PRESS RELEASE*
Contemporary Bombay and Baroda Artists
KAAM
Artsindia Gallery, NY
December 2 2005 – January 22, 2006
Opening reception, December 2, 6-9pm
KAAM Artist Talk: Thursday Dec. 1st, 9:00pm Members of KAAM in Conversation with Four Contemporary Artists Lesley Dill, Peter Drake, Tom Fruin andCraig McPherson Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th Street New York, New York 10011 Ph: 212 620 5000 Email: info@rmanyc.org
Mumbai Preview:
November 14 – 17th
Kitab Mahal, D.N. Road, Fort,
Mumbai.
Ph: 91 22 22079119 & 91 22 22079117
Email: eapl@vsnl.net.
San Francisco: February 17 – March 4, 2006
Arts India West
535 Bryant Street,
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Ph: 650-321-4900
Email: infowest@artsindia.com
Gallery Arts India is proud to announce an exceptional new Exhibition: KAAM – featuring the works of 10 contemporary Bombay and Baroda artists. KAAM "is one word for work, sex and death" according to Suketu Mehta in his new book "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found". The show was inspired by the wave that Indian artists are creating in the global art world. Participating artists have broken through the boundaries of traditional schools and have created their own vocabularies. Gallery Arts India is excited to introduce New York to the works of Anandajit Ray, Anant Joshi, Baiju Parthan, Bose Krishnamachari, Chintan Upadhyay, Justin Ponmany, Jyothi Basu, Sudershan Shetty, Riyas Komu and TV Santosh.
The show will move through three major metropolises Mumbai, New York and San Francisco. The exhibition began with a preview in Mumbai: 14th to 17th Nov, at Kitab Mahal. It opens at Gallery Arts India in New York on December 2nd and runs through the end of the month. It then moves on to Arts India West – Arts India's landmark gallery on the West Coast in February of 2006.
The exhibition will display a range of approaches in form and content exclusively in the realm of painting from the current generation of Indian contemporaries. The show explores the intensely personal relationship between the artists and their 'work'. In order to understand the philosophical, political, and aesthetic positions of their work, the show is accompanied by a compilation of interviews where the artists speak about their inspiration, vicissitudes, victories and failures. It is especially significant that the exhibition is launched here in New York - since these artists are the first of a generation of artists that have had a truly global influence in their work. They have come of age in an era where the global pop culture had started its first waves into India. Within this atmosphere, their effort has been to find a unique artistic expression – the Exhibition is an exploration of that expression.
Located on Fifth Avenue in New York's vibrant Flatiron district and in downtown Palo Alto in California, Arts India has emerged as the definitive outlet for Contemporary Indian Art in America and around the globe - exhibiting works both by established and emerging Indian Artists. The gallery has hosted a series of distinguished exhibitions in the past including the landmark show – Ashta Nayak or the eight pioneers of Indian Art showcasing the eight original masters of Indian Art including MF Husain, SH Raza, Akbar Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Francis Souza, Swaminathan, Tyeb Mehta and Gaitonde. The show was reviewed in the New York Times. KAAM is the gallery's salute to the masters of tomorrow.
For more information and visuals please contact:
ArtsIndia Gallery, 206 5th Avenue, Fifth Floor, between 25th & 26th St.
T: (212) 725-6092; F: (212) 725-6096, newyork@aicongallery.com
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