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Art Etc. news & views dedicated its three issues (March, April, May, 2012) on Protest Art.
In the last and final edition (May, 2012) of Protest Art the focus has been…
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4TH PROTEST ARTS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Protest Arts International Festival (PAIF) was launched in 2009 to highlight, reproduce and celebrate the contribution of protest arts to people-driven processes in international societies. Now in its 4th year, the festival spectrum has grown and it is now a key annual event on the arts calendar. The festival created a platform to trade information and experiences between academic and practising…
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After the first issue on Protest Art came out, the Art Etc. news & views team had a more daunting task in April. We went on to document the…
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The latest issue of art etc. (March issue) is the first part of a series that the editorial team of the magazine has embarked upon to contribute upon a subject which has provoked different kind of reactions from various sections of the society. The project has been demarcated to be covered…
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Protest Art
March,April & May
Protest art aims at engaging the attention of the public and provoke a reaction. Ever since art became the vehicle of individual self-expression it has been there throughout the history…
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In myriad ways, Sudip Roy’s Time Past is Present straddles mediums, moods and materials. The vast range of techniques and the idea of perception worked on perfecting his representation of figures and faces, makes this show by Sudip Roy one to savour long after. The show includes washes, watercolours, sketches, charcoals,…
Posted by Aakriti Art Gallery on February 6, 2012 at 4:45pm
Sekhar Roy is not concerned with the problem between relations in the painted space rather the active and neutral elements amidst opposite markers. His idea in his present series is to define an opposition and control the tension in his painting through space, matrices, images and colour to bring out a crisis, established…
Posted by Aakriti Art Gallery on February 6, 2012 at 4:26pm
After some of the stunned amazement had worn off and I could manage to unlock my hands from being claws gripping into my kitchen cupboards, my knees had stopped shaking with fright, and the streams of tears had slowed, practical solutions had to be thought about to what we were dealing with, how to cope, manage... organise.... research had to be done, information had to be found, comparisons had to be made to other similar bodies, an artist of comparable capacity to find a level. We had to…
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Why would an artist take the pain of painting if he can click a shot and create art. The gap that remains between photography and photorealism is that, photography binds us to capture what we see before us. It only allows the liberty in changing the angles, hence the points of view. But art gives one, the liberty to shape the vision, shown by nature to ones own.
The clear articulation of…
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Welcome dear reader to the New Year, with yet another new thought from the editorial desk of artetc. news & views. After the enthusiastic response with which you had accepted our last two issues on Cutting Edge Art Practices in India, we thought it would be a refreshing diversion to take a close look at some of India’s most successful Modern Masters.
Coincidentally, most of them emerged from what…
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Welcome to the world of Aakriti Art Gallery—a virtual meeting ground for artists, art collectors, art enthusiasts, critics and connoisseurs from around the world. Aakriti Art Gallery is one of the most vibrantly active venues of art in Kolkata, India. Its exhibits range from works of artists who are groundbreaking contemporary visionaries, young upcoming talents or historical masters. Founded in 2005, the Gallery has today more than 1000 works in its collection.Its has a separate wing adjoining the primary gallery space,a permanent gallery for showcasing sculptures exclusively. Aakriti Art Gallery was founded with a very specific intention. Despite the fact that the Gallery has a sizeable collection of historical masters, it is on international modern and contemporary art that it truly stresses upon. The vision is to break all geographical boundaries, collecting and curating works from all around the world. This vision of Aakriti Art Gallery has also given rise to GenNext series —the annual exhibition of contemporary artists from across the globe. Since its inception, Aakriti has held this exhibition every year. Young artists from Europe, Asia, North and South America have been enthusiastically converging with their works at this show which is held every year from October 1 to 15 in Kolkata, India.
This is a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art—be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography,video art,conceptual art, new media or antiques,collectibles,films,furniture and music. This is a space not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs and critics. And in this space you have a wide choice—of exchanging notes, holding debates, checking out the works in Aakriti's collection and even buying them from our website if you so fancy. Going beyond the limit of a physical exhibition, a geographical boundary and being in touch—that is the main aim of this forum. This forum will also notify members of upcoming events at Aakriti, while at the same time acting as a virtual exhibition arena to showcase works by members across the world.
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Somewhere between the head, heart and the hand of the creator lies Art-a creation; more and more attaining the status of a product.In an age overwhelmingly head oriented- with concepts, ideas and…Continue
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I'm writing about sculpture at the moment and wondering who are the top people working in this meidum in India and around the world.
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Do you believe in ART FOR ART'S SAKE or do you think there should be some moral design behind art work?
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What can art offer you? Apart from material benefits I mean.How do you feel when you create?Is Art a way of living after all?I've read a book about Art therapy in seniors; art is healing.Your views?Continue
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For the second year in a row, one of India’s biggest art events, the India Art Summit, is being overshadowed by controversy swirled around the organizers’ prohibition of the display of works by M.F.…Continue
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Paintings carry much more value than a sculpture in the eyes of a collector generally, Why?
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Are there any copyright laws regarding reproducing paintings by well known artists? Of course, the reproductions will not be exactly the same as the original...the colors used will be different and…Continue
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artseek posted a blog postKOLKATA: 'GenNext', the annual exhibition, hosted by Kolkata's well-known Aakriti Art Gallery, is a platform for the young contemporary artist. Here, painters, sculptors and graphic artists are encouraged to put up their works, showcase their skills and their ability to negotiate complex modern issues through their medium of choice.
The annual exhibition, which is held every year in the month of October, was conceptualized as…
KOLKATA: Art Etc News & Views, a publication of integrated art house Emami Chisel Art, has dedicated its three issues (March, April and May 2012) to Protest Art.…
When speaking of Satish Gujral, it’s difficult to decide which of his creative identities is to be stressed. For he is many things at once. An architect of daring imagination, for example; though not, strictly speaking, in the profession, his building of exposed bricks, domes and…
There is an unmistakably surreal quality about many of the photographs that make up Rameshwar Broota’s exhibition at the Aakriti Art Gallery (This End To The Other, till November 30). Consider the untitled photograph that depicts an individual, the body partially covered in sheets, sleeping on a bed. At the far end of the bed, one can see a jet plane leaving streaks of white, vertical lines in a sky dotted with floating clouds. The photograph seems to evoke…
KOLKATA: Kolkata's well-known Aakriti Art Gallery is fielding an exclusive show titled, Social & Political Injustice: Trends in Contemporary Art 2011. The exhibit reflects the take of a young bunch of artists on injustice of this nature. The works are in various art mediums.
Art movements have generally been reactionary and a medium of rebellion. Guernica, the famous mural…
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Welcome to the world of Aakriti Art Gallery—a virtual meeting ground for artists, art collectors, art enthusiasts, critics and connoisseurs from around the world. Aakriti Art Gallery is one of the most vibrantly active venues of art in Kolkata, India. Its exhibits range from works of artists who are groundbreaking…
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Talk Art
This is a forum to reach out to anybody interested in art—be it painting, sculpture, print making, creative photography,video art or new media. This is a space not only for the practitioners of different forms of art, but also collectors, connoisseurs and critics. And in this space you have a wide choice—of exchanging notes, holding debates, checking out the works in Akriti's collection and even buying them from our website if you so fancy.
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Aakriti Art Gallery is one of the most vibrantly active venues of art in Kolkata, India. Its exhibits range from works of artists who are groundbreaking contemporary visionaries, young upcoming talents or historical masters. Founded in 2005, the Gallery has today more than 1000 works in its collection. Its new wing adjoining the primary gallery space, now has a permanent gallery for showcasing sculptures exclusively. One of the core activities of Aakriti, which is pursued at tandem with its… Continue
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