AD Architectural Digest India Magazine - January - February 2025

In this issue

Photo Lies by Dayanita Singh.

A round-up of exciting updates from the realms of art, design and fashion. Gallery Espace completes 35 years in New Delhi, a new centre for art emerges in Jaipur, Tarik Currimbhoy says hello from his New York atelier, Ayesha Sultana shows in Dubai, and we meet London’s South Asian vanguard of art...

AS THE MET IN NEW YORK UNDERTAKES A SLATE OF RENOVATIONS, WE MEET THE FOUR ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS LEADING THE CHANGE.

For a universal museum to fulfil its mandate, it needs to grow,” says Max Hollein, director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, reflecting on the realities of evolving collections and shifting curatorial approaches.

3 mins

THREE DECADES SINCE HE LEFT PATNA, SUBODH GUPTA IS HOMEWARD BOUND WITH "THE WAY HOME", A SOLO SHOW OF HIS SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS AT THE BIHAR MUSEUM.

At 60, artist Subodh Gupta is finally homeward-bound after spending three decades on the road, buzzing around the world carrying the mundane everydays in his bags to transform them into ambitious artistic spectacles.

2 mins

"MOMENTS OF REFLECTION", A SHOW AT MUMBAI'S AKARA MODERN HIGHLIGHTED MASTER ARCHITECT RAJ REWAL'S EARLY ARTISTIC PRACTICE.

Ever wonder what it is like for a nonagenarian to revisit their early creations after a gap of decades?

2 mins

AD VISITS DEVI SEETHARAM AT HER BENGALURU STUDIO, AND DISCUSSES GENDER, PUBLIC SPACES, AND HER METICULOUS PAINTING TECHNIQUE.

Living a peripatetic life that took her to China, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia and more, Devi Seetharam developed an eye for gender relationships and sociocultural spaces.

2 mins

THE FIRST SHOW OF THE NEWLY OPENED JAIPUR CENTRE FOR ART INCLUDES ANISH KAPOOR, DAYANITA SINGH, LN TALLUR, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, AND MORE.

The Jaipur Centre for Art (JCA) came to life as a way to blend Jaipur's incredible history with contemporary art, explains Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the rather dashing scion of the erstwhile royal family of Jaipur.

2 mins

WE CATCH UP WITH TARIK CURRIMBHOY AT HIS STUDIO IN NEW YORK, AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW IN INDIA.

Tarik Currimbhoy's sculptures have a pure, meditative quality. A viewer can stand mesmerized for hours watching the elegant, geometric shapes move back and forth.

2 mins

BANGLADESHI ARTIST AYESHA SULTANA'S RECENT DUBAI EXHIBITION EXPLORED THE DUAL NATURE OF STRENGTH AND FRAGILITY.

Born in Bangladesh in 1984, the US-based Ayesha Sultana explores notions of form, space and materiality.

1 min

WHAT WOULD BAWA DO? WONDERS APARNA RAO, COFOUNDER OF PHANTOM HANDS, AS SHE PRODUCES REISSUES OF GEOFFREY BAWA'S HIGHLY CONTEXTUAL FURNITURE.

In mid-December last year, in the freshly restored Kannangara House designed by Geoffrey Bawa in 1959, an exhibition based on the late Sri Lankan master's furniture designs opened.

4 mins

FROM HIS REVERENCE FOR GANDHI TO HIS LOVE OF DANCE, A BOOK BY DAG OFFERS NEW WAYS TO KNOW MF HUSAIN.

If there was ever an Indian artist who earned immense fame and yet remained unknowable, it is MF Husain.

2 mins

KENGO KUMA TALKS TO AD ABOUT HIS DESIGN ADDITIONS AS THE CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNA GULBENKIAN IN LISBON OPENS ITS DOORS AGAIN.

Everyone who has lived in Lisbon likely has a fond memory of the Gulbenkian complex.

2 mins

ARTISTS RITU AND SURYA SINGH'S WONDERLAND OF A HOMESTUDIO IN THE PINK CITY URGES YOU TO LOOK AT THE BEAUTY AND NARRATIVE OF WASTE.

Husband-wife artist duo Ritu and Surya Singh, better known as Wolf, live at \"The Farm\", a unique 20-acre madhouse of wonders in the heart of Jaipur.

2 mins

ANONYMOUS ARTIST PRINCESS PEA SHOWCASES A COLLECTION OF NINE NEW PRINTS AT THE SOHO HOUSE LOUNGE AT ART MUMBAI.

In Princess Pea's new collection of works, poetry, craft and the divine femininity coalesce with grace.

1 min

AS INVISIBLE COLLECTION COMES TO INDIA, FOUNDERS ISABELLE DUBERNMALLEVAYS AND LILY FROEHLICHER SHARE THEIR SERENDIPITOUS JOURNEY TO THE COUNTRY.

Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays and Lily Froehlicher first found India at their doorstep when Sonam Kapoor Ahuja borrowed a few pieces from their collection for an AD India cover story in 2021.

2 mins

ROCHELLE PINTO, EDITOR OF VOGUE INDIA, WRITES ABOUT FORCES OF FASHION, WHICH PUT 39 UNIQUE WORKS UNDER ONE ROOF, PIECING TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF FASHION IN INDIA.

If you want to step into the mind of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the game-changing Spanish couturier who died over 50 years ago, all you have to do is beg, bribe or charm your way into 10 Avenue George V in Paris.

2 mins

AS NEW DELHI'S GALLERY ESPACE MARKS ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY, AD LOOKS AT GALLERIST RENU MODI'S JOURNEY IN ART.

The New Delhi-based Gallery Espace, founded by Renu Modi in 1989, recently marked its 35th anniversary with two special exhibitions.

2 mins

FIVE SOUTH ASIAN ARTISTS IN LONDON

AD visits young trailblazing artists from South Asia and its diaspora in their London studios to discover their practices and unique interpretations of a shared history.

4 mins

Photo Lies by Dayanita Singh

Somak Ghoshal investigates the architectural montages of the celebrated photographer and provokes us to rethink our \"ways of seeing\".

4 mins

THE URMILA KAILASH BLACK BOX

In a chance meeting on a flight in the early 1980s, Urmila Kanoria and BV Doshi got talking.

4 mins

BIHAR MUSEUM

Fumihiko Maki once said his goal was not to make his buildings beautiful-but to delight their users; to get people, and ideas, circulating through a space; to start conversations and inspire thoughts.

3 mins

THE QUIET BRILLIANCE OF SAMIRA RATHOD

IT'S WHERE HER ART AND ARCHITECTURAL STYLES COEXIST. IT'S WHERE THE MUNDANE AND PROFOUND COME TOGETHER. IN HER OWN HOME, THIS AD 100 DESIGNER'S DISTILLED AESTHETIC TAKES FORM MOST NATURALLY.

4 mins

RAJIV SAINI

RAJIV SAINI, AN ARCHITECT KNOWN FOR HIS FINE CURATORIAL EYE, CRAFTS THIS HOME OF LEGACY ART COLLECTORS IN DELHI, FINDING THE PERFECT SPOT FOR A BHARTI KHER OR NILIMA SHEIKH, CHOREOGRAPHING CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A MRINALINI MUKHERJEE AND MANJIT BAWA, AND MAKING DESIGN AN EVOLVED BACKDROP TO ART.

3 mins

FRANCIS KÉRÉ

FRANCIS KÉRÉ, THE PRITZKER PRIZE-WINNING BURKINABÉ-GERMAN ARCHITECT JOINS HANDS WITH A HOST OF INTERNATIONAL TALENT TO CREATE A SPACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE SWISS SKI TOWN OF GSTAAD.

3 mins

Masters of Neon

Assemblage n.51 by the Back Studio, the central installation at the AD Design Show 2024, is an ode to the beauty of hardware—produced by Splendour Living.

1 min

The AD X JSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship

\"We need to empower the maker, artisans and artists, making their creative force better and more accessible.\" - Rajeev Sethi

2 mins

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