Ocula Conversation Thao Nguyen Phan: Dangerous Optimism Tessa Moldan, Brussels With Monsoon Melody on view at WIELS, Brussels, her largest solo exhibition to date, Thao Nguyen Phan discusses her transition to film to explore colonial legacies and ecological destruction in Vietnam.
Ocula Report Frieze Los Angeles: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Los Angeles Los Angeles' art scene has a lot to offer during Frieze Los Angeles, with galleries, non-profits, and museums gearing up for the fair's second edition between 14 and 17 February 2020. In this Ocula Lowdown, Tessa Moldan lists a selection of the city's must-see shows.
Ocula Insight Jaki Irvine's Manifesto on Life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Apoorva Rajagopal, Dublin Ack Ro' , Jaki Irvine's reflection on the fragility of life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is an 'ambitious, holistic installation' staged like a 'wild disarray of interconnected yet fragmented pieces'.
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...
