Return from NowHere is a Travel!
. “I am sure you are not sure. If you knew, you would have refused to come here because of the burden of knowing beforehand, about your travel!” I did not understand his words in all its essence, even after returning back to India; and even to this day. The only thing I realized was that his artificial leg was very enthusiastic to move, it always appeared in the shape of an exclamatory mark! As if an afterthought, I realized that all his sentences ended with an ‘!’ i.e. exclamatory marks!!!
Book Review: Colourful Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
..Perhaps this is the first lengthy autobiography written by an Indian sculptures in any Indian language.. One can read this book about a visual artist without the help of the pictures, but that would be making us blind.. Kanakamurthy (b.1944) writing is in par and often better than those art journalistic writing in Kannada. . Particularly her narratives in the first half of the book and about the first half of her life gives a hint at an epic novel that could be in the making, about a dark women sculptor from South East Asia..
ART REVIEW: Backstage as Foreground
Dwaraki is a rare painter. As a formal-artist he paints rarely; and rarely keeps away from round-the-clock routine of painting the theatre, any given day. The actors as well as the theatricality of the stage are what seems to be his concern at first. On a second thought, this disjuncture, this fragmentation, the separation between visual and theatre are the ‘collaged premise’ from within which Dwaraki seems to pick bits and pieces of his own autobiography of last two decades
Leather Puppetry Festival: Representing One’s Own Self
The workshop, showcasing and subject are three aspects that would be tested in the given situation, since there are loads of contemporary kitschy and pastiche adaptation of puppetry-for-sale in the same Parishath premise, throughout out the year, since KCP is also a venue renting out its spaces to melas of folk, craft and traditional art.
The Art of Chandranath Acharya: Left to a Right Choice
The thrill of skill is what has been ‘kill’ed by the deep misunderstanding that ‘rendering’ and ‘skill’ are one and the same. No amount of argumentative skill can convinced the already convicted, otherwise. The problem of Chandranath Acharya, the artist, is precisely this; and the possibility of Chandranath Acharya, the illustrator, is also this! The magic of his image-making lies somewhere in between.
ARCHIVES: ART REVIEWS (1992 – 2014)
Times Of India 06/07/1997 Reviews Paintings and drawings of chennakeshava and reema Alva at Venkatappa Gallery Impressive casualness Exhibition of paintings,sculptures adn drawings by students of the college of Fine arts at Raheja...
TRAVEL – Then, Now and Forever: Die Hard Santiniketan
(Originally published in www.travelanddeal.com in October 2013) The place I wish to visit and have revisited, time and again, is Santiniketan. The first time I confronted it was in 1989, as an undergraduate student from Bengaluru. My second visit stretched between...
Travelog–Keep Moving to get a clear Swiss Picture
(Published in www.travelanddeal.com, June 7th, 2013) Nobody should stay at Switzerland or Helvetia-land because the place where one resides can never be a worthy tourist spot, for the dweller. The second reason is that, it no doubt looks spectacular to view this...
How is it! Photography, today?
(Article published in "Art & Deal" monthly magazine; Issue No.61,/vol.9 No.30/July 2013, published by Art Konsult, New Delhi; Edited by Siddhartha Tagore.) As of now, people might still believe in good and bad photography but the faith in a genuine photograph will...
Public Art and Art in Public: Performative attitude makes a spectacle of Permanence
13th March 2013, 2811 words (Article published in ‘Art & Deal’ monthly art magazine, Issue 58/Vol.9 No.27 / April 2013, Ed: Siddharth Tagore, Art Konsult, New Delhi) (also see: [email protected]) An Incident: (Basel-based performance artist Pascel Grau's...
ART Historian, author
H. A. Anil Kumar
H.A. Anil Kumar is an art educationist, art historian, critic, curator, story teller & graphic novelist, teaching and writing on Indian contemporary visual art and films since 1992. He has written, edited and co-authored books, papers and art columns, radio and television talks for both academic and popular publications and radio/television telecasts, in two languages (English and Kannada) since last three decades.
He is also a story teller and his one line quotes and stories can be read in Instagram @ ‘haanilkumar’.
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ಮೂಲ ಕೃತಿ: ಜಾನ್ ಬರ್ಜರ್| Ways of Seeing
Kannada Translation of John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. John Berger’s 1972 television series and the book based on the series revolutionized how we view images, accusing high art of complicity in social, economic and gender inequality. It also challenged what Berger saw as the undemocratic culture of museums and galleries.
Other Books
Shantiniketan
Travelogue and a autobiography
Book 2
Varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes. Varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes.
Noduva Bage
Kannada Translation of John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’.
To Infinity
SCIENCE IS THE ART OF LEGITIMISING LOGIC AND REASONING ABILITY OF EXPRESSION WHILE ART IS SCIENCE OF CONTESTING THOSE TWO!
A LONG CHERISHED DREAM INDICATES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INEFFICIENT, LAZY, LETHARGIC ALL ALONG; & MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, UNABLE TO ACHIEVE IT, YET, BECAUSE OF YOUR SLUMBER!
– H A ANIL KUMAR
IF MEDICINE CURES, ART HEALS; THAT’S WHY THE WRITINGS OF DOCTORS ARE EASILY DECIPHERABLE THAN THAT OF THE ARTISTS.