Edge of Desire
dal 13/6/2006 al 16/9/2006
Segnalato da
13/6/2006
Edge of Desire
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Recent Art in India. A selection of video and multi-media works on view at Montalvo's Project Space. Edge of Desire features the work of artists representing three generations and artists previously little known outside South Asia.
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive / Project Space at Montalvo Arts Center
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
and Montalvo Arts Center collaborate to present Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India.
Seen for the first time on the West Coast, this major exhibition brings together an
extraordinarily diverse range of contemporary artists and works of art that reflect
new perspectives on culture and politics in India today.
The exhibition will span San Francisco’s East and South Bay communities with more
than seventy works of art, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video
installations presented at BAM/PFA, and a selection of video and multi-media works
on view at Montalvo's Project Space.
Edge of Desire features the work of artists representing three generations. Some --
including Nalini Malani, Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata
Sengupta, and Jeebesh Bachi), Ranbir Kaleka, Atul Dodiya, and Nataraj Sharma -- have
shown widely on the international stage. The exhibition also includes work by
artists previously little known outside South Asia.
Nearly forty artists are represented in the BAM/PFA portion of the exhibition, which
is organized around five themes: Location/Longing, Unruly Visions, Transient Self,
Contested Terrain and Recycled Futures. Works in Location/Longing address the desire
for place and the relationship with locations real and imagined.
Unruly Visions is concerned with the artists’ relationships with the many guises of popular culture in
contemporary India: the visual culture of television, advertising, cinema and
Bollywood, and the unruly, mixed-up visions characterized by everyday life on the
street.
The section on Transient Self examines migration and transience as major
features of the contemporary Indian experience. Works included under this theme
range from personal histories and realist commentaries to fabrications of
self-transformation. Recycled Futures encompasses works that conflate regenerating
materials and renewal of tradition, and that are playful, often satirizing popular
consumer culture.
The Montalvo portion of the exhibition includes video and multimedia works by four
artists and artist groups: Tushar Joag of Mumbai, Sonia Khurana of New Delhi and
Amsterdam, Nalini Malani of Mumbai and New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective and
Mrityunjay Chatterjee.
Raqs Media Collective and Nalini Malani were in residence at Montalvo’s Lucas
Artists Programs in 2005 preparing for the Montalvo-sponsored iCon: India
Contemporary exhibition at last summer’s Venice Biennale. Malani will return to the
Lucas Artists Programs this September.
An exciting range of lectures, performances, panel discussions and film screenings
will accompany the exhibition at both venues. For more information, visit online at
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu and http://www.montalvoarts.org.
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India is co-organized by the Asia Society, New York,
and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. It is curated by Chaitanya Sambrani.
The Berkeley presentation of Edge of Desire has been supported by the Consortium for
the Arts at UC Berkeley and by Ginger and Moshe Alafi.
Montalvo Arts Center’s Visual Arts Program is supported by generous gifts and grants
from Jo and Barry Ariko, Jan and Neal Dempsey, Sally and Don Lucas, Penny and Greg
Reyes, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation and Montalvo members.
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