Indian Art Defragmented- Interactive art discussion on Indian contemporary art

What is Indian contemporary art?
Art made by Indians today?
Something that is predominantly Indian from a surface sense?
Whats the difference between representing the Indian exotic life and the facts of the world around us?
Risqué painted females, Brahmin boys giving a lost gaze at the viewer. Cows or kites, which are perhaps pseudo depictions of Indian-ness in the arts.” Oh I am Indian, I will make a cow, oh I need a style, I will make the figures semi- ajanta –ish”. Is this the Indian modern art?
What is True Indian Modern Art?
Something that’s easily global on the surface , but is inherently Indian in a modern sense.
It’s a common notion and belief that Indian modern art started during the period after Amrita Shergil and during the Bombay art movement(find correct term).
If it is felt that Indian has really been modern since the last 15 or so years, how could the Indian modern art depict the modern life in the 50’s and 60’s?

The reason why it might be felt that Indian has been modern in the last decade or so, is because, of the free-er trade and commerce policies that were passed during the nineties. The arrival the of this free trade with less sanction provided what makes the modern world modern, the dependence on machine and technologies as well a shrinking world through communication and transportation. It is also related to the growing power of the bourgeoisie in the various markets and fields. That’s how the modern waves have been felt all over the world. The first need to make modern art came after the industrial revolution. The changing lifestyles made it apparent that the new art depicting the new world was needed. The same reasons and circumstances can be put here in the Indian environment.
Could it be that most of the artists in the First Indian modern art movement had exposure to international environment? They were and are all great artists and great modern artist no doubt. But were they essentially artists reacting to Indian social, spatial circumstances?
Modern art might be accomplished today, because how can it be done by an artist who doesn’t live in a modern world.
If the modern world has arrived, are we ready to take it on?

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King, Jr.


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This will be the scope of discussions
INDIAN ART-DEFRAGMENTED
The interactive talk session would be held at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi at 6.30 pm on 14th February 2010.

Indian Art-Defragmented (talk/discussion on indian art)

UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi guys,

' The fragmented few' is coinciding , the opening of their art exhibition with an interactive art talk session"Indian Art Defragmented'with the luminaries of the Indian Art Field as well art lovers, connoisseurs and people from the media world.
INDIAN ART-DEFRAGMENTED
The interactive talk session would be held at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi at 6.30 pm on 14th February 2010.

The exhibition is one of a kind physical and online exhibition. The show will open for public on 14th of February 2010 and will be on display till 18th of February 2010 at Convention Foyer, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.


Drop in for a visual experience that will perhaps give you a different perspective to the world which deals in looking at the world around us in fragments of simpler smaller things that constitute it , fragments that are easily overlooked in their entirety and without the context of the sum of fragments.
It will be a visual treat definitely for you 'thinkers' out there too, as there would be many art intellectual speakers at the event . And yes , even your views on the topics of discussion would be highly precious.

Art can be a movement, it can also be propaganda, it can be philosophy , a life style, its usually considered a fragment of entertainment , yet in its entirety it can be a complete self sustaining universe . Whatever our view , we can have discussions as long as we agree to disagree.
I hope that our message comes across to you and and together we could see that the art is an 'thing unto itself'. A fragment that’s complete on its own too, a fragment that that make us look at the world around us in a unified perspective .
We will update the thread with more details about the event, we will let you also know the list of art luminaries who will be attending the talk session and exhibition.
And yes, last but not the least , we will upload the artworks for you guys to enjoy the show.
Stay tuned for updates and art.
We will also update the thread for articles on art by the art literaries as well as the artists featuring in the exhibition.

LET US GIVE YOU SOME ART

So guys, here are the first art updates. Here is a smallish , yet very intriguing work by Bhanu pratap, it's part of the doll series by the artist, and is done on two canvases with alternative installation which gives added compositional strength to the painting. The tension created by the faces and the canvases give yet another viewpoint of the struggles in this physical world.

SIAMESE TWINS

Acrylics on Canvas

twin installation

T- shirts

Heres the first line of merchandise, T-Shirts. Prices will be up soon!!!!

Contact us personally!!!!!

You can also contact us for personalized talks, request, have a more deeper insight into our works.

aakshat@gmail.com Aakshat Sinha (artist)

ranabhanu@gmail.com Bhanu Pratap (artist)

veraatsingh@gmail.com Veraat Singh (artist)

monica73dawar@gmail.com Monica Dawar (curator)

We'd love to hear from you :)

The catalogue covers

Catalogue covers for the artists, Aakshat Sinha , Bhanu Pratap and Veraat Singh.

Merchandise like these will also be for sale in the form of prints , you can order them online , physically at the exhibition as well over ther phone.

More details soon.

WE are now also on Myspace and Artslant

We are also these links. Kindly click on the links to see what is going on other parts on the web.


Us on Arslant
Us on Myspace

The exhibition is going ONLINE!!!!!!!!

It's news people. We are going online, yeah we are already online with us having a blog and pages at facebook and twitter. But now, the exhibition is going online too. Yes! the whole exhibition.
ENJOY!

Are we Twitting yet?

Yes we are

http://twitter.com/fragmentedfew

here, follow us, let us know your tweets, cuz we wanna follow you too.

FOLLOW US

FOLOW US!
on Facebook
you can be a fan, let us know that you are coming, meet other people who are coming to the show and make plans. Or just follow our exhibition in the confines of the site we all use 'facebook'.
A twitter page is in progress , so you can follow our updates and we can follow yours.
Take care,
THE FRAGMENTED FEW

POSTER OF 'THE FRAGMENTED FEW'

Hi Guys,

Here we are putting the posters online, you are invited to the art exhibition "the Fragmented Few". We will try to put out as many posters as we can. But you can also support us by printing out a poster and creating awarness by letting others know .

PEACE OUT!

Drop in for the Exhibition

Hi Guys,
You are invited to the exhibition" THE FRAGMENTED FEW"

Drop in for a visual experience that will perhaps give you a different perspective to the world which deals in looking at the world around us in fragments of simpler smaller things that consititute it , fragments that are easily overlooked in their entirety and without the context of the sum of fragments.

It will be a visual treat definitely for you 'thinkers' out there too, as every work consists of the life philosophy of the artists, but also when we(you,the viewer and us) will have a conversation, you will realise the defragmentation of the artworks by the artists is also rooted in the artist's worldview. Art can be a movement, it can also be propaganda, it can be philosophy , a life style, its usually considered a fragment of entertainment , yet in its entirety it can be a complete self sustaining universe .

I hope that our message comes across to you and and together we could see that the art is an 'thing unto itself'. A fragment thats complete on its own too, a fragment that that make us look at the world around us in a unified perspective .

The fragmented few

Very few would ascend to the fact that more often than not they exist in a fragmented state. What belies this denial? Why is it necessary? The answers lie right there with the questions. Denial is a selfish, cowardly moment of acceptance of the trait, which further, because of our inborn, ingrained insecurities, forces the mask of completion and congruency to come to the fore. With increasing pressures on our character and expected confidence, we create a magical world – complete in itself. Not realizing that all of the inadequacies are covered by things which remain farcical and imaginary, both to us and the world around. And to keep their own insecurities in check and their dream world intact, the ones around us keep up this charade.
What is complete? Is a nail complete without the underlying flesh and the finger to which it is attached? Is the finger complete without the hand that bears it, or the hand without the body or the body without its surroundings? A portrait in isolation can be complete if the lights and shadows so created create a world of supposed seclusion.
Few who desire to understand this fragmentation, realize quite early that this is a foolish pursuit - difficult, demanding and non-gratifying. So they create illusions of a fragmented world and search for creative options to reflect and share the world so created by them, to the general public. They seek to confirm their perceptions of such fragmentation. And though their worlds no truer than the worlds of the others, at least they desire for the unknown - a path unmapped!
A fragmented world so created needs to be defragmented frequently and then broken down again and again, and reconstructed to form newer, richer and more vivid vistas.

INVITATION to you