Events

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to the screening of film

on eminent artist

S. H. Raza

The Very Essence

Directed by Laurent Bregeat

On  Sunday 26^th May 2013 at 11.30 am

at the Auditorium, Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh 160010, India

Produced by: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

Edited by: Shan Mohammed & Laurent Bregeat

Camera & Sound: Laurent Bregeat

Music composed by: Florence Lenoir & Gaetan Tesse

Sound post production: Vivek Sachidanand

Renganaath Ravee

Diwan Manna, Chairman, CLKA

chandigarhlka@gmail.com www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Biography of SAYED HAIDER RAZA

Achievements of S. H. Raza have made him as stable as the pole star. Undoubtedly, he is a

star whose light can never be dimmed out.

Sayed Haider Raza is one of India's great icons. Founder of the Bombay Progressives, Raza

rose like a meteor in the modernity of Indian art and in the contemporaneity of Indian art he

stands as a metaphor for timelessness.

Sayed Haider Raza was born in Babaria, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, to Sayed

Mohammed Razi, the Deputy Forest Ranger of the district and Tahira Begum, and it was here

that he spent his early years and took to drawing at age 12; before moving to Damoh also in

Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed his school education from Government High

School, Damoh.

After his high school, he studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939–43),

followed by Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (1943–47), before moving to France in October

1950 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A) in Paris, 1950-

1953 on a Govt. of France scholarship. After his studies, he travelled across Europe, and

continued to live and exhibit his work in Paris. He was later awarded the Prix de la critique in

Paris in 1956, becoming the first non-French artist to receive the honour.

In December 1978, the Madhya Pradesh Government invited him to his native state for a

homage and an exhibition of his works in Bhopal.

He was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India in 1981 and was elected fellow of

the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi in 1983.

S.H. Raza has been living in Paris and in Gorbio, A.M. France before recently returning to

New Delhi, India where he now lives.

Art career

Early career

Syed Haider Raza, had his first solo show in 1946 at Bombay Art Society Salon, and was

awarded the Silver Medal of the society.

His work evolved from painting expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones. From his fluent

water colours of landscapes and townscapes executed in the early 40's he moved towards a

more expressive language painting landscapes of the mind.

1947 proved to be a very important year for him, at first his mother died, and this was also the

year when he co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) (1947–

1956) along with K.H. Ara and F.N. Souza (Francis Newton Souza), which set out to break

free from the influences of European realism in Indian art and bring Indian inner vision (Antar

gyan) into the art, the group had its first show in 1948, the year his father died in Mandla and

most of his family of four brothers and a sister migrated to Pakistan, after the partition of

India.

Once in France, he continued to experiment with currents of Western Modernism moving

from Expressionist modes towards greater abstraction and eventually incorporating elements

of Tantrism from Indian scriptures. Whereas his fellow contemporaries dealt with more

figural subjects, Raza chose to focus on landscapes in the 1940s and 50s, inspired in part by a

move to the France.

In 1959, he married French artist, Janine Mongillat, and three years later, in 1962, he became

a visiting lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. Raza was initially

enamored of the bucolic countryside of rural France. Eglise is part of a series which captures

the rolling terrain and quaint village architecture of this region. Showing a tumultuous church

engulfed by an inky blue night sky, Raza uses gestural brushstrokes and a heavily impasto-ed

application of paint, stylistic devices which hint at his later 1970s abstractions.

His Indian canvases and the early French ones were realistic, like the visible world,

resembling what most of us see daily. Like most Indian travelers, Raza moves comfortably

and familiarly between east and west, for we tend to see most other places simply as

extensions of our home and ourselves. Syed Haider Raza’s art was rooted in the twenties, a

time when Hindustan had been colonized, was totally impoverished and people yearned for

freedom. With tribal symbols, dreams of Paris, philosophies of freedom and colors, Raza and

others in the Progressive Arts Group shuffled off colonial gallows and gave birth to modern

Indian art. Ancient techniques and symbols, scorned by the British, were once again surfacing

and shaping India’s artists. France was valued as a teacher of technique.

The 'Bindu' and beyond

By the 1970s Raza had grown increasingly unhappy and restless with his own work and

wanted to find a new direction and deeper authenticity in his work, and move away from what

he called the 'plastic art'. His trips to India, especially to caves of Ajanta - Ellora, followed by

those Benaras, Gujarat and Rajasthan, made him study Indian culture more closely, and the

result was 'Bindu', which signified his rebirth as a painter. The Bindu came forth in 1980, and

took his work deeper and brought in, his new-found Indian vision and Indian ethnography.

One of the reasons he attributes to the origin of the 'Bindu', have been his elementary school

teacher, who on finding him lacking adequate concentration, drew a dot on the blackboard

and asked him to concentrate on it.

This helped the child’s distracted mind and presumably he never forgot its impact.Great

discerning minds and creative talent want to know things; they feel ideas, taste cool voyages

and touch spirit. They say softly to themselves: Where did I come from, will I, someday,

know what this was all about? Indians often ponder: Is this all there is to life? How does one

measure magic, alchemy? How does one tell tales of contemplation, of silence?

Raza seems to be on this quest, introspective and ultimately joyful for the hero’s quest is

always for permanent bliss. His work represents the origins of life and symbols which tribal

painters and highly sophisticated Indian philosophers have drawn, pondered and mulled over

for millennia.

The Bindu symbolizes the seed, bearing the potential of all life. After the introduction of

'Bindu' (a point or the source of energy), he added newer dimensions to his thematic oeuvre in

the following decades, with the inclusion of themes around the Tribhuj (Triangle), which

bolstered Indian concepts of space and time, as well as that of 'prakriti-purusha' (the female

and the male energy), his transformation from an expressionist to a master of abstraction and

profundity, was complete.

"My work is my own inner experience and involvement with the mysteries of nature and form which is expressed in colour, line, space and light". S. H. Raza

The unique energy vibrating with colour in his early landscapes are now more subtle but

equally, if not more, dynamic. Raza abandoned the expressionistic landscape for a geometric

abstraction and the 'Bindu'. Raza perceives the Bindu as the center of creation and existence

progressing towards forms and colour as well as energy, sound, space and time.

His work took another leap in 2000, when he began to express his increasingly deepened

insights and thoughts on Indian spiritual, and created works around the Kundalini, Nagas and

the Mahabharat.

Public contributions

He has also founded 'Raza Foundation' in India for promotion of art among Indian youth,

which also gives away, Annual Raza Foundation Award, to young artists.

Personal life

S. H. Raza married Janine Mongillat, his fellow student at Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris and

later became a well-known artist and sculptor. They married in 1959, and at the request of her

mother not to leave France, Raza chose to remain. Janine died on April 5, 2002 in Paris.

Awards

• 1946: Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai

• 1948: Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai

• 1956: Prix de la critique, Paris

• 1981: Padma Shri; the Government of India

• 1981: Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

• 1981:Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh

• 2007: Padma Bhushan; the Government of India

• 2013: Padma Vibhushan; the Government of India

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Raza biography courtesy: French Embassy in India

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

cordially invites you to the screening of the film

India by Song

by Vijay Singh

on 12th May 2013 Sunday at 11.30 am

Auditorium, Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

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chandigarhlka@gmail.com  www.lalitkalchandigarh.com

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BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD 2010

THE RIVER TO RIVER FLORENCE INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL

CREDITS

Writer-Director - Vijay Singh 

English voice-over - Vijay Singh

Director of Photography - Arun Varma 

Editor - Benoît Martin

Guest Musician - Paban Das Baul

Sound Engineer - Mathieu Tartamella 

Sound re-recordist - Vincent Rouffiac 

Assistants in Direction - Sabine Charrin, Vasundhara  Prakash (Researcher), Tirrtha

Production - Sanjay Malik (India), Brigitte Lecuyer (France), Nishant Singh (India) 

Producer - Vijay Singh (Silhouette Films) 

Delegated Producer - Guy Seligmann (Sodaperaga Productions) 

Year of Production 2010; Duration 64 minutes

Language - English (interviews subtitled in French)

Shot in HD

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Synopsis

Historian-writer-director Vijay Singh’s latest film is an entertaining multi-layered portrait of India since its independence from the British in 1947 to the contemporary times.

Woven around a long road journey across the country, India by Song brings together history, colourful Bollywood song clips, live testimonies and beautiful images of today’s India to deliver a gripping work of cinema. The film fuses history and cinema so seamlessly that we see dancing and singing actresses, thinkers, domestic maids, farmers and cricketers roll in and out of frames and dissolve into each other imperceptibly.

India by Song uses testimonies of historical actors known or unknown, speaking to renowned thinkers like Romila Thapar and NR Narayana Murthy, and to anonymous witnesses of history such as Anjali, a domestic maid in Bombay who recounts her life in the times of globalisation.

Vijay Singh uses song clips in the film less to illustrate their connection with historical reality than to show the inner world of emotions that inhabited the people of those times.

Supported by a thought-provoking yet seemingly simple historical narration and a tasteful use of music, India by Song is as much a portrait of contemporary India as indeed of the Bombay film songs, which reveal ever so vividly the changing body language of love and romance over the decades.

About the Writer-Director...

(www.vijaysingh.net)

Vijay Singh is an Indian film-maker, screenplay-writer and novelist living in Paris.

After studying History at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he moved to Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, for his doctoral work.

Since the early eighties, he has written extensively for Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Libération, the Guardian and several other international newspapers.

Over the last two decades, he has written and directed four acclaimed films. Jaya Ganga, his lavishly-reviewed first feature, ran for 49 weeks in the Paris cinemas, before repeating a similar story in the UK. The Guardian described it as “a mesmerising film... One of the most authentic depictions of everyday Indian magic ever screened."

His second feature One Dollar Curry was released in India, France and the UK and praised by the international press. Reviewing One Dollar Curry, BBC Movies commented: “Infinitely more subtle than the spate of recent British diaspora pictures, this likably low-key gem effortlessly combines European and Bollywood influences without lapsing into cliché or caricature.”

Vijay Singh is also the writer-director of two documentaries, including Chami and Ana the Elephant (Man and Elephant) which has been shown on nearly 100 television channels worldwide.

India by Song, his latest film, won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the River to River Florence Film Festival 2010.

Before stepping into the world of cinema, Vijay Singh had published several books that had won wide critical acclaim: Jaya Ganga, In Search of the River Goddess, (Penguin 1989; Rupa 2005), La Nuit Poignardée (Flammarion 1987), Whirlpool of Shadows (Jonathan Cape, 1992; Rupa 2005), and The River Goddess (Gallimard Jeunesse/Moonlight 1994). In a selection made by the Booker Prize-winner Barry Unsworth, Whirlpool of Shadows was listed in the Sunday Times (UK) as a “Best Book of 1992”. His books have been translated into French and other European languages.

He is now working on his next feature, The Opium Symphony, which is adapted from his novel Whirlpool of Shadows.

Vijay Singh has been a guest speaker at several conferences held worldwide and has made presentations of his work at the Universities of Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford. He has also held workshops for film students on “Literature and Cinema” at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and the Wellesley College, Boston.

Vijay Singh’s films have been nominated for Best Film awards at several renowned festivals. Chami and Ana the Elephant was awarded the Grand Prix des Enfants “La Titine 2002” in Switzerland. He is also the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Award in 1994 for screenplay writing and the Prix Villa Médicis hors les murs for foreign literature in 1990.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

cordially invites you to a     

Slide Lecture by

Sudhir Kakar

A Creative Melancholy: The Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

on 29th April 2013 at 5.30 pm

at the Auditorium, Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Making and receiving phone calls not allowed

Kindly take your seats by 5.15 pm

Diwan Manna

Chairman

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com 

Chandigarhlka@gmail.com

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Psychoanalyst and writer, Sudhir Kakar has been Lecturer at Harvard University, Research Fellow at Harvard Business School, Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard as also Visiting Professor at the universities of Chicago (1989-92), Harvard, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii, Vienna, and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin and Centre for Advanced Study, University of Cologne. Since 1994, he is Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and lives in Goa.

Dr. Kakar is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, International Psychoanalytic Association, the Board of Sigmund Freud Archives in the Library of Congress, Washington, Academie Universelle des Culture, France and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

Sudhir Kakar's many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany’s Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship, Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the National Academy of Psychology and the Bhabha, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowships in India. In February 2012, he was conferred the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest civilian order.

A leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist, Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur, which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers while the German weekly Die Zeit portrayed Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important thinkers for the 21st century.

     Sudhir Kakar’s seventeen books of non-fiction and four of fiction, include The Inner World , Shamans, Mystics and Doctors,Tales of Love, Sex and Danger,Intimate Relations, The Analyst and the Mystic, The Colors of Violence, Culture and Psyche, The Indians: Portrait of a People, a new translation the Kamasutra for Oxford World Classics , (with Wendy Doniger) and Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World. He is also the author of the novels The Ascetic of Desire, Ecstasy, Mira and Mahatma, The Crimson Throne and the editor of Indian Love Stories. His most recent books are the memoir A Book of Memory, the edited volumes On Dreams and Dreaming and Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences, and the selection The Essential Sudhir Kakar (Oxford). His books have been translated into twenty two languages around the world.

Sudhir Kakar is married to Katharina, a writer and a scholar of comparative religions, and lives in Goa, India.

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Lalit Kala Akademi

(National Academy of Art)

Regional Centre-Garhi, New Delhi

and  

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi  
(State Academy of Art)  

cordially invite you to 
Multi Media Art-Workshop 

Opening on 18 March 2013 at 11.30 am  
At the Government Museum & Art Gallery  
Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India  

by  

Gagan Vij (New Delhi) Mentor  
and nine young artists  
Chetnaa Verma – New Media (New Delhi)  
Manjot Kaur – Painting (Chandigarh)  
Manmeet sandhu – Video (New Delhi)  
Mansi Verma – Performance (New Delhi)  
Nayan Kalita – Printmaking (Chandigarh)  
Rajesh Ram – Installation (New Delhi)  
Soumen Basu – Ceramics (New Delhi)  
Suvajit Samanta – Sculpture (New Delhi)  
Vijay Kumar - Digitographic (Chandigarh)  

Artists at work 10.00 am to 6.00 pm 
18 to 25 March 2013 

N M Nawani, Incharge, Regional Centre, Garhi  

Diwan Manna, Chairman, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi  

Rajan Shripad Fulari, Concept and Co-ordinator  

www.lalitkala.gov.in www.lalitkalachandigarh.com  
chandigarhlka@gmail.com  
RSVP: 011 26431849

 Remembering Ganesh Pyne (1937-2013) 

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

and Lalit Kala Akademi

(National Academy of Art)

Regional Centre-Garhi, New Delhi

organise a memorial meeting to pay tribute to

Renowned artist Ganesh Pyne

with short films and power point presentation

before the opening of Multimedia Art Workshop

on 18th March 2013 at 11.30 am

at Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

Diwan Manna

Chairman, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

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Ganesh Pyne 

1937 - 2013

The foremost exponent of Bengal School of Art Ganesh Pyne has blended romanticism, fantasy and inventive play of light and dark in his works wherein the labyrinths of subconscious have formulated the imagery of his paintings. His own experiences of pain, solitude, alienation, horror shaped up his signature style.

Ganesh Pyne was obsessed with death. He could not forget his first brush with death, in the summer of 1946, when communal riots had rocked Kolkata. His family was forced out of their crumbling mansion. As he roamed around the city, he stumbled upon a pile of dead bodies. On the top was the body of a stark naked old woman, with wounds on her breast. No wonder then his paintings rarely have light backgrounds, and blue and black happens to be his favorite colors. Death also finds its way back into his canvas through different motifs. Working mostly in tempera, his paintings are rich in imagery and symbolism.

Pyne was born in Kolkata and grew up in a decaying mansion. He also grew up on stories told by his grandmother --- mythological stories and fairy tales. He spent several evenings in smoky Kolkata cafes discussing communism and Picasso with his friends. "My childhood memories revolve around Kolkata. The sounds and smells of this city fill my being. I love Kolkata."

He did not remember the first time he started to paint, but did remember the anger that he drew from his family over his decision to become an artist. Pyne, nevertheless, took admission in the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. "My first painting was 'Winter's Morning' which showed me and my brother going to school," he recalled. In 1963, he joined the Society for Contemporary Artists. During that period he made small drawings in pen and ink. "I did not have enough money then to buy color," Pyne said. This was also the period of experimentation. The anger and despair of the 70s fuelled one of the most fruitful periods' in his life as an artist that culminated in works like 'Before the Chariot' and 'The Assassin'.

However, sometime in the 80s, he shut himself from the world, driven away by the jealousy and pettiness that the art bazaar arose among his friends.

Initially, Pyne painted watercolors and sketches of misty mornings and wayside temples, variously influenced as he was by Walt Disney and the art of Abanindranath Tagore. He counted Hals Rembrandt and Paul Klee as the other influences.

His signature style shaped from his own experiences of solitude, alienation, pain and horror. Moods of tenderness and serenity come to surface in each of his works. At times, these images are offshoots of an idea that may have flitted through his mind. At others, they resonate lines from poems that may have made an impression on his mind.

The lines are bold, precise, controlled and the drawings that emerge are potent both in form and content. Stripped of color, they convey the architectonic quality in the structuring of the images.

Equally devoted to cinema as he wsa to painting, Pyne had also drawn inspirations from movies made by Fellini and Ingmar Bergman. Today, he is known as the foremost exponents of the Bengal School of art. 

Remembering Jagmohan Chopra

1935-2013

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

is holding a memorial meeting

to pay tributes to

Eminent Artist (Print-maker)

Professor Jagmohan Chopra

(who passed away on 3^rd March 2013)

former Principal Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh,

Director Govt. Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh,

Chairman, and President AIFACS, New Delhi,

Vice Chairman and Secretary,

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi.

eminent art historian Professor B N Goswamy

will speak on this occasion

on 6th March 2013 at 5.00 pm

at Conference Hall

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

State Library, F. F. , Sector 34 A, Chandigarh

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

chandigarhlka@gmail.com

Diwan Manna, Chairman

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Jagmohan Chopra (born 1935 Lahore, now in Pakistan, died 3^rd March 2013, New Delhi) has been referred to as ‘an artist’s artist’, someone who has consistently been ahead of his time in his various artistic expressions. Best known as one of the country’s pioneer print makers, he has been equally progressive in the art of photography.

Jagmohan Chopra is one of India’s most senior artists, with an impressive list of awards and recognitions to his name. He has held senior positions in the country’s major cultural institutes, such as Lalit Kala, AIFACS, Silpi Chakra and Government Museum Art Gallery Chandigarh. He has inspired many of today’s successful artists with his teachings at the Delhi College of Art and the Government College of Art in Chandigarh.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions in India and abroad and been a much sought-after member of national and international Jury bodies. In 1987 North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala honored Jagmohan for his contribution to art and culture in the country and in 1988 he was awarded the prestigious Kala Ratna award by AIFACS. His art works can be found in the collections of museums, cultural institutes and individual collectors in India and abroad.

Jagmohan lives and works in Delhi.

Biography

Born 1935, National Diploma in Fine Arts from Art Department (School of Art) Delhi Polytechnic, 1958.

After completing his diploma he joined as a senior lecturer College of Art, New Delhi. He participated in various All India Exhibitions including the NATIONAL Exhibition of Art regularly since 1957, International Exhibition, Graphics Art Exhibitions, Poland (1960), Manila (1965), Leipzing, Germany (1965). IX Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1967), Xth International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings, Lugano, Switzerland (1968) and Biennale of Graphics arts, Krakow, Poland (1968), the VI the Biennale of Prints, Manila, Philippines, Triennale, India (1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1982), Western pacific Print Biennale, Australia ((1976)).

Awards:

Punjab Government’s Silver Medal Graphic (1959), First Prize, AIFACS Annual 1959 (painting), Honorable mention for Graphic, Bombay Arts Society, Annual (1959). Judge’s Prize for Water Colour, Indian Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Amritsar 1959, Silver Medal for paintings, Annual Jammu and Kashmir Akademi (1960), Gold Medal at First All India Graphics Exhibition (1965), New Delhi, First Prize Graphic, Coma AIFACS Annual Exhibition (1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970), National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1968, 1970. Awarded “Kala Ratna” by AIFACS 1988.

International Award

Lugano (Switzerland 1968) and Manila (Philippines 1969).

One Man Shows of paintings, Delhi, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963; Graphics 1968.

Member of Silpi Chakra, New Delhi.

Former Chairman AIFACS, New Delhi and Life Member AIFACS.

President of AIFACS from 1991 to 1997, Honored as Veteran Artist by AIFACS, New Delhi 1996.

Founder member and Honorary Secretary Group 8, an association of working graphics artists, New Delhi. Vice Chairman, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi 1978 to 1985, Chandigarh, Vice President, Chandigarh Camera Society, Chandigarh, Honorary Secretary, Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, Executive Committee member, Punjab Arts Council, Chandigarh.

Works in Collection of the Earl of Harewood, England, The Ambassador of Sudan in India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad, State Museum, Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Akademi, Fine Arts Museum, Panjab University, National gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, Raj Niwas, Delhi, College of Art, New Delhi, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi. Baroda University Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda, Faculty of Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Museum of Modern Art, Jaipur, Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh and Various other private collections.

Retired as Principal, Government College of Art, Chandigarh in 1992.

He was Member International Jury of II Biennale of Art, Havana, Cuba (1986).

He was Honored by North Zone Cultural Center, Patiala for contribution to Art and Culture in the Country in 1987.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 23 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

The Colour of Doubt: Slide Lecture by Anju Dodiya - Artist

Art and Problems of Representation in Media: Lecture by Sadanand Menon – cultural commentator

Dialogue between Anju Dodiya and Sadanand Menon

Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the event

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Anju Dodiya 

The ‘self’ is at the center of Anju’s works, though she initially resisted the lure of self-portraiture. Her art remains rooted in the figurative and all elements within her paintings are charged with an emotional value. Anju has created a niche for herself while exploring various possibilities within it.

Anju’s self keeps recurring in the changing pictorial contexts. These are, on one hand, inward looking investigations but they are not narcissist in any sense. There is a keen sense of self-awareness and introspection, and at the same time these works compel the viewer to unravel the untold stories and ambiguous frames. She continually creates her own legend as though she were a fictional character caught in bizarre but lyrical narrative, a self-disruptive autobiography.

Her watercolours are her take on the heroic, romantic representation of the self and self-discovery. There is something vulnerable in her works as stringent violence is inflicted on her mind and her art, for example, the dagger piercing the heart, women in despair, swords pointing towards figures present in the painting, and so on. Anju’s paintings start a process of moving beyond the narrow self and towards a larger self.

Nancy Adajania, an art critic and cultural theorist observes, "I will therefore argue that the artist’s various self projections, far from being a garland of whimsical and disconnected pictorial quotations phrased across the years, can actually be seen to express strong psychological continuities. Her allegorical narratives represent the inherent theatricality. There are curtains, props, costumes and even the spotlights - the entire stagecraft transforming the surfaces into a proscenium that mediates between the real and the illusory. Her works lie between the real and the unreal, dream and reality where she selects her pictorial references from varied sources including Indian miniatures, Renaissance paintings, world cinema, Ukiyo-e prints, newspaper photographs."

Anju Dodiya is considered among the most important contemporary artists in India. She has been exhibited in major galleries in India and abroad and was selected to show at the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2009.

She lives and works in Mumbai. 

SADANAND MENON

Sadanand Menon has been exploring the charged space linking politics and culture for several decades through his work in media, pedagogy and activism.

He is a nationally reputed ‘arts editor’, popular teacher of ‘cultural journalism’, widely published photographer, arts curator and prolific writer and speaker at seminars on politics, ecology and the arts.

He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, and at the Humanities Department of the IIT, Chennai.

He is member, Apex Advisory Panel, National Museum, Delhi; member, Apex Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru; member, Executive Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi; member, General Council, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; and Managing Trustee, SPACES, Chennai.

A former Arts Editor with mainstream newspapers, he has practiced and taught critical alternatives in the media, has edited interventionist journals and is a regular contributor to prominent newspapers and periodicals in English and Malayalam.  

Several exhibitions he has curated, includes a major counter-historical fifty-year retrospective of the late Dashrath Patel for the National Gallery of Modern Art, in Delhi and Mumbai. He also curated the first ever exhibition of Dashrath Patel’s photographs, for Gujarat Lalit Kala Akedemi, Ahmedabad. He has contributed catalogue pieces for several artists, ceramists, photographers.

His photographic works have been included in anthologies of the best photographic work from India and, for some years, he was Editorial Advisor, 'Better Photography', Mumbai.

A long-time collaborator with the radical dancer/choreographer Chandralekha, he is deeply involved with issues connected with critical practices in contemporary Indian dance and has travelled extensively in India and abroad as the technical director of Chandralekha's performances.

In 2009, he was awarded the Kesari Puraskaram, by the Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, for critical writing on culture and arts.  

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 22 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

A Sensualist of the Eye: Slide Lecture by Navina Sundaram- filmmaker and tele-journalist

Screening of short film: Amrita Sher-Gil – A Family Album - Directed and written by Navina Sundaram

Go Away Closer: Slide Lecture by Dayanita Singh - Artist

Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the event

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Navina Sundaram

Navina Sundaram born in 1945, grew up and studied in Delhi/India. Ever since 1970 till her retirement she has worked as a political television editor-cum-reporter and as foreign correspondent for  North German Radio & Television in Hamburg. In her capacity as filmmaker, roving correspondent, news-reporter, anchor woman, she worked for programmes on the national network. She has also made scores of documentary films. She has reported from Europe, Africa, South-East Asia and South Asia. From 1992 – 1993 she was foreign correspondent and head of the South Asia Television Studio in New Delhi. Navina Sundaram today lives as an independent film maker in Germany.

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Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh is an artist working with Photography and Books. She was born in 1961 in New Delhi. She studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has published ten books: Zakir Hussain (1986), Myself, Mona Ahmed (2001),Privacy (2003), Chairs (2005), Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008) Blue Book (2009) Dream Villa (2010), Dayanita Singh (2010) House of Love (2011), File Room (2013).

Her works were exhibited at the Venice Bienale 2011 and she will be in the German pavillion in Venice Bienale 2013. In 2012 she exhibited File Museum at Frith street gallery London, House of Love at Nature Morte New Delhi, Fiction in the Archives in Asia Pacific Trienale and Being of Darkness at Guangzhou Trienale.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 21 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

Stay politically incorrect forever: Slide Lecture by Mithu Sen - Artist

Skoda Prize : Slide Lecture by Girish Shahane – writer on art, cultural politics and curator/ Director - Art of the Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art

Dialogue Between Mithu Sen and Girish Shahane

Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the event

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Mithu Sen 

Trained as a painter, Mithu Sen works in a wide variety of media, making site and time specific installations that often combine sculpture, video, sound, drawings, and even poetry. Although most of her oeuvre is on paper, her work is also often conceptual and interactive. Blending fact and fiction, Sen incorporates selfportraits along with her fantastical creations. Swinging between distance and intimacy, her works deal with the politics of identity, sexuality and gender. 


Mithu Sen earned her BFA and MFA degrees in painting at the Santiniketan University in West Bengal and later studied in Glasgow school of art in UK as well.

Mithu received the SKODA award 2010 for the best contemporary artist in India.

She has had her numbers of solo and group shows all over the world in prestigious museums, biennales, galleries and solo exhibitions of her works have been held at Nature Morte and the British Council in New Delhi, Gallery Chemould in Mumbai, Bose Pacia in New York, Krinzinger Projekte in Vienna, Galerie Steph in Singapore, Espace Louis Vuitton in Taipei, and Suzie Q Projects in Zurich, Gallery Nathalie obadia in Paris. she also did many prestigious residencies in New York, Brazil, China, Austria, Kenya, Japan and South Africa.

She is also a poet with two of her solo books of poetries along with several publications an many imp magazines and journals.

She lives and works in New Delhi. 

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Girish Shahane

Girish Shahane has degrees in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University, and Oxford University. He was editor and later consulting editor of Art India magazine. He has written on visual art, film and cultural politics for leading publications, and contributed columns to Time Out and Yahoo! India. He is on the faculty of art history courses conducted by Bhau Daji Lad Museum and Jnanapravaha. Exhibitions curated by him include Home Spun (Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, 2011).

Girish Shahane is Director - Art of the Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 20 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

The Politics of Contemplation: Slide Lecture by Sheba Chhachhi - Artist

At Home with My Maharaja: Entering the Palace-Museum in India: Slide Lecture by Kavita Singh – Art Historian/ curator/editor

Dialogue between Sheba Chhachhi and Kavita Singh

Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the event

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Sheba Chhachhi

Sheba Chhachhi creates both site-specific public art and independent works that investigate gender, ecology, violence and personal and collective memory. Her work often recuperates ancient iconography, myth and visual traditions to calibrate an inquiry into the contemporary moment. Chhachhi’s lens based installation works bring both still and moving images together with objects, light, sound, and space. Her photographic work retrieves marginal worlds, of women, mendicants, and forgotten forms of labour. Created through inter-subjective processes, the photographs emerge from an invitation to perform the self.

Chhachhi has experimented with pre-cinematic devices over several years, developing a new artistic language by creating moving image light boxes. These mobile palimpsests work with a series of translucent and transparent layers. When viewed the works take on a startling dimensionality as the layers merge in and out of each other to create an almost cinematic aesthetic.

Chhachhi creates immersive environments, bringing the contemplative into the political in both site-specific public art and independent works. She has exhibited widely in India and internationally.

Chhachhi lives and works in New Delhi.

Some Recent Projects:

2013

Record/Resist, photo video installation, Kiran Nadar Museum, Noida, NCR, India

The Water Diviner, Kiran Nadar Museum, Saket, New Delhi, India

2012

Record/Resist, 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

2011

Chimera, The Collectors show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Evoking the pause, Dr.BhauDajiLad Museum, Mumbai, India (solo)

Luminarium, Volte Gallery Mumbai, India (solo)

Sub-Topical Heat, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 

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Kavita Singh 

Kavita Singh is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She trained as an art historian at M S University of Baroda (MFA, 1987) and Panjab University, Chandigarh (PhD 1996). She has had a research and curatorial fellowships at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Asia Society, and the Clark Art Institute, and has been guest curator at the San Diego Museum of Art as well as Research Editor at MargShe has published on Sikh art, Indian folk and courtly painting and the history of museums in India. 

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 19 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

The Pseudo - Archive : Slide Lecture by Pushpamala N - Artist

Loving the Arts : Lecture by Ashok Vajpeyi – poet/art critic/writer

Dialogue between Ashok Vajpeyi and Pushpamala N.

Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the event

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Pushpamala N 

Beginning her career as a sculptor with an interest in narrative figuration, Pushpamala N. has transitioned, over the past ten years, into casting her own body as various characters and personae in the medium of photo-performance, while working with a variety of photographers. Enriching autobiography with elements of surreal aesthetics and dramatics, the artist's work superimposes layers of humor, femininity, guise, and historicity onto the two-dimensional surface of photographic prints.

In her ‘photo-romances’ and studio photographs, the artist seduces the viewers through spectacular and elusive narratives, transgressing the limitations of mimetic figural representation while remaining centrally concerned with the narration of the female form. Collectively, Pushpamala's work engages with postcolonial theory and a feminist historical gaze. Recently Pushpamala has been expanding her photographic practice into the medium of experimental short films, live performance and sculptural tableaux, bringing in movement, text and sound to her structured compositions.

Ashok Vajpeyi

ASHOK VAJPEYI, a Hindi poet-critic, translator, editor and culture-activist, is a major cultural figure of India. With more than 13 books of poetry, 10 of criticism in Hindi and 4 books on art in English to his credit, he is widely recognised as an outstanding promoter of culture and an innovative institution-builder. Over the years he has worked tirelessly to enhance the mutual awareness and interaction between Indian and foreign cultures. A frequent presence at some of the major conferences, seminars and poetry-festivals, he has raised his voice for the autonomy of literature and arts as against contemporary tyrannies of ideologies, markets and fundamentalism. As editor of many prestigious journals he has done much to promote critical awareness of contemporary and classical arts and young talent in poetry and criticism. As an organiser he has more than a thousands events to his credit relating to literature, music, dances, theatre, visual arts, folk and tribal arts, cinema etc. He has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Dayawati Kavi Shekhar Samman, Kabir Samman and awarded D.Lit. (honoris causa) by the Central University of Hyderabad.

He has written two large books on the Paris-based Indian master Sayed Haider Raza one on 7 contemporary Indian abstract painters a book on Hindustani classical music. He set up the renowned multi-arts centre Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal; has been the first Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (set up by Govt. of India). For more than a year he doubled up as the Director General of the National Museum, New Delhi, the Vice-Chairman National Museum of Man, Bhopal. Until recently has been the Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, New Delhi.

A prominent public intellectual of India, he has been a creative global-trotter and visited Europe many times to attend conferences, deliver lectures and give readings. Has been a writer in-residence at Jamia Millia Islamia University and a fellow of K K Birla Foundation. He lives in Delhi after retiring from civil service. He has been decorated by the President of Republic of Poland by the outstanding national award ‘The Officer’s Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland’ and the French Govt. by the award of ‘Officier De L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres’.

Presently Executive Trustee, The Raza Foundation, New Delhi.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Exhibition of

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and

Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

18 to 24 February, 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the events

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Slide lectures, exhibition, film screening and dialogues between artists/critics/historians/writers and curators

18 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

Making of a Mural and other works : Slide Lecture by Anjolie Ela Menon – Artist

J. Swaminathan: Decades of Transit : Slide Lecture by S Kalidas – Art Commentator/ writer

Dialogue between Anjolie Ela Menon and S Kalidas

Opening of the Photography Exhibition :

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

Exhibition of photographs will be opened on 18^th February after the slide presentations

and remain open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

19 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

The Pseudo - Archive : Slide Lecture by Pushpamala N. - Artist

Loving the Arts : Lecture by Ashok Vajpeyi – poet/art critic/writer

Dialogue between Ashok Vajpeyi and Pushpamala N.

20 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

The Politics of Contemplation : Slide Lecture by Sheba Chhachhi - Artist

At Home With My Maharaja: Entering the Palace-Museum in India :

Slide Lecture by Kavita Singh – Art Historian/ curator/editor

Dialogue between Sheba Chhachhi and Kavita Singh

21 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

Stay politically incorrect forever : Slide Lecture by Mithu Sen - Artist

Skoda Prize : Slide Lecture by Girish Shahane – writer on art, cultural politics and curator,

Director - Art of the Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art

Dialogue Between Mithu Sen and Girish Shahane

22 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

A Sensualist of the Eye : Slide Lecture by Navina Sundaram - filmmaker and tele-journalist

Screening of short film : Amrita Sher-Gil – A Family Album

Directed and written by Navina Sundaram

Go Away Closer : Slide Lecture by Dayanita Singh - Artist

23 February 5.30 to 7.30 pm

The Colour of Doubt : Slide Lecture by Anju Dodiya - Artist

Art and Problems of Representation in Media : Lecture by Sadanand Menon – cultural commentator

Dialogue between Anju Dodiya and Sadanand Menon

24 February  seminar in three sessions:

presentations and discussions 10.00 am to 6.00 pm

Session One 10.00 am to 12.30 pm (including 30 minutes for tea)

Altering Perceptions : Contemporary Art in Historic Museums : Slide Lecture by Tasneem Mehta

Director & Managing Trustee, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

Center Periphery Constellations : Slide Lecture by Alka Pande – Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator

From Timbuktu to Cincinnati- Works 2012 : Slide Lecture by Atul Dodiya - Artist

Discussion: Locating the Self – Other: Moderator - Alka Pande

Participants : Tasneem Mehta, Atul Dodiya and Alka Pande

Session Two 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm

Introduction of the art magazine Take on  Art by Bhavna Kakar

Curator and Editor of Take on art magazine

The Body in Indian Art : Slide Lecture by Kishore Singh – Art Commentator

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art : Slide Lecture by Roobina Karode

Director Kiran Nader Museum of Art, New Delhi

Discussion: In search of the body.

Participants : Kishore Singh, Roobina Karode

(3.30 pm to 4.00 pm Tea)

Session Three 4.00 to 6.00 pm

Recent Works : Slide Lecture by Vivan Sundaram – Artist

The Indian Modernists : Slide Lecture by Nanak Ganguly - Curator and critic

Discussion: Museum, Biennale, Art Fair – Moderator - Sadanand Menon

Participants : Vivan Sundaram, Nanak Ganguly, Sadanand Menon

dedicated to Amrita Sher-Gil on her birth centenary year

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to

Amrita Sher-Gil National Art week

18 to 24 February, 2013

A week-long celebration of art by

Artists/critics/writers/historians/curators

Programme for 18 Feb 2013

At the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

At 5.30 pm

Making of a Mural and other works : Slide Lecture by Anjolie Ela Menon – Artist

J. Swaminathan: Decades of  Transit : Slide Lecture by S Kalidas – Art Commentator/ writer

Dialogue between Anjolie Ela Menon and S Kalidas

Opening of the Photography Exhibition:

Photographs of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

and Re-take of Amrita by Vivan Sundaram

Exhibition of photographs will be opened on 18^th February after the slide presentations

and remain open from 19 to 24 Feb 2013 between 11.30 am and 7.30 pm

Kindly take your seats 15 minutes before the start of the events

Photography and Phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna, Chairman

Anjolie Ela Menon

Padmashree Anjolie Ela Menon is among India’s leading contemporary artists, and has created a name for herself in the domestic as well as international art scene. Her works in oil and mixed media are a part of significant museum, private and corporate collections across the globe and she has done several murals in public spaces. After a brief spell at the JJ School of Art Mumbai and a degree from the Delhi University she won a French government scholarship to the Ecole Des Beaux Arts to study fresco in Paris Menon has held 48 solo exhibitions including  retrospectives at the Lalit Kala Akademi and National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. Her work hangs in major museum and private collections globally.  Three books and several films have been made on her life and work. The latest volume entitled Anjolie Ela Menon: Through the Patina covers Menon’s work in public and private collections over 55 working years.  A book about her work accompanied her solo exhibition at the Asian Art Museum San Francisco which accessioned her seminal work titled Yatra. She was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Letters by the French Government and the Padmashree by the government of India  in recognition for her contribution to Indian art.  

S Kalidas

S.Kalidas has been an active commentator and participant on the Indian arts scene for well over three decades. Son of the late painter J. Swaminathan, Kalidas witnessed the growth of modern Indian art from close quarters while he simultaneously trained in Hindustani classical music formally under some of its greatest masters including Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur and Ust. Amjad Ali Khan.

S. Kalidas has worked as a senior editor with a number of leading national newspapers and magazines includingThe Times of India, India Today, The Pioneer, and as Group Executive Editor for Swagat and Discover India. His stints in television include conceiving and producing programmes forITV(India), PTI-TV, Doordarshan and Business India Television (TVI).

He has scripted and directed Hai Akhtari a documentary film on the legendary queen of ghazal, Begum Akhtar, in 1992 and was the advisor forRasa Yatra a 35mm film on the life his teacher, the legendary vocalist Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur which won the Golden Lotus at the National Film Awards in 1994.

Kalidas has done archival documentation for organisationslike theSangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, the Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal, and theDoordarshan and IGNCA archives. He has been twice a fellow of the Department of culture, Government of India and has lectured widely on Indian art and classical music at universities and museums abroad.

Apart from his vast opus of writings for newspaoers and magazines, his other publications include Transits of a Wholetimer (2012); Zarina Hashmi: Radiant Transits (2011); Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur Cetenary Catalogue (2010); Begum Akhtar: Love’s Own Voice (2009) and Of Capacities and Containment: poetry and politics in the art of Subodh Gupta (2007). 

He is currently the Director of J. Swaminathan Foundation and working at researching and documenting the life and works of J. Swaminathan towards a retrospective exhibition and publications in Hindi and English.

A polyglot, besides English, Kalidas can read, write and speak in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Tamil.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Cordially invites you to the inauguration

and awards giving ceremony of

Annual Art Exhibition 2012

At the Galleries of Punjab Arts Council

Sector 16, Chandigarh

On Friday 18^th January 2013 at 5.00 pm

Shri K. K. Sharma IAS

Adviser to the Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh

Will be the Chief Guest

Kindly take your seats in Dr. M. S. Randhawa Auditorium

For awards giving ceremony by 4.45 pm

Exhibition open from 19^th to 24^th January 2013

11.00 am to 7.00 pm

Diwan Manna, Chairman

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

chandigarhlka@gmail..com

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi gives Fellowships to two young artists.

To encourage, support and promote the young artists Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi has started giving fellowships for the first time by any Akademi in the region.

Mrs. Purvi Qadri (daughter of renowned artists Sohan Qadri) President of Sohan Qadri Foundation, donated rupees one lakh to the Akademi for starting a fellowship in the name of the late artist.

Originally the Akademi had decided to give one fellowship but the committee members were very impressed by the work of two young artists. Acclaimed artist Sudarshan Shetty, one of the committee members for the selection of an artist for the fellowship, decided to sponsor one additional fellowship of Rs. 1, 00,000/- (One Lakh).

Recipients:

Ms. Shivani Bhalla – Painting:  Sohan Qadri Fellowship by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Sponsored by Sohan Qadri Foundation

Mr. Randeep Singh – Photography: Fellowship by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Sponsored by Sudarshan Shetty (Acclaimed Artist) 

This Fellowship is given to artists between the age group of 25 and 45 year. Akademi already gives ten scholarships of Rs. 36,000/- each every year to artists between the age group of 20 to 35 years.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi 
cordially invites you to

A screening of the film Jaya Ganga 
based on a book of the same name

and

Journey from the Word to the Image 
an interactive session with its writer and director

Vijay Singh

on 27th December 2012, at 5.30 pm 

at the Auditorium Government Museum & Art Gallery

 Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India 

Cast: Smriti Mishra, Asil Rais, Paola Klein, Anupam Shyam, Rati Shankar
Tripathi, Banwari Taneja, Gopal Singh, Pratima Kazmi, Ravi Jhankal

Director of Photography: Piyush Shah
Editor: Renu Saluja
Music: Vanraj Bhatia
Art Director: Ashok Bhagat
Sound: Eric Thomas and Philippe Blanche
Costume: Shahnaz Vahanvaty
Producer: Silhouette Films 
Co-producers: National Film Development Corporation, Mumbai
Sodaperaga Productions, Paris; Kismet Talkies, Princeton

in association with French Ministry of External Affairs, Paris

Kindly take your seats by 5.15 pm
Phone calls strictly prohibited

Persons below 18 years of age not allowed

Diwan Manna
Chairman

chandigarhlka@gmail.com
www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

 About Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh is an Indian filmmaker, screenplay-writer and novelist living in Paris. After schooling at the Punjab Public School Nabha and studying History at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, he moved to Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, for his doctoral work. He has written extensively for Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Libération, The Guardian, and other international newspapers. 

Vijay Singh has written and directed four acclaimed films. Jaya Ganga, his first feature, ran for 49 weeks in the Paris cinemas, before repeating a similar story in the UK. The Guardian described it as “a mesmerising film... one of the most authentic depictions of everyday Indian magic ever screened." 
Reviewing his second feature, One Dollar Curry, BBC Movies commented: “Infinitely more subtle than the spate of recent British diaspora pictures, this likable low-key gem effortlessly combines European and Bollywood influences without lapsing into cliché or caricature.”

Vijay Singh is also the writer-director of two documentaries, including Chami and Ana the Elephant (L’homme et l’éléphant) which has been shown on nearly100 television channels worldwide. It was awarded the Grand Prix des Enfants “La Titine 2002” in Switzerland. His latest film, India by Song, won the Best Documentary Audience Award at River to River 2012 Florence Indian Film Festival in Italy.

Vijay Singh has published four books that have won wide critical acclaim: Jaya Ganga, In Search of the River Goddess, La Nuit Poignardée, Whirlpool of Shadows, and The River Goddess. In a selection made by the Booker Prize-winner Barry Unsworth, Whirlpool of Shadows was listed in the Sunday Times (UK) as the “Best Book of 1992”. His books have been translated into French and other European languages. He is now working on his next feature, The Opium Symphony, which is adapted from his novel Whirlpool of Shadows. Vijay Singh has been a guest speaker at several conferences held worldwide and has made presentations of his work at the Universities of Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford.

Vijay Singh was awarded the Centre National des Lettres fellowship on two occasions, the Leonardo da Vinci Award for screenplay writing, the Prix Villa Médicis hors les murs for foreign literature in 1990, the Roll of Honour 2010 at the Punjab Public School Nabha, and the Director in Focus Award at the Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2012 in Dublin. 

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

in collaboration with

Chandigarh Administration

announces

On the Spot Photography Competition

during  Chandigarh Carnival 2012

being held at Leisure Valley, Sector 10, Chandigarh

 on 23, 24 and 25 November 2012

1st Prize  Rs. 10000/-

2nd Prize Rs. 5000/-

3rd Prize  Rs. 3000/-

Two special prizes of Rs. 1000/- each

Rules and Regulations:

1. Competition is open to persons of all nationalities above ten years of age.

2. The photographs should be on the glimpses of Chandigarh Carnival 2012.

3. Each participant can submit maximum four photographs in digital file/s in a CD/DVD or digital storage device at the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi stall at the venue of Chandigarh Carnival after 12.00 noon 23 November and before 12.00 noon 25th November 2012. Any request for transfer of data/pictures directly from the camera will not be entertained. All files/folders should contain the name of the participant, titles and entry number. Entries must contain a passport size photograph(hard copy not digital) of the participants.

4. Entree fee Rs.50/- per person (Please give change)

5. The jury will select five best photographs for awards and consolation prizes.

The decision of the Jury would be final and binding on all and no correspondence whatsoever by anyone will be entertained on the subject.

 Entries Invited for Annual Art Exhibition 2012

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Invites entries for

Annual Art Exhibition 2012

Only for artists residing or studying in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali

Professional category

3 Awards of Rs. 50,000/- each

Student category

5 Awards of Rs. 15,000/- each

Artists can choose to participate in competition

or not for competition section

in the following disciplines:

Painting, Sculpture, Graphics (Print-making)

Photography, Drawing, Mix-Media, Installation Art

and Multi-Media

Forms available at the Akademi office and with

Mr. Ravinder Sharma, Govt. College of Art, Sec. 10, Chandigarh

Mr. Bheem Malhotra, Chandigarh College of Architecture,

Sec. 12, Chandigarh; Mr. Madan Lal, NIIFT, Mohali

Forms could be downloaded from the Akademi website

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Submission of entries for Students: 

November 1 to 8, 2012  from 10 am to 3 pm

Submission of entries for Professionals: 

November 1 to 9, 2012 from 10 am to 3 pm

at the Akademi office (Saturday and Sunday Closed)

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, F. Floor

Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022  Tel. 0172 2620448

chandigarhlka@gmail.com

24 August 2012, 5.30 pm, Govt. Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Cordially invites you to

a slide & video presentation by

Manjunath Kamath

on 24th August 2012, at 5.30 pm

at the Auditorium

Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

kindly take your seats by 5.15 pm

phone calls strictly prohibited

Diwan Manna

Chairman

chandigarhlka@gmail.com

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About My Works

My works are inspired by the day to day life spend by any individual who is observant of things going around. I am a capturer of the immediate in painterly images. Taking cues from the conversations with friends, relatives, street smart guys, fashion aficionados, art lovers, story tellers, children, myth makers, journalists, art critics and so on, I try to go beyond the face value of the words uttered and the mental images created. I look at the possibilities of the unsaid and chances of the unrevealed in my works. So they are always mysterious and playful. The images that I choose to paint are simple. Like in the fables and parables there are so many animals and birds in my works. Sometimes they come as they are, at times they are composite figures and most of the times these characters are seen in conversation (silently or imaginatively) with the human figures in the pictorial surface. I try to create simple but thoughtful narrative by painting quirky situations. And most of my paintings are minimal in one or the other way. I use flat surfaces as background using luminous acrylic colors and the images are placed in suggestive ways that at times create an interesting balance between the background and the intended narrative elements.

As I have been working as a designer, the designer’s precision comes into most of my works. I do not find it as a problem, on the contrary I find the precision gives the minimal language the required sharpness and it imparts clarity to the simple narratives that I make.

My world view is quite humorous. I would like to laugh at things and through this laughter I could get into the unrevealed sides of events. This is the same attitude that I take in my video works. I create imaginary situations as in the fables and parables, through claymation models. They create one kind of narrative and leave it open for the viewers interventions. This is the same method that I use in my small scale works and drawings.

Manjunath Kamath

chandigarhlka@gmail.com

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

 Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2012

Nature I Prakriti I Qudrat

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

and Chandigarh Administration

cordially invite you to

a Slide Lecture

Landscape After Battle - Nature in Transit

by

Johny ML

art critic, curator and writer

on 27th April 2012 at 5.00 pm

at the Auditorium

Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

Kindly take your seats by 4.45 pm

Making and receiving phone calls not allowed

Diwan Manna

Chairman, CLKA

Born in 1969, in Vakkom, Kerala, Johny ML has three

post-graduate degrees – in Creative Curating (University

of London), Art History and Criticism (M. S. University,

Baroda) and English Language and Literature (University

of Kerala). He has curated thirty-five shows that include

Video Wednesdays @ Gallery Espace, If I Were a Saint,

Expressions at Tihar, Freedom to March, Lens-ing It, A4

Arple to name a few. Johny ML is the founder editor of

two online magazines on Indian contemporary art

(www.mattersofart.net and www.artconcerns.com).

Johny ML has done extensive research on art education

in small town art colleges in India and the findings are

available on www.artroutes.in . He has also written

articles and essays for catalogues, journals and

newspapers. He also invests his creative energies in

directing documentaries on art, translating international

literature into Malayalam and writing a blog, johnyml.

blogspot.com. JohnyML is the Managing Editor of Art

and Deal Magazine, New Delhi. He is a visiting professor

in the National Institute of Design and CEPT University.

He lives in Faridabad, Haryana.

 Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2012

Nature I Prakriti I Qudrat

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

And Chandigarh Administration

cordially invite you to

a Slide Lecture: Landscape as Canvas

by installation artist

Subodh Kerkar

on 26th April 2012 at 5.00 pm

at the Auditorium, Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Kindly take your seats by 4.45 pm

Making and receiving phone calls not allowed

Diwan Manna

Chairman CLKA

clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com

Subodh Kerkar gave up his medical profession twenty years ago to pursue

his passion, visual art.  He is perhaps the only major land artist of the country

creating large installations in nature, sometimes over a kilometer long.

Seashores are his favourite canvases.  “The sea is my master and my muse”,

says Subodh.  The sea is both outside and inside, form and material, subject

as well as object.

He uses locally sourced material, thus forming an intrinsic link between lived

life, nature and art.  His interventions in landscape are usually ephemeral and

are at many levels: aesthetic, conceptual, material, historical and political.

Landscape artists erased the political in the service of the picturesque.  Subodh

Kerkar infuses the picturesque and the decorative with the political.  He takes

his works from the closed space of a gallery to the people.  His works, arresting

in dimensions, invite the viewer to be a collaborator.  His recent work where

he expressed his Fair and Busan Biennale.

Subodh Kerkar makes tremendous efforts to set up public art projects in India.

He calls himself an artist and an activist.  He is the founder of Kerkar Art

Complex at Calangute, Goa.

 Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2012

Nature I Prakriti I Qudrat

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

and Chandigarh Administration

in collaboration with

Alliance Francaise Chandigarh

and Bireswar Sen Family Trust 

cordially invite you to the opening of

an Exhibition of Paintings

Landscapes in Miniature: A Quiet Passion

by Bireswar Sen  

on 25th April 2012 at 5.30 pm

at Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh

(Next to Hibiscus Garden, Sector 36, Chandigarh)

The Exhibition will be open daily between

9.00 am to 1.00 pm and 3.30 pm to 6.00 pm 26th to 29th April

Diwan Manna

Chairman, CLKA  

Christian Flores, Director

Alliance Francaise Chandigarh

Bireswar Sen was born in 1897 at Calcutta to Rai Bahadur Saileswar Sen, Professor of Literature at the Calcutta University and his wife, Mrs. Niharnalini Sen. He came into contact with Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose in 1917. After M.A. in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, 1921, he was appointed Lecturer in English at the B.N.College. Patna, 1923. Bireswar Sen kept in touch with painting, working essentially in the style of Abanindranath Tagore and Learning from his circle that included the Japanese master, Kampo Arai, while teaching literature. He joined the Government School of Arts and Crafts at Lucknow as Instructor in Art in 1926. In 1932 he met the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich and was deeply influenced by his vision and his style of painting landscapes. 

He held different positions at the Government School of Arts and Crafts at Lucknow and was appointed member and Secretary of the Poster Design Committee, Rural Development Department, Government of U.P. and founder Director of the Central Design Center at Lucknow. In 1945 he was made the Headmaster and Superintending Craftsman of the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow. He won renown as a painter of landscapes and exhibited at several art exhibitions in India and abroad. His paintings were acquired by, among others, the Central Museum, Lahore, the Travancore State Gallery, the State Gallery of Mysore, the Municipal Museum, Allahabad, the Provinical Museum at Lucknow.

Exhibitions of his  paintings were held at London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Java, New York, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Lahore, Lucknow, Simla, Darjeeling and Naini Tal amongst other venues. His works also entered the collections of such eminent men as H.E. Lord Irwin, H.E. Lord Hailey, H.E. Lord Ronaldshay (Marquess of Zetland), H.E. Lord Carmichael, H.E. Sir Harry Haig, H.E. Sir Maurice Hallet, the Hon'ble Sir Maurice Gwyer, Sir William Vincent, Sir Francis Stewart, Sir Reginald Clarke, Sir Frank Noyce, Sir V.T. Krishnamachari, Mr. T.B.W. Bishop, I.C.S., Mr. R.V. Vernede, I.C.S., Dr. M.S. Randhawa, I.C.S., A.G. Shireff Esq., I.C.S., R. Dayal, Esq., I.C.S., Anna Pavlova, Their Highnesses the Maharajas of Patiala, Mysore, Tranvancore, the Countess of Lytton, H.H. the Maharani of Coochbehar,  Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sir Dorab Tata, the late Mr. G.M. Harper, I.C.S., Mr. N.C. Mehta, I.C.S., Mr. A.N. Sapru, I.C.S., Dr. Panna Lal, I.C.S., Mr. Amarnath Jha, Mr. Justice Varma, the Maharaja of Burdwan, etc.

Bireswar Sen kept on painting till the very end of his life in September 10, 1974.

 Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2012

Nature I Prakriti I Qudrat

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

and Chandigarh Administration

cordially invite you to the opening of an

Art Workshop

by 7 City Artists

Aparneet Mann, B. Ravi Kiran

Benny V. J, Garima Agarwal

Jagjit Singh, Mukesh

Pramod Prasad

at 11.30 am on 25th April 2012

at the Govt. Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

open to viewers 25th to 29th April

10.00 am to 6.00 pm

 Diwan Manna

Chairman

clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com

Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2012 

Nature I Prakriti I Qudrat

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

and Chandigarh Administration

cordially invite you to the opening of

an Exhibition of Photographs

and an Installation

by Installation artist

Subodh Kerkar

on 25th April 2012 at 11.00 am

at the Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

The Exhibition will be open daily between

10.00 am to 6.00 pm 26th to 29th April

Diwan Manna

Chairman

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com

Subodh Kerkar gave up his medical profession twenty years ago to pursue

his passion, visual art.  He is perhaps the only major land artist of the country

creating large installations in nature, sometimes over a kilometer long.

Seashores are his favourite canvases.  “The sea is my master and my muse”,

says Subodh.  The sea is both outside and inside, form and material, subject

as well as object.

He uses locally sourced material, thus forming an intrinsic link between lived

life, nature and art.  His interventions in landscape are usually ephemeral and

are at many levels: aesthetic, conceptual, material, historical and political.

Landscape artists erased the political in the service of the picturesque.  Subodh

Kerkar infuses the picturesque and the decorative with the political.  He takes

his works from the closed space of a gallery to the people.  His works, arresting

in dimensions, invite the viewer to be a collaborator.  His recent work where

he expressed his Fair and Busan Biennale.

Subodh Kerkar makes tremendous efforts to set up public art projects in India.

He calls himself an artist and an activist.  He is the founder of Kerkar Art

Complex at Calangute, Goa.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

cordially invites you to a

Slide Lecture by

Latika Katt

on 29th March 2012 at 5.30 pm

at the Government Museum and Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Making and receiving phone calls not allowed

Kindly take your seats by 5.15 pm

you are also welcome to view Latika Katt, Bibekanand Kapri-Charanjit Singh-Gurpreet Jolly

Hirday Kaushal-Jagdeep Jolly - Parminder Singh-Rajesh Sharma-Sanjeev Kumar-Sumangal Roy

at work during the Sculpture Camp in the Museum Complex

20 to 30 March 2012, 10 am to 7 pm

Diwan Manna

Chairman

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com  clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com

Latika Katt has had solo and joint exhibitions in India and abroad and is recognized as one of India's leading artists. Honoured and awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi Katt has travelled across the world on account of her art camps, talks and other symposia. Not only has she been a part of the administration of premier art and culture institutes, she has also had a long teaching career. Her work features in collections in the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, among others.

In the early works of Latika Katt, the dematerialized materialization is very prominent. It also raises questions on the visual and the illusionist, the real and the imaginary. Latika's works mainly represent her ideology of space and her space, it questions and contradicts the norms of the world and revolves around the true being. The sculpture strategy in the 'Decay and Growth' series of her works deals mainly with the decay of mass correlating the paradoxical position. Abstraction from matter leads into matter. Latika's mode of reaching out to touching and modeling involves the pushing, digging, stretching scribbling and anything through which she can leave a mark of her identity. The intention of the artist is to create a multi-dimensional, imaginative world that goes far beyond the obvious.

The Rodin like ruggedness and energy in her colossal Nehru for Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi and the work in progress Indira Gandhi is a testimony to her command over the medium and her technical prowess. Banaras, the city of her adoption, is reflected in her work in forms and themes hardly ever attempted by any sculptor. In Latika's universe nothing is too insignificant for her keen eyes and dexterous hands.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

State Academy of Art

Cordially invites you to the inauguration of

Sculpture Camp

Latika Katt

With nine Chandigarh Sculptors:

Bibekanand Kapri - Charanjit Singh - Gurpreet Jolly - Hirday Kaushal

Jagdeep Jolly - Parminder Singh - Rajesh Sharma - Sanjeev Kumar

Sumangal Roy 

and an Exhibition of Sculptures

by the camp artists

on 20th March 2012 at 11.00 am

at the Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

You are welcome to visit the camp to see artists at work

from  20th to 30th March 2012, 10.00 to 6.00 pm

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India

E:clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com   W:www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Announces

Sohan Qadri Fellowship 2012

of Rs. 1,00,000/- (One Lakh rupees)

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi invites applications for Sohan Qadri Fellowship

for an artist between 25 and 45 years of age in various streams such as drawing/ painting/mix media /installation / photography / graphics-print making & sculpture.

The last date for submission of applications is 2nd April 2012 (before 4.00pm)

Artists Residing and employed in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali are eligible for the fellowship.

Selected artist would get rupees one lakh as fellowship during a period of one year.

The fellowship is aimed at providing talented artists a platform to continue their research

to develop new ideas in their respective disciplines.

The Fellowship is being sponsored by Sohan Qadri Foundation.

Mrs. Purvi Qadri, President of the foundation and daughter of Sohan Qadri has initiated this fellowship.

Qadri was a well known artist of Punjabi origin with strong Chandigarh connections.

Sohan Qadri received his art education from Government College of Art Chandigarh (then Shimla) and had many friends in Chandigarh and Punjab.

Sohan Qadri 1932-2011

painter and Punjabi poet born 2 November 1932, Chachoki, Punjab, India; died 1 March 2011 Toronto, Canada

Artist and poet Sohan Qadri who has died at the age of 78 in Toronto after a prolonged illness, leaves a rich legacy of poetry and art deeply immersed in Indian tradition. He is one of the few Punjabi painters who have made a mark on the international art scene.

A poet, painter and Tantric yogi, Sohan Qadri was deeply engaged with spirituality. Qadri rhythmically serrated and punctured the surface of paper as part of his meditation practice. Relying on a language of orifices and elongated paths or lines, he abandoned representation in search of transcendence. Serenely composed, his works are intended to arrest the viewer's thinking process and invite him or her to enter a metaphysical realm. The artist started exploring spiritual themes in the 1950s. He was born in the Punjab, in the village of Chachoki near Jalandhar. At the young age he was initiated into yogic practice first by Bikham Giri, a Bengali Tantric Vajrayana yogi, and few years later he became close to a Sufi figure, Ahmed Ali Shah Qadri, whose last name he adopted. From them he imbibed an ecumenical and a deep spiritual yearning. He received his fine art degree from the Government College of Art in Simla, India, against the wishes of his parents. After finishing his studies, Qadri formed the Loose Group of painters and poets in India in 1964. He taught art for four years at Ramgarhia College Phagwara. Soon after he became part of the circuit of the Indian modernists that included M.F. Husain, Syed Haider Raza, Ara, Ram Kumar, and Sailoz Mookherjee. Mulk Raj Anand, was the first to recognise Qadri's talent and organised his first exhibition in Le Corbusier's brand new architectural complex in Chandigarh. He was the mentor friend of Shiv Kumar the poet.

Soon after, Qadri departed for Nairobi, Kenya in 1966, where under the patronage of the African cultural figure Elimo Njau, he had a successful exhibition at Paa-yaa-paa, a non-profit art gallery. At the time, the gravitational pull for artists was Paris, where Qadri lived for a few years. He eventually set up a studio in Zurich before settling in Copenhagen where he lived for more than 40 years. In the 1970s, he, along with a group of artists and counter-culture figures, illegally occupied an old gun factory, which eventually became the famous free city Christianna. He traveled through East Africa, North America, and Europe. Throughout the course of his career Qadri interacted with an array of intellectual figures including the architect Le Corbusier, the surrealist painter René Margritte and the Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, who said: "Sohan Qadri with his painting liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin." Qadri was immersed in painting and meditation for decades. His dye-suffused paintings on meticulously serrated paper reflect his Vajrayana Tantric Buddhist philosophical beliefs. Dr. Robert Thurman, professor of Eastern religions at Columbia University and director of Tibet House, says: "If words were colours, Qadri's art would not be as essentially necessary as it is." Sohan Qadri has had more than 70 exhibitions across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. His works are in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. His paintings are also in notable private collections, including those of Cirque du Soleil, Heinrich Böll, and Dr. Robert Thurman. Despite the fact that he lived most of his life in Denmark, an overiding sense of Eastern ethos pervades his art.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to an interaction

The Art and Life of Manjit Bawa

with

Ina Puri

Curator, art critic and author

and screening of the National award - winning documentary film

Meeting Manjit

Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta

Producer: Image Ina

Camera: Nilotpal Sarkar

Sound: Anup Mukhopadhyay

Editor: Rabi Ranjan Moitra

Music: Biswadeb Dasgupta

on 2nd March 2012  at 5.30 pm

at Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh 160010, India

Kindly take your seats by 5.15 pm

Making and receiving phone calls not allowed inside the auditorium

Diwan Manna

Chairman CLKA

chandigarhlka@gmail.com  www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Meeting Manjit is a documentary on the famous painter Manjit Bawa. It is a film of three parallel journeys. The filmmaker makes his own journey through the world of Manjit. Ina Puri, Manjit's friend, scans the change in Manjit's style of painting. Manjit sometimes goes through his present days and sometimes goes deep down and immersed in the past, talks as if to his own self. Along with the exquisite visuals, this documentary is a rare presentation of an artist's life, subconscious and its expression on the canvas. It has been treated in a unique way by director Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who has himself done the commentary. He talks about his experiences in Dalhousie, where Manjit had a studio and spent a lot of time in painting. There are two other voiceovers in the film – one of Ina Puri and the other of Manjit himself. Ina talks about Manjit's life, paintings and the beautiful bonding that they shared.

English/39 minutes/Colour

Ina Puri is an author, columnist, curator and documentarian. Her books include In Black and White (a definitive biography of the painter Manjit Bawa) and Journey with a Hundred Strings (the memoir of Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma). She has edited Faces of Indian Art (on studio spaces of artists in collaboration with Nemai Ghosh), Raj Bhavan of Kolkata: Two Hundred Years of Grandeur, Whispered Legacy: A Retrospective of Abani Sen, Mythical Universe: Jayasri Burman, Rooted Landscapes: The Art of Rini Dhumal and Manjit Bawa: Life & Times for Lalit Kala Akademi's Readings Series. Puri's Image Ina Production's produced Meeting Manjit, a documentary on Manjit Bawa in 2003 (directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta) received the prestigious Rajat Kamal. Antardhwani, a documentary on Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, based on her biography, (directed by Jabbar Patel) fetched the Rajat Kamal in 2009.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi organises an exhibition of art every year comprising of competition for professional artists and students of art. Along with this significant artists of the city are invited to display their artworks.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Cordially invites you to the Inauguration and awards giving ceremony of

Annual Art Exhibition 2011

At the Galleries of Punjab Arts Council

Sector 16, Chandigarh 160 016, India

On Friday 3rd February 2012 at 5.30 pm

Kindly take your seats in Dr. M. S. Randhawa Auditorium for the awards giving ceremony

By 5.15 pm

Exhibition open from 4rd to 7th Feb 2012

11.00am to 7.00pm

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Canadian Voices Lecture Series:Celebrating Canadian Creativity 

The Canadian Consulate 

and

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

State Academy of Art

present

the art of Sarindar Dhaliwal

an audio visual presentation and short film screening 

at the Consulate General of Canada 

SCO 54, 55, 56 Sector 17, Chandigarh, India 

December 16th, 2011December, at 5.30 pm 

Due to security reasons mobile phones are not allowed inside the consulate building

You are requested to kindly leave your mobile phones in your cars or deposit at the entrance 

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com   

www.india.gc.ca 

Diwan Manna 

 Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160022, India

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Sarindar Dhaliwal is a visual artist based in Toronto.  She was born in Punjab, raised in London and has lived in Canada since 1968.  Dhaliwal received her BFA with a concentration in sculpture at University College (Falmouth, Cornwall, UK), and her MFA from York University (Toronto, Canada). 

Her practice is rooted in both painting/drawing and large mixed media installations that make use of systemic and arbitrary collecting processes, and those accumulations define the genesis, materiality and content of the pieces.  Drawing on a personal history of movement from her birthplace  in India, to Britain and then to Canada, this circuit retraced many times serves as a conceptual framework to construct a particular cartography of a 20th century Diaspora and the colonial legacy that shaped it. Text functions as a marker between the private and the public and underlines how narrative and sequence have increasingly played a larger role in her visual work.

Sarindar Dhaliwal has recently completed her first experimental film project, Olive, Almond & Mustard, an examination of childhood dissonance located in an immigrant experience, in a distant past. The moving and digital image is a natural addition to the strategies she employs considering the increasing interdisciplinary and pluralistic nature of her practice. 

Dhaliwal has exhibited widely in Canada. In 2004 through 2006, Record Keeping, a touring survey show co-curated by Sunil Gupta (London/Delhi), with Jan Allen of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, travelled to six venues in England, Wales and Canada. Her most recent solo show was at Galerie Deste in Montreal in 2010. In 2011 she has been included in group exhibitions at the Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Reach in Abbotsford (both of which are located in the province of British Columbia) and also Stony Plain, Alberta. 

There is a body of critical writing that has positioned her work within a postcolonial/feminist discourse - this includes two Master's theses (York and University of Quebec at Montreal). Independent curators, freelance writers and reviewers have, in catalogues, newspapers and periodicals, discussed the work in relationship to issues of memoryand loss.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

cordially invites you to the release of the book

Sahaj Prakriti

Paramjit Singh di Kala

Punjabi Translation of the Hindi book Prakrati Aur Prakratisth

written by Vinod Bhardwaj

Punjabi translation by Amarjit Chandan

Paramjit Singh

will give brief introduction to his art with a short slide show

Amarjit Chandan and Vinod Bhardwaj will introduce the book

Professor B N Goswamy will talk about Paramjit’s Art

Shri K. K. Sharma IAS, Advisor to the Administrator U.T.Chandigarh

will release the book along with

 limited edition signed & numbered portfolio of Paramjit’s paintings

at the Auditorium

Govt. Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

on 2nd December 2011

at 5.30 pm

Kindly be seated by 5.15 pm

Kindly Switch off your phones

Diwan Manna

Chairman, CLKA

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

About Paramjit Singh

Some contemporary Indian painters have found landscape painting as a genre suitable for expressing the esoteric and the outr6. For them the phenomenal world hides something more than what is immediately perceived. Paramjit Singh's hills and woodlands carry the luminous memory of a transcendental presence.

Born in 1935 in Amritsar, Paramjit Singh had his art education in the School of Arts, Delhi Polytechnic (1953-58). He was the founder member of 'The Unknown', a group of young painters and sculptors based in Delhi.

Paramjit landscapes, with their loaded silence evocative of the other worldly, became over the years, a distinct mystical utterance in pictorial terms. The esoteric in his landscapes was perhaps young Paramjit’s response to the mystery in tensions between the deep pictorial space and the sharp shadows of inanimate objects in the picture metafisica, a short-lived school in modem Italian art, and to the later Surrealist paintings. All these were transformed over about two decades into a personal statement in Paramjit's paintings.

From around the late 80s, Paramjit's landscapes and his techniques changed radically. The Italian picture metafisica with their sharp shadows and melting tones receded into oblivion, and there emerged lush Indian landscapes with a mystical vision of a transcendental presence.

Paramjit Singh won the National Award in 1970. Between 1967 and 1994, he had 24 solo shows in India and in important galleries and art centers in Norway, Germany and Belgium. In 1973 he worked in the graphics studios of the Atelier Nord, Oslo. He was a faculty member of the Department of Fine Art, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, for 29 years, and retired as Professor in 1992. Between 1957 and 1994, Paramjit participated in 48 important exhibitions in India and abroad, which included the First Young Asian Artists Exhibition, Tokyo (1957), Art Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Exhibition of Prints, Atelier Nord and Gallery '71, Tromso, Norway (1 973), Indian Art Today, 1Yarmstadt, Germany (1982), the 15th International Biennale, Tokyo (1 984), Inaugural Exhibition, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1984), Art Biennale, Ankara, Turkey (1986), Festival of India, USSR (1987), International Festival of Art, Baghdad (1988), 'Indian Encounters', The Galleria, London (1 993), Art Biennale, Cairo (1994), Art Festival, Israel (1994).

In twenty years, between the '70s and '90s, Paramjit Singh took part in eight artists' camps in India and one in Thailand. His paintings came under the hammer at seven important art auctions in India, at Christie's in London, and at the auction by Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi-London, in 1994.In 1988; Paramjit Singh was the Commissioner for the Indian participants in the Art Festival of Pakistan, Lahore. He painted 450 sq. ft. area for an environmental room in Bombay in 1990-93.

Paramjit Singh lives and works in New Delhi.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi in collaboration with Chandigarh Administration announces On the spot Photography Cmpetition during Chandigarh Carnival 25, 26 1nd 27 November 2011.            

Rules and Regulations:

1.Competition is open to persons of all nationalities above ten years of age.

2.The photographs should be on the glimpses of Chandigarh Carnival 2011.

3.Each participant can submit maximum four photographs in digital file/s in a CD/DVD or digital storage device at the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi stall at the venue of Chandigarh Carnival after 12.00 noon 25 November and before 12.00 noon 27th November 2011. Any request for transfer of data/pictures directly from the camera will not be entertained. All files/folders should contain the name of the participant, titles and entry number. Entries must contain a passport size photograph of the participants.

4.Entree fee Rs.50/- per person (Please give change)

5.The jury will select five best photographs for awards and consolation prizes which are as under:-

1st Prize  Rs. 10000/-

2nd Prize Rs. 5000/-

3rd Prize  Rs. 3000/-

Two consolation prizes of Rs. 1000/- each

The decision of the Jury would be final and binding on all and no correspondence what so ever by anyone will be entertained on the subject.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

State Academy of Art

and 
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council

cordially invite you to the screening of

 
Nainsukh

a biographical film on the 18th Century Pahari painter

directed by Amit Dutta

Jury's special mention prize winner director at the 66th Venice Film Festival

The film comment magazine had rated Nainsukh as one of the top ten films of the 67th Venice Film Festival

produced by the Swiss art-anthropologist Dr. Eberhard Fischer

and dedicated to the art historian Professor  Brijinder Nath Goswamy

Dr. Eberhard Fischer- SwissArt-anthropologist, Director and Senior Director Museum Rietberg Zurich 1972-2006.

and Prof. B. N. Goswamy will introduce the film

on Friday 18 November 2011, 5:30 pm

at the Auditorium Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

Kindly be seated by 5:15 pm 
You are requested to switch off your mobile phones

Diwan Manna 

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A Chandigarh 160 022, India, chandigarhlka@gmail.com

The Film 
Nainsukh (c. 1710 -1778) was trained in a traditional Pahari painters' family-workshop at Guler in today's Kangra District (H.P.) and became the major retained artist at the court of Jasrota (J&K). Famous for his intimate, well observed and precise, sometimes humorous, often somewhat enigmatic, always sensitively drawn pictures, especially of his long-time patron Balwant Singh,

Nainsukh is today considered the most extraordinary Indian artist of his time. His biography and extensive oeuvre as researched and reconstructed by Prof. B. N. Goswamy has been the basis of the film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta, produced by Dr. Eberhard Fischer. The film Nainsukh premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2010.

The film screening will start with a brief introduction by Swiss art-anthropologist Dr Eberhard Fischer and art historian Prof B.N Goswamy.

Produced by: Dr Eberhard Fischer 
Directed by: Amit Dutta 
Camera: Mrinal Desai 
Sound: Ajit Singh Rathore 
Editing: Amit Dutta, Dr Eberhard Fischer 
Costumes: Manish Soni, Ranju Walia, Vishnu 
Art Direction: Manish Soni, Dr Eberhard Fischer 
Featuring: Manish Soni, Nitin Goel, Sat Salarwi, K Rajesh, Sriniwas Joshi, Mohan Singh, Ankit Raina, Anil Raina, Gautam Vyathit, Alpana Vaypeyi, Srishti, Brahmaswaroop Misra, Pushpendra Singh, Shubham, Amit Singh, Samarth Dixit, Dhananjai Singh.

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Dr. Eberhard Fischer

Art-anthropologist, Ph.D. Basle University 1965, Consultant at NID 1965/66, Representative in India of the University of Heidelberg and collaboration with TRTI (Gujarat Vidyapith) and Calico Museum 1968-71. Director and Senior Director Museum Rietberg Zurich 1972-2006.

Specialist for African and Indian art, with annual fieldwork (in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Gujarat, Orissa and Himachal Pradesh) documenting crafts persons and artists for exhibitions, films and monographs.

Co-editor with Milo C. Beach and B. N. Goswamy of "Masters of Indian Painting, 1100-1900" (2 volumes, Zurich 2011).

Professor B. N. Goswamy

Professor B.N.Goswamy, distinguished art historian and professor emeritus of art history at the Panjab Universtiy, Chandigarh received the Padma Shri (1998) and the Padma Bhushan (2008). A leading authority on Indian art, his work covers a wide range of different areas, and is regarded, particularly in the area of Pahari painting, as having influenced much subsequent thinking. B.N.Goswamy has been responsible for major exhibitions of Indian Art in Paris, San Fransisco, Zurich and San Diego. He has taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California (Berkeley and Los Angeles), Austin (Texas) and Zurich. The film  'Nainsukh, the Great Pahari Painter of the 18th Century'  is based on Prof B N Goswamy's book 'Nainsukh of Guler: a great Indian Painter from a small hill state' (Zurich, 1997).

Amit Dutta

Amit Dutta was born in Jammu, India in 1977. He joined the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2000, from which he graduated in film direction in 2004. His short films have won several awards which include four National Awards, FIPRESCI Award at the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; Gold Mikaldi at Bilbao (Spain), Golden Conch and best film of the festival award at the Mumbai International Film Festival( MIFF ), John Abraham National Award (Federation of Film Societies of India, Keralam). His first feature film won the Jury's special mention prize at the 66th Venice Film Festival. Nainsukh also premiered at the 67th Venice film festival and then traveled to Rotterdam, San Francisco, Belfort, Isola and Beijing film festival among many. The film comment magazine had rated Nainsukh as one of the top ten films of the 67th Venice Film Festival. He has also taught at NID and FTII.

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Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi -www.lalitkalachandigarh.com 
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council -www.prohelvetia.in

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

(State Academy of Art)

Cordially invites you to a slide lecture

by

Akbar Padamsee

for the first time in Chandigarh

on 9th September 2011 at 5.30 pm 
at the Auditorium, Government Museum & Art Gallery 
Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Kindely be seated by 5.15 pm 
Receiving and making phone calls prohibited

Diwan Manna

Chairman

State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India, chandigarhlka@gmail.com

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

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About Akbar Padamsee 

Akbar Padamsee was born in Mumbai in 1928. His ancestors hailed from Vāghnagar, a village in the Bhavnagar district of the erstwhile Kathiawar, now part of Gujarat state. Padamsee was still a student at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai at the time when the Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG) announced itself on the Indian art scene in 1947. Historically, this is considered to be one of the most influential groups of modern artists to emerge in early post-independent India. After his art education in Mumbai, Padamsee went to live and work in France in the year 1951. In 1952, he was awarded a prize by Andre Breton, known as the pope of surrealism, on behalf of the Journale d’art. His very first solo show was in Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1954, where these early works were shown.

Though widely spoken of as a modernist, Padamsee continues to resist easy categorization. Throughout his illustrious career spanning six decades, he has remained fiercely experimental and individualistic. Renouncing the rich colour palette of his early years, he chose to paint in grey between the years 1959 - 1960 stating, “Grey is without prejudice; it does not discriminate between object and space”. These monumental works have been widely recognized for their richand poetic quality.

In 1962, Padamsee was awarded a gold medal from the Lalit Kala Akademi, and in 1965 a fellowship from the J.D. Rockefeller Foundation. Subsequently he was invited to be an artist-in-residence by Stout State University, Wisconsin. In 1967 a solo exhibition of his paintings was held at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada, after which he returned to India. Akbar Padamsee’s artistic oeuvre is a formal exploration of a few chosen genres- prophets, heads, couples, still-life, grey works, metascapes, mirror -images and tertiaries , across a multitude of media – oil painting, plastic emulsion, water colour, sculpture, printmaking, computer graphics, and photography. 

In 1969-71, with the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship funds he set up inter-art Vision Exchange Workshop (VIEW), where artists and filmmakers could freely experiment across various disciplines and practices. It is remembered to this day as a landmark initiative, providing the much needed creative stimulus to several young people who are now internationally well known. Padamsee himself made two short abstract films - Syzygy and Events in a Cloud Chamber, where he animated a set of geometric drawings. 

Since the seventies, his work is seen to alternate between two major genres, luminous metascapes - his signature works, and the human figure which he continues to imbue with an arresting presence. 

He has a deep and abiding interest in Sanskrit texts, a glimpse of which finds resonance in his statement on sun-moon metascapes of the mid seventies. In an interview Padamsee says “in the introductory stanzas of Kalidasa’s Abhijnanashakuntalam he describes the sun and the moon as the controllers on time – ‘ye dve kal vighattah’, and water as a source of all seeds – “sarva beej prakriti”. I would never have thought of painting the sun and the moon together if it were not for this. I felt I could use the elements – water, earth, sky – without referring to any particular landscape – a metaphysical landscape”. 

He has participated in exhibitions and Biennales – Venice, 1953 and 1955; Sao Paulo and Tokyo in 1959; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1981; Royal Academy of Arts, London 1982 and National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, 1985. 

In the year 1980, a retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Heritage Gallery, in Mumbai and New Delhi. AkbarPadamsee was awarded the prestigious Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1997. Other awards include the Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar in 2004, the Dayawati Modi Award in 2007,''Roopdhar" award by Bombay Art Society - 2008 and Kailash Lalit Kala award in the year 2010.In 2010, he was awarded the Padama Bhushan by the government of india. 

Padamsee lives and works in Mumbai.

Remembering M F Husain

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

organized a condolence meeting to remember

the great artist M F Husain

At the Convention Hall of the Akademi

On June 10, 2011 at 5.30 pm

Condolence meeting to remember M F Hussain

To remember the great artist M F Hussain, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akadimi organised a condolence meeting at the Convention Hall of the Akademi on 10th June 2011 at 5.30 pm.

One of Hussain’s colleagues and a close friend, Delhi based renowned artist Krishen Khanna, came all the way to Chandigarh and shared fond memories of his friend with the art lovers of the city. He narrated the events from Hussain’s life with references to his freedom of spirit that marked him as a man who lived life to the fullest. Krishen Khanna said “He had the ability and conviction to say that art mustn’t stay within the walls of the houses but get out”. He also mentioned that Hussain was responsible for giving Indian art the kind of thrust, which it deserved. He was a man with a very strong belief in himself and always did what he wanted to do.

Well known art historian Professor  B.N Goswamy also shared his thoughts and expressed anger on the harsh treatment given by some sections of society to a great artist, who brought fame to India on the world art scene. He floated the idea that since there were approximately 900 legal cases filed against him, so 900 men should come out on the streets seeking forgiveness by wearing paper cloaks with “Mujhe Muaf Kardo” (please forgive me) written on them. He further added that, “we are not here to mourn the death of Hussain but to celebrate the artist he was”.

Diwan Manna, photographer/artist and Chairman, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi said that by not creating favourable conditions for Hussain to come back to the soil of his country the conscience of all Indians would keep pricking for all times to come. He further said that by not allowing him to express his thoughts freely and his death on foreign shores has left a question mark on the democratic and secular credentials of our country. Diwan reminded the audience that Hussain was above regional, religious, cast, political, gender and age barriers. He was deeply rooted in Indian ethos and socio cultural life. His study and knowledge of scriptures was unparalleled among the practitioners of visual arts. He was the true representative of Indian Identity. His multifaceted personality, his friendships in the world of business, politics, diplomacy and glamour and his interest in film making apart from his love for music, food and clothes made him larger than life ICON and symbol. His panache for being alive, alert and reflecting to events and situations made him stand apart from any other artist from any discipline. He had become a household name and brought art to the centre stage almost single handedly. Although he died at the age of 95 yet everyone felt he died young because he enthused energy, creativity, enthusiasm, sense of wonder associated with the youth.

The meeting had a large gathering of people from all walks of life including visual artists, musicians, dancers, theatre persons, writers, poets, journalists, advocates and many leading personalities of the northern region along with very strong presence of the print and electronic media. 

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

pays tributes to

M. F. Hussain

1915 - 2011

Krishen Khanna

renowned artist and contemporary of Hussain

will speak about the art and times of M. F. Hussain

in the presence of renowned Art Historian

Professor B. N. Goswamy

on 10th June 2011 at 5.30 pm

Conference Hall, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160022, India

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160022, India

E: chandigarhlka@gmail.com,  W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Exhibition Jatin Das Paintings in Oils, Water Colours and Drawings

From May 20 2011 05:30 pm

Atul Dodiya Slide Lecture and Workshop

From March 28 2011 05:30 pm

Ranbir Kaleka Video Installation on painted images and Power Point Presentation

From March 18 2011 05:30 pm

The Journey of a Moment in Time

From March 09 2011 05:30 pm

Sohan Qadri: Condolence Meeting

From March 06 2011 04:30 pm

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi Condoles the passing away of renowned artist Sohan Qadri

He breathed his last on 1st March 2011 in Toronto, Canada

A condolence meeting will be held

on Sunday 6th March 2011 at 4.30 pm

in the Conference Hall of Chandigarh Lalit Kala Aklademi

State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India E: chandigarhlka@gmail.com,  W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com, Tel: +91 (0)172 2620448

Sohan Qadri 1932-2011

painter and Punjabi poet born 2 November 1932, Chachoki, Punjab, India; died 1 March 2011 Toronto, Canada

Artist and poet Sohan Qadri who has died at the age of 78 in Toronto after a prolonged illness, leaves a rich legacy of poetry and art deeply immersed in Indian tradition. He is one of the few Punjabi painters who have made a mark on the international art scene.

A poet, painter and Tantric yogi, Sohan Qadri was deeply engaged with spirituality. Qadri rhythmically serrated and punctured the surface of paper as part of his meditation practice. Relying on a language of orifices and elongated paths or lines, he abandoned representation in search of transcendence. Serenely composed, his works are intended to arrest the viewer's thinking process and invite him or her to enter a metaphysical realm. The artist started exploring spiritual themes in the 1950s. He was born in the Punjab, in the village of Chachoki near Jalandhar. At the young age he was initiated into yogic practice first by Bikham Giri, a Bengali Tantric Vajrayana yogi, and few years later he became close to a Sufi figure, Ahmed Ali Shah Qadri, whose last name he adopted. From them he imbibed an ecumenical and a deep spiritual yearning. He received his fine art degree from the Government College of Art in Simla, India, against the wishes of his parents. After finishing his studies, Qadri formed the Loose Group of painters and poets in India in 1964. He taught art for four years at Ramgarhia College Phagwara. Soon after he became part of the circuit of the Indian modernists that included M.F. Husain, Syed Haider Raza, Ara, Ram Kumar, and Sailoz Mookherjee. Mulk Raj Anand, was the first to recognise Qadri's talent and organised his first exhibition in Le Corbusier's brand new architectural complex in Chandigarh. He was the mentor friend of Shiv Kumar the poet.

Soon after, Qadri departed for Nairobi, Kenya in 1966, where under the patronage of the African cultural figure Elimo Njau, he had a successful exhibition at Paa-yaa-paa, a non-profit art gallery. At the time, the gravitational pull for artists was Paris, where Qadri lived for a few years. He eventually set up a studio in Zurich before settling in Copenhagen where he lived for more than 40 years. In the 1970s, he, along with a group of artists and counter-culture figures, illegally occupied an old gun factory, which eventually became the famous free city Christianna. He traveled through East Africa, North America, and Europe. Throughout the course of his career Qadri interacted with an array of intellectual figures including the architect Le Corbusier, the surrealist painter René Margritte and the Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, who said: "Sohan Qadri with his painting liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin." Qadri was immersed in painting and meditation for decades. His dye-suffused paintings on meticulously serrated paper reflect his Vajrayana Tantric Buddhist philosophical beliefs. Dr. Robert Thurman, professor of Eastern religions at Columbia University and director of Tibet House, says: "If words were colours, Qadri's art would not be as essentially necessary as it is." Sohan Qadri has had more than 70 exhibitions across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. His works are in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. His paintings are also in notable private collections, including those of Cirque du Soleil, Heinrich Böll, and Dr. Robert Thurman. Despite the fact that he lived most of his life in Denmark, an overiding sense of Eastern ethos pervades his art.

Art critics

Sohan Qadri with his painting liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin, uninfluenced by Western propaganda, misunderstandings and corruptions. - Heinrich Böll (Nobelprize lit. 1972, Köln)

You may look at his paintings as symbolic representations of the "serpent power" (Kundalini) or as mere form and colour to enjoy as pure art . . . an exceptional artist. - F.N. Souza (Painter and Writer. New York 1976)

His art is enigmatic art, immaculately executed. -Jenny Bergin (The Ottawa Citizen, July 7,1972)

Sohan Qadri, in a few words, believes in an inner and outer sphere in the life of man. Striving to establish contact with this world within, with one's true self, he sees as utterly essential for all of us. His art belongs to something of the most refined one can perceive, something which touches "the ultimate secret". We can experience his works directly and with strong presence, and thereafter we can slowly decipher and extract their secrets. - Virtus Schade (Art Critic and Writer, Copenhagen 1978)

"Qadri's origins are in rural India, and as a boy, he was initiated by a Sufi and a vajrayan Tantric guru; this led to his lifelong practice of meditation and study of Buddhist philosophy, both of which inform his work." - Robert A.F. Thurman

Qadri's unique collections of poems written in classical Punjabi idiom include Mitti Mitti, Navyug New Delhi (1987); Boond Samunder, Lok Sahit (1990); Antar Joti, Navyug (1995). Amarjit Chandan's long conversations with Qadri in Punjabi were published in Hun-khin (The Now Moment) Navyug, 2000. Such widely respected poet scholars as Harbhajan Singh and Jaswant Singh Neki greatly admired Qadri's 'poetry' (which Qadri called 'the other poetry'). Sati Kumar wrote:

Neki approaches Qadri's creative process from the point of view of the bãni utterances of the Sufis and Nanak. One can surely try to understand Qadri's poetic accessories from the viewpoint of Indian thought, but to me it seems that this 'other poetry' is a specimen of another — a kind of inverted — lore. Only those who know the other lore can read this poetry. It can cause a headache to linguists for its grammar that is not to be found elsewhere and its word-formation that is also rare. Kabir's language was described as sadhukkarhi — the language of sadhus. Qadri's language, too, is of his own making. There is no doubt that Qadri has walked into Punjabi poetry like a not so polite sãdh mendicant and there is no match for his crisp and ringing language that sounds like a sãdh's chimta tongs. After a very long time an original poet appeared in Punjabi poetry.

Harbhajan Singh wrote on conversations Hun-khin The Now Moment: The knower of the mystery Kabir had said, jo ghar jare apna chalé hamaré sãth — let him join me who is ready to set his house on fire. To set one's house on fire means to get rid of one's words, their meanings, one's senses, habits and beliefs. It means to come out of the boundaries drawn by them. Only when one renounces one's parents, neighbours, ancestral heritage, the legacy of untold centuries crystallised in the discriminating sense that judges between good and bad does one the earth as mother, truth as father and the parrot as teacher. The Now Moment provokes one to face such challenges. That is why Qadri does not share anything with the tradition of Punjabi poetry. Even in Urdu poetry, Ghalib is the only one who abides in Qadri's circle. ... These conversations cannot be understood if we remain confined to our education. If we wish to understand them, we must first break free of our limitations. (This and Sati Kumar's quote translated from Punjabi by Rajesh Sharma)

Qadri's poetry in translation is published under the titles The Dot & the Dots, Poems & Paintings, Stockholm (1978); The Dot & the Dots, revised edition, Writers Workshop, Calcutta (1988); Aforismer, Danish translation, Oslashmens Forlag Copenhagen (1995) and The Seer, Art Konsult, New Delhi (1999). Qadri was generous in designing book covers for his writer friends — Surjit Hans, Sati Kumar, Ravinder Ravi, Jagjit Chhabra, Amarjit Chandan and others.

Jesus The Christ

Everyday a Jesus walks on this earth to care and share with heartfull heart and healing hand, He goes on loving the lowest low yet keeps on being with the highest High, Every morning he tries and tries every evening he is crucified, A man and a human still hangs up there- Who will care and spare amoment to SEE? The Tree in The cross is close to THE CHRIST Watching and witnessing in silence - indifferent.

Siddharata The Buddha

Every tree has a Siddharata Sitting quietly under and ponder, Every morning a Siddharata is Enlightened Moment by moment his eyes droop to look deep down within, - a nameless smile spreads on his face, his silence deepens deeper, Full and emty under the Tree a man & a human still sits there, Who will care and spare a moment to SEE? The Tree in The Valley is close to THE BUDDHA Watching and Witnessing in silence - indifferent

His two daughters Pooja and Purvi and a son Soham survive him. Qadri migrated to Toronto, Canada a few years ago and was unwell for quite some time before breathing his last. Portrait of Sohan Qadri by: Amarjit Chandan, 1991, Copenhagen Information about Sohan Qadri collected from various sources. Sohan Qadri 80 Absolute Ave. suite 1609 Mississauga Ont. L4Z OA4 Canada Tel.: 905 232 3701 · Cell: 647 929 3701 website. www.sohanqadri.com email: sohan@sohanqadri.com · sohanqadri@hotmail.com

Professor B N Goswamy Slide Lecture

From February 04 2011 05:30 pm

My Life-My Art by Sakti Burman

From January 14 2011 05:30 pm

Jitish Kallat Lecture and Slide Show

From December 07 2010 05:15 pm

On the Spot photo Competition in Chandigarh Carnival

From November 26 2010 12:00 pm to November 28 2010 12:00 pm

National Art Week of New Media

Lecture and Slide Show

by Bharti Kher

September 21, 2010

at 05:30 pm

at Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Diwan Manna

Chairman (CLKA)

National Art Week of New Media

From September 21 2010 05:30 pm to September 26 2010 07:00 pm

National Art Week of New Media

Bulent Atalay is the author of the bestselling book 'Math and the Mona Lisa', (Smithsonian Books 2004), which has appeared in a dozen languages.

His new book, 'Leonardo’s Universe: The Renaissance World of Leonardo da Vinci' (National Geographic Books 2009) co-authored with Keith Wamsley, has been declared one of ‘Ten Must-Have Books for the Year’ by Britannica. Atalay has been characterized as 'a true Renaissance Man - an artist, archaeologist and scientist’ by The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, NPR, PBS and Wikipedia.

Atalay received his early education at Eton in England and St. Andrew’s School in Delaware. His advanced education includes BS, MS, MA, PhD and postdoctoral studies, completed at Georgetown, Princeton, University of California-Berkeley, and Oxford University. A professor of physics Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, he has previously been a member of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, as well as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

In art, Atalay has had one-man exhibitions in London and the Washington, DC. His lithographs were published by Eton House in 'Lands of Washington: Impressions in Ink, 1972' and Oxford and the 'English Countryside: Impressions in Ink, 1974', both in limited editions and are no longer in print, but both books can be found in the permanent collections of Buckingham Palace, the White house and the Smithsonian.

Exhibition of Art Works

From May 02 2010 05:30 pm

Lecture by Vivan Sundaram, Amrita Sher-Gil: a history and a project

From April 16 2010 05:30 pm

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

cordially invites you to a lecture and slide show

by Subodh Gupta
 
on 5th May, 2010 at 5.30 pm
at the Auditorium of Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India
 
Kindly be seated by 5.15 pm
Receiving and making phone calls strictly prohibited

Diwan Manna
Chairman
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India, Mob: +91 98723 13610 
E: clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com W: lalitkalachandigarh.com

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Subodh Gupta is one of the most prolific of Indian artists and has taken part in numerous international exhibitions. Born in 1964, Bihar, the seat of Buddhist learning, he now lives & works in New Delhi. The objects he uses in his work appear as emblems, as icons which with confident simplicity codify the complex social and economic, as well as the cultural, situation of present-day India. Gupta uses a rich variety of means to express and produce large sculptures, paintings, installations, photography, video and performance.

It is perhaps as a sculptor that one ought to define this artist, aware as he is to the physical presence of the object, of the aesthetics and symbolic attributes of materials, and of the relationships between space, time and body.

Some of the recent exhibitions he has been a part of are: (Solo) Faith Matters, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2010); Aam Aadmi (Common Man), Hauser & Wirth, London, (Group) The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Un Certain État du Monde, Le Garage, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Altermodern: Tate Triennial 09, Tate Britain, London, Who’s afraid of the artists?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard (2009); “Line of Control”, Arario Beijing, China (2008).

 Introduction Courtesy: Ted-X Delhi

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Describing himself as ‘the idol thief’, Subodh Gupta is one of the most exciting and audacious contemporary artists to have emerged in recent years. The man dubbed by The Guardian as the ‘Sub-continental Marcel Duchamp’ will exhibit simultaneously at Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly and Old Bond Street galleries throughout October. Among the works he’s making specifically for this, his first major UK solo show is a three-dimensional reworking in bronze of Duchamp’s moustachioed Mona Lisa, L.H.O.O.Q, (1919). ‘Art language is the same all over the world’, he claims. ‘Which allows me to be anywhere.’

Many will know Gupta for his works incorporating everyday objects that are ubiquitous throughout India, such as the mass-produced steel tiffin boxes used by millions to carry their lunch, as well as thali pans, bicycles and milk pails. From such ordinary items the artist produces breathtaking sculptures that reflect on the economic transformation of his homeland while acknowledging the reach of contemporary art. For instance, Line of Control (2008) — a colossal mushroom cloud constructed entirely of pots and pans prominently displayed in the last Tate Triennial — created an overarching symbol through small and commonplace items. Through its fusion of global issues with local ingredients the work spoke across cultural boundaries, commenting on the deadly extremes nations go to in maintaining their borders.

In his new works Gupta moves away from composite sculptures towards objects that possess an auratic quality. Readymade commodities experience transformations in scale and material, transmogrifying from factory-produced items into extraordinary artefacts. Employing such culturally loaded mediums as bronze, steel and marble, he presents subject matters whose symbolism varies from the universal to the enigmatic, and whose emotional impact ranges from menace to nostalgia.

Appropriated icons from the canon of Western art share company with replicas of perishable, interchangeable goods associated with India, and items whose import is specific to the artist. Gupta’s work treats unlike things with equal respect, embodying the clash between impersonal and individual experience in contemporary society. He tests the ways in which meaning and value are constructed, exploring art’s capacity to withstand and channel the effects of expansion, displacement and translation.

Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, India. He studied at the College of Art, Patna (1983 – 1988) before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media, which culminated in his first installation in 1996 entitled ’29 Mornings’. His work has been prominent in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. Recent group exhibitions include The Garage (GCCC Moscow)’s ‘A Certain State of the World?’, works from the Pinault Collection curated by Caroline Bourgeois; ‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial 09’, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud; ‘Indian Highway’ (2008), curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London, currently on show at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and touring to other venues; and ‘Where in the World’ (2008), curated by Kavita Singh, Shukla Sawant and Naman Ahuja, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi.

 

Article courtesy: Hauser & Wirth London

 

Art Workshop by Jatin Das

From March 28 2010 12:30 pm

2nd Chandigarh Arts & Heritage Festival 2010

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
Cordially invites you to the inauguration of an

Art Workshop  with Jatin Das

Hirdey Kand Sandil, Jasmine Kaur, Kanchan Verma, Mukesh Kumar
Praveen Kumar, Rajveer Singh, Ritu Raj Singh Kaul, Salil Sharma, Seema, Sonam Jain

Inauguration by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

on March 28, 2010 at 12.30 pm
at Government Museum and Art Gallery
Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India


artists at work  from 1.00 to 6 pm on March 28th
between 10.00 and 6.00 pm  from 29th March to 1st April

for an interaction with Jatin Das  and to watch the master painter at work
please join us at 3.00 pm on 30th March
 
Diwan Manna
Chairman CLKA
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India
Tel: +91 (0) 172 2620 448  W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

TV-Viewers Tele-Spectateurs

From March 05 2010 05:30 pm to March 18 2010 07:00 pm

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
French Embassy in India
Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh
 
Cordially invite you to the inauguration of
TV-Viewers
Tele-Spectateurs
an Exhibition of Photographs by
Olivier Culmann
 
At 5.30 pm on 5th March 2010
At the Gallery of Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh
Sector 36 A, Chandigarh, India
Professor B. N. Goswamy
Will be the chief guest
Exhibition open till 18th March
9 am -1.00 pm and 3 pm -7 pm (Sundays Closed)

Giai-Miniet

From March 04 2010 04:00 pm to March 09 2010 05:00 pm

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
In association with
Department of Art History and Visual Arts, Panjab University
 
Cordially invites you to the opening of an exhibition of Paintings by
French Artist
Giai-Miniet
 
At the Museum of Fine Arts
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
At 4.00 pm  on 4th March 2010
 
Exhibition open from March 5 to 9 daily between 10 am -1 pm and 2pm - 5pm
 
Diwan Manna,
Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh 160 022, India
Tel: +91 (0)172 2620 448, E: clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Lecture and slide show

From February 21 2010 05:00 pm

Gulammohammed Sheikh (b. 1937) is an artist, writer and educationist. As a painter of more then five decades he has pioneered an engagement with historical forbears and a social and political investment in art practice. In his tenure as teacher of Art History and Professor of Painting at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, and through numerous visitorships, residencies and publications he has contributed to a renewed understanding of cross cultural themes in artistic pedagogy, in an Indian and international context. 

His practice as artist and educationist and also the curatorial projects he has initiated contribute to an appreciation of world art history but also locate it within contemporary art and discourse. Sheikh bridges a historical appreciation of art and art practice with an engagement with contemporary socio-political concerns. He has been prominent in policy and institutional advocacy, participating in cultural organizations and on national committees.

Sheikh taught Art History (1960-63 and 1967-81) and was Professor at the Department of Painting (1982-1993) at his Alma Mater, the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat. He has been Visiting Faculty at the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (1987 and 2002) and Visiting Fellow at Delhi University (2004).

Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara and the Royal College of Art in London, he has participated in nationwide workshops and residencies and at Montalvo, California, USA, (2005), South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2000) and Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (1998).

In 1996 Sheikh painted the mural

Tree of Life

for Vidhan Bhavan (Legislative Assembly), Bhopal. His solo exhibitions from 1961 include

Mappings

, The Guild at Museum Gallery, Mumbai (2004);

Palimpsest

at Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi and  Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2001);

Kahat Kabir

at Vadehra Gallery, New Delhi (1998);

Pathvipath

at CMC Art Gallery, New Delhi (1991) and

Returning Home (a retrospective of work from 1968-1985)

at Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris (1985). He was founder member of Group 1890, an artist collective established in 1963.

Sheikh has participated in numerous group exhibitions:

Chalo India, A New Era of Indian Art

, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2008);

Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art

, Kunstmuseum, Bern and

New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India,

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (2007);

Edge of Desire

, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, shown at New Delhi and Mumbai (2006), New York, Mexico City, and  Berkeley, California (2005) and Perth, Australia (2004);

Crossing Generations: diVERGE , Forty Years of Chemould

curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambrani at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and

The Making of India

, SAHMAT, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi (2003);

Two-person show

(with Bhupen Khakhar), Walsh Gallery, Chicago and

Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood

, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2002);

Indian Art through Ages, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

, Singapore Indian Fine Art Society, Singapore (1999);

Colours of Independence

organized by CIMA, Calcutta and at Singapore and at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (1997);

Realism as an Attitude,

IV Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan(1995);

Timeless Art,

exhibition and auction, Times of India sesquicentennial at Victoria Terminus, Bombay and

Artists Alert,

Sahmat, New Delhi (1989);

Contemporary Indian Art,

Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London and

Contemporary Indian Art,

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (1982);

Place for People

, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi (1981);

III Triennale (India),

Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi (1975);

Cinquieme Biennale de Paris,

Paris (1967) and

The VII Tokyo Biennale,

Tokyo, Japan (1963) among others.

Sheikh has published widely including

Benodebehari Mukherjee, Centenary Retrospective

(co-edited with R. Siva Kumar), National Gallery of Modern Art and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2006;

Contemporary Art of Baroda

(ed.), Tulika, New Delhi 1996;

Paroksa: Coomaraswamy Centenary Seminar papers

(co-edited with K G Subramanyan and Kapila Vatsyayan), Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1984 and a monograph on

Laxma Goud

, A. P. Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad 1981. He has contributed to Gujarati literature a body of poetry and prose, noteworthy among them

Athwa

(poems in Gujarati), Butala, Vadodara 1974. He has written for and edited a number of journals and magazines. From 1969-73 he was co-editor (with Bhupen Khakhar) of

Vrishchik

, a journal of arts and ideas.

His curatorial activities include

Benodebehari Mukherjee, Centenary Retrospective

, co-curated with R.Siva Kumar, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2006-07);

New Art from India : Home, Street, Shrine, Bazaar, Museum,

City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2002);

Birth and Life of Modernity

, selections from French museums, co-curated with Geeta  Kapur and Anis Farooqi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (1989);

Retrospective exhibition: K G Subramanyan

, on the occasion of award of Kalidas Samman to the artist, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1981);

New Contemporaries

for ‘Marg’ and Indian Society for Art Appreciation, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (1978) and

Folk Arts of Gujarat

, co-curated with Jyoti Bhatt and Bhupen Khakhar, Ahmedabad (1967). He convened the

Coomaraswamy Centenary Seminar

for the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1977.

Sheikh has been awarded

honours by the Indian state, the

Padmashri

by Government of India in 1983,

Kalidas Samman

by the Madhya Pradesh Government in 2002,

Ravishankar Rawal Award

by the Gujarat Government in 1998-99 along with the National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 1962, Bombay Art Society (1961, 1963) and Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi, Ahmedabad in 1961.

The artist lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art, Chandigarh)

and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ( National Academy of Art)

cordially invite you to

Dr. M. S. Randhawa...a Legend

a film

on 1st February 2010

at 05:30 pm

at the Galleries of Punjab Kala Bhawan

Sector 16 B, Chandigarh

Diwan Manna

Chairman (CLKA)

Art Conclave–North East

From 27th January  2010, 11:30 am

to 2nd February 2010,  7.00 pm

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (National Academy of Art)
In association with
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art, Chandigarh)
Organize
Art Conclave – North East, North East Regional Artists’ Camp
With Artists from North East India
at Punjab Arts Council Galleries
Sector 16 B, Chandigarh, India
from 27th January to 2nd February 2010

You are cordially invited

There will be a slide show by the participating artists
daily at 6.00 pm from 27th Feb to 1st Jan at the venue of the workshop RSVP
E: lka@lalitkala.gov.in W: www.lalitkala.gov.in Phone: 011 2300 9200
E: clka@lalitkalachandigarh.com W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com  
Phone: 0172 2620 448
Dr. M. S. Randhawa Birth Centenary Year Celebrations
February 2, 2009 - February 1, 2010

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

cordially invites you to

a Lecture and Slide-Show by

Krishen Khanna

at the Auditorium Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

on Saturday, January 16, 2010, at 5.00 pm

Kindly be seated by 4.45 pm

Please keep your mobile phones switched off

Receiving and making calls strictly prohibited

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, State Library, Sector 34 A, Chandigarh, India

Tel: +91 (0) 172 2620 448  

W: www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Lalit Kala Akademi

Regional Center Garhi, New Delhi

in association with

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

organise

Digressions

an exhibition of

Paintings, Sculptures, Ceramics & Prints

at

Punjab Arts Council Gallery

Sector 16 B, Chandigarh

from 18 to 22 December 2009

Exhibition opening on18 December 2009 at 5.30 pm 

You are cordially invited

open from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm 19 to 22 December

Dr. M. S. Randhawa Birth Centenary Year Celebrations

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi                                                         

Cordially invites you to preview the

Exhibition by

Paramjit Singh

Paintings  Drawings  Etchings  Pastels

 at the Gallery of Punjab Arts Council, Sector 16-B, Chandigarh           

6th November 2009, at 5.30 pm

Exhibition on view from November 7 to 10, 2009, 1:00 to 8:00 pm

About Paramjit Singh

Some contemporary Indian painters have found landscape painting as a genre suitable for expressing the esoteric and the outr6. For them the phenomenal world hides something more than what is immediately perceived. Paramjit Singh's hills and woodlands carry the luminous memory of a transcendental presence.

Born in 1935 in Amritsar, Paramjit Singh had his art education in the School of Arts, Delhi Polytechnic (1953-58). He was the founder member of 'The Unknown', a group of young painters and sculptors based in Delhi.

Paramjit landscapes, with their loaded silence evocative of the other worldly, became over the years, a distinct mystical utterance in pictorial terms. The esoteric in his landscapes was perhaps young Paramjit response to the mystery in tensions between the deep pictorial space and the sharp shadows of inanimate objects in the picture metafisica, a short-lived school in modem Italian art, and to the later Surrealist paintings. All these were transformed over about two decades into a personal statement in Paramjit's paintings.

From around the late 80s, Paramjit's landscapes and his 1 techniques changed radically. The Italian picture metafisica with their sharp shadows and melting tones receded into oblivion, and there emerged lush Indian landscapes with a mystical vision of a transcendental presence.

Paramjit Singh won the National Award in 1970. Between 1967 and 1994, he had 24 solo shows in India and in important galleries and art centres in Norway, Germany and Belgium. In 1973 he worked in the graphics studios of the Atelier Nord, Oslo. He was a faculty member of the Department of Fine Art, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, for 29 years, and retired as Professor in 1992. Between 1957 and 1994, Paramjit participated in 48 important exhibitions in India and abroad, which included the First Young Asian Artists Exhibition, Tokyo (1957), Art Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Exhibition of Prints, Atelier Nord and Gallery '71, Tromso, Norway (1 973), Indian Art Today, 1Yarmstadt, Germany (1982), the 15th International Biennale, Tokyo (1 984), Inaugural Exhibition, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1984), Art Biennale, Ankara, Turkey (1986), Festival of India, USSR (1987), International Festival of Art, Baghdad (1988), 'Indian Encounters', The Galleria, London (1 993), Art Biennale, Cairo (1994), Art Festival, Israel (1994).

In twenty years, between the '70s and '90s, Paramjit Singh took part in eight artists' camps in India and one in Thailand. His paintings came under the hammer at seven important art

auctions in India and at Christie's in London, and at the auction by Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi-London, in 1994.In 1988, Paramjit Singh was the Commissioner for the Indian participants in the Art Festival of Pakistan, Lahore. He painted 450 sq. ft. area for an environmental room in Bombay in 1990-93.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi organised its Annual Art Exhibition 2009 with competition in Professional and Student categories. It also had a an invited section. Artists from Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali (SAS Nagar) participated in this exhibition.5 awards in Professional Category and 10 Awards in Student category were given by a jury consisting of artists Kanchan Malhotra and Manish Pushkale.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi organises

My Creative Journey - Lecture and Slide Show

by Renowned Artist 

Anjolie Ela Menon

On 5th August 2009

At the Auditorium of Government Museum and Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Time: 5.30 pm

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

09815988875

www.lalitkalachandigarh.com

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

cordially invites you to

a Lecture and slide show

Beyond the Object

by

Avtarjeet Dhanjal

om March 8, 2009

at Government Museum & Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Cordially invites you to an Exhibition of Dr. M S Randhawa Memorabilia

on the occasion of his birth centenary

on 2nd February 2009

at Government Museum and Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

in the presence of Jatin Das and Dr. B. N. Goswamy

Exhibition open from 3rd to 7th Feb. daily between 10.00 am and 6.00 pm

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

Cordially invites you to

Dr. M S Randhawa Memorial Lecture on Art and Architecture

by Jatin Das

Inaugural remarks about Dr. Randhawa and his work by

Professor B. N. Goswamy

on 2nd February 2009 at 5.30 pm

at the Auditorium Government Museum and Art Gallery

Sector 10 C, Chandigarh

Dr. M S Randhawa birth centenary celebrations

Chandigarh Lalit Lala Akademi

French Embassy in India

and Alliance Francaise "Le Corbusier" de Chandigarh

Cordially invite you to

MAD IN INDIA

Projected Exhibition of Photographs

from 11 different location in India

a project of Tendance Floue – A collective of 11 French Photographers

and an interactive session with Meyer

one of the participating photographers

and the launce of the book - MAD IN INDIA

at Auditorium of Government Museum and Art Gallery Sector 10C, Chandigarh, India

on December 8, 2008

at 5.30 pm

Sh. Birender Singh

Minister of Finance and Excise &Taxation, Government of Haryana

Will be the Chief Guest

Receiving and making calls is strictly prohibited

Please be seated by 5.15 pm 

Diwan Manna

Chairman

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

+91-98140 15079

Director

Alliance Francaise de Chandigarh

+91-172- 2668627

chandigarhlka@gmail.com

info.chandigarh@afindia.org

Chandigarh Lait Kala Akademi
Cordially invites you to

a lecture
Art Binds Us All
and a short film
Breathe into me
by
Muzaffar Ali

Filmmaker and Painter

on November 8, 2008 at 5.30 pm
at Govt. Museum and Art Gallery
Sector 10C, Chandigarh 160015, India

Diwan Manna
Chairman
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
(Academy of Art Chandigarh)
Mobile +91 98140 15079

State Library, Sector 34A, Chandigarh 160 022, India, Tel: +91 (0) 172 2620 448 Email: chandigarhlka@gmail.com

 Raghu Rai (born in December 1942) qualified as civil engineer, started photography at the age of 23 in 1965. He joined The Statesman newspaper as their chief photographer (1966 to 1976), and was then Picture Editor with Sunday—a weekly news magazine published from Calcutta (1977 to 1980). 

In 1971, impressed by Rai’s exhibition at Gallery Delpire, Paris, the legendary photographer Henri Cartier Bresson nominated him to Magnum Photos, the world’s most prestigious photographer’s cooperative. 

Rai took over as Picture Editor-Visualiser-Photographer of India Today, India’s leading news magazine in its formative years which Rai could start only in 1977. He worked on special issues and designs, contributing trailblazing picture essays on social, political and cultural themes of the decade (1982 to 1991) which became the talking point of the magazine.

He was awarded the ‘Padmashree’ in 1971, one of India’s highest civilian awards ever given to a photographer. In 1992 he was awarded “Photographer of the Year” in the United States for the story “Human Management of Wildlife in India” published in National Geographic. Recently he has been conferred the award of Officier des Arts et des Lettres.

 His photo essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers - including Time, Life, GEO, The New York Times, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Vogue, GQ, D magazine, Marie Claire, The Independent and the New Yorker. He has been an adjudicator for World Press Photo Contest, Amsterdam and UNESCO’s International Photo Contest for many times. 

 He has done extensive work on the photo documentation of 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy and its continuing effects on the lives of gas victims under a special assignment from Greenpeace International. This documentation was compiled into a book with 3 sets of exhibitions traveling in Europe, America, Australia, India and South East Asia from 2002 to 2005, which created greater awareness about the tragedy and bringing relief to many survivors.

A special exhibition and picture book was created on India and Mexico in year 2002 in which his work was published along with two renowned photographers Graciela Iturbide (Mexico) and Sebastiao Salagado (France). His works have been published in major books done by Magnum Photos including Exhibitions.

In the last eighteen years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India and has produced more than 20 books including:

         Bihar shows the way ( 1977)

         Raghu Rai’s Delhi(1985, 1992),

        The Sikhs (1984, 2002),

        Calcutta (1989),

         Khajuraho (1991),

         Taj Mahal, (1986)

         Tibet in Exile (1991),

         India (1985)

         Madhya Pradesh (2000)

         Indira Gandhi (1971, 1985)

         Indira Gandhi – A living legacy (2004)

         Mother Teresa – Faith & Compassion (1971, 1996)

         Mother Teresa -  A life of dedication (2004)

         Men Metal and Steel (1998)

         Lakshadweep (1996)

         My land and it’s people (1995)

        India notes (2005) curated by Magnum Photos,

         Raghu Rai’s India – Reflections in Black & White (2007)

         Raghu Rai’s India – Reflections in Colour  (2008) 

Besides winning many national and international awards, Rai has exhibited his works in London, Paris, New York, Hamburg, and Prague, Japan, Zurich and Sydney. His solo show has been held in many countries:

                                            Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, -2001,

                                                Kendamy Museum – Italy,2002,

                                              Museo De Capitolini- Rome- 2004.

                                                 Museo di Storia Naturale- Milan,

                                                   Galery Caolmine- Switzerland,

                                               Centro Cultural Recoleta- Argentina,

                                          Centro Universitario Belas Artes- Sao Paulo,

                                                              Leika Gallery-Prague,

                                                     Art Car Museum- Texas (Houston)

                                                  Australian Museum, College St, Sydney,  

                                                          Fait et Cause Gallery – Paris.

                                                       Earthscapes series, India – 2007

                                                    Earthscapes series, Singapore – 2007

                                      Just by the way – clouds, rocks and nudes, India – 2007

                                               Master Musicians of India – Singapore – 2007

                                  Raghu Rai’s retrospective, Arles Photography Festival – 2007

                                                    Raghu Rai’s retrospective, Spain – 2007

              Raghu Rai – A retrospective – National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi -2008

                Raghu Rai – A retrospective – National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai -2008 

Raghu Rai lives in New Delhi with his family and continues to be an associate of Magnum Photos.

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi

The French Embassy in India and Alliance Française de Chandigarh

Cordially Invite you to

"Indian Portraits"

A Lecture and Slide Show

By French artist Marion Colomer

On September 29, 2008 at 5.30 pm

at Government Museum and Art Gallery 
Sector 10 C, Chandigarh, India 

an exhibition “Portraits 2007: From Maharajas to Glitteratis" by Marion Colomer

is on at The Alliance Art Gallery