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Riyas Komu showcased Holy Shiver, a solo exhibition responding to a State in deliberate conflict with its founding principles. The title ‘Holy Shiver’ is a reference to the conceptual strand discussed by the Nobel Prize winning ethologist, Konrad Lorenz.
A Riveting space full of artful possibilities, this center of arts is a gamechanger. Another pioneering initiative by Riyas Komu and his able team that will breach new ground for art in India.
Sahil Naik’s first solo at Experimenter Gallery – “Ground Zero: Site as Witness/Architecture as Evidence” employs destruction, abandonment and decay on sites to conjure dead cities.
Turner Prize, one of the art world’s most amped-up awards; from Anish Kapoor to Wolfgang Tillmans or Elizabeth Price, Turner has brought them great acclaim and much fanfare.
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable Damien Hirst – his works astonish, titillate and confront the viewer; at times to even question the very definition of Art.
Léon-Georges Dorignac, the French painter, left a rich legacy of undeniably nuanced works. Rodin, his contemporary, upon seeing his artwork is said to have declared, “Dorignac sculpts his drawings.”
A luminously evocative photo series by sohrab hura that you must go and experience. The fears that confront the families of people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia are every day and every minute.
Rahul Solanki paints with paper to conjure up minimalist abstractions Rahul Solanki’s art coaxes you in phases. Phase 1 – his paintings like the one I saw first, Missing, are placed like mug shots on a station wall, but with the unsteady hand of whimsy.
French-born, Uk-raised, and New York-based artist Alexandre Singh’s Art. The world I inhabit is just about waking up to the art of Alexandre Singh.
Aditya Pande’s work is not easy on the nerves. It is almost discomforting at first and even in the middle. The end is another story.
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