MASH Podcast: Recent Episodes
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MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,
Join us on a fascinating journey through the history of Timeless temples!
In this episode of MASH Podcast, we delve into the magnificent Sun temples of ancient India, exploring the evolution of Nagara styles, including Kalinga and Bhumija. We'll discover how to identify these distinct styles and examine the patronage of the Solanki dynasty, who built the iconic Modhera Sun temple in western India. We'll also marvel at the Sun temple of Konark, and explore the iconography of Lord Surya and its variations. Get ready to uncover the secrets of these architectural wonders and gain a deeper appreciation for India's rich cultural heritage.
Tune in to listen and expand your knowledge about the histories behind the temples in India and their architectural wonders. Streaming now on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and Google Podcasts. (Head to our website for more details).
Written by Urvi C; Hosted by: Hanima Nawaz; modified by Davangi Pathak
In this episode of the podcast, we will discuss the Nagara-style temples, and deep dive into the tremendous merger of socio-cultural elements with religion during the Chandella dynasty. We shall discuss the exceptional and infamous Khajuraho temples.
We’ll try to answer some pertinent questions — who were the Chandellas, and what inspired them to build the Khajuraho temples? What has successive research concluded about the meaning and symbolism of the erotic sculptures on the temple?
Further, we will arrive at the patronage by the Chandellas by discussing the Khajuraho temples, which include Kandariya Mahadeo and Lakshmana temples. We’ll study the significance of the erotic sculptures and their symbolic inclination, and try to understand the concept of sacred and secular in the temple.
Listen in to find out!
This episode of MASH podcast will focus on the grand legacy and the golden age of the Gupta dynasty, with a special focus on the Dashavatara temple and the iconography of Lord Vishnu.
It will delve into what the Trimurti — the collective of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva — symbolises in Hindu cosmology and their functions. We’ll also take a look at how Vishnu’s reverence gained momentum in Hinduism, and how the Vaishnavism sect of Hinduism rose to prominence in India between the 4th to 6th centuries.
If you’ve ever wondered how historians and archaeologists deduce the main deity of the temple and conduct holistic research of the site? This podcast episode is for you!
Tune in to listen and expand your knowledge about the histories behind the temples in India and their architectural wonders. Streaming now on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and Google Podcasts. (Head to our website for more details)
Image credits: Bob King, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Urvi C; Hosted by: Hanima Nawaz; modified by Davangi Pathak
The podcast will focus on the Nagara style of temple architecture, expanding on the definition of sub-categories (Rekha Prasada or latina, etc.) with examples.
The episode will delve into the architecture of one of the first temples constructed under the patronage of Gupta kingdom, whose reign was known as the golden age. While discussing the lineage of Gupta rulers and their contribution to the Indian art and architecture, we shall also elaborate on Udaigiri caves, providing in detail the concept of Rock cut architecture.
The podcast will also revisit the significance of the structures/ parts of the temple.
In continuation to Nagara style, the various schools (such as Solanki, Chalukyas, Maru- Gurjara schools, among others) under several consecutive patronage will be elaborately discussed.
\Written by Urvi C, Modified by Davangi Pathak, and Final Revisions by Medha Sharma.
The third podcast will explore the mythological aspect of temple architecture in India.
A temple is a corpus of extensive Hindu mythology, depicting myths from puranas in mandapas as a representation of secular life, images of gods and goddesses in garbhagriha (sanctum sanctorum), and other decorative motifs.
We will further focus on the iconography of Gods, Goddesses, semi-gods, etc., and how their formal attributes have modified over time, while citing examples of specific temples.
Since the podcast is about mythic narratives, we also intend to delve into the comparative angle with world myths.
Image credits: Asit Jain, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Urvi C; Hosted by: Hanima Nawaz; modified by Davangi Pathak.
The second episode focuses on the making of the temple, elaborating the plan of the temple, which is the Vastupurusamandala, as mentioned in the ancient textual sources.
We will further elaborate on the evolution of the temple architecture - From a temple with just a garbha griha and mandapa to the inclusion of antarla (vestibule) to several mandapas, eventually forming temple towns.
Image Credits: Kalleshvara Temple, 10th century AD, Rashtrakuta period, Bagli, Karnataka, Photo by Dinesh Kannambadi, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Urvi C, Modified by Davangi Pathak, and Final Revisions by Asmita Singh.
The Episode begins with contextualizing the essence of being in the temple– how one feels or behaves in the temple and how the temple has been significant in India. We also dwell upon the Buddhist architecture that led to the foundation of a dedicated place for devotion followed by the philosophy of the “sacred”. Further, we focus on the prominent religions of India, viz Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, which became the ground for the construction of several sacred sites. We also explore the concept of Tirtha, a sacred site, as explained by Stella Kramrisch. We discuss the symbolic meaning of each temple structure starting from the bottom which is the jagati to the kalasa, the top, attributing that transpires a devotee while experiencing higher consciousness. Image Credits: Harvinder Chandigarh; Written by Urvi C; Hosted by: Hanima Nawaz; Modified by Davangi Pathak, and Final Revisions by Asmita Singh.
Shivani Aggarwal's works come from a process of continuously breaking herself to understand not just the world around her but the world within her. Her process is an emotional premonition of her own situation or condition. Over the past few years she has been involved with creating, enlarging , bending and twisting common everyday objects that she finds in her regular environment. Her art practice has evolved into a three-dimensional installation in wood, terracotta, fibreglass and thread. Her use of red thread in her previous body of works has been a significant emotion of expression . They are symbolic of functionality, whether personal, political or societal, which are being constantly challenged.
We have arrived at the end of the podcast series, Indian Art History. In this episode, our host Ayushi takes us to the complex comprehensions of contemporary Indian art. She takes a route via art practices of several contemporary artists through the value of threats, love and care while looking at the contemporary urge to make art. Image Credits: Art Limited/Sudhir Patwardhan; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
The Episode introduces you to the practice of different artists post independence. Through their varied narrative and abstract practices they shaped the modern art landscape in India. They exchanged ideas and techniques with the rest of the world and carved a niche for the South Asian artists. . Image Credits: Met Museum; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Maksud Ali Mondal (1993, based in Santiniketan) was born in Bankura, West Bengal, India. His practice includes facilitating an experiential understanding of organisms in a durational, built microcosm, using sculpture, painting, drawing, installation and photography. His work deals with microbial contamination as a conversational expression, based on observation of growth, transformations and decomposition of organic matter by bacteria, fungi, creatures, fermentation, oxidation, rotting and with the organic, manmade found objects and everyday discarded materials. In this one of a kind podcast, learn in detail about the artist's fascination with the "real".
As India edged towards independence from the British, Indian artists also set free their aspirations, beliefs and conformities by experimenting and searching for visual idioms that made their work more of the subcontinent. Tune in as we discuss the art of prominent artists. Image Credits: National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA); Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
A quick tour to 19th century Kolkata. We are particularly visiting the Kalighat temple where the Kalighat paintings are being sold as souvenirs to pilgrims. This resulted in an art style that spoke not just about religion and mythology but also urged its readers to think beyond through social satire. Image Credits: Christie's; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Bunu Dhungana (b.1981) is an artist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She uses photography as a medium to explore and question the world around her. Her background in sociology informs her photographic work, questioning notions of gender and patriarchy. While her personal projects centre around gender, she has worked in a wide range of fields from visual ethnography, NGO/INGO work, to commercial and journalistic work. Find out more about the artist and her 'unexpected' practice through this exclusive episode, NOW!
Let us dive into the anthropological realism of the Company Paintings. Image Credits: Bonhams; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Sathi Guin’s works aspire to search and create an identity amidst several entities. Her paintings provide a platform not only for her exploration of her ”self” but as a means to be a part of another more real world. In this one of a kind podcast, learn more about the artist.
Pahari paintings marked the end of the long standing themes and subjects of God, royal ways of exquisite living and love commissioned by the Rajput rulers. Image Credits: qgGV_J7YgKTe9A at Google Cultural Institute; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary light artist creating site-specific monumental sculptures. Her work’s unique relationship to technology engages viewers in dialogue with cultural legacies, architecture, and the surrounding community. In a one of a kind podcast, learn more about the early life of the artist, and what inspires her current practice!
Tune in as we scan the depths of the earliest palm leaf miniatures and their contribution to Rajasthani miniature. Image Credits: Bani Thani - National Museum, New Delhi; Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Ankon Mitra is an architect by training and an artist by temperament, with a keen interest in the geometry and mathematics of trees, flowers, hills and coastlines. Through the initiative ‘Oritecture’ he is exploring the linkages and uses of Origami in Design and Architecture. The studio has completed a number of restaurant, retail, facade and spatial projects created with the folded technique in metal (aluminium, steel and brass). In this one of a kind podcast, learn about the artist's famous 'folding' technique.
We take you to the Vijaynagara architecture and frescoes at Hampi, where the essence of that prosperous empire has long-lived in its structures and in the collective memory of the people. Written and hosted by Ayushi Chaurasia
We are back with Deccan miniature paintings with a flavour of mystery, imagination and poetry. Written and hosted by Ayushi Chaurasia. Image credits: http://www.indianart.ru/eng/of_the_deccan/1.php
Shailee Mehta's artistic practice stems from an ongoing dialogue between a personal space of imagination and nostalgia, and the political knottings of history, memory and contemporary society. Working extensively with elements of figuration and embodiment, she situates the female body as a central agential motif in her explorations around femininity and visibility. In this one of kind podcast, experience the artist's life and motifs!
Murari Jha is a New Delhi-based visual and performance artist. His multimedia practice explores personal as political narratives, the psychological processing of everyday socio-political occurrences, the transformation of the body by the environment and the temporal regimes it occupies, and the performativity of objects and spectatorship. In this one of a kind podcast, delve deep into the life of Murari and find out what shaped the life and the art of the Artist!
We create a build-up right from the start of Delhi sultanate to the Mughals only to reach Hamzanama, a prolific compilation of miniature paintings detailing the adventures of Hamza, the fantastical uncle of Prophet Mohammad. Written and hosted by: Ayushi Chaurasia, Image credits: Victoria and Albert Museum
The Khajuraho temples are mired with Tantric mysteries. Tune in as we decode their architecture decorated with sexual symbols. Script by: Ayushi Chaurasia
Image credits: Dennis Jarvis
Cholas, the temple building polities were quite adept at sculptures and architecture. In this episode we discuss their temples and sculptures. Listen for more. Written by Ayushi Chaurasia/ Image Credits: Freer Gallery
The Shaivite and Vaishnavite temples and sculptures at Mamallapuram built by Pallavas would influence the architecture of Hindu temple building in centuries to come. Listen for more. Written by Ayushi Chaurasia/ Image Credits: Bernard Gagnon
Mathura is so overused in the contemporary religious narrative, without ever mentioning the immense artefacts it holds from time immemorial. Listen for more. Written and Hosted by Ayushi Chaurasia. Image Credits: Biswarup Ganguly
This one is all about the Greeks who were Buddhists. Basically Buddhism was taking rounds in Afghanistan and Pakistan around 90 BCE. And the new age Buddha sculptures were a hit all over. Listen for more.
Manisha Gera Baswani is a painter, photographer and occasional writer. Her visual language is defined by an assertiveness that makes the universe of the mind visible, not just to the eye.
Each rhythmic composition she creates becomes a testimony to her joy in the act of painting.
In this one of a kind podcast, learn about the artist's early life, inspiration and a very special project, on the partition of India through the eyes of 47 artists from both sides of the border, 'Postcards from Home'!
The strict Hinayana's narrative resources were limited. In this scarcity the artists built on the already established narrative techniques but this time to tell complex stories through art. Listen for more. Written by Ayushi Chaurasia. Image credits: Sahapedia
Episode 8 takes the listeners to Madhya Pradesh of 100 BCE, where a new Stupa has taken shape. The multilingual artists and artisans who made Bharhut Stupa not just took the evolution of narrative art some notches further but also started engraving their names at the site of their creation. Listen for more.
In episode seven, we discuss the evolution of art and architecture of Sanchi stupa; from the advent of Buddhism in India and then later through the patronage of other dynasties 400 years after Buddha's death.
Via episode 6 we enter into the modern metropolitan landscape of Buddhism of Ashoka Maurya's time. We talk about how polity and religion intermingled, and resulted in wide-scale public projects and installations.
Image credits: M Amitav Ghosh, kevinstandagehotography, Ayushi Chaurasia
This episode is a continuation to episode 4, here we talk about the objects of daily uses, artistic occupations, and metaphors of the Vedic society through the evolution of the oppressive caste system.
Achia Anzi is a multimedia artist who takes inspiration from books, objects, people, and ideas. Whether through his installations, sculptures or video work, Anzi often attempts to portray not only his own feelings but also the crisis experienced by his home country, Israel. In this one of a kind podcast, delve deeper into the life and art of Achia Anzi!
Our host takes us to and fro, shuttling in the expanse of 1500 BC to 500 BC, when the Vedic literature was being written down. These literary sources not only are the prescribed way of living for what came to be modern day Hinduism but also are the inception of age old institutions and traditions that are the hallmark of Hindu religion such as caste based discrimination and fire sacrifices, among many others. Through rituals such as these we find art.
The organizer's of Delhi Art Week come together with MASH India in a conversation that delves into the spirit of the art world of Delhi to form a week's worth of celebration of the art community! Learn the story behind the first edition of DAW, a new independent and collaborative initiative by the city's private galleries, art and cultural institutions, and museums.
Episode 3 takes the dear listeners to the fantastical world of the collective imaginations of the Indus Valley Civilization. The host carefully talks about the excavated artefacts of Indus Valley excavation sites. Together we explore various aspects of the artefacts and sculptures found there.
Episode 2 takes the dear listeners to the immaculate urban, rural and slum architecture of the Indus Valley Civilization. It links the study of their architecture to the study of their society. Interestingly, the episode takes a bend to the terracotta figurines and other excavations at the Harappan sites, which once again throws some light at their society's ritualistic practises creating an aura of knowledge around the perceived genders of their society.
While a lot of speculation has been made, a lot of thought arrows have been projectiled into the proto-historic study of the Indus Valley people, factual uncertainty still prevails. Your host, Ayushi Chaurasia rather dwells on this uncertainty a bit extravagantly.
Image credits: National Museum, New Delhi
Episode 1 takes the listeners to the magical cave art of our prehistoric folk. Cave paintings are openings to our understanding of our current day ritualistic practices through those that existed 10,000 years ago. Many stories will unfold through the first pieces of art ever created within the modern day Indian subcontinent. You will be surprised to know that we are not very different from our prehistoric ancestors, when it comes to preserving our well being. The Indian Art History series is hosted by Ayushi Chaurasia, an archivist and a collagist.
We bring to you a brand new series by MASH podcast, revolving around the various facets of Indian Art right from the prehistoric times while mapping a journey all the way to contemporary art. Our journey expands through time and space as we explore art piece by piece. The podcast is hosted by Ayushi Chaurasia, an archivist and a collage artist. This is an introductory episode.The podcast works its way around finding rarities and at the same time also revisiting popular works of art. The podcast also always puts it out in the universe that there are always multiple ways of looking at art. There is no one way.
The podcast is an attempt to understand the tales of plurality, diversity and contradictions of the people and culture of Indian subcontinent which can very well be mapped by the diverse art practices that have existed in tandem and with collaborative spirits throughout time.
Tarini Sethi studied art at Pratt institute and went on to participate in several group shows in New York where her style developed. She has been working as a fine artist for the last few years and has participated in shows in India and around the world. In parallel, she has also been curating art shows for the last four years to give a platform to independent artists to showcase their work. She is the founder and curator of the Irregulars Art Fair; India's first anti art fair.
Through her art, she explores themes of human intimacy and tries to break the taboo of body-consciousness and sexuality. Her work constantly revolves around the idea of “Utopias” She draws inspiration from folk tales, architecture of cities and stories of kings and queens alongside twists and turns of modern day politics. Her work unveils identity while exploring sexuality within personal spaces, both architectural and cerebral.
Youdhisthir Maharjan was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1984. He attended military boarding school for ten years, studying sciences and mathematics. He received his undergraduate degree in creative writing and art history from New England College in New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. in conceptual printmaking from the University of Idaho. His text-based works have been published and exhibited internationally. His techniques are old and new at the same time. Many of his drawings and collages evoke the graphic conventions. Because of his aim of going to medical school, his visual conventions of the scientific texts find their way into some of his works. His approach to text is definitely scientific, methodical, and algorithmic. In this one of a kind podcast, learn more about the artist!
Brought up on a plantation in Munnar, located at the edge of a forest, PR Satheesh forged a strong bond with nature in his early years. From Munnar in Kerala to Mumbai—the artist takes conventional stereotypes—breaks them and finds ways of creating permutations and combinations that create a synergy of Pollockian canvasses filled with conversations about the complexities of life’s multiple frameworks. His art speaks for itself but in this one of a kind podcast, learn more about the artist's life and source of inspiration for his creations!
Surekha is a contemporary Indian video artist whose works showcase themes including identity and feminism/ecology. She has been a full-time artist since 1996 and her video works have been shown at galleries outside India since 2001. Her works are known for the mix of video and physical presence, highlighting inherent experiences. Surekha has been exploring the possibilities of the video form, negotiating the public and private, locating the body as a site of contestation and appropriation. She uses photography and video to archive, document and perform. She has shown her works both in India and many international shows. Learn more about the artist's early life and inspiration to her diverse expressions.
Sachin George Sebastian graduated in Communication Design from National Insitute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. His practice with paper and pop-up books led him to participate in a residency at Khoj on The Idea of the Book in 2009, following which he started working as independent artist. He has shown his works in various shows in India and outside. In this one of a kind podcast, get an insight into the artist's life now!
A graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design, the Franco-Indian-Norwegian designer’s focus on art-like textiles is what earned her multiple emerging designer awards since her launch in 2018. The brand’s core sensibility lies in the interaction between hand and material - every piece is about textural processes and surface treatments: she personally paints each fabric, meaning no two pieces are ever the same. The label also spans across jewelry and interiors, as Helena believes all forms of design are intrinsically connected and hopes to keep expanding her aesthetic to whichever medium may welcome it.
Arjun Sara is an architect experimenting with both art and architecture using various means. He completed his B.Arch from Vastu Kala Academy, New Delhi in 2015 and further mastered his knowledge, with a PG course from DIA Dessau, Germany in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he worked on various residential and institutional projects with vir.mueller architects, Delhi. Since the beginning of 2019, Arjun started his own journey of interweaving art and architecture. His artworks reveal unnoticed specifics of architecture, creating a dialogue between what is present (reality) and the cosmos (something supreme way beyond our reach). He is currently exhibiting at ALL IS NOT LOST 20:20:20 curated by Saloni Doshi at Sakshi Gallery.
Dr. Ellen-Andrea Seehusen formerly managed international events, sponsoring and brand centers at BMW and Lufthansa. In 2007 she founded IAM to deliver bespoke concepts to business leaders and companies.
Since then, she has initiated the Rolls-Royce Art Program, working directly with artists such as Isaac Julien, Yang Fudong and Angela Bulloch as well as with designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Charles Kaisin.
Concerned with the metaphors of material, Pranati sutures a web of images; some speak of the death and transience in nature, while others evoke movements of insects, birds, flowers. Hand drawn, embroidered and painted upon, the paper and fabric sometimes becomes a soil like surface with microcosmic insects crawling over it, at others it appears as a skin which is freckled with glitters, beads, collages, hair, thread and wrinkles. Though the works look formally abstract, the artist is in fact exploring issues of self identity. Her works seek a balance between the inner and outer worlds, between proximity and distance, and between nature and human life. In this one of a kind podcast, listen to the artist delve into her life and art practice.
Savitha Ravi explores alternative methods of printmaking by employing commonly found materials such as cardboard, fabric and tetra packs to create her art. Her interest in architectural details and patterns are evident in her compositions. Savitha believes that in re-creating these patterns from existing structures in her own artwork, she is adding on to the memory of those spaces. Savitha completed her Bachelor’s from M. S. University in Painting with a minor in Graphics (2013-2017) and her Post Graduation from M. S University with a Major in Graphic Arts (2017-2019).
My work concentrates on natural habitats and aesthetics as my childhood and adolescence has been spent in the lap of nature. I belong to the family of farmer that is why I adore the phenomena of the earth. There is a need for humans to grow and nurture our relation with the nature in today's society. the essence of nature, forms, colours, textures and other elements inspires me." In a one of a kind podcast, learn about the artist's process and inspiration in creating his art.
Born in 1981 in Delhi, Chetnaa completed her Master’s degree in Painting from the College of Art in New Delhi.
Her geometric abstractions are drawn largely from the landscape and architectures of her city, keen observations of the metropolis translated into an eloquent schematic of lines and markers. Initiated as symmetrical arrangements, Chetnaa’s work reveals the need to deconstruct the order she had once sought, so as to build a new geometrical logic that feeds her minimalist aesthetic. In this one of a kind podcast learn about the artist's influence from impressionist to abstract.
Zimbiri, born and raised in Bhutan, finished her undergrad from Wheaton College, MA, with a double major in Economics and Fine Arts. Her first exhibition, Faces, was the first female solo exhibition in Bhutan. It was about people and their way of coping with society by wearing different ‘Faces’. She is currently working on a series of paintings that are an exploration of traditional Bhutanese paint (saa-tshen) and imagery.
In this one of kind podcast, learn about the artist's style and approach to her art, the what and why to her materials as well as what makes her art and approach, so unique.
RINA DHAKA – A name itself is enough - An Indian fashion designer who has been a dreamer ever since her childhood and for whom visuals were always more important than words. She is best known for her theme collections - sheer trousers, crochet, stretch jersey, woollens and spider web motifs. Western wear remains an area of dominance, though she also designs ethnic and conventional attires. She prides on the fact that her pieces can be worn as separates. Attaining a lot of success nationally, she has also achieved accredits internationally. In this one of a kind podcast listen to the designer reminiscing her time with the craft and what made it stand out from the rest.
Shruti Mahajan is a visual artist based in Hyderabad. She has been interested in precarious structures and through them lived lives that navigate liminal and transient spaces, including but not limited to the border regions. Through material and media that suggest the fragility of these archives that emerge and dissipate — envelopes, inland letters, cardboard structures — she enters the fraught domain of identity and memory.
In this one of a kind Podcast, learn about the artist's journey, inspiration and what divides her art from the rest.
Nishita is the principal architect of her award-winning namesake design firm, Studio Nishita Kamdar. She is also the co-founder of Pieces of Desire, an artisan based design studio exploring a seamless transition between art and functional objects with a conscious attempt to promote locally made products with a keen focus on details and craftsmanship.
She is an alumni of Kamla raheja vidyanidhi institute for architecture,Mumbai , where she is also a visiting faculty.
In a short time the design practice garnered attention for the whirl of freshness is brought and also their distinct sense of style and desire to innovate.
Asim Waqif is an Indian artist based in New Delhi, whose work is influenced by interdisciplinary fields of art, architecture, ecology and design. Waqif studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.
His recent projects have attempted a crossover between architecture, art and design, with a strong contextual reference to contemporary urban-design and the politics of occupying/intervening/using public spaces. Some of his projects have developed within abandoned and derelict buildings in the city that act like hidden activity-spaces for marginalized people.
In this one of a kind podcast, learn about the artist's approach to art, architecture and why is he a reluctant artist.
Born in 1960, Seema Kohli has created her own niche in the world of contemporary art since past 35 years. Her creative repertoire is eclectic, encompassing a wide range of mediums ranging from painting, murals, experiential installation performances, films to installations, sculptures and each a unique expression of her style. She has over time has brought a synergy of her unique sensibilities and her art. Working with acrylics and oils on canvas, inks, mixed mediums, ceramics and printmaking, her work has redefined the basic contours of figurative art in India, finding admirers across the planet.
Myth and fable apart, Seema Kohli’s canvases are layered with many, many stories rooted as much in philosophy as in knowledge gained in modern times, a parable of tales both imagined and real, till one can no longer tell the real from the imagined.
“I am a mirror,” she says. “When I paint, you see not what I have made but what you want to see.” “I,” Seema Kohli, painter and teller of stories, “am both myth and reality. Pick the one you want, but remember, the mirror distorts, and so the myth might be reality, and reality myth.”
In this one of a kind podcast learn about the artist and what inspires her art to be so fearless and ferocious.
Niyeti Chadha (b. 1979, Dehradun) is a visual artist based in Bangalore. Her drawings, collages and sculptures document a constantly transforming urban landscape, in which spaces are dissected into formal elements that are reorganized and recombined in an attempt to discover new and imagined narratives within the built environment. The works act as a process of mapping spatial experiences from memory and feeling, to find points of departure within the cityscape through a process of intuition.
Niyeti is represented by Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi.
In this one of a kind podcast, Artist Niyeti Chadha talks about her art as we know it.
Bose Krishnamachari is an internationally acclaimed painter and Artist-Curator based in Mumbai, India. His work comprises vivid abstract paintings, figurative drawings, sculpture, photography, multimedia installations and architecture. Also, the founder member and President of Kochi Biennale Foundation and Biennale Director of international exhibition of contemporary art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. He also actively curates exhibitions and projects of fellow artists around India. Listen to this one of a kind podcast, Bose Krishnamachari: Created in Chance, Found in Destiny, now!
Sunil Gawde is an Indian contemporary artist who has attracted considerable attention from the international art community. His work was shown at the Venice biennale, Centre Pompidou, Moca Museum, to name a few. The dichotomy between reality and perception is the leitmotif of Gawde’s art works. They highlight the absurd, paradoxical, and contradictory nature of life with visual dualities - soft vs. hard, round vs. sharp, presence vs. absence, and so on. His technique and expression blend sense with sensibility, which not only infuses his works with a touch of humour and charm but also encourages philosophical reflection. In this one of a kind podcast, Sunil is opening a window for us to peep in and connect the dots with his life and his art practice. MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Dhruvi Acharya is an Indian artist, known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings. In this one of a kind podcast, she'll be taking us through her life, education and the inspiration behind her art career.
MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcasts.
Ina Puri is a writer, biographer, art curator and collector. She is the author of several books including In Black & White Faces of Indian Art and Journey with a Hundred Strings. In this one of a kind podcast, she’s reminiscing the life of famous Indian photographer, Nemai Ghosh as she remembers
MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.
We are coming to terms with a whole new world – one that is brought to us by the eyes and the lenses of photographers across the world, that are risking their lives as much as our first responders out there. Reel is what’s real today thanks to them, telling us what's happening every minute and every hour of every new day, through their cameras. Photography is art, frozen in time – almost like an entr’acte between the time when the photograph was taken to the current time of its viewing. Except that all the photographs that we see now are in real time of a very unreal, very unknown world that has fallen deafeningly silent, bereft of humans.
Rubina A Khan is an international Journalist and Photographer (Getty Images, Europe). Her editorial and photo work is published in leading publications like Paris Match, Gulf News, Fortune New York, Forbes, BBC, Harper’s Bazaar, Monocle, Travel+Leisure, Architectural Digest & Tatler. In her podcast, she takes you through the importance of visual art, in a time when reel is real, as the world around us unravels through imagery more than ever today.
MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts.
In this episode, Dr. Subodh Kerkar, painter, sculptor, installation artist and the founder of Museum of Goa speaks about how the Ocean became his art and inspiration.
MASH Podcast - Artist Series brings you an art podcast like never before! We invite artists to discuss their practice as well as prominent names from the art world lend their voices to discuss other artists and their works.
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