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Published in Guardian.co.uk, 22 March 2012
The Delhi-based trio Raqs Media Collective are Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. To describe them as artists doesn’t quite cut it. They make videos, high-tech objects, installations and online projects exploring a world reshaped by globalisation, from the blazing lights of India’s rapaciously evolving cities to the shabby gloom of a Tyneside dock. Since they founded Sarai, their Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, in Delhi in 2000, they’ve reached far beyond art’s usual bounds, developing media projects with local communities, conducting urban research, editing a journal and curating international exhibitions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/22/artist-week-raqs-media-collective
Related Artists: Raqs Media Collective
Related Exhibitions: Raqs Media Collective: Guesswork
Published in Wall Street Journal, 22 March 2012
Callum Innes is best known for what critics dub “unpainting,” and he has collaborated on exhibits with such non-painters as novelist Colm Tóibin. But for an abstract, boundary-crossing artist, his reflections on art can sound almost traditional.
“I like the idea of beauty,” he says. “I see nothing wrong with the beautiful, for things to have a rightness about them.”
His first solo exhibition in Asia, at Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong, recently opened. The 1995 Turner Prize finalist shared his thoughts on seeing sound and the biggest problem with art.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/03/22/the-unpainter/?mod=google_news_blog
Related Artists: Callum Innes
Published in Artit , 12th February 2012
Describing herself as a bookmaker who works with photography, Dayanita Singh has a profound understanding of the pliability and reproducibility of images: how they are processed and can be printed or projected onto any surface, and how those surfaces themselves can be folded or unfolded, enlarged, expanded, compressed, carried, mailed or discarded. Constantly thinking about new ways to present her photographs, Singh continuously reinvents those photographs, in the way that language reinvents words. For her, then, all images are singular events that also intrinsically exist in relation to other images, or even in relation to past and future instances of their own apparition. For her, images have the same conditionality and abstraction as spoken words, always disappearing the instant they are materialized, formed and deformed by preceding and succeeding utterances or caesuras, yet, at times when decisively employed and at others simply as determined by chance and context, also capable of fastening in the mind’s eye an impression of the grave, exciting physicallity and consequentiality of the world around us.
http://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_ed_feature_e/1j3bL0txwB8dPsIuYFUD
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Published in Scotsman, January 2012
This impulse to make contact with surfaces is everywhere in Barriball’s work. Door is an entire traditional door, made by laying a sheet on the surface and covering it with graphite, like a kind of brass rubbing. In the process it acquires three dimensions, like a shallow relief sculpture. Mirror Window Wall is a series of sash windows rendered, through similar techniques in silver ink.
Again Barriball is worrying away with the questions of openings and barriers, apertures and dead ends. Mirror Window Wall confuses. You wonder about whether it, or you, is inside or out. Many of Barriball’s similar works render something transparent like glass into a hard opaque surface.
Related Artists: Anna Barriball
Published in Art Monthly, December 2011
Most of Barriball’s pieces in this thoughtfully installed show work on a poetic, conceptual level that, like the slow shadow photographs of Uta Barth or the charcoal night sky drawings by Vija Celmins, reward long looking. In a superb diptych called Shutters II, 2011, she has taken a graphite rubbing of two arched shutters. There is a terrifi c play of shade, shading and shadow, as the work moves from the shutters’ purpose of darkening a room to the act of blackening the page through shading.....Simple and striking, Light drawing, 2000, meets the challenge artists have faced for centuries: how to draw light. Barriball has coloured every inch of the metal surface of an angle-poise lamp with yellow marker pen and then drawn a circle of tungsten yellow on a card on the wall as if the yellow is pouring itself onto the lit surface.
Related Artists: Anna Barriball
Published in Photomonitor, December, 2011
As with her work in other media, with photography Barriball works with the objects and architecture that surround her, appropriating what already exists, breathing life into something that was already there.
http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2011/12/anna-barriball-reviewed-by-sophy-rickett/
Related Artists: Anna Barriball
Published in livemint, December 2011
Photographer Dayanita Singh’s book House of Love is this vivid dreamscape; a book of film stills that have yet to leave the dark room. She plays visualizer to a Proustian narrative, to the slow-motion descriptions of an insomniac who is unable to sleep in an unfamiliar hotel room in a town he doesn’t know too well.
One of the most significant photographers of our generation, Singh’s work has let go of context and captions over time. She has charted a different route, one that is less about capturing the moment and more about reflection. While she has shown herself to be a visual poet with her previous photo-books such as Go Away Closer (2007) and Dream Villa (2010), with this she takes on prose.
http://www.livemint.com/2011/12/01201658/An-insomniac8217s-guide-to.html?h=B
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Published in The Church Times, 4th November 2011
Dumas’s work is both bold and fragile, brash and delicate; passages of cool minimalism — blank spaces and unpainted charcoal lines — combine with the textured gestural brushstrokes of vigorous expressionism: a stylistic both/and that complements her imagistic exploration of the reality of paradox.
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=120059
Related Artists: Marlene Dumas
Related Exhibitions: Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
Published in The Guardian, November, 2011
The most introspective, serious and moving of all these posters has to be Fiona Banner’s design for the Paralympics, a painted prose poem about the wonder of human, or superhuman, achievement.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/nov/04/london-2012-olympic-posters-britart
Related Artists: Fiona Banner
Published in Time Out, November, 2011
A powerful show of paintings, ‘Forsaken’ pits Jesus against Phil Spector, Amy Winehouse and Osama bin Laden. Ossian Ward enters an arena of doubt and talks to the artist Marlene Dumas
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/240057/marlene-dumas-forsaken
Related Artists: Marlene Dumas
Related Exhibitions: Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
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