Spotlight on Mind Matter & Mystique

In Tamarind Arts Current show Mind, Matter & Mystique a number of extremely talented artists are featured. In our press materials we are only allowed a few sentences to focus on each of these wonderful people in the next few posts I will highlight each of theses artists giving the reader an opportunity to learn more about each artist.

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, mystical faculty of vision, and other varieties of the Indian Contemporary Art practice.