The Guild is pleased to present an Open studio for students with the artists Rakhi Peswani and Masooma Syed.

The Guild is pleased to present an

Open studio for students with the artists Rakhi Peswani and Masooma Syed.

Students from the disciplines of sculpture, printmaking painting and photography can bring and show their works and have a general discussion with the artists. They can bring along with them some sketches, originals or images of their works if they desire so.

Date: 12^th and 13^th February 2010

Time: 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Venue: The Guild
02/32, Kamal Mansion, 2nd floor
Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba Mumbai 400005 INDIA
Tel: + 91 22 2288 0116 / 0195

Based in Hyderabad, Rakhi Peswani received her Bachelor's degree in painting and Master's degree in sculpture from M.S University, Baroda and is the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award, 2007, presented by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. She is working as a faculty at the S.N. School Fine Art Department, Hyderabad Central State University, Hyderabad, India.

Based in Pakistan, Masooma Syed received her Bachelor’s and Masters degree in painting from National College of Arts, Lahore. She is currently working as a faculty in the Indus Valley School of Arts, Karachi. Masooma has participated in a number of shows in Pakistan and internationally.

Ribbed Routes

G.R.Iranna

Ribbed Routes

THE GUILD MUMBAI 22 January – 15 February 2010

Preview: January 22, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Ribbed Routes, a solo exhibition of recent works by G.R. Iranna at The Guild previewing on January 22, 2010.

“There are some pressing issues of our times that require our address. Questions of peace and the prevalence of violence as a form of dissent, any dissent, press on our consciousness and demand a response. The sculptural works by Iranna can be seen as a concerted and concentrated address of what should be society’s goal in the coming years, to work towards peace and harmonious coexistence. Iranna’s works are philosophical reflections, revolving around the interactions and explorations of a man’s inner world with the existential issues of today. Through his works he comments on human civilizational growth and its intrinsic follies consisting of aggression and ideological indoctrinations, violently inflicted upon human beings in the name of territorial growth. Iranna’s intention is to capture the trauma of human kind. His body of work is about despair but it is also about hope both nestled together in Pandora’s Box. “

(Excerpt from an essay by Deeksha Nath)

Born 1970 in Karnataka, Iranna obtained M.F.A. from Delhi College of Art. He has had several solo shows the latest being ‘Birth of Blindness’, The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi and Aicon Gallery, London and New York in 2008 and The Dance on the horse, Berkley Square Galllery, London in 2007. He has widely participated in many significant group exhibitions and workshops in India and abroad, including the India Art Summit, New Delhi, India (2009), Cultura Popular India y mas alla, la presidenta de la comunidad de Madrid Museum, curated by Shaheen Merali (2009), MiArt Fair 08, Milan, Italy(2008), Arad Biennale, Romania(2005), among others. Iranna is a recipient of National Academy award in 1997 and the M.F.Husain and Ram Kumar award. G.R Iranna has been nominated from India for the ABPF Signature Art Prize 08, Singapore Museum.

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T.V. Santhosh at Saatchi Gallery, London

The Guild is pleased to announce the participation of T. V. Santhosh works in the exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. Do look up Saatchi Gallery site for viewing the works.

The Empire Strikes Back:
Indian Art Today
29th January - 7th May 2010

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/the-new-india.htm


T.V. Santhosh
Tracing An Ancient Error
2007
Oil on canvas
122 x 183 cm
Employing the themes of war and global terrorism, South Indian artist T.V. Santhosh paints in lurid greens and shocking orange, recreating the effect of a colour photographic negative. The artist charges his large canvases with figures in contoured and compromising positions. Like many of his politically motivated contemporaries, Santhosh lifts pivotal episodes from recent history and renegotiates their appearance with a shock-bulb of violent energy that eclipses the work. Santhosh’s paintings of impending doom, a world at the brink of an atomic end, are intentionally more apocalyptic than cathartic. Tracing an Ancient Error is an illuminated work of what appears to be a bearded man lain out, revealing his chest, holding onto something resembling a thread. An image from recent news events, Santhosh captures this scene and reinvents its value as a piece of anonymous and charged history.

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T.V. Santhosh Tracing An Ancient Error 2007 Oil on canvas 122 x 183 cm

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna, January 22 - February 15, 2010

T.V. Santhosh

BLOOD AND SPIT
T. V. SANTHOSH

Essays by

Shaheen Merali

Brigitte Ulmer

Alexander Keefe

Santhosh S.

Hardbound

148 pages with more than 85 colour plates
Pages with text 32

Publishers The Guild and Jack Shainman Gallery

Blood and Spit, a new volume on T. V. Santhosh covers works from 2007 to 2009, encompassing works from four of his solos – Blood and Spit, Living with a Wound, A Room to Pray and Countdown. The publication includes essays by prominent writers, cultural theorists and art critics- Shaheen Merali, Brigitte Ulmer, Alexander Keefe and Santhosh S.

T.V. Santhosh’s works have been exhibited at many international art galleries and museums. Some of his prominent museum shows are Dark Materials curated by David Thorp, India Xianzai, MOCA, Shanghai, China, Passage to India, Part II: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK and Continuity and Transformation, Museum show, by Provincia di Milano Italy.

While T.V. Santhosh’s work is conceptually based, Santhosh’s use of deeply saturated colour and fluid edges bring the viewer to an elevated state of mind and adds an unnerving quality to the paintings. The tightness of the frame and forcibly close vantage point harkens back to the film noir genre bringing the viewer to a reflective state. His images depict chaos and paranoia relating to current media coverage of contemporary events. His exploration demonstrates a reality on the verge of explosion as if time had been stopped. Simultaneously, the work is profoundly human and cerebral. Although the paintings are extremely current, they have become universal as we live with an over saturation of imagery and rapid exchanges of ideas. People of all contexts and backgrounds can relate to their pictorial approach.

Price Rs. 2,500/- + postage Rs. 500/- in India.

International USD 58 + USD 20 for supply.

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna

The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Ribbed Routes by G.R. Iranna from January 22 - February 15 2010.