, is an image of his parents in the year they got married.“It is difficult to distinguish between the man and the woman, but he’s added a ‘bindi’ for the distinction,” she says.

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The Backwater city to host this year’s Biennale along with Kochi

Alleppey always know to be the hub of houseboat tourism, will now be known for the Biennale too. It is the  Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation a Govt funded organization that put forth this massive art festival. This year it's held in Kochi( which was the first city to launch this ambitious project) and now in Alleppey. It will be held from March 10th to May 31st this year.

Around 267 Malayalee artists across the globe will be showcasing their works to the world. This indeed is a prestigious moment for the Alleppey town as more people will come to know about the town and its attractions. Boat house Alleppey that has always remained the major attraction of the city will now be known to a larger public through this Biennale that is happening in the city.

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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?

Away from the cacophonous chorus of heavily corporatised art festivals, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale hopes to return after three pandemic-ridden years to its foundational purpose: to give back to people their real stories, their strengths, their songs. This year, it adopts storytelling as strategy in myriad ways: words, visuals, poetry, film, music. Watch | Glimpses | Kochi-Muziris Biennale…

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(x) Edited, designed and printed in India, the catalogue for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala is a successful example of a collaborative project: produced locally, it involved an international editorial team as well as designers from Switzerland and India. Externally the book, with its softcover and flaps, has a noticeably bronze tone. A number of double pages bearing the full-colour logos of the many sponsors are followed by the catalogue proper, which is entirely in black and white. The participants – almost 100in number – are presented in alphabeticalorder, with the first name taking precedence as is customary in India. A register column at the margin as well as title pages for each letter, folded in half a page, aid orientation. The short illustrated texts in English and Malayalam are set one below the other on each page, which along with the choice of fontand typesetting gives an impression of the two languages having equal weight. Lastly, a fold-out sequence with simple plans ofthe exhibition sites on the outside and a diversity of photos and diagrams – printed in four colours plus bronze – on the inside highlights various facets of the spaces.Editor(s): Andreas Koller, Paris (FR)/ZürichAuthor: Kelly Fliedner, Melbourne (AUS), Bose Krishnamachari, Kochi / Mumbai (IND), Sudarshan Shetty, Mumbai (IND) Design: Marietta Eugster, Paris (FR)/Zürich; David Keshavjee, London (UK); in collaboration with The Local Network, Ernakulam (IND) Printing: JAK Printers Private Ltd., Mumbai (IND) Publisher: Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kochi (IND) ISBN: 978-8-126474-516 Dimensions in mm: 252 × 179 × 24

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Pepper House Residency (Kerala, India)

Deadline: 22 April 2018

Pepper House Residency programme is an international residency opportunity for artists from all disciplines to work and collaborate within a studio space situated at the Pepper House, Fort Kochi in Kerala, India. The space of the Pepper House Residency consists of extensive studio facilities (for production), the Laboratory of Visual Arts library (for research), and the Pepper House cafe (for dialogue). The residency is structured on the idea of a three-dimensional approach to creativity in which the idea of artistic practice is supported by its two necessary extensions – public interaction and inquiry.

Kochi Biennale Foundation invites applications from artists for a two-month residency at Pepper House, Fort Kochi.

The residency is open to artists working in any medium, and will run for two months from May 25 to July 25, 2018. Artists will be offered studio space at Pepper House, accommodation, travel expenses, daily allowance, and finite material support. The artist will be invited by the selection panel based on her/his portfolio.

To apply, please send 1) your portfolio of works, and 2) resume to info@kochimuzirisbiennale.org

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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020 has been postponed

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020 has been��postponed

Written by Vandana Kalra | New Delhi | October 26, 2020 7:10:25 pm

Actor Mammoothy was seen at the Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2017. (Source: AJ Joji/Kochi Muziris Biennale)

With a substantial number of coronaviruscases in India, and Kerala experiencing a second surge, the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has announced the postponement…

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Artist of the Day

Nilima Sheikh

Mother Sequence 2016 Mixed tempera on sanganer paper 24.1 × 34.3 cm

Nilima Sheikh has inspired several generations over her 50 year career as a Baroda based painter. Sheikh has a solid position in the history of Indian Modernity, and was a student of KG Subramanian. Rooted in Eastern painting traditions such as miniature painting, oral tradition found in vernacular folk songs, as well as her own life experience, Sheikh continues to create bodies of work that evoke mystical imaginary landscapes that address feminine experiences. Sheikh has a gift for storytelling. Inspired by reading Rabindranath Tagore, the artist became interested at an early age in the connection between stories and images, an age-old connection from murals to ancient manuscripts. Beyond appropriating traditional techniques in her work, Sheikh works with figure and narration in her practice, which has also beautifully translated into theatre sets such as the 1993 Vivadi theatre production of Umrao, and also children’s books.

One series that earned Sheikh international acclaim and has exhibited extensively internationally was ‘When Champa Grew Up,’ a narrative and delicate 12 work series from 1984-1985 which revealed a tragic and too familiar story of a woman murdered for her dowry money by her husband’s family. Sheikh used traditional tempera painting techniques to question the darker sides of Indian traditions such as arranged marriages, which often subvert women. The artist used text from vernacular folk songs along with the paintings, a motif that has continued in her work decades later. Her painterly treatment of tempera also continues in her practice but in increasingly ambitious scales. In 1996, ‘Shamiana��� was unveiled at the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial, an installation with six hanging tempera on canvas scrolls, covered with a canopy made of synthetic polymer paint on canvas that referenced a marriage tent.

Beyond India, the artist turns to visual references from Kashmir, Turkey, Iran, and even pre-Renaissance Italian painting to create introspective works that question the meaning of the turbulent political landscape around her. Sheikh visited Kashmir often in her childhood, and was fascinated by it, but it was not until the 2002 Gujarat riots, which caused her immense internal turmoil, that she was able to directly address her connection with this state. Trained as a historian before she was trained as a painter, Sheikh delved into the history of Kashmir, and believes that Kashmir’s turmoil “is owing to our lack of understanding (of the place and people there) as Indians…The artist’s role is to bear witness - to both the past and present.” Two shows at Chemould, one in 2003 and one in 2010, address the artist’s deep concern with Kashmir. In the first exhibition, ‘The Country Without a Post Office: Reading Aga Shahid Ali,’ the artist connected with the Kashmiri poet’s words and illustrated the trauma found there and her thoughts with a vibrant and violent palette.  In her 2010 show at Chemould Prescott Road, the artist exhibited a series of 9 painted scrolls reflecting her 8 years of arduous work called ‘Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams.’ Her use of the motif of the scroll, a reference to Kashmir’s forgotten Buddhist past, allowed her to draw viewers into Kashmir outside of existing stereotypes which fuel the conflict that Sheikh hopes will diffuse with her lyrical works.

Anita Dube, the curator of the upcoming KMB that is hosted by the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF), announced Sheikh’s name as the First Artist for the fourth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), which begins December 12, 2018 courtesy of artsy.net, gallerychemould.com

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Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020 will open on December 12

Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020 will open on December 12

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Although COVID-19 has led to cancellations of all major events across the world, the Kochi Biennale Foundation has affirmed that the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) will open as scheduled on December 12, 2020.

Despite being one of the newest art biennales (the Venice Biennale began in 1895 and KMB in 2012), the event has made a mark in the global art scene, drawing…

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★ Private works, public viewing!

BENGALURU: Art collectors loaning their acquisitions to galleries and museums may be a popular concept in the West, but it’s something that is yet to catch on in India.

An exhibition titled The Masters & The Modern: An Amalgamation of Old & New World Classics, organised by Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, in association with gallery g, is attempting to lead the way.

The show will include rare classic artworks by Raja Ravi Varma and his contemporaries like Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Binode Behari Mukherjee. Side by side, the works by upcoming artists who have participated in various editions of Kochi Muziris Biennale will also be on display.

One surprise element will be an art work on Mother Teresa done by Bollywood star Salman Khan, who has been painting as a hobby for several years. Though the work is not for sale, it will be put on display alongside pieces by young artists.

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Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020 will open on December 12

Kochi Muziris Biennale 2020 will open on December 12

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Although COVID-19 has led to cancellations of all major events across the world, the Kochi Biennale Foundation has affirmed that the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) will open as scheduled on December 12, 2020.

Despite being one of the newest art biennales (the Venice Biennale began in 1895 and KMB in 2012), the event has made a mark in the global art scene, drawing…