ARTSPEAKS India has launched India’s first ever Glass Maker’s Club, a platform and forum that is directed towards the medium of glass and its multiple avatars. At the core of the Club’s agenda will be to provide Glass the space and recognition it deserves; to bring together artists, practitioners, writers, connoisseurs and collectors exploring the medium in different ways; and to collectively address the infrastructural and other challenges that makers of glass continue to face. Though a niche field of practice, glass art in India is connected to a rich legacy of historical trade and courtly patronage, building community artisanship and crafting skills of a very high standard, particularly in blown glass techniques. Glass has made its presence felt in the space of contemporary art and design as well, with a few individuals and studios leading the way Read More.....
EXHIBITIONS
A contemporary interpretation of historical objects and art in glass
Curated by Kristine Michael Artistic Director, Ashwini Pai Bahadur
19 - 24 DECEMBER 2023
LIVING TRADITIONS CENTRE (LTC) | BIKANER HOUSE, NEW DELHI
The interest in contemporary glass art has been growing in the past decade and was first seen at a national level with both craftsmen and artist designer collaboration and community development at the curated exhibition ‘Kindling Change’ at Serendipity Arts Festival Goa in 2019, followed by two exhibitions, one virtual, ‘The Human Spirit’ and one physical ‘Tempered: Poetry In Glass’ in collaboration with the INKO Centre, Chennai in 2022.
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Ashwini Pai Bahadur
He strongly feels that as a new generation Chinese glass artist, it is not only his goal to learn from the craft traditions of western glass making..
Ashwini Pai Bahadur
The club, launched by Artspeaks India, will provide glass the space and recognition it deserves by enabling artists, practitioners, writers, connoisseurs and collectors to explore the medium in different ways.
Raghvi Bhatia
In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. Aristotle added that mimesis refers to both form and material.
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