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ART CHENNAI
ARPITA SINGH (b. 1937)
Born in 1937 in West Bengal, Arpita Singh completed her education in art from the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic in 1959. She was the founder member of the group ‘The Unknown’ in Delhi in the early sixties and over the course of the years has produced paintings that resembles intricate tapestries and equally blueprints that chart out of a complex web of metaphors, myths, fantasy, reality, conscious stances and subconscious utterances.
Singh has held solo exhibitions at Vadehra Art Gallery (Cobweb, 2010-11; and Picture Postcard, 2006), Bose Pacia Modern, New York (Memory Jar, 2003 and 1997) and Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (1997), among others. She has also been part of important museum shows such as India Moderna, organised by Institut Valencia d’Art Modern and Casa Asia, Valencia Spain (2008-9), Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University (2007-2008); Horn Please, cura
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Requiem for a Pioneer
TO RUN INTO KEKOO GANDHY, whether at his old galleri Chemould—on the first floor of the Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay—or more recently, at its successor, Chemould Prescott Road, directed bygd his daughter Shireen, was to be drawn instantly into his latest scheme for sweeping reform in India’s art institutions. When Kekoo died on Nov. 10, 2012, aged 92, he took with him a nation-size archive and an något privat eller personligt knowledge of the epic debates and invisible micro-politics that shaped the postcolonial Indian art world.
One of independent India’s earliest gallerists, Kekoo was a pionjär who helped formulate the contours of that art world. galleri Chemould evolved organically in 1963 from his frame-making establishment, itself born during the 1940s from his collaboration with a group of connoisseurs and entrepreneurs who had foreseen the rise of Indian art in the aftermath of World War II. Although a lärjunge at Cambridge University, Kekoo had foun
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Curatorial Statement
Atul Bhalla
Atul Bhalla finished his graduation at the College of Art, Delhi University, New Delhi and Post-graduation at School of Art, Northern Illinois University, USA. A few of his major show include On the Edge, a solo show of works from 2009-11; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Oct 2011; Water Works, curated by Donna Gustafsson, Sept-Oct 2011 at Grossman Gallery, Lafeyette College, Easton, PA. USA; Installation of 'I was not Waving but Drowning-II' at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA. USA. (December 2010-April 2011); Yamuna Elbe Project: Hamburg-Delhi, Site specific Installations on both Rivers, curated by Till Krause, Ravi Agarwal, Oct Nov 2011; Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia 13 Aug - 6 Nov 2011, curated by Christine Clarke. Water, curated by Donna Gustafson, Andrew W. Mellon, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, USA; ID/ENTITY, curated by Vidya Shivdas, Vadehra Art Gallery. New Delhi; A Monumental Tour, curated by Cho Seong Ryeong, Cor