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Indian contemporary art on show at Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai

Indian contemporary art on show at Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai

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Manifestoes in the Open Air presents a slice of what contemporary Indian art means in today’s context | Photo Credit: special arrangement Artist Basist Kumar’s photorealist canvases are one for the books. At Lalit Kala Akademi today, his body of work speaks a decipherable language — whether it be in large swathes of familiar landscapes, […]

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Artist Benitha Perciyal’s series of wooden books is on display at Serendipity Arts Festival

Artist Benitha Perciyal’s series of wooden books is on display at Serendipity Arts Festival

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From Xenophora on display at the Serendipity Arts Festival | Photo Credit: Special arrangement K Benitha Perciyal is in the process of creating a living, breathing library. Only, these are books that one cannot read. The Chennai-based artist is carving books out of discarded Burma teak. She has a collection of over 700 of them, […]

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