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Listen with IrfanGuftagoo with Vivan Sundaram | Contemporary ArtistVivan Sundaram (28 May 1943 – 29 March 2023) was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different medias, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work constantly referred to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory, identification and history. He was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.
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Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsMentorship to friendship - conversations about pedagogy and life in Baroda with Gulammohammed Sheikh and Desmond LazaroThe student-mentor relationship rewarding as it is, is even momentous when it turns into an everlasting friendship. On this week’s episode, we invited our artist Desmond Lazaro to speak with one of his gurus and guides, Gulammohammed Sheikh as they speak about when they first met at the MSU university, Baroda in the 90s to the friendship they share today. Through the episode, the pair give us a glimpse into their lives as Sheikh speaks about his art practice and connecting to his students through Art History, as well as the commonalties he shares with Lazaro as the pa...2022-02-0551 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsWe, The People in conversation with Kabir Jhala and Varunika SarafVarunika Saraf’s recent solo exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road that features deeply political works are a reference, subversion and perhaps even a hijacking of complex and ever-changing processes that we call tradition. In conversation with Varunika in this episode is writer and Associate Editor at The Art Newspaper Kabir Jhala. Referencing Saraf’s practice through the episode, Jhala enquires about her experiences and influences as the pair speak about the ethics of presenting violence, self-censorship, exclusionary politics, historical archives, surveillance and society slowly moving towards erasure of the past. The pair delve into the role images have continually had i...2021-12-2637 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsReturn of the Phantom Lady - Pushpamala N and Shireen GandhyChemould’s Director, Shireen Gandhy and artist Pushpamala N share a relationship that goes long before Gandhy became a gallerist.
In this episode, the pair speak about how S H Raza referred Pushpamala to Chemould introducing to the gallery an artist that emerged very distinctly as a sculptor, even making her mark as one, to eventually evolving into a photo-performance artist who was ready to push her work into other kinds of making.
Through the conversation, Pushpamala recalls the many influences and events in her life that have moulded her art-making practice into what it is t...2021-10-2338 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsSo It Goes: with Yardena Kurulkar and Dr. Gita ChadhaIntroduced during Yardena Kurulkar’s exhibition So It Goes at Chemould Prescott Road when asked to write for it, Dr. Gita Chadha found in Yardena’s work a placeholder for her grief after loosing a dear friend not long ago. In this episode, the pair excavate the idea of death, grief, uncertainty and recalling memories as Yardena opens up about her heritage - growing up in a religious Bene Israeli family, the death of her father, the odd-jobs she’s worked as well as the female body - the recollection of which continues to impact and appear quite evocatively in her...2021-10-0239 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsInternal Correspondences - Aditi Singh and Anurag KhannaWhat started off as an exchange between artist Aditi Singh and collector Anurag Khanna on Aditi’s work, has over the past year or so evolved into an unceasing exchange between the two on art, poetry and literature. Through this episode, Aditi and Anurag speak of their thoughts, touching upon their shared love of poetry, spirituality, music, nature and most of all drawing and art. Aditi speaks movingly about deep friendships she shared with artists like Zarina Hashmi and Gieve Patel. This episode is a profound half hour of listening between a deeply engaged art collector who is able to...2021-09-1135 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsGateway to Ghatkopar: with Atul Dodiya and Kaiwan MehtaIf there is one thing Atul Dodiya and Kaiwan Mehta share, it is a deep understanding and engagement with the city of Bombay. In this episode moderated by Mehta, the pair speak about being alive to the urban space, museums, cinema, literature and people while reading these moments through the sense of time. Dodiya speaks of his attachment to an area that he has always lived in, Ghatkopar and being possessed with the idea of being a painter very early on, constantly being influenced by cinema, music, poetry, the Gujrati language and of course, Gandhi. From his Chawl to...2021-08-2857 minStalking Art | Chemould PodcastsRemembering Mehlli with Jerry PintoThrough August 2021, Chemould is exhibiting a retrospective of one of India’s most special artists, Mehlli Gobhai. In this episode with Jerry Pinto, we talk about the incredible life lived by Mehlli, as Jerry, one of his closest friends, also became primary caregiver toward the end of his life. Jerry recalls how Gobhai, recallling him as “a work of art himself”, began to see art, his process of making art, using colour and his ability to make him challenge art’s very definition. Through remembering Gobhai, filled with anecdotes Jerry candidly speaks of how Mehlli did not care for the art m...2021-08-0828 minStalking Art | Chemould PodcastsRecalling Memories: Jitish and Reena Kallat's journey togetherIn this episode, the artist power-couple Reena and Jitish Kallat take us down memory lane, giving us a glimpse into their creative partnership. From meeting and courting in art school to walking around the city; their wide-eyed curiosity led to the beginnings of their unique art practices during a time where we couldn’t carry the world’s archive in our pocket. The Kallats chat about what going to art school together was like and what art spaces were looking for when they graduated. They go on to talking about what the energy of their adjacent studio spaces is like...2021-07-2431 min
Stalking Art | Chemould PodcastsThe Gallery as WitnessHow does a gallery keep up with changing art world trends? On our introductory episode we chat with our gallery’s director, Shireen Gandhy, as we delve into Chemould’s ever-evolving journey; from pioneering the early careers of Modern Masters like M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza and Ram Kumar, voyaging on to exhibiting today’s leading contemporary artists such as Nalini Malani, Nilima Shiekh and Atul Dodiya. We discuss what is ‘Indian’ about art through the works of Bhupen Khakhar and Jitish Kallat, and investigate how our artists Shilpa Gupta and Dhruvi Acharya have responded to the trauma of the pan...2021-07-1133 min
Art of the MatterHow to spot a future masterIn this episode, host Arvind Vijaymohan talks to Shireen Gandhy, one of India's most powerful gallerists, the director of Chemould Prescott Road, who offers some rich insights into how you can identify the greatest contemporary talents when they are still young and explosive, rising through the ranks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2021-03-0244 min