The Contemporary Art Fair, Delhi, 2008 will be a special event that will be mix both regional and international involvement in art and sculpture, says, Isha Mody, Fair Director

30th April, 2008, New Delhi: The Contemporary Art Fair, Delhi will take place at Travancore Gallery, Kasturba Gandhi Maarg from 2nd to 6th April involving 150 artists in a visual splendour of paintings, terracota, bronze sculptures and exquisite glass art. “Apart from exhibiting a wide and varied range of modern Indian painters & sculptors who have made a name for themselves, the Art Fair will showcase new upcoming talent with great potential. Thus connnoisseurs of art will get the opportunity to make good art investments”, feels MS Isha Mody, Fair Director.

For more info please contact: Joy Roy Choudhury at artvantage.uk@gmail.com

INOX promotes Visual Culture by combining painting, photography and movies.

 

Kolkata 19^th March 08: INOX, the multiplex chain known for its new generation movie shows, have taken one bold step to promote art and photography by introducing regular exhibitions at Forum and City Centre to garner new talent that are worth showcasing in a city where slowly signs of a cultural industry per se are emerging.  This initiative to promote the artistic skills of young aspiring painters and photographers is bolstered by careful selection and handling of a unique Black & White Art Exhibition managed by Genesis Art Gallery, one of the oldest creative nerve centers in Kolkata.  The event was inaugurated by veteran artist Suhas Roy along with other eminent personalities of the city. According to Mr Vikas Syal, Regional General Manager, INOX Forum: “We plan to imbibe in innovations like movie-related or theme-based shows for e.g. the Black & White Art and Photography exhibition that we had organized recently to mark the release of the latest Subhash Ghai film Black & White. The response of the exhibition was overwhelming and we have been flooded with entries. We hope that this confluence can initiate a fresh vision of art and cinema”.

 

As Esha Mody, Genesis Art Gallery says “taking art into multiplexes and leisure centers is another dimension that will add to its formal appreciation and market appraisal. This effort will be seen as a significant platform for a lot of new talents that Bengal basks in”.

 

For more info, please contact Joy Roy Choudhury at artvantage.uk@gmail.com

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ArtVantage (UK) has released a set of phenomenal Psyche-Centric artworks titled “Back to the Imaginary” done by emerging Indian artist Samij Datta based on seminal works of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan

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7th January, 2008, London: ArtVantage (UK) has released a set of phenomenal Psyche-Centric artworks titled “Back to the Imaginary” done by emerging Indian artist Samij Datta. Done in an expressionist mode, the artworks are based on seminal works of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan and will be exhibited in Paris later this year.

The recent series “Back to the Imaginary”- is in the form of a journey which the artist takes to reveal what the child sees and hears in a pre-Oedipal stage/pre-linguistic stage (Lacan’s Imaginary). “In ArtVantage, we support works of art that are unique and have a value in a system that supports cross-cultural studies and analytical discourse covering subjects ranging from psychoanalysis to anthropology. Art has to evolve in a harmonious way that encourages ‘humanism’, ‘liberalism’, ‘individualism’ and other Renaissance ideals to broaden our perspective in a new way. Going back to history will fetch us a new pre-condition for a much needed change in education- to measure knowledge and understanding”, says, Jeff Ross, Director, ArtVantage.

“Samij’s artworks follow the psycho-sexual development of a child. The visual linguistics of his work includes blotches of red, blue and black over large areas of yellow hue on paper in an asymmetrical splash of the brush. Since it’s development of a child recorded by Samij as he travels back and forth into the unconscious of his infancy and childhood, the series of artworks slowly feature birds, human faces etc as the child goes on learning the objects around him in terms of metaphors and metonymies”, says, Joy Roy Choudhury, Creative Consultant, ArtVantage. In the artwork “Entering Mirror Stage: Child Idealisations”, a figure of a woman in a blue hat appears- the child by now has a sense of his ego and sees his mother distinctly different from him and from his body which in the Imaginary stage was a dyadic relation of blurred identities. These dream-like states are best expressed beautifully in Samij’s art and every splash of colour is like what Lacan calls ‘jouissance’ quips Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage.

 ArtVantage encourages art lovers, critics, educationists to send their views and comments on these projects. 

For more information on exhibition in Paris, please contact: Joy Roy Choudhury at artvantage.uk@gmail.com or e.aryans@gmail.com and at +91 9830067159 (India)/+44 75073806595