V&A @NGMA, Karen Knor, BMB, Guild and the Works from FB and Mails

Victoria & Albert Museum Photography @ NGMA, New Delhi

As It Is Africa Applauded @ Mojo Gallery. Dubai

Transmigrations by Karen Knor @ Seagull, Kolkata

LABORAL CENTRO DE ARTE Y CREACIÓN INDUSTRIAL Noches eléctricas [Electric Nights]
Art and pyrotechnics 18.03.2011-12.09.2011

Noches eléctricas [Electric Nights] takes its name from Les nuits électriques, a short film directed by Eugene Deslaw in 1928, in which he focused on city lights at nighttime, sequencing street lamps, neon signs and shop windows of Paris, Berlin and Prague almost as if it were a fireworks show. Similarly to fireworks, film is an intermittent ephemeral projection of light in the darkness. Through a selection of works from the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the exhibition, borrowing the visual recourses of pyrotechnics, wishes to demonstrate the continuity between spectacles of fire and the art of the moving image: flowers, stars, rain, fire, storms, fountains, volcanoes...

The exhibition begins with a series of classical French etchings and Japanese prints representing fireworks, as well as a group of photographs which introduce a major selection of experimental films and contemporary works by Brion Gysin, Ange Leccia, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, among others.

Presented in open plan and conceived both as a parcours and as entertainment, rather than like a classical exhibition, the show follows the principle of fireworks, alternating installations with projections. The moving images are presented on screens in different sizes and formats hanging at varying heights in the space. The principle of horizontal vision is thus altered and we experience the exhibition as if we were at a fireworks show: looking at the sky.

Rise of Conceptual Poetics @ MPCVA, Mumbai

Nostalgia, Pride and Fear @ BMB

Spotted in FB. Photographic Works by Binu Bhaskar

From My E-mail- Works by Sujeet Mallick

From my Emails. Works by Mathai Tom

Deepak John, Anpu Varkey, Remen Chopra, Malavika Rajnarayan, Sonatina Mendes

Design Through Photography by Dr.Deepak John Mathew Release @ IHC, Delhi on 10th March 2011

Anpu Varkey @ ZUCKER — Club Friedrich-Rauers-Straße 10 28195 Bremen

Remen Chopra @ Sakshi, Mumbai

Some Very Best Works posted in FB

(by Malavika Rajanarayan)

(by Malavika Rajanarayan)

(by Sonatina Mendes)

(by Sonatina Mendes)

(To know more about the artists check out Feminine Syntax : Personal Biographies curated by Rekha Rodwittiya, and www.theentamasha.blogspot.com

Broota, MPCVA, Vaibhav and The Square Group

Rameshwar Broota @ Vadehra

Preview: 5 March 2011, 6 pm

6 - 31 March, 2011
Vadehra Art Gallery
D-178 Okhla Phase 1, New Delhi
Monday to Saturday | 11 am - 7 pm

Swiss Experimental Films @ Mohile Parikh Center, Mumbai

Vaibhav Sharma's 'Convocation'@ Transformations curated by Jamia Art History Students

Chandigarh and Delhi based Vaibhav Sharma presented an interesting installation titled 'Welcome to the Convocation' in the recently concluded show the Jamia Millia Islamia. Curated by the Art History Students at the Jamia Fine Arts Department, 'Convocation' became one of the catch points of the show.

In this work, in a Kosuthian way, Vaibhav brings for the idea of Convocation and the practice of 'cheating' in the examinations. Each board, which resembles the board used for supporting the answer sheets, has the 'notes' pilfered from the text books. These notes are generally used for copying answers. In these artificially created 'notes', Vaibhav writes about 5 richest persons in the world who are university dropouts- Bill Gates, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mark Zuckerberg and Jim Carrey, critical quotes by exceptional artists from Van Gogh, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Duchamp to Atul Dodiya, Nataraj Sharma, Bharti Kher and Anish kapoor.

(Welcome to the Convocation)

(Vaibhav Sharma with Shobha Broota at the Exhibition at MF Husain Gallery, Jamia)

The Square Group and its Land Art Interventions

A group of artists who don't want to be named individually came together to form an alternative art practicing group in Kerala. Named 'The Sqaure', this group recently did its first intervention on a hillside in Vagamon, Kerala.

Video, Royal Evening, Nandagopal, Baroda........

Lascivious
Yasamin Keshtkar and Keer Tanchak

March 4th – April 2nd 2011
Opening reception: Friday March 4th from 6 to 8pm

DEAN PROJECT gallery is thrilled to announce Lascivious, a two person exhibition of new paintings by Yasamin Keshtkar and Keer Tanchak. The opening reception with the artists will be held on Friday March 4th from 6 to 8pm.

Yasamin Keshtkar and Keer Tanchak’s paintings are full of playfulness and liveliness, portraying a variety of subjects and concepts based on personal and collective ideas of identity and desire.
For this exhibition both artists were asked to provide paintings from different series of their work. The gallery installed the selected works in a non-thematic structure, resulting in a painting salon, where a lively conversation concerning romance and painting emerges. The array of forms and materials used by these artists contributes to a genuine touch of openness and the maturity in their handling of the craft, which makes this exhibition a joyful visual experience.

The Latino Video Art Festival of New York 


Forty artists will show their work in Region 0. The Latino Video Art Festival of New York, which will take place on March 24th, 25th, and 26th, 2011 at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.

300 video artworks, all of extremely high quality, were submitted in response to the open call. The works that will be screened were selected from those submitted to the open call and others identified by the festival curator.

The artworks considered were viewed online, facilitating wide participation - in total, 147 creative artists from Latin America and Spain, some of them US residents.

Region 0 showcases current trends in the field of video art, highlighting the distinct conceptual and technical approaches of the participating creators.

Womanifesto @ Anayas Art Gallery, Ahmedabad

Nandagopal @ Art World, Chennai

S.Ayesha & Suchit Sahni @ Gallery Ragini @ Claridges, New Delhi

Jenny Bhatt @ Seven Art Ltd, New Delhi

Thotta Vaikuntham @ Art Alive, New Delhi

Baroda March @ Strand Room, Colaba, Mumbai

The 26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition is closing in ten days.


The 26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition is open to visual artists 18 years of age and older from all over the world. Accepted mediums include painting, photography, sculpture, digital art, mixed media, drawing and print.

This year's juror is Elisabeth Sherman of the Whitney museum.

Selected artists will receive awards to help advance their careers, promote their work and increase their exposure to collectors in New York City and around the world.

The deadline for entries is Monday March 14th

For more information, visit http://www.agora-gallery.com/competition/default.aspx or email: competition@agora-gallery.com

Andy Warhol at Cholamandal, Shelly Bahl @ Armory

Friday Movie Club @ Cholamandal, Chennai

Black and White @ Abadi Art Space, Laddo Sarai, New Delhi

Monochrome @ Nitanjali Art Gallery, New Delhi

Himalayan Mystique @ Piramal Art Gallery

Osage Art Foundation

Shelly Bahl speaks on Interdisciplinary Project @ Armory Show

Shelly Bahl will be speaking about her recent interdisciplinary projects at the Armory Show on Thursday March 3rd, 7pm [BOOTH 1511].

Solicited Perspectives @ the Loft, Mumbai

Gallery SKE, Project 88 and so on

Sushanta Mandal @ Gallery SKE,Bangalore

Raghu Rai @ Harrington Street, Kolkata

Artists of Bhopal Group Show

FOUNTAIN NEW YORK ANNOUNCES
MASSIVE STREET ART INSTALLATION FOR 2011 FAIR
Ten Revered Artists Collaborate on a 100-Foot Installation

March 3–6, 2011
Pier 66 Maritime @ 26th Street & 12th Avenue in Hudson River Park, aka The Frying Pan

Special Events:
Thursday, March 3, 12pm–5pm - VIP & Press Preview
Friday, March 4, 7pm–12am - Opening Night Public Reception with performances by GORDON VOIDWELL and TECLA
Saturday, March 5, 7pm–12am – Performances by NINJASONIK and special guests

General Hours: March 4–March 6, 12pm–7pm
Tickets are $10 at the door

Philip Scheffner and Britta Lange
Making of … The Halfmoon Files

5 – 16 March 2011
Opening reception Saturday, 5 March, 6.00 to 9.00 PM

Philip Scheffner and Britta Lange, Making of … The Halfmoon Files, 2008-10, four channel video installation with sound.

Project 88 and Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai are pleased to announce Making of ... The Halfmoon Files, an exhibition by Berlin based film maker Philip Scheffner and cultural scientist Britta Lange. Making of ... the Halfmoon Files is a four channel sound and video installation, the German version of which was exhibited in Berlin in 2008/2009. The English version will premiere at Project 88.

Making of...The Halfmoon Files begins with the meeting of German researchers and imprisoned soldiers from the English, French and Russian armies in German prisoner of war camps during WWI. The work especially focuses on Half Moon Camp in Wünsdorf near Berlin, which mostly held Indian and North African colonial soldiers from 1914 to 1918. These exotic prisoners of war were utilised for political propaganda and became the subjects of many scientific studies in anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, musicology and jurisprudence. In the archives, there is a vast amount of data on these soldiers, there are records regarding the goals of this political propaganda, the relevance of these prisoners for science and other studies, as well as stories by these prisoners about the war, their home, the village of Wünsdorf and also their opinion and understanding of the scientists who were conducting the experiments. In the installation, all these stories are meshed into a fragile audio-visual narrative, the stories point towards and try to understand the interweaving of colonialism, war, media, politics, entertainment, culture and science.
The exhibition was developed in cooperation, with the Sound Archive of the Humboldt University Berlin, the Max-Planck Institute Berlin, Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunk Archiv and Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin. It has been supported by the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin.

Philip Scheffner lives in Berlin and works on documentary films, video and sound art. His critically acclaimed and award-winning films The Halfmoon Files (2007) and Day of the Sparrow (2010) both celebrated their world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. Together with Merle Kröger, he founded the production group pong in 2001. Over the course of the past fifteen years, Philip Scheffner has collaborated on a number of projects in India, with reputed filmmaker, curator and activist Madhusree Dutta, director ONIR and screenwriter and filmmaker Urmi Juvekar, among others.

Britta Lange, Dr. phil., is a cultural scientist who received her doctorate degree in 2005 from the Humboldt University Berlin on the cultural and technical clichés around 1900s. In 2007/08, she conceptualised, together with Philip Scheffner, the exhibition “The Making of…” in Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. She is currently working, within the framework of her post-doctorate project, on a book about German and Austrian research on war prisoners between 1915 and 1918.

On 6th and 7th March Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai will host the screening of the film The Halfmoon Files by Philip Scheffner and a lecture by Britta Lange on Objective Data – Subjective Texts, respectively.

For further information or press enquiries please contact Zakia Basrai at contact@project88.in or +91 22 2281 0066.