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Portfolio – Ankush Arora

Portfolio – Ankush Arora

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#Polish #artist Goshka Macuga’s #tapestry hangs from the top and spreads into the walking area, inviting the viewer to partake in the artist’s call for unification of #women. Titled ‘Death of #Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite’, the hall-size exhibit shows an image of Karl #Marx’s #tomb in #London that has been transported into a local setting, which has women from #Kerala surrounding the famous landmark. LINK IN BIO #artistsoninstagram @kochibiennale #kochibiennale @kochibiennalefoundation #contemporaryart #photography #photooftheday #art #artists #aspinwallhouse #fortkochi #goshkamacuga #installation #india_everyday #indianblogger #indiatravelgram #indiagram #feminism #museumweek

#Form, #colour and #texture hold primacy in the works of Indian artist Shobha Broota, whose repertoire witnessed a shift from early #portraitures and #figuratives to pure #abstractions. At a recent group #exhibition, titled ‘Shadow #Lines: #Experiments with Light, Line and #Liminality’, the artist showed a large collection of knotted #wool and #thread on the #canvas. Known for her sustained engagement with #geometric forms, abstract #imagery and #relief work, the canvases at the Shrine Empire Gallery are a form of #meditation, embedded with #metaphysical connotations. LINK IN BIO Photo by @shrineempire #shobhabroota @meeramenezesart #contemporaryart #artexhibition #artistsofinstagram #photooftheday #artists #art #artandculturediary #painting #indianart #indianartist

For an artist who developed an early interest in waste material (such as chipped off pieces of marble) at his family #stone carving facility, #Rajasthan-born Prashant Pandey’s latest work repurposes a totally different substance. It is the holy #ash sourced from Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar #Jyotirlinga #Temple, one of the 12 such sites in India that has a powerful #ellipsoid as its presiding deity in the form of #Shiva. LINK IN BIO Pictures by @shrineempire @prashantsculptor #contemporaryart #installation #photooftheday #artists #art #photography #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #visualart #artandculturediary #scroll #tapestry #hanging #artexhibition #indianartists #artexhibition #foundobjectart #foundobjectsculpture #prashantpandey #shrineempiregallery #symbols #drawings #glassslides #glass @meeramenezesart

Known for his engagement with #toys, #cartoons and #caricatures, Anant Joshi’s #collateral #exhibition at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was a #playful and #satirical take on the world narrated through a fictional #character called ‘#batata’. True to its #English equivalent, which is a potato, the ‘batata’ in Anant’s exhibition is an organic-looking, cartoonish form that has a unique appearance in each of the frames and canvases mounted as part of the #show. LINK IN BIO @kochibiennale @kochibiennalefoundation #anantjoshi #batata #photography #photooftheday #artists #indianart #indianartists #artistsoninstagram #artists #artists_insta #artexhibition #contemporaryart #canvas #oil #acrylic #art #anitadube #anantjoshi #artandculturediary #artwriting #fortkochi #kochibiennale @bosekrishmumbai

This wood sculpture of #Christ, recently seen in the ‘India and the World‘ exhibition, has its arms and the #cross missing. In typical representations of the #Crucifixion scene in #art, the crown of thorns is seen around Christ’s head. His hands and feet are nailed to the cross. Virgin #Mary, Mary #Magdalene and John the #Baptist are also present, along with the thieves who crucified Christ. There are other symbols too, such as a skull or a pelican at the foot of the cross. But this nearly 100-cm long exhibit, because of its missing parts, appears to have been pared down to focus only on the fundamental form of the Christ. LINK IN BIO #photooftheday #goa #india #christianity @csmvsmumbai @nmnewdelhi #artexhibition #easter #resurrectionsunday #artwriting #basilicaofbomjesus #sculpture #polychromedwood #middleages #medievalart @britishmuseum #indiaandtheworld #stxavierfrancis #romancatholicism #faith #missionary #colonialism #portuguese #history #biblejournaling #bibleverse

Manisha Parekh’s welded #steel and enamel #paint wall #installation @shrineempire represents the artist’s exploration with the form of the ‘#line’ in her work, while bringing into focus the play of #light, #shadows and #space. On the face of it, this artwork evokes an #urban setting where so many #scaffolding-like structures are a common sight. For Parekh, however, these exhibits stand for connections or #relationships that are forged through conversations between two bodies or people. With the presence of shadows behind each of the objects, the artist wants to know: what is #real or #illusory? Is its #sculptural quality real or the shadow created by it? It is obvious that the installation does not depict anything specific that one could identify with—a kind of work that is often referred to as ‘non-representational’. It is for this reason that Parekh’s #practice is mostly referred to as ‘#abstract art’- a label she is not comfortable with. And yet, her works tend to evoke an #experience, which could easily be in the form of a #memory or any other kind of association. It is like #music, the artist says. Sometimes we are not able to comprehend its #language but simply listening to it develops a connection. The exhibit is part of Shrine Empire #Gallery's #exhibition 'Shadow Lines: Experiments with #Light, #Light and #Liminality' (April 6 - May 18, 2019). @manisha.parekh #video #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #art @meeramenezesart #3ddrawing #indianartists #artandculture video by - @artandculturediary music - bensound

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