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DAYANITA SINGH AT GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUCKE, MUMBAI
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Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke is showing a new body of work by the Indian photographer Dayanita Singh. Based in New Delhi, Singh has developed an international reputation as one of the most accomplished and astute photographers of her generation. The work in the exhibition, entitled BLUE BOOK, explores the possibilities and limitations of colour film in the traditional sense, without the aid of digital photography or computer manipulations. 
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THOMAS ERBEN ON MOMENT AS MONUMENT AT TRAVANCORE PALACE, NEW DELHI
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'Moment as Monument' is an exhibition of work in a variety of media by 13 artists from Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Pakistan and the United States, many of whom are part of the South Asian diasporas. Curated by Thomas Erben Gallery and Aparajita Jain of Seven Art, the exhibition explores the dynamic relationships between the temporal and the authoritative, in the overlap where politics, social systems and cognitive structures intersect. 
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BANGALORE ARTISTS LAUNCH MAKE-SHIFT GALLERY
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A group of artists from Bangalore have hit upon a novel idea and joined forces to launch a makeshift art gallery with common ownership for sharing and learning from peers and seniors. "Samuha", a collective of art practitioners, involves artists of various disciplines, including painting, sculpture, new media arts and performance arts. 
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DAYANITA SINGH AT NATURE MORTE, NEW DELHI
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Dayanita Singh, recently awarded the Prince Claus Award for 2008 by the government of The Netherlands, has developed an international reputation as one of the most accomplished and astute photographers of her generation. This, her third solo exhibition with Nature Morte in New Delhi, is the first show in India of her colour photographs. Entitled "Blue Book," this body of work presents images of industrial landscapes and interiors, exploring the colour blue during different times of day. 
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STILL MOVING IMAGE AT DEVI ART FOUNDATION, GURGAON, DELHI
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Devi Art Foundation's inaugural exhibition 'Still Moving Image' is a selection of video and photography by contemporary Indian artists. The not-for-profit Foundation, based in the outskirts of Delhi, will present three shows a year, with each exhibition featuring artists from India and the Sub-continent as well as those of the diaspora from the region; each of these shows will be curated from the Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection. 
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TRENT PARKE AT ALL INDIA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY, DELHI
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In 2003 Trent Parke set off on a two-year trip, driving almost 90,000 km around Australia. Capturing the mood of a still young and emerging nation, he examined the disjuncture between the perception of the Australian 'way of life', with its nostalgia and romanticism, and the more complex reality. 'Minutes to Midnight', the collection of photographs from this journey - for which Parke was awarded the prestigious international W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography - offers a sometimes disturbing portrait of twenty-first century Australia, from the desiccated outback to the chaotic, melancholic vitality of life in remote Aboriginal towns. 
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DEBUT: SARIKA MEHTA AT GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUECKE, MUMBAI
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Sarika Mehta's first solo exhibition journeys parallel to the arc of her apprenticeship as a printmaker and her gradual shift to painting. The exhibition consists of oils, watercolours and prints which, when juxtaposed, suggest two opposing creative energies. The etchings are a study in sombre gravitas, while the paintings are conduits of lightness. 
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JASON ODDY ON DAYANITA SINGH AT THE KRITI GALLERY, VARANASI
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Varanasi is a city where the penitent and the dying come to find salvation. Pilgrims redeem themselves in the waters of the Ganges whilst the old and the sick wait for death, believing that once cremated in this holiest of Hindu sites they will escape samsara, the otherwise eternal cycle of rebirth and suffering. A mile or two back from the river the Kriti Gallery is an unlikely white cube in the middle of this relentlessly hectic town. Earlier this year it hosted Go Away Closer, an exhibition of new work by the Indian photographer Dayanita Singh. 
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PINK AT GALERIE MIRCHANDANI, MUMBAI, INDIA
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Currently showing at one of Mumbai's most interesting contemporary art galleries, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, is a group show entitled 'PINK'. Perhaps taking inspiration from the doyenne of fashion Diana Vreeland who said that 'pink is the navy blur of India', the works in the exhibition celebrate the colour's longstanding presence in Indian visual culture and locates its multiple meanings and contexts in contemporary art. 
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