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Some communities of the temperate climatic zone celebrate the October-fest as thanks-giving for what the land gives through the fruitful months of the year, before the onset of harsh and barren winter. In our largely tropical country with long scorching summer and unpredictably whimsical monsoon of woes. October comes as a relief before the short and bracing winter of rabi harvest. In the ancient and medieval India royal armies would set out for autumnal…

The works that include multimedia installations to canvases here are responses to some pressing cultural and historical needs of the time we live in. Images here unfold themselves creating tropes of awareness, accelerating the assimilation of what environmental experiences have to offer to these artists in concentrated form. Some are the holders of French passports, overwhelmed by the sense of an outsider in a presence, exacerbated by never knowing the proper…

The exhibition titled GenNext is being held at Aakriti Gallery in October every year since 2006. It projects the works of new generation of young artists and reflects the future of our contemporary art. Since the first GenNext in the catalogue of the show we have…

In the last two three decades there has been an increase in mixed media works ,and many a material are being tried by artists of younger generations specially., for there innovative expressions. The trend also…

With the growing demand of limited edition prints the world over Aakriti Art Gallery has organized a selection of prints to be auctioned using artprice.com…

Aakriti Art Gallery is back with its iconic endeavour of endorsing young generation artists from different corners of the globe to showcase their creativity in one common platform – the Gen Next. The whole concept of Gen Next was conceived on the noble idea of promoting artists below forty that has eventually revolutionized the entire approach of curatorial venture in the art world. Gen Next was first held in the month of October 2006 on the 1^st…

'GenNext', the Annual Exhibition, hosted by Aakriti Art Gallery is the 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 is held every year in the month of October, was conceptualized as an initiative to set up a fresh focus on the contemporary art where the…

Here in this exhibition works of the printmakers, Abdul Salam, Amitabha Banerjee, Atin Basak, Kasa Vinay Kumar, Rajesh Deb, Sayak Mitra, Soghra Khurasani, Vijay Bagodi, V Nagdas  living in India scrutinize the…

By Madhusree Chatterjee | IANS India Private Limited

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) A handful of initiatives that have brought big business houses to promote visual art with…

Ashoke Nag, ET Bureau Jul 30, 2012, 03.00PM IST

Kolkata's leading art gallery, Aakriti, is celebrating famed Bengal artist Gobardhan Ash's 105th birth anniversary, with a show of his drawings. Gobardhan Ash,…

The latest and last issue of Art Etc news & views ( July ) is the second and concluding part of the Art of Bengal series. The Guest Editor for this also has been the eminent Art Historian Pranabranjan Ray. This issue deals with Bengal…

Gobardhan Ash(1907-1996) had always been a pilgrim of intensity and an itinerant traveller. In the course of a career spanning nearly seven decades he dedicated himself to a quest for an imagery that can carry the freight of his early memories, realism, of living in a country, a politico-social conditioning (the famine period of the40s in Bengal), a politics of identity and language and above all an inner silence, celebration of life and beauty that pervades our…

The latest issue of Art etc. news & views (June issue) is the first part of the Art of Bengal series. The current and its consecutive issues of Art etc. news & views have been divided more or less in a chronological order—the first dealing with the folksy-urban Kalighat and…

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…

4^TH 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 4^th 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…

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…

 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…

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…