FLASH ART INTERNATIONAL # 258

January – February Issue

For the January – February 2008 issue, Flash Art International lands on planet India. Focus India seeks to map out the contemporary art scene and discover its major protagonists. In his introductory essay to this survey, Paris-based art critic and curator Deepak Ananth addresses the work of 6 established Indian artists: N.S. Harsha, Jitish Kallat, Sharmila Samant, Vivan Sundaram, Sheela Gowda and Subodh Gupta. Pooja Sood’s essay presents us with a survey of young and talented artists working with performance (Nikhil Chopra) photography (Rohini Devasher) and multimedia (Ashok Sukumuran and Shaina Anand, Ravi Agarwal, Ayisha Abraham and Abishek Hazra). The 31-year-old artist Shilpa Gupta, interviewed by Suman Gopinath, reflects on the use of new media in her latest works. In his interview with Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, filmmaker Amar Kanwar talks about his new work, which deals with military dictator ship in Burma.

Solo show reviews include: Gert & Uwe Tobias, Mariko Mori, Carlos Amorales, Mary Heilmann, Slater Bradley, Ian Kiaer, Duncan Marquiss, Luisa Lambri, Charlotte Posenenske, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’ Sullivan, Mathieu Mercier, Mark Leckey, Job Kolewijn, Ian Tweedy, Konstantin Kakanias, Enrico Morsiani, Gino De Dominicis, Yael Bartana, Jordan Wolfson, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Shirin Neshat, Jean-Luc Moulène, Sean Snyder, Teresa Margolles, Noriko Yamaguchi.

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