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 Pande

Dr. 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
Signature Front Bottom
Signature & Edition on Verso

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

Never seen before outside the walls of Rajasthani village homes, the Mandana tradition of painting is practiced by the women of the Meena tribe. Handed down from mother to daughter, this stunning public art is a community tradition, done by women on the mud walls and floors of their homes, keeping time with recurring festivals and the changing seasons.

Nurturing Walls is a book featuring this art form and is a work of art itself. Original art prints and photographs from the book, as well as large authentic paintings, will be showcased at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The book’s photographer and researcher Madan Meena and editor Gita Wolf will also be present.

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.

The artists from North Queensland include:

Dennis Nona, Brian Robinson, Alick Tipoti, Rosella Namok, Joey Laifoo, Arone Meeks, Ceferino Sabertino, Zane Saunders, Anna Eglitis, Ian Horn, Elaine Lampton, Sasi Victoire .

This tour is endorsed by Australia India Council through their funding support and its Board member, Vinod Daniel acting as liaison between India and Australia. It will later travel to Delhi to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Art (IGNCA). In partnership with INTACH, a forum on cultural heritage in the arts is planned to discuss, exchange ideas and forge links with India. The tour’s sponsoring airline is Cathay Pacific who has generously provided assistance for the fares of the delegates.

This exhibition demonstrates the value of mentorship where the transferring of skills is an important pathway for employment, training and further enterprise development. It has come together mainly through mutual trust and bear testimony to the quality of the longstanding relationships between the mentors and artists.

 
The Literature of Colors by Students of Umang and Step by Step

21st – 25th January 2009
Venue: Diggi Palace

Umang,a school for special children and Step by Step IB World School present an Art Exhibition ‘The Literature of Colors’. It is a platform where the Art students of the IB Diploma programme of Step by Step have created works of art, in collabartion with the special children of Umang. The students have worked together and seen the world from each others perspective and expressed it in different media. They will showcase their creations during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Hotel Diggi Palace.