ALWAR BALASUBRAMANIAM layers of wind, lines of time @ TALWAR GALLERY C-84, Neeti Bagh New Delhi – 110049

ALWAR BALASUBRAMANIAM layers of wind, lines of time January 28 through May 2, 2015 Opening Preview, Tuesday, January 27, 6-9pm @ TALWAR GALLERY C-84, Neeti Bagh New Delhi – 110049 Talwar Gallery is pleased to present layers of wind, lines of time, , a solo exhibition of recent works by Alwar Balasubramaniam. In his latest work, Balasubramaniam, more commonly known as Bala, deepens his exploration of the natural forces around us. layers of wind, lines of time creates an environment of life-in-formation: forms receding into the depth of the walls, or stalactites seeming to grow spontaneously out of them. Drawing on and collaborating with nature, Bala creates works from wood, stone and metal that seem indistinguishable from those formed over millennia in the natural environment. Partly an homage to nature, partly a challenge to create something of beauty and simplicity that may appear to be natural, here Bala’s hand is felt as much as seen, present in the ways it moves like the wind through the matter around it. Inspired by a form shaped by the sea, Into One took Bala over three years to create, and to bring to a human-scale pitch of intensity. Highlighting the stratified way the natural world is shaped over time, Bala builds his works gradually, by way of accumulation and condensation. His wind works, created over months, employ movements of air: terrains of deposited dust and pigment that become timescapes on canvas. In Bloom and In-conversation, each thin layer of wood not only adds to but modifies the last, forming works that seem to emanate in waves. Complex but unified, the lines and layers of Bala’s work reveal the energies that, although imperceptible in any given instant, are constantly shaping and re-shaping the material world. Throughout his career, Bala has engaged with those forces we normally think of as peripheral – light, shadow, gravity – forces that nevertheless give form to our experience. Foregrounding the perceptual in his work, which often surprises or confounds, Bala playfully challenges viewers to question and ultimately expand the limits of their perception. Always more than meets the eye, each of his pieces is, as he says, “the trace of a thought,” evidence of the indelible marriage between form and idea. Bala’s work gives new weight to the tangible – weight at once symbolic, spiritual, and distinctly human. Alwar Balasubramaniam was born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, India. His works have been featured in international exhibitions and institutions including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; Essl Museum, Austria; École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; 1st Singapore Biennale; and 18th Sydney Biennale. Bala has been a guest lecturer at the Art Department of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a featured speaker at TED. Alwar Balasbubramaniam lives and works in Southern India. __________________________________ Currently @ Talwar Gallery, New York MUHANNDED CADER Jungle Tide Through February 14, 2015    __________________________________ TALWAR GALLERY New York | New Delhi www.talwargallery.com

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Launch of Art Week 1st to 7th December, 2014

Art Week: 1st to 7th December, 2014

Standing true to their basic philosophy of making art more accessible, this year GoodHomes plans to launch 

their third edition of the Art Week at the JJ School of Fine Arts on 27th November, 2014. 

They aim to integrate art into all walks of our life.

 From Art Flash Mobs, to live public performances and showcases,

 from interactive art sessions for children and adults alike, they hope that with this year’s art week, Art will permeate everywhere.

The Press Conference will be attended by the GoodHomes Editor, Ronitaa Italia Dhanu, WWM CEO Mr. Tarun Rai, actress and celebrity Raveena Tandon, 

artist Jayasri Burman, Dean of J.J School of Fine Arts, Vishwanath Sable among other well known personalities of the art and media industry.

Request you to join us at the press conference and soak in the unique art experience!

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About GoodHomes for Art

GoodHomes for Art – a public art initiative is pioneered by GoodHomes – a décor and design magazine.

A week-long celebration of art which explores the possibilities of blurring the boundaries between art and the common man. 

The thought was to break the mindset that art is elitist and thereby creating awareness and encouraging education about art.  

The philosophy was to make art an integral part of our lives, to integrate art into our cityscape, and to know art in all its manifestations.

GoodHomes for Art – 2013

The second edition of the Art Week took forward its activities with renewed impetus to excellence. We opened with a show dedicated to the various forms of art curated Chameleon Art Projects, and held at Gallery 7, Mumbai. The first day witnessed a live installation conceptualized by sculptor Arzan Khambatta at the Phoenix Market City, the showcasing of Reena Kallat’s installation ‘Light leaks, winds meet where the waters spill deceit’ at the Times Tower, Lower Parel and an art competition for students of art at The Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay. The days that followed saw an Art Flea Market, Live Performances and installations, Exhibitions, Pop-up Art Galleries, Art Trails etc.

You can take a look at last year’s video montage on GoodHomes for Art, to get a better understanding of the eventshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGm0pJTfuw

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.





Very rare pictures of Adolf Hitler
Rare photos of Adolf Hitler. One of the worst person of the twentieth century.

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.

 

 

Very rare pictures of Adolf Hitler  Rare photos of Adolf Hitler. One of the worst person of the twentieth century.

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Ranjani Shettar: Night skies and daydreams

The New York Times Art in Review

Ranjani Shettar: Night skies and daydreams By Holland Cotter | September 12, 2014 Ranjani Shettar’s ‘Flight of the Butterfly’ in coffee tree wood, with automobile paint and boltsTalwar Gallery, New York | New Delhi One of Ranjani Shettar’s diaphanous, constellation-like sculptures of hand-molded wax beads and cotton thread, installed at the entrance to “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” at the Museum of Modern Art, made a stellar introduction to that 2010 show. A new, similar piece, called “Tuntoroo,” fills a room at Talwar Gallery. And here, in a way that wasn’t obvious at MoMA, light plays a big role in the work, as patterns of shadows cast on the wall compound its intricacy and emphasize its apparent fragility.  Ms. Shettar was trained in art school in Bangalore, India, but has always found formal sources for her abstract work in materials associated with the craft traditions of Karnataka, the southwestern state where she lives and works.  For another, very different suspended piece from 2007, “Fire in the Belly,” she carved more than a dozen largish biomorphic shapes from local acacia wood, painted them a glossy, metallic yellow-green and suspended them at varying heights. They suggest a school of morphing amoebas, or a bunch of Brancusis gone rogue.  A 2014 sculpture, “Flight of the Butterfly,” stands on the floor but looks as if it could easily lift off. It’s composed of gnarly lightweight coffee-wood branches bolted together to form a tangled enclosure and colored with bright turquoise automotive paint. The branches are oddly homely; they look like bones. The paint is thick and unpretty. Ms. Shettar has done nothing to hide the metal bolts that hold everything together.  A resulting slight sense of awkwardness is what makes her art so persuasive: It indicates that the hand is there; the material is unelevated; the technology is organic. Pure abstraction, with its implication of perfection, is beside the point. In Ms. Shettar’s transubstantiated modernism, local nature and culture have their way.  ______________________ TALWAR  GALLERY New York | New Delhi 108 East 16 Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 673-3096 www.talwargallery.com

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Artist Omid Asadi Creates Intricate Masterpieces Out of Fallen Leaves

by Lori Zimmer, 08/07/14   filed under: art

 

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Artist Omid Asadi has taken the autumnal tradition of leaf collecting to new heights, creating a gorgeous series of delicately cut leaf art. Wielding only an Exacto blade, Asadi uses the varying colored leaves he finds on the ground as his medium. By carefully cutting away, the artists transforms these fallen leaves into scenes of figures, animals and architecture, giving them new life.

 

Asadi likes to think of his leaf artistry as a way of looking at the world differently, noticing the beauty of the nature around us in a new way. He originally began collecting fallen leaves as he noticed other people stomping all over them without noticing their color or beauty. He prefers to use maple leaves, for their inspiring shape as well as the availability of them in his area.
Inspired by paper cutting artists, Asadi decided to put his blade to the durable and tough leaves he would collect, revealing images as he worked. With his blade, the artist carefully uses the subtractive method to create pieces, cutting away eyes and stripes to reveal a tiger, thick curved lines showing an eagle’s head or splitting a leaf in two to create a more elaborate piece of art. Asadi also lets the shape of his found leaves inspire what he creates, turning oblong leaves into pictures of eyes or feathers.
Asadi’s cut leaves inspire a slew of autumn craft projects, challenging art and nature lovers to make their own creations out of fallen leaves.

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