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Works from Bhalla’s Yamuna Walk are featured in the massive multi-disciplinary exhibition which “defines the soul of Galicia.” Fresh Water / Agua Doce is currently on view at the Gaia Center Museum in Santiago de Compestela, Spain.
Fresh Water / Agua Doce
Gaia Center Museum
Santiago de Compestela
Spain
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Chemould Prescott Road gallery held a series of five exhibitions curated by brilliant Geeta Kapur. The fifth and final show titled, Aesthetic Bind | Floating World featured Atul Bhalla’s Yamuna Evening-III. The blog, Mumbai Boss, posted a lively review of the exhibition.
Aesthetic Bind | Floating World
Chemould Prescott Road
Mumbai
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Keywords is an exhibition based on a book of the same name by Raymond Williams. In addition to Sunil Gupta’s tape-slide project London Gay Switchboard from 1980, the exhibition presents over sixty artworks mostly from artists making art in Britain during a period defined by moments of oppositional politics, the 1970’s and the 1980’s. First presented at Iniva, the expanded exhibit moves to the Tate Liverpool.
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Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain
Tate Liverpool
Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation is a year-long exhibition on the history and contemporary experiences of Indian Americans. Selected works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India will be on view.
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Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation
National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC
Atul Bhalla’s Yamuna Walk will be featured in a group exhibition, Walk On. Bhalla’s Yamuna Walk series will be exhibited alongside works by artists Marina Abramovic, Julian Opie, Bruce Nauman, Sophie Calle, and others who have explored and created works revolving around the artist on a journey. Previously exhibited at the Pitshangor Manor Museum (March 26 – May 6, 2013).
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Midlands Art Centre
Birmingham
Matthew’s series, An Indian from India, has been featured in The New York Times’ blog on photography called, Lens, the CNN Photo blog, and Buzzfeed.
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February 11, 2014
Portraits challenge cultural perceptions
CNN Photos
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March 11, 2014
Which Indian are You?
Buzzfeed
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April 21, 2014
An Indian From India Photographs Both
The New York Times, Lens blog
The Crow Collection of Asian Art exhibit of Re-Take of Amrita features 35 photomontages from the series and a rare showing of the dual-track video installation, Indira’s Piano. The exhibition has been extended through to the 22nd of June, and has been reviewed by Sybile Girault of L’Oeil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography).
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Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas
In the second part of this sequential, two-part exhibition, LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2 presents works from 1995 to the present. As the nature of the AIDS epidemic has changed, so has the artwork which addresses the disease. Sunil Gupta’s work from Sun City is included alongside works by Ei Arakawa, Ryan Brewer, AA Bronson, Elmgreen & Dragset, General Idea, Ono Ludwig, Piotr Nathan, Irina Popova, Hunter Reynolds, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others. These contemporary works tend to be more reserved, biographical— and international— than the works spanning the first era of the crisis, 1987 to 1995.
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neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst
Berlin
Atul Bhalla’s book, “What will be my defeat?” grew out of Project Y, a public art and outreach project initiated by the Ministry of Culture, Hamburg. Centered on the idea of creating ecological and sustainable rivers in cities, the project was held almost simultaneously in the cities of Delhi and Hamburg between October and November 2011. Bhalla created a series of works around cross cultural ideas of ecology as basic elements of our identity, through a series of photographs, and text adapted from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in the form of questions. These images were shown on the project boat in Hamburg. Published and edited by Nina Kalenbach, Till Krause, and Ravi Agarwal (Free River Zone, Hamburg, 2012.)
Read moreArtists Choose Artists is the Parrish Art Museum’s ongoing, juried exhibition that celebrates artists on the East End and the dynamic relationships uniting the area’s creative community. For this exhibition, seven distinguished East End artists served as jurors, each making two selections from 300 online submissions and subsequent studio visits. A reflection of the region’s unique heritage as an artist colony, Artists Choose Artists initiates introductions and fellowship among today’s expanded, multi-generational network of artists. The group exhibition comprises works by Kurita who was selected by sculptor Ned Smyth.
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Artists Choose Artists
Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill, NY
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath presents types of photographs repeatedly made during the many phases of war— regardless of the size or cause of the conflict, the photographers’ or subjects’ culture or the era in which the pictures were recorded. The exhibition features Nakagawa’s photographs from Gama (Caves).
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War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath
Brooklyn Museum
Published to accompany the exhibition Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Loss, the book examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of 12 international photographers, it challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, and explores how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body and female identity. Published by The Photographers’ Gallery, the book features Matthew’s works from Re-generation and Open Wound.
Read moreThe art walk in Liège brings together photography, video and installations made in this decade, supplemented by new works. The artists draw inspiration from India’s mythology and rich symbolism to create very poetic works. These often refer to the populations living alongside rivers and the way they deal with water scarcity and pollution. Curated by Gayatri Sinha, the exhibition will feature works by Atul Bhalla and Vivan Sundaram amongst others. The artists explore the theme in the European context of a city on a river. The walk takes place in and around the Grand Curtius, the starting point, on the banks of the Meuse River.
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Art Walk: Water Europalia India
Liège
Originally set within the emotionally resonant context of the Foundling Museum, Home Truths explores the theme of loss in the relationship between mother and child. The exhibition is in collaboration with the Photographers’ Gallery and will travel to Belfast in conjunction with their photography festival, Belfast Exposed. Works from Matthew's ongoing series Re-generation, in which she animates vernacular photographs of families and friends to morph and show how family dynamics change in a moving, sometimes mysterious, way.
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Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Loss
The Foundling Museum
London
The biennial Delhi Photo Festival is an initiative of the India Habitat Centre & Nazar Foundation to bring photography, the real democratic art form, into the public space, thereby creating awareness of photo- graphic arts and initiating dialogue amongst its many practitioners and lovers. The festival will feature Matthew’s video from Re-generations.
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Grace Delhi Photo Festival
Delhi
The Society for Photographic Education has awarded its inaugural SPE Future Focus Project Support Grant to Annu Palakunnathu Matthew for her project, From Immigrant to Native: Imaging the New American. The professional award is given to a SPE member in recognition of their creative work and in support towards completion of a project to be unveiled at a future SPE conference.
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Osamu James Nakagawa has been nominated for the prestigious Les Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award 2012. One of fifteen finalists, Nakagawa will have a solo exhibition this summer in Arles, France as a part of the 2012 Les Rencontres d'Arles Interational photography festival, where he will exhibit photographs from Banta (Cliffs) and Gama (Caves).
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Artist Presented by Tadashi Ono: Osamu James Nakagawa
Atelier de la Mecanique
Les Rencontres de la Photography
Arles
Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs brings together 60 works from the Royal Ontario Museum’s collection that were acquired over the past decade, and have never before been displayed. sepiaEYE artist Pamela Singh is included in a roster of images which spans from the 1860s until the 2000s.
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Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto
Critical Mass at Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the first major show that will expose the Israeli public to the thriving contemporary Indian art scene. An exhibition of Indian art in Israel holds special interest in a local context, due to the range of affinities between the two countries and due to the growing interest of Israelis in India and in Indian culture. The preoccupation with conflicted identity and multifaceted social and political reality is similarly shared by both cultural fields and seems to serve as a significant catalyst for artistic production. Bhalla’s photographic diptych, I Was Not Waving I was Drowning, was included in this exciting exhibition curated by Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff
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Critical Mass
Tel Aviv Museum of Art