Trust the medium, control the message
07/03/2009 · Mansi Shah
Galerie Christian Hosp presents Settlement, the first European solo exhibition of Gigi Scaria, which assembles his sculptural and photographic work. Scaria, an emerging New Delhi-based artist, is a cartographer of human habitats, his mundane urban objects that constitute our everyday environments are vital to understanding his artistic concerns. They occupy a central role in his sculptures and photographs, which through local specifities are able to transcend the local incidents of his Delhi residence.
GIGI SCARIA, SETTLEMENT
The exhibition curated by Jamila Adeli consists of nine large-scale photographs and Scaria’s latest monumental sculpture “Settlement”. A same titled catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition. Currently showing. May 2nd — July 11th, 2009
Settlement, 2009
Photograph, digital print on archival paper
43 x 64.5 inches / 109 x 164 cm
Highlight, 2008
Photograph, digital print on archival paper
43 x 64.5 inches / 109 x 164 cm
Someone left a horse on the shore, 2007
Photograph, digital print on archival paper
43 x 64.5 inches / 109 x 164 cm
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Galerie Christian Hosp
Halle Am Wasser
Invaliden Straße 50-51
D-10557, Berlin
Anita Dube
03/25/2009 · Mansi Shah
Inside Out, 2007
Dystopia’s Spillage, 2006
Silver Gelatin Prints
Kiran Subbaiah
03/16/2009 · Mansi Shah
Use_Me.exe, 2004
Computer Program (Pseudo-Virus for Windows on CD)
20MB
Crash_Run.exe, 2002
Computer Program (Pseudo-Virus for Windows on CD)
1354KB
“A malicious computer virus is that classic dweller of the liminal space between function and dysfunction: its entire function is geared towards draining out all use-value from a computer, to render it dysfunctional (in various degrees). Also for someone who has been consistently engaging with objects and their (dys)functionality, this intense concentration on the interface is perhaps expected. Today, if we look around our homes, we see an increasing array of objects getting ‘contaminated’ with the digital.
Consequently, the formal attributes of an object are no longer tethered to its putative function. When it’s the same digital chip that controls the clock as well as the microwave, what defines the object formally are not cog-wheels or heating coils but its interface – the functional surface it offers its users for manipulation and control. We could possibly parody McLuhan and say, ’the interface is the object’.”
— From Abhishek Hazra: The Ludic Epiphany of Kiran Subbaiah
Kiran Subbaiah lives and works in Bangalore and Amsterdam.
Space Is The Place
03/11/2009 · Neil Doshi
Cloud Gate, 2004
Sky Mirror, 2001
Untitled, 1995
White Sand Red Millet Many Flowers, 1982
“I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects.”
Mughal Jades
03/10/2009 · Mansi Shah
Dagger of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707)
India, Mughal, dated 1660/61 (A.H. 1071)
Pale green & burnt-orange nephrite jade hilt, gold inlaid steel blade
13 3/4 x 2 in.
Opium Spoon
India, Mughal, late 17th-early 18th century
White nephrite jade
4 1/4 x 1 x 1/4 in.