AD Architectural Digest India - January - February 2024

In this issue

In January-February 2024, AD brings out the annual Art issue, with new art exhibits, galleries, and artist profiles from around the country.
Also for the first time, AD will announce the AD100 list at the start of the year. And wrapping things up, a look back at the 2023 AD Design Show.

The Journey of Olivia Fraser

As the Delhi-based artist shows at New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Uma Nair looks at her natural and spiritual influences.

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Notes From Colombo

Kalā, a new platform for South Asian art led by gallerist Saskia Fernando, opens at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre in Sri Lanka.

1 min

Husain in Wonderland

As auction house SaffronArt brought out the whimsical furniture line by none other than MF Husain at Art Mumbai, held in November 2023, AD looks into this early, lesser known work of the great artist.

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Meet Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai

Pahadi paintings, poetry of Lal Ded, architecture and the of Afghanistanthe emerging artist draws from diverse influences but sews it all in a singular, artistic language of her own.

1 min

Timeless Noguchi

Vitra's reissue of Isamu Noguchi's iconic 1957 Prismatic tables is testament to this late JapaneseAmerican designer's eternal brilliance.

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A Self Portrait

Anoushka Mirchandani's debut at Mumbai's Galerie Isa grapples with questions of womanhood and diasporic identity.

1 min

The Indian Memory

Italian brand Porro’s new showroom in Milan displays ceramic pieces by the inimitable Ettore Sottsass, inspired by his whirlwind love affair with India in the 1970s.

2 mins

The Secret Life of the Mind

Shweta Shiware discovers the brilliance of sculptor Sakshi Gupta's \"grotesque and seductive\" new metalworks.

2 mins

A Haven Called Kaash

Bengaluru-based studio-cumresidency Kaash is quietly working in the craft collectibles market with collaboration and accessibility at its core

2 mins

The Life and Work of KG Subramanyan

In the year of the artist's birth centenary, Mortimer Chatterjee remembers this boundless creative genius across the histories of art, craft and design.

2 mins

What's New at the Art Fair

Design gets a special space at this year’s India Art Fair, with the iconic Carpenters Workshop Gallery curating a section along with Ashiesh Shah.

2 mins

Treasure Hunt at Alessi

Cristina Kiran Piotti visits the Alessi Museum in Omegna, Italy, and discovers India-inspired creations in the archive of an iconic Italian design house.

2 mins

60 Years of Chemould

In telling the story of Gallery Chemould, Jerry Pinto writes a short history of art in the city

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Bijoy Jain

AT FONDATION CARTIER

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WELCOME TO THE AMINS BARODA HOME

THE CITY OF BARODA-NOW CALLED VADODARA IS INTRICATELY  LINKED TO THE HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN INDIA. REFLECTING THIS JOURNEY IS MALIKA AND CHIRAYU AMIN'S ANCESTRAL HOME AND THEIR INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF ART.

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IN A CHARMING ART DECO BUILDING IN MUMBAI'S HERITAGE PRECINCT, WITH THE BUSTLE OF OVAL MAIDAN ACROSS THE ROAD, COLLECTOR DARA MEHTA LIVES AMONG A STAGGERING COLLECTION OF ART IN A STARKLY MINIMAL HOME THAT IS MEDITATIVE AND RESTRAINED IN ITS INTERIORS DESIGNED BY NETERWALA AIBARA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ALL FOR THE ART TO SHINE THROUGH.

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JAIVEER JOHAL'S CHENNAI HOME IS

FLANKED BY THE ADYAR RIVER ON ONE SIDE AND THE BAY OF BENGAL ΟΝ THE OTHER, AND ANCHORED IN A SEA OF ART AMIDST WHICH HE LIVES IN THIS BOLDLY DESIGNED ONEBEDROOM APARTMENT

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Raw  Mango Agama

TEXTILES HAVE BEEN INTEGRAL TO THE STORYTELLING AT AD IN PRINT. IN A NATURAL STEP AHEAD, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE AD DESIGN SHOW THIS YEAR OPENED WITH A GARMENT PRESENTATION. THE MOOD, THE MUSIC, THE PEOPLE, THE TEXTILES EVERYTHING WAS MAGIC.

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