[Reader-list] Tonite - Opening in NY - South Asian painters group show

[Paul Miller]

I just thought I'd pass this on. It looks interesting.
Paul


Mind, Matter and Mystique


Tamarind Art is pleased to announce “Mind, Matter and Mystique”, an  
exhibition featuring seven promising Indian painters: Maneesha Doshi,  
Dipankar Dasgupta, Eleena Banik, Sharmi Chowdhury, Mahula Ghosh,  
Nikita Parikh and Nimesh Patel.

Within the context of contemporary Indian art, the last decade of  
twentieth century is very important towards the development of  
modernity. Indian artists today are living simultaneously in several  
cultures and times. As times and cultures converge, the past exists as  
a living entity alongside the present, illuminating and sustaining  
each other. Many young and promising artists have tried to come out of  
conventional ways of image-making practiced by their predecessors of  
the past decades. They have absorbed in themselves the turmoil created  
by globalization and its outcome- the market economy, which brought  
along with it an enormous shift in socio-political and cultural  
values. They have reacted, restrained or raised a voice of rebellion  
against these changing spheres through their art.

Mind, Matter and Mystique is an attempt to bring together the  
conventions of conceptualism, unification of multidirectional norms,  
and mystical faculty of vision, and other varieties of the Indian  
Contemporary Art practice.

The Exhibition will open at Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th Street, New  
York on October 28, 6:30 PM and runs through December 6, 2008.

www.tamarindart.net