Pondicherry exhibition at Aurodhan Art Gallery

Aditis (my daughter) exams are over ... and I am all set to venture to Pondicherry. Thanks to Preeti most of the stuff completed in time and there are no last minute emergencies

We will be in Pondicherry for a few days hopefully will get a chance to visit ashrams around the gallery. If you are in Pondicherry do drop in at Aurodhan Art Gallery.

For those who can not come physically, Preeti has arranged for an Online exhibition of the paintings on display there. You can visit it by clicking here. I will ask her to add more photos of our trip.

10 Promising artists in TED by Rubin Agrawal (Why Its an ill-prepared Presentation )

Came to know of this quick presentation of 10 Artists. (Art works are good However presentation by Ravin Agrawal is very ill prepared

A) There is a conflict of Interest

The Word Promising is very esoteric. Promise of what ... !!!

Why does Ravin think these are Promising artists. He does not mention any reasons or how he finalized the list of names ???

Why should I take his word on it. He is himself an investor from TED profile. If he is he trying to push what Art Stocks he has, there are places better suited than TED.
as Mentioned where are the economic, political and technological factors.??? I do not see them anywhere in presentation.

B) WHO are the artists ?? can you please repeat!!!

Subodh Gupta and Jitesh Kallat are already big names. As Ravin just rushed past citing names. I had to Look into comments to get the list of artists These were totally new names. Except the two I mentioned (SG and JK).

PS I dug into comments section to get the names. (There also I do not get it completely, - Raqs Media Collective can not be an Aritst!!! )

C) Not utilising the full time.

Normally 18 min are given to presenter to present in TED and it felt as if Ravin has left us shortchanged with using just 6 min (1/3) of it. This presentation looks as if you tried to put together something quickly in half an hour and present in TED.

The vedio is embedded below. See if you miss the same things as I do. (May be I am just a nitpicking didactic artist getting too old).

PS : There was a invite from ART India for entries for Promising Artists. (Wonder if its that!!!!) As of today 23 Jan 2010 I do not see any info on Art India website

( Disclaimer: I am myself an artist and my name is NOT in this list. so you might think I am just nitpicking. I have nothing against the artists themselves All the works presented are great and my best wishes to all those artists except Subodh Gupta and Jitesh Kallat who have already made it in art world. I feel strongly for my field of work. If someone talks about it They better do a good JOB. TED is a world stage you need to prepare well).

My Personal opinion is Neville Tulli from Osian's could perhaps have done a better job. He deals with far more variety of artists and their vocations

Let me know in comments what you think

Happy New Year 2010

Hi Folks,

Looking forward to 2010,

I already have a scheduled solo exhibition in Pondicherry in March 2010 . This will be shortly after my daughters exams have ended .

Looking back at 2009

My events and participations swelled a little more.

1. Pune - India Art Gallery Exhibition, India
2. Gujrat kala Praishad Group Exhibition, India
3. MP Foundation Swaraj Bhawan Bharat Bhawan Group Exhibition, India
4. Solo Exhibition in Rangayan Art Gallery Bhopal, India
5. Women Painters in India Group Show in Bharat Bhawana, India
6. Landfill Art (Global Project)
7. Vinyasa Art Gallery Group show Chennai, India

So it was good. However I am not satisfied. If only I got to exhibit my works outside India that could be great. There is so much energy and news surrounding Asian Artists in global art world. Looking for that BIG break and will try for that in 2010. :)

One of my lastt works in 2009, It is loosely based on same colour scheme as GulMohar - theFlameTree.

Happy New Year 2010 and best wishes.

A million million zeroes in my old painting.

In one of my earlier days I had been working on Paper and Pencil and my style had been to draw circles (millions and millions of them right next to each other)

A few days back .. burglers struck at our home. and messed up the whole home. This gave an opportunity to look at all those old painting photographs of mine. These paintings with millions of zeroes are my starting steps in the world of colours. and I love them all dearly. Unfortunatly all I have with me is just photographs of these works.

Attaching one of them for your perusal. above (Sorry for the poor picture its all my fault as its taken from a photo and not an original painting)



Painting is inspired from the forts of Mandu region.

As per MP tourism site

"Mandu is a celebration in stone, of life and joy, of the love of the poet-prince Baz Bahadur for his beautiful consort, Rani Roopmati. The balladeers of Malwa still sing of the romance of these royal lovers, and high up on the crest of a hill, Roopmati's Pavilion still gazes down at Baz Bahadur's Palace, a magnificent expression of Afghan architecture. Under Mughal rule, Mandu was a pleasure resort, its lakes and palaces the scenes of splendid and extravagant festivities. And the glory of Mandu lives on, in legends and songs, chronicled for posterity"

Some Pics from the exhibition ..

My daughter and my nephew are having a gala time. 

Exhibition in Pune, Maharastra

Exhibition of my works is going on in Pune at India Art Gallery. 

Two of my recent works

Most mothers must be busy with the exams  their children and I am no exception. My daughter Aditi keeps me busy. 

In any case these two are what i came up with during recent times