Exhibitions 2009
The Garden of Un-Earthly Delights An installation of new works by artist Suhasini Kejriwal
10th - 25th January 2009 11.00 am - 4.30 pm, daily Venue: The Anokhi Museum, Chanwar Palkiwalon ki Haveli, Kheri Gate, Amber, Jaipur Curator: Dr.Alka PandeDr. Alka Pande and the Jaipur Virasat Foundation proudly present an installation of new works by artist Suhasini Kejriwal, who transforms the historic haveli home of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, Amber into a thorny artificial landscape, a technicolor sculpture garden of sharp cactus hedges, densely embroidered and crawling with monstrous flesh-pink arthropods and dark, hirsute hybrids. Kejriwal constructs a fantasy territory that sits unsettlingly poised somewhere in the borderlands between the natural and the otherworldly, a nightmarishly beautiful alien desert that spills through the historic building's spaces in a collision that evokes the city's sere hinterlands, its complex historical imagination, and the unique visual culture and fabric arts that have developed there. Suhasini Kejriwal lives and works in India. Kejriwal earned a BFA from the Parsons School of Design, New York in 1998 and then went on to earn a diploma and a masters degree from Goldsmith College in London. She is represented by Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai and Nature Morte in New Delhi. For more details, email at info@jaipurvirasatfoundation.org
ABSORBING FLUX - Photographic Exhibition by Nikhil Bhandari
21st & 22nd January 2009 10.30am - 7.30pm Venue: Kanchan Hall, Hotel Clarks Amer, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur Nikhil Bhandari has a BFA from Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai 1990. His love for photography involved him to work for many advertising and editorial campaigns in early years, followed by projects in fashion and nudes, globally. Nikhil says, “‘Photography as a medium of fine art’ in my sense is the inverse of photography habitually understood. Conclusively my medium is ‘light’.” According to Dr. Mukund Lath, Nikhil has succeeded in using ‘photography’ as a medium to create images that are unique and autonomous. In his hands, the medium as whole is transformed, even transfigured into a novel and singular palette, which is as full of possibility and as open to the exploration of visual meaning as any other medium of art, and yet, quite different from them. Nikhil has exhibited in group Shows at Kala Ghoda Festival, Mumbai “Synchrome 4” at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, & Tao Art, Mumbai, Reflex in Amsterdam & The White Gallery in USA. His solos include Roma at Co2 Contemporary Art & in Kolkata at Akar Prakar. Method: Convergence of predetermined multiple images on a hand painted surface with high reflective index in studio or selective environment, on a single film plane of medium or large format colour transparency or black & white negative (not a single pixel has been removed, added or altered nor is the image cropped). Digitally printed on Hahnemuhle and UltraSmooth Fine Art Cotton Paper with Archival Pigment Ink.
Sizes:
(A)Colour
150 x 100 cm - Unique Edition
100 x 67 cm - Unique Edition
100 x 100 cm - Unique Edition
50 x 50 cm – Unique Edition
(B)Black & White
100 x 67 cm - Unique Edition
75 x 50 cm - AP+3
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Nurturing Walls Animal Art by Meena Women
21st - 25th January 2009 10.00am - 6.00pm Venue: Diggi Palace , Sawai Man Singh Road, Jaipur Curator: Madan Meena and Tara Books
On the Edge, visions of a tropical coastline
21st - 25th January 2009 10.00am -7.30pm Venue: Jawahar Kala Kendra Gallery, Jaipur Curator: Dr. Sasi Victoire On the Edge, an exhibition from Far North Queensland, Australia, will arrive to coincide with the Jaipur Literature festival in January (21-25th) at the Jawahar Kala Kendra Gallery hosted by the Jaipur, State Academy of Fine Arts. On the Edge, headed by curator, Dr Sasi Victoire, will present an exhibition of current works of artists from Far North Queensland. The diversity of cultures represented in the artworks includes: Torres Strait Islander/ Indigenous, migrant and mainstream cultures of North Queensland. The Indigenous artists, all respond to their individual identity as a tribal grouping and each have their own laws, rituals and customs. A collaborative work, On the Edge, embodies their link and connections with each other as artists and mentors immersed in this area in the context of Place.
