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[themify_quote] Art today is a kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organising new modes of sensibility. And the means for practising art have been radically extended. Indeed in response to this new function (more felt than clearly articulated), artists have to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials, and methods. […]

The sterile summer months are over and the art galleries of Delhi are humming again with life. Almost half a dozen exhibitions have been inaugurated, some major and the others more modest. At Rabindra Bhavan, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations has sponsored an exhibition entitled “trajectories” that attempts to make one familiar with contemporary […]

Fifty “icons” by Bartus Bartolomes (Bartolome Sanchez) are on display at the Dhoomi Mal  Gallery, 8-A Connaught Place. This is his first one-man show in India. Bartus, born in Venezuela, has already had exhibitions in Rome, Paris and San Francisco. He is a self-taught artist. He is also a poet and a photographer. At present […]

There is an serie fusion of the sardonic and the humorous in the 50 “icons” of Bartolome Sanchez, a young Venezuelan artist, now mounted at the Dhoomi Mal Gallery. Created out collage, Chinese ink, polycromat paper, the work of Sanchez are a part of his long search into the archaeology of iconography or signs as […]

Bartolome Sanchez’s solo show of “artistic” works has been revitalising the contemporary art scene. Nearly 60 art works on view at Dhoomi Mal Gallery speak of a new chapter on art. They widen the viewer’s curiosity, whet his hunger and leave him aesthetically satisfied. The stress is on icons, for the artist seems to be […]

Secondo me questa cartella di Bartus Bartolomes segue questo tragitto: raccoglie i reperti, i campioni, i rimasugli, le scorieche una certa quotidianità visiva lascia nello spazio e nel tempo, per poi riprodurli grafiticamente. Parole graffiate dunque nella loro disponibilità alla significazione, come occupanti un certo spazio scenico e accanto immagini alfabetizzate, meglio forse vocabolarizzate, tendenti […]