The Guild, NY
CONSULTANTS AND DEALERS IN INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
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| Paintings, sculptures, water colours, graphics, photography. The Guild promotes and sponsors contemporary Indian Art and provides a platform for bringing out the best in Indian contemporary Art. | |||
Current Exhibition: "Whose Territorial Imperative?" Artists: Alexandre Singh, Sarah Hardesty and Fawad Khan. |
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Dates: Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 11:00am Through Saturday, May 4, 2009 The Guild Art Gallery presents “Whose Territorial Imperative?” curated by Meenakshi Thirukode (MT Productions).
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Previous Exhibition: The Ego, The Persona, The Shadow and The Old Man, Or Was It The Great Mother |
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Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm The Guild, NY is proud to present a group show curated by Ombretta Agro, bringing western and Indian artists together under the philosophies of Jungian archetypes. Participating Artists: |
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Past Exhibition: Michael Goldgruber - ‘Lookout’ Date: September 4th, 2008 The Guild, NY presents ‘Lookout’ - a Solo Exhibition of Austrian artist Michael Goldgruber. This is the artists first solo show in New York.
According to curator, Günther Oberhollenzer of the Essl Museum, Vienna, “Michael Goldgruber observes humans in nature. Panoramic views of monumental alpine sceneries, tourists at overlook points, a trip on a cog railroad through a tunnel – these photographs, paintings, and videos revolve around one subject: man as he walks out into nature, as he gazes at the scenery. Goldgruber’s work is not noisy or obtrusive; it takes patience, concentration, and sensitivity on the beholder’s part to unlock its meanings.” |
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| Just as traditional landscapes were experienced through cartographs for instance, Goldgruber brings to light how the media reconstructs and thereby imposes on us the definition of ideal beauty in nature. His re working of the gaze creates a sense of detached engagement on part of the viewer. Creating blurred black and white images of people who have come to view a breathtaking landscape from a platform, Goldgruber takes the initial incomprehension experienced by the viewer a step further. He ingeniously includes the human presence only to reinforce their ‘invisibility’ or impassive spectatorship. Click here to continue reading essay... | |||
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'CONTEMPORARY COLLECTING' - Panel Discussion and Gallery Walkthrough Venue: The Guild Art Gallery, NY The Guild, NY presents “Contemporary Collecting”, a panel discussion that seeks to introduce aspiring collectors to the world of collecting Contemporary Indian Art. The panelists include artist Kanishka Raja; Contemporary Specialist Veronica Collins, Phyllips de Pury; Suzzane Lemakis, Corporate Art Advisor, Citigroup; Leeza Ahmady, Curator, Asian Art Week,NY; Pavan Jagtiani, Contemporary Collector; Renuka Sawhney, Director, The Guild NY and Moderator Meenakshi Thirukode, Gallery Manager, The Guild, NY. Collecting art has spanned over centuries and the role of the collector has changed with the times. What this discussion seeks to highlight is different perspectives on what a collectors role is, how it has evolved, and most important - what new collectors should understand about the works, artists and the market itself as they step into this exciting and dynamic world. Following the discussion, there will be a gallery walkthrough. This will give an insight into some of the artists the gallery represents. |
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| Previous Exhibition: Nitin Mukul - I Woke Up Somewhere Else June 19 - July 17, 2008 |
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Opening on June 19, 2008, The Guild, NY, is pleased to present "I Woke Up Somewhere Else", an exhibition of paintings by New Delhi-based artist Nitin Mukul, whose work negotiates the tense and productive spaces between geographies,visual cultures and identities. Mukul paints with the sensibility of a postcolonial transplant, combining pop cultural references from India's media-saturated visual environment with biological structures, ritual images and architecture. |
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New Delhi's urban landscape figures strongly in these paintings, a city where protean slippage is the norm: between the man-made and the natural, between the legal, semi-legal and illegal, between migrants and residents. This stubborn resistance to enduring impositions of identity, order and classification spills over onto Mukul's canvases, where dense knots of jury-rigged electric cables sprawling out of a transformer box simultaneously evoke the clustered networks of arteries in a human body and the ad hoc informality of Delhi's explosive urban growth. In another piece an image of a domed fifteenth-century tomb from Delhi's Hauz Khas neighborhood has been sampled, flipped and transfigured into a disco ball diptych that seems to emerge from a dusty, psychedelic sunset. Mukul's hybrid use of oils, acrylics and washes of black tea picks up on these thematic interests, creating a complex, densely layered painted surface where materials mingle and confront each other from discrete historical and art historical positions. Mukul's restless images pull in and out of focus, sharpening and withdrawing, excavating their way through the sediments of individual and urban history, mapping a migrant's passages across shifting, unpredictable borderlands. Mukul was included in the landmark exhibition Fatal Love at the Queens Museum of Art in NYC in 2005 and has been reviewed in The New York Times and Art India magazine. He had a fellowship at the Kanoria Centre for the Arts, Ahmedabad in 2003. He has worked as an assistant for the late American minimalist artist Sol Lewitt and was a former Creative Director at the Indocenter of Art & Culture in NYC. Recently he performed in Fluxus events at New Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art with Ben Patterson, one of the Fluxus group’s founding members Click here to View the Exhibition |
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| Past Exhibition: Anpu Varkey - ' Dead Souls' May 27 – June 10, 2008 |
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The GUILD, NY is pleased to present Anpu Varkey’s solo exhibition, ‘Dead Souls’. The works compiled for the exhibition “Dead Souls” by Anpu Varkey are contemplations recorded from over two years of her life lived between London and her hometown Bangalore. Possessing a somewhat self - obsessed voyeuristic personality with two tablespoons of nihilistic misanthropia thrown in, the compositions featured in this compilation are quite random. The works are not informed by any global or local sentiment. They do not try to engage the audience in any manner apart from any energy resulting spontaneously out of the optical and psychological jerks that they transmit. The compositions are structured with a studied laziness and a graceful clumsiness of the wrist. Colors are layered to deftly model out a vibrancy that is centrifugal yet staccatic. |
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Perfect detailing and all misinterpretations resulting from it is subjugated by the hyper intutive colour usage that captures a state of limbo, where time, place and contexts can be dematerialised into nothingness. |
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Past Exhibition: Antonio Puri - 'Tenth Door' |
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| THE GUILD, NY. is pleased to present Antonio Puri’s solo exhibition ‘The Tenth Door.” Philadelphia Art Critic Robin Rice states in her essay for the exhibition catalogue that ‘…the Tenth Door…is the door to the highest perception, the door to infinity, and, most important, release from the cycle of reincarnate life.” In this new body of work, Puri encompasses both large and small canvasses that address the unknown and by so doing, creates awareness. Working with different materials, including shellac, newspaper and human ashes, provided the artist with insight into developing a connection with the after life. |
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When asked why he chose to incorporate crematory ashes in some of the paintings in this exhibition, Puri explains that “‘Death,’ in quotation marks, is a misconception. The real death is our state of ignorance. I want to create an afterlife for those ashes to parallel the afterlife that we all experience.” Robin Rice goes on to say that “However one interprets this multilayered symbol, the Tenth Door is always the last door.” Click here to continue reading essay by Robin Rice Click here to View works from the Tenth Door |
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Past Exhibition: Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora" |
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| The Indo-American Arts Council and GUILD, NY present "Erasing Borders 2008: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora". The exhibition, explores the contributions of artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent. This will be the 4th annual Erasing Borders exhibition. Click here for more Information | |||
| The Participating Artists Include: Amina Ahmed, Fariba Alam, Salma Arastu, Shelly Bahl, Siona Benjamin, Anna Bhushan, Bushra Chaudry, Bivas Chaudhuri, Nandini Chirimar, Mareena Waheeda Daredia, Delna Dastur, Vinod Dave, Anindita Dutta, Anujan Ezhikode, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Asha Ganpat, Arvind Garg, Mumtaz Hussain, Satish Joshi, Reeta Karmarkar, Swati Khurana, Vijay Kumar, Srinivas Kuruganti, Samanta Batra Mehta, Alakananda Mukerji, Pratima Naithani, Veru Narula, Kuzana Ogg, Antonio Puri, Niema Khan Qureshi, Alka Raghuram, Sukanya Rahman, Chirag Rana, Tara Sabharwal, Ela Shah, Reuben Sinha, Anjali Srinivasan, Suhas Tavkar, Prince Varughese Thomas, Yetish Yetish. |
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| Past Exhibition: Heeral Trivedi - There are in our existence…….spots of time | |||
| March 7-25, 2008 | |||
| ` “A picture speaks a thousand words” Image-making dates back to prehistoric times. If it can stand separate from the self, it becomes universal. What does a painting mean, why does one want to speak in the language of colours and images? New Art accommodates both the creative and the imitative. It looks for pictorial values in art first, which overlooks the physical or linguistic values. I see my works beyond what I choose to paint. Getting ‘under’ is a constant activity and is essentially how my surface arises. Space is a busy area, deep and heavy and sometimes it is like peeping through a dusty glass window pane that fuzzes the edges of everything behind it. The content of these paintings draws much from literature/poetry and history. Less glorious than it is intense, these pictures are not meant to be seen as illustrations (to me) but are revoked thoughts, ponderous ideas and fluid music. (continued) . Click here to View: Artist Statement & Works |
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Past Exhibition: " Inner Vision " - Curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla |
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| February 2008 6:30-8:30pm | |||
The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Inner Vision, a multi-media group show curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla. During the present times of high urbanization, human beings have tried their best to bestow all their knowledge and establish a compatible relationship with nature. Yet, so indignant has been the results at times, that one may doubt about the systems of knowledge which apparently control and shape nature according to one’s need. |
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Romantics framed nature as wild, violent, destructive, and irrational, as well as protective, awe-inspiring and sublime. They considered nature the supreme force against the logical and reasonable human mind and worshipped its primordial qualities. Artists chose to establish a relationship of Supreme Being and, simultaneously, of oneness with nature, replacing God. This may happen while engaging with the materials which appear to build on repetitive action like hand- stitching, knitting or washing and yet constructs a paradoxical imagery. This conversion is also observed as an inner vision while one draws a metamorphosing relationship with the material world The experiences of highly rational form of societies have led us to question and establish the relationship with nature in a renewed fashion. Inner Vision is an attempt to observe how artists address their connection to this primordial substance in terms of representation of their five senses or the philosophic execution of their forms. Click here to View the Exhibition |
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A. Ramachandran
- ‘Face to Face’ Opening Reception: 6th December 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM The Artist will be in attendance. Click here to View the Exhibition |
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Past Exhibition: Om Soorya - 'Random Mirroes in the City of Villagers' |
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| Past Exhibition: A Gallery Collection - Arunanshu Chowdhury & Amitava Das. (Click here to View) |
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| Past Exhibition: Erasing Borders Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora (Click here to View) | |||
| Past Exhibition: "Vidya Kamat: Tales From The Edge" (Click here to View) | |||
Vidya Kamat, who lives and works in Mumbai, India, presents a collection of Photomontages in her first solo exhibition in New York. “I believe that Kamat’s position on the scared is interestingly unique, among contemporary Indian women artists, because she is invested in the deep structure of Hindu religious life. She is both participant and observer, not a neutral, iconic or behalfist intervener empathizing with another’s experience. However critical or adversarial her position is towards the milieu of her origin, she knows, both intuitively and intellectually, what the location signifies and demands.” 2. |
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| 2. From Re-write - Vidya Kamat, by Nancy Adajania | |||
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Past Exhibition: "New Voices - A Group Show" (Click here to View) |
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