Latest Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Latest Ocula Report Sydney Biennale Connects Here with Everywhere By Soo-Min Shim, Sydney 'This year's Biennale of Sydney seems like a corrective,' writes Soo-Min Shim, 'prioritising autonomy in an international exhibition format that has all too often omitted or sidelined First Nations artists.'
Ocula Insight Hell is a Place on Earth: P·P·O·W Looks to History in Context of Covid-19 By Stephanie Bailey, London In the United States, parallels have been drawn between the HIV/AIDS crisis and what is unfolding with Covid-19. These connections feed into P·P·O·W's online exhibition, Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head .
Formerly The Fine Art Resource, an art dealership established by Usha Mirchandani in the mid-eighties in Mumbai, and a space for modern and contemporary Indian art run by her daughter Ranjana Steinruecke from 1997 to 2003 in Berlin, the gallery has presented exhibitions by leading artists including Bhupen Khakhar, Jogen Chowdhury, Atul Dodiya, and S.H. Raza. They have also curated institutional exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Read MoreGalerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke was established in Mumbai in 2006. It is highly regarded for the young artists it has nurtured since, and the exceptional quality of its program and exhibitions. The gallery represents important and established artists such as Gieve Patel and C.K. Rajan, and several of the most talented new positions to have emerged over the last decade, such as Sosa Joseph, Abir Karmakar, Manish Nai, Ratheesh T., Siji Krishnan and Tanya Goel. The prominence of these artists has grown significantly in recent years through participation in international biennales and acquisitions by important private collectors and museums.
Related Press P R Satheesh’s show starts conversations about the complexities of life’s multiple frameworks 21 October 2019, Architectural Digest From Munnar in Kerala to Mumbai—an artist takes conventional stereotypes—breaks them and finds ways of creating permutations and combinations that create a synergy of Pollockian canvasses filled with conversations about the complexities of life's multiple frameworks. You get the cramped in convolutions of the brilliant artist P R...
Related Press See the Majestic Displays at India’s First Contemporary Sculpture Park 5 September 2019, Hyperallergic India's first-ever contemporary sculpture park has launched its second edition. The not-for-profit project, inaugurated in December 2017, transformed the Madhavendra Palace in Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, into an expansive sculpture gallery. The sculptures are displayed throughout the majestic rooms and grand courtyards of the 18th-century fortress...
Related Press Indian Art in Paris 27 November 2017, Frieze In the film I am Twenty (1967) by Indian filmmaker S. N. S. Sastry, the narrator asks a group of young men and women – all of whom were born on 15 August 1947 (the day of Indian Independence) – how they feel about the 20-year-old nation state of India. A young man with a mop-top, unimpressed by the question, replies: 'I don't have any love for the...
Related Press Walk Through A Stranger's Home 12 November 2017, mid-day While the residents of this home, evidently furnished according to middle-class taste, are never to be seen, the paintings do not seem de-peopled. In fact, there is a sense of intimacy that Karmakar creates through the eight paintings that will be on view at Colaba's Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke Tuesday evening onwards. "You enter...
