Vadehra Art Gallery & Prestel presents "Queer" book launch at Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7pm on 2nd May 2011
Time : 7:00 pm
Entry : Free
Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery and Prestel announce the release of their latest publication 'Queer' by Sunil Gupta.
It follows from the Shilpa Gupta monograph published by the same in 2010. This is an international monograph on a very important Indian photographer and features selections from each of his major series from 1970s onwards, offering a comprehensive overview of his works to date.
To celebrate the sense of humour that has propelled queer lives through the last century and a half, Pramada Menon and Gautam Bhan will render a comic version of the conversation between Saleem Kidwai and Sunil Gupta that underpins the work in the book.
Saleem Kidwai will also be present at the event.
Gupta is also a well-known artist, curator and writer. For decades he has explored narratives of contemporary gay life in India and other parts of the world; tackled issues of gender and sexuality; and documented his own experiences living with AIDS.
The hardcover 140-page publication with 80 colour illustrations has an illuminating essay by Canadian curator Keith Wallace and a conversation between historian Saleem Kidwai and Sunil Gupta. Above all it chronicles Gupta’s divergent photographic series that range from narrative portraits to fictional photo essays. Beautifully reproduced, these photos include his renowned series “The Pre–Raphaelites”; heart-rending images of children living in an HIV-positive care center; 1970s street scenes from New York City’s West Village; and his groundbreaking portraits of gay men, women and transgender individuals living in his native country and struggling against homophobic laws and culture. Subversive, whimsical, personal and political, Sunil Gupta’s photographs have done much to raise awareness about—and overcome the taboos of—homosexual life throughout the modern world.
About the artist: SUNIL GUPTA was born in Delhi, India and has spent time living in Canada, London, and New York. His photographs have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are in the permanent collections of museums in the United States, England and Australia. He writes frequently about gay culture and history.
About the writers: SALEEM KIDWAI taught medieval Indian history in Delhi University. Since 1993 he has been an independent scholar. He edited (along with Ruth Vanita) Same Sex Love inIndia (Palgrave 2000) and edited the translated
autobiography of the courtesan-singer Malka Pukhraj, Song Sung True (Kali for Women/ Zubaan, 2001). He has also translated many short stories and a novel from Urdu into English. Currently he is researching homo-eroticism at home in 18th and 19th century Urdu poetry. He lives in Lucknow.
KEITH WALLACE lives in Vancouver, Canada and has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991-2001 he was Curator then Director/Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. In 2004, he organized InFest: International Artist Run Culture which was attended by 250 artists and administrators from 25 countries. Wallace has written essays for numerous magazines, journals, and exhibition catalogues. Since 2004, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
About the publishers: PRESTEL is one of the world's leading publishers in the fields of art, architecture, photography and design. Founded in 1924, Prestel has its headquarters in Munich, offices in New York and London and an international sales network worldwide. Prestel is one of the world's leading illustrated book publishers with a stunning list of beautifully crafted books on all aspects of art, architecture, photography and design. Since its inception, Prestel has emphasised quality. This adherence to high standards of editing and production has won the company broad recognition and numerous awards in the publishing world.
VADEHRA ART GALLERY (VAG) has promoted contemporary Indian art through exhibitions, retrospectives, publications and educational programmes since 1986. Over the last 20 years, the Gallery has become the locus through which both modern and contemporary artists have reached the public. VAG’s position as an artistic interlocutor with the public is especially vital in contemporary India because of the lack of vibrant art museum culture. In 1996, VAG became the first Indian gallery to systematically publish books on art. We have published 14 books so far that range from monographs on artists, to books on art making technique, to picture books and finally a comprehensive art directory. Done in close collaboration with the artists, these publications are vital historical documents.
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Entry : Free
Place : Max Mueller Bhavan / Gothe Institut, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
It follows from the Shilpa Gupta monograph published by the same in 2010. This is an international monograph on a very important Indian photographer and features selections from each of his major series from 1970s onwards, offering a comprehensive overview of his works to date.
To celebrate the sense of humour that has propelled queer lives through the last century and a half, Pramada Menon and Gautam Bhan will render a comic version of the conversation between Saleem Kidwai and Sunil Gupta that underpins the work in the book.
Saleem Kidwai will also be present at the event.
Gupta is also a well-known artist, curator and writer. For decades he has explored narratives of contemporary gay life in India and other parts of the world; tackled issues of gender and sexuality; and documented his own experiences living with AIDS.
The hardcover 140-page publication with 80 colour illustrations has an illuminating essay by Canadian curator Keith Wallace and a conversation between historian Saleem Kidwai and Sunil Gupta. Above all it chronicles Gupta’s divergent photographic series that range from narrative portraits to fictional photo essays. Beautifully reproduced, these photos include his renowned series “The Pre–Raphaelites”; heart-rending images of children living in an HIV-positive care center; 1970s street scenes from New York City’s West Village; and his groundbreaking portraits of gay men, women and transgender individuals living in his native country and struggling against homophobic laws and culture. Subversive, whimsical, personal and political, Sunil Gupta’s photographs have done much to raise awareness about—and overcome the taboos of—homosexual life throughout the modern world.
About the artist: SUNIL GUPTA was born in Delhi, India and has spent time living in Canada, London, and New York. His photographs have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are in the permanent collections of museums in the United States, England and Australia. He writes frequently about gay culture and history.
About the writers: SALEEM KIDWAI taught medieval Indian history in Delhi University. Since 1993 he has been an independent scholar. He edited (along with Ruth Vanita) Same Sex Love inIndia (Palgrave 2000) and edited the translated
autobiography of the courtesan-singer Malka Pukhraj, Song Sung True (Kali for Women/ Zubaan, 2001). He has also translated many short stories and a novel from Urdu into English. Currently he is researching homo-eroticism at home in 18th and 19th century Urdu poetry. He lives in Lucknow.
KEITH WALLACE lives in Vancouver, Canada and has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991-2001 he was Curator then Director/Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. In 2004, he organized InFest: International Artist Run Culture which was attended by 250 artists and administrators from 25 countries. Wallace has written essays for numerous magazines, journals, and exhibition catalogues. Since 2004, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
About the publishers: PRESTEL is one of the world's leading publishers in the fields of art, architecture, photography and design. Founded in 1924, Prestel has its headquarters in Munich, offices in New York and London and an international sales network worldwide. Prestel is one of the world's leading illustrated book publishers with a stunning list of beautifully crafted books on all aspects of art, architecture, photography and design. Since its inception, Prestel has emphasised quality. This adherence to high standards of editing and production has won the company broad recognition and numerous awards in the publishing world.
VADEHRA ART GALLERY (VAG) has promoted contemporary Indian art through exhibitions, retrospectives, publications and educational programmes since 1986. Over the last 20 years, the Gallery has become the locus through which both modern and contemporary artists have reached the public. VAG’s position as an artistic interlocutor with the public is especially vital in contemporary India because of the lack of vibrant art museum culture. In 1996, VAG became the first Indian gallery to systematically publish books on art. We have published 14 books so far that range from monographs on artists, to books on art making technique, to picture books and finally a comprehensive art directory. Done in close collaboration with the artists, these publications are vital historical documents.
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Vadehra Art Gallery & Prestel presents "Queer" book launch at Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7pm on 2nd May 2011
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