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'Quiet Conversations from the Courtyard' curated by Rekha Rodwittiya at Ashvita in Chennai opened on the 3rd of February. Ashvita is located in a heritage building in the heart of Mylapore in Chennai. You can visit Ashvita's website for more information on the gallery and all the other ventures it houses. Malavika Rajnarayan, Sonatina Mendes and Kim Kyoungae were in Chennai for

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Ashvita Presents,Quiet Conversations from the CourtyardAn exhibition byKarishma D’souzaKim KyoungaeMalavika RajnarayanSonatina MendesCurated by Rekha RodwittiyaPlease join us for the Opening of the show on Friday, 3rd February 20126:30 - 9:00pmat Ashvita11, Second Street, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai,Mylapore, Chennai 600004.Tamilnadu, India.Ph: +91 984 009 4412E: fineart@ashvita.comThe show will

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Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences C-302 Siddhi Vinayak Complex, Behind Baroda Railway Station (Alkapuri Side) Faramji Road, Baroda-390007 Tel: (0265) 2320870 Email : prafullakar@gmail.com; binisajil@gmail.com; website : balvantparekhcentre.org.in _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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"Deep inside the forest in a tribal village, when 500 policemen surround and burn your village and there is no TV camera, you can't go on a hunger-strike. You can only fight back. In any case, can the hungry go on a hunger-strike? What does a hunger strike mean in a country where 49 per cent children are malnourished and perennially hungry?" an excerpt from Arundhati Roy's article that addresses

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Dear Friends, My work "Under One Sky" will be exhibited in a group exhibition at Kynkyny Art, Bangalore from the 20th of August to the 9th of September, 2011. Please do visit the gallery if you are in Bangalore around this time. Malavika Rajnarayan

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Theen Tamasha is proud of its colleagues in the Collective Studio, Baroda - Kim Seola, Schon Mendes and Lee Hayan who will be showing their work in the exhibition Intarsia : Memory Trace at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai from the 4th of August; 11 am to 6 pm.

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Sonatina Mendes

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A photograph by Dayanita SinghTo continue on similar trajectories that Karishma has begun, I find it interesting to see new methods of documentation, archiving and research to facilitate more effective systems of disseminating information. The British Library has an ongoing exhibition called Growing Knowledge that showcases innovative research tools. The website has all the details of their 10-

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Jacob Lawrence The Library 1960Tempera on fiberboardNational Museum of American Art, Washington Image from http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/lawrence/lawrence_the_library.jpg.html Three library links in the cityThe Centre for Contemporary TheoryOlakh, a Feminist NGOCentral library in Mandvi, Baroda (Map below)I had recently visited the Center for Contemporary Theory to attend a presentation

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Energies often get altered in spaces of sharing and as a collective, we have always held the spirit of openness to accommodate change. The core group of Theen Tamasha has been reshuffled with the rationale of bringing together three friends from the same generation, who have studied together and continue their practice within structures of close interaction. We take delight in welcoming Karishma

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The Collective Studio will be presenting The Light within: Paintings of Rabindranath An illustrated lecture by Indrapramit Roy on Saturday the 19th of March 2011 at 6 pm Venue: Surendran Nair's Studio C-1 Oasis- Behind Essar Petrol Pump – Sama Savli Road - Baroda RSVP -98240 69767 Synopsis of the presentation Amongst all the creative fields that Rabindranath ventured in with his

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Feminine Syntax : Personal Biographies is an intimate space of reflection and consideration that desires to hold dear the personal and the fragile, within an art environment that has increasingly begun to impose the demands for grand and epic proclamations. Like the weaving of a tapestry, the many different threads that knot and come together are what finally make for a complete picture; and

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Echoes of a whisper Dreams, for me are realities. Realities that unless given physical shape can become engulfing secrets. I believe that there are muffled mysteries waiting to be uncovered in seemingly insignificant and ordinary spaces of time. Painting is a channel through which I can speak about areas of intimacy, of identity, of desire and of longing. Skins of colour often are like veils

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Under one sky I am told of an ancient proverb, which says that every time you make tea, even if you make it only once, you must make it like you would for the last time. The beauty of many such proverbs lies in their power to nudge our minds into thinking about how we define ourselves. Much of every day’s occurrences present me with questions and wonderment, urging me to find explanations or

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Jottings from an invisible diary In the middle of a fast passing day, standing and trying to catch the stories from here and there, becomes the fascination that feeds my imagination. School girls enjoying the end of school with ribbons hanging from their hair, a father and son going somewhere on a cycle, candies and roadside goodies hanging in laris on the street, people sipping an ardhi chai

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When an image becomes a remembrance...... For me the desire to paint is what anchors me to art at all times, and which creates a connection to my existence and the world around me as I live today. Perhaps the act of painting (for me)

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Threading Waves “The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. A pain when beyond human range becomes something else.” When the sky clears, Ghalib (Translated by Robert Bly and Sunil Dutta) Sound is a volume; trickling, dripping, wavering, piercing (or the many ways of defining sounds attached to tracing its origin). How do I trace a distant sound, its movement, intensity and

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Balancing Act ‘Sometimes when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can cause one to feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly unravelling. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes more and more difficult to keep a balanced grip on one’s own being.’ Haruki Murakami ‘The Wind-up bird Chronicle’ In

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Feminine Syntax : Personal Biographies, an exhibition of six artists curated by Rekha Rodwittiya for Lemongrasshopper, Ahmedabad opened on the 27th February 2011. Theen Tamasha and Friends- Kim Kyoungae, Malavika Rajnarayan, Sonatina Mendes, Karishma D'souza, Kim Seola and Lee Hayan are the six artists in this exhibition. The paintings by all these artists that are presented in this show can be

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There is a wonderful opening for young artists to proliferate and sell their work through this online portal called Best College Art. It is applicable to all students and graduates of art who are either studying or finished college within the last ten years. Please visit their website for more details.

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I spent one month in Mumbai this October, assisting Sakshi Gallery coordinate an exhibition called SCRATCH curated by Swapan Seth that was presented at the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi. During the experience, I discovered a common connection between the artist Nnenna Okore and the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, both of whose works I admire immensely. Both these individuals studied at the

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What is distance? The space between any two points, on a paper... between two minds. Therefore a letter; A line The alphabet The sound and from then on, Bridges of thought Ideas. A journey travelled A world traversed A by-lane with a hanging lantern Colour, light! The smoke from a tea stall A waft of aroma a slight nudge- a cow grazes past with a single tinkle A stream of water, picking up

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I have often pondered about what we understand by the word "resource" within our experiences of learning. As students, we were situated in institutes, where libraries and teaching faculty became our resources of learning. But to what extent have we used these resources to their maximum potential? For instance, my mother used to set a vacation routine for me while I was in school, where I had to

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Sonatina Mendes is a member of our group and a friend and loved one for all of us who know her. Originally from Goa, she now lives and works in Baroda. As a woman artist desiring to live independently, safety and security have become major issues of concern that disallow the older traditions of freedom that artists enjoyed in this city in the past. It has also become increasingly difficult to

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KIM KYOUNGAE SONATINA MENDESKARISHMA D'SOUZAMALAVIKA RAJNARAYAN

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Sonatina and I were invited to an artists' camp at Sasangir and spent six days exploring the beautiful forests of the Sasangir Wildlife sanctuary. Although the main attraction of this sanctuary is the fact that it is the last home of the Asiatic lion, which is down to only 411 lions, the specialness of the experience came from spending time discovering all the wonderful flora and fauna that

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I have often wondered what it must be like to live through almost an entire century; even more, to view art as it happens, through a 100 hundred years! Louise Bourgeois almost did both of the above, but more importantly, she made her mark and has claimed a space in art history that will exceed all timelines. As menacing as her Maman spider looks, it equally accommodates an openness to shelter and

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I'm reading Toni Morrison's Beloved. Searching for more of her writing, I googled her name and came across her Nobel lecture in 1993. What an outstanding piece that's all about language! http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.htmlMalavika Rajnarayan

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One of the many advantages of being located in Baroda is its proximity to Delhi and Mumbai, more so to the latter. Even in the peak of summer vacations in India, it is not very difficult to find an economic solution to get to Mumbai to spend a day visiting galleries. My friends and I often take-off on such one-day trips to be able to look at art, in the flesh and in the space that it is presented

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Theen Tamasha and three friends displayed their work at an Open Studio on the 22nd of April 2010 at B-44 'Oasis', Sama, Baroda (which happens to be Malavika Rajnarayan's studio apartment shared with Lee Hayan, a graduate student at the Faculty of Fine Arts M.S.University of Baroda).The decision to invite friends and artists to view the works of Kim Kyoungae, Malavika Rajnarayan, Sonatina Mendes,

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 Two poems by Lebogang  Mashile, one of South Africa's most beloved poets.Sonatina Mendes                                             You and I You and IWe are the keepers of dreamsWe mould them into light beamsAnd weave them into life's seamsYou and IKnow life is not what it seemsWe strip the fat from the leanAnd find the facts in betweenThe visions we redeemAnd the agony of choiceYours is just

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Every now and then, I feel the need to look at art that doesn't necessarily fall within the linguistic lineage that I draw from; like the diverse circle of friends I have in my life. I delight in the surprises that unfold through these virtual wanderings. I am often reminded of a small self-portrait painted by Jackson Pollock sometime in the 1930s, which I first saw at a Jackson Pollock

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Photograph of the Guerrilla GirlsTheen Tamasha wishes all the women in the world a very Happy Women's Day!!  Thought -provoking  creativity, what we know as ART, dos not need a luxurious environment or a degree. Rather, it takes talent, and the willingness to notice the world around you, and it is born by connecting with people, environments, and who we are.Zanele Muholi, South African  artist, '

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Art has always had a continuous engagement with history. Some works of art (music and literature included) may choose to quote history in direct ways and infuse it with irony while others may use history as points of departure to then elaborate upon and lead us to other imaginative worlds. The remix fever that has gripped a large portion of our popular culture started four or five decades ago

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I presented a slide lecture at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore last morning to a group of undergraduate students from the final year and post graduate students. Having already shown them a selection of my works a couple of years ago, I chose to put together art works from contemporary art-history to create a context of lineages, connections and points of historical interest that

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Here is an excerpt from the catalogue text for Theen Tamasha : Theen Taal by Lina Vincent Sunish.THE ENSEMBLE The jugalbandi in Indian classical music is a duet performance by two musicians of equal standing, vocalist or instrumentalist, both contributing equally to the dimensions of the performance. Poetic license will allow me to extend the concept in talking about the character of   ‘Theen

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Theen Tamasha is proud to announce its exhibition at Gallery Time and Space in Bangalore. The preview of Theen Tamasha:Theen Taal opened on the 25th of February, 2010. For all those who cannot visit the gallery, we're uploading all the works that will be exhibited.Happy Viewing!Paintings by Sonatina Mendes"Hearts of Glass" Oil on canvas 2009 36" X 48""Group" Oil on canvas 2010 10" X

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Kim Kyoungae's Solo Exhibition 'Resonance' opens at Hacienda Gallery, Kalaghoda, Mumbai on the 21st of January 2010 at 6:30 p.m. You can view the paintings here and read the text that accompanies the exhibition.In the silence of resonating memories, Small fragments piece together new images.Many people were dressed up as if it were mid-summer. Feeling awkward, I looked up and down at myself. Is

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I spent the second week of January in Hodka, a small village in Kutch, where I camped with 20 other artists, exploring the region, interacting and painting. Art camps are enriching experiences where artists work in a collective environment, allowing ideas to grow through dialogues, conversations, and by feeding off energies from one another.  I had visited Kutch in 2004 November, motor-biking

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   When I received Kwon Kiyoon's catalogue of his solo show a few days back, I remembered my last meeting with him in May 2008 in Korea. I’d met him as I’ve done so on every visit to Korea. He was one of my teachers while I was studying in college and have been inspired after every interaction with him. Kwon Kiyoon graduated from Seoul National University in the early eighties and  chose to

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Traversing through centuries on the same terrain...snapshots, references and drawings from a two-day trip to Udaipur; the mighty kingdom of Mewar.Malavika Rajnarayan

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He laid his mittens on his knees, unbuttoned his coat, untied the tapes of his face cloth, stiff with cold, folded it several times over, and put it  away in his pants pocket. Then he reached for the hunk of bread, wrapped in a piece of cloth, and, holding the cloth at chest level so that not a crumb should fall to the ground, began to nibble and chew at the bread.The bread, which he had carried

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A news item from today's papers reports that a rare collection of unpublished poems by Rabindranath Tagore were found at Visva Bharati in Santiniketan. It is said that the poems were inspired by his own paintings. Here is the link.

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Yoon Dooree, born in Pusan, South Korea in 1928.  Yoon, a fifteen years old girl was picked up from near her home by Japanese soldiers.  She became a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Yoon had been living in Woolsan, near her hometown since she was released from the Japanese military camp. She never had gone back to her hometown.  She had isolated herself from her

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One of the challenges I face with painting is where to elaborate and where to conceal. Conversations  of late with friends have often ended up with discussing ancient chinese art.  The artists from those times had supreme command over the choices they made while either concealing certain elements or revealing  others. When they revealed, they opened up the world; and when they concealed, they

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'The artist frees himself from the object because it prevents him from expressing himself exclusively through purely pictorial means". - Kandinsky

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Non-urban art never fails to fascinate me with its vitality and contemporaneity. The painting that I am currently working on has an image that is a derivation from a Patta Chitra that I'd once seen. In the process of looking for it, I came across this video of a 21st century spin on the character of Arjuna from the Mahabharata.  The video can also be viewed youtube.Malavika Rajnarayan

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Infiltrations   Watercolours on paper   9.5 in. X 12.5 in.   2009

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An excerpt from Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red ; Chapter 51 They tell a story in Bukhara that dates back to the time of Abdullah Khan. This Uzbek Khan was a suspicious ruler, and though he didn’t object to more than one artist’s brush contributing to the same illustration, he was opposed to painters copying from one another’s pages—because this made it impossible to determine which of the artists

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Theen Tamasha has decided to extend its blog to friends from the artist community and share their work, thoughts and ideas through this section called Open Window. Our friend Karishma D'souza is a painter who has been living and working in Baroda after completing a postgraduate programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda in 2006. Karishma's paintings deal with the everyday

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Theen Tamasha - Kim Kyoungae, Malavika Rajnarayan and Sonatina Mendes are showing their paintings in Card-o-logy, an exhibition of original picture postcards by 60 artists, curated by Jasmine Shah Varma at Hacienda Gallery in Mumbai from the 4th of September 2009 to the 18th of September 2009. Picture Postcards by Kim Kyoungae Acrylic on paper - 5 in. X 7 in. Picture Postcards by Malavika

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Richard Long Dusty Boots Like Sahara 1988Patrick Caulfield Letter 1967I've always marvelled at the drawn line in miniature paintings and in calligraphy. But I get as excited by the line used by Richard Long and Patrick Caulfield.Malavika Rajnarayan

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The following images are the recent works by Malavika Rajnarayan. Click on the images to view them larger.More of the artist's works and information about the artist can be viewed on the introduction page of the blog and the website of Anant Art Gallery and of curator Jasmine Shah Varma. "The Spoken"Acrylic on canvas, 20085' X 2.5' "The Heard"Acrylic & Oil on

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Sonatina Mendes and I made a short trip to Bombay with our artist friend Karishma Dsouza, to see an exhibition of contemporary art from Africa at the Sakshi Gallery. The migration of African people to India dates back to the 7th century C.E, when the first Siddis arrived on the port of Bharuch in Gujarat. Although they adopted the language and culture of the surroundings, they retained certain

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel ‘Purple Hibiscus’  has impacted me by the tenderness with which it conveys a story about oppression. One can trace the preoccupations of this African writer, which revisit evocations of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, by her choosing to examine the personal histories of women and the political turmoil of her country - Nigeria.     Set in the 1980s, the story

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An international conference titled “Archiving Art histories: Exigencies and Challenges in Pedagogy and Research” was held in Baroda from the 5th to the 7th of February.   The conference provided a platform for intellectual discourse, with art historians and artists presenting  lectures that provoked interesting responses from the participating audience. Kim Kyoungae is currently working on small

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Kim Kyoungae -  Malavika Rajnarayan - Sonatina Mendes Three friends, Three women, Three artists = Theen tamasha!Theen Tamasha is a "blogging website" set up by three artists in order to share their works with a wider audience.  A blog traditionally offers a  method of interaction that is independent of any mediating factors, and sets a space for engagement and information that is personalized and

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