madras art weekend
Featuring artists : Amba x Shed, Anwar Chitrakar, Apoorva Lanka, Ashish Malakar with Nandita Palchoudhuri, Banoo Batliboi, Gitanjali Das, Jabbar and Abdullah Khatri, Jagrity Phukan, Kaushal Parikh, Khalid Amin Khatri, Nurboo Tsering, Laltu and Tagar Chitrakar, Ramesh Marwada, Ruchi Bakshi with Sanjeev Sharma, Sanjay Chitara, Zainab Tambawalla.
Highlight of the month
Smoke of love by Tushar Tanwar
Tushar Tanwar captures the raw tenderness and bold defiance of queer intimacy, where desire becomes a shared ritual. Through eccentric colours, playful patterns, and exaggerated forms, the painting celebrates love in all its chaos, madness, and clarity.
GUL
Inside the charbagh, inside paradise
A garden of symbolism by WOLF
The triumph of kachchh
CURATED BY SATISH REDDY
A kaleidoscope of works from the craftspeople we presented over a year ago, and their remarkable journey from artisans to artists.
Zoya Akhtar's home, Mumbai
Art by Anwar Chitrakar
Sandeep Khosla's home, Mumbai
Art by Wolf
Manju Sara Rajan's home, Kochi
Art by Wolf
Devika Narain's home, Mumbai
Art by Ramesh Tekam
Winning Combinations
When done right, more is better! Explore artworks that go together beautifully, to make your walls look more alive, more inspiring.
FEATURED ARTISTS
VIDYA DEVI SONI
74 year old Vidya Devi Soni lives in Bhilwara, Rajasthan and started painting at the age of six, with the guidance of her parents. She is an expert at Mandana, an art form from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, traditionally wall and floor paintings that were used to protect the home, welcome the gods into it, and signal celebration on festive occasions. Vidya Devi transfers the traditional techniques, themes and motifs of Mandana to paper, using natural colours, giving new life to this rich, ancient art form.
RUCHI BAKSHI SHARMA
Ruchi Bakshi is a filmmaker, artist, and toymaker. Her picaresque characters, often based on outlandish folklore and equipped with supernatural powers, seem to inhabit a strange and wonderful world of myth and fancy and reflect her own fringe theories about the origin ofour world. Everything that surrounds her soaks into her art, emphasizing her interest in creating an alternative way of seeing. Ruchi works with a variety of media, ranging from optical toys, animating wonder turns, lenticulars to jointed paper puppets, zines, and illustrated puzzles.