Ranbir Kaleka

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Ranbir Kaleka (born 1953) is a contemporary Indian multi-media artist based in New Delhi whose work often centers around themes of animals, sexuality and tradition. Initially trained as a painter, his work has increasingly animated two-dimensional canvases within experimental film narrative sequences, and has been exhibited in a range of major international gallery and museum venues.[1][2][3][4]

In 2007, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Senior Judaica curator, Spertus Museum Chicago commissioned Ranbir Kaleka to make a Holocaust memorial. The site-specific video installation is titled "Consider", a title inspired by the poem of the same name by Primo Levi, and arrived at in consultation with Heimann-Jelinek. The installation consists of two projections, a painting and an audio narrative of oral testimony from Auschwitz.[5][6][7][8]

In 2002 Ranbir Kaleka exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria in the exhibition Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art.[9]

Ranbir Kaleka was awarded the National Award by the President of India at the 22nd National Exhibition of Art organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1979 in Delhi.[10] In 2005 Kaleka showed at the 51st Venice Biennale in the exhibition ‘iCon - India Contemporary’ Co-curated by Julie Evans, Gordon Knox and Peter Nagy.[11][12] In 2019 he was honored with Punjab Gaurav Sanmaan by Punjab Arts Council and Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi.[13]

References[edit]

  1. Oberhollenzer, Gunther (2009). Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art.
  2. Sambrani, Chaitanya (2005). Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 127–129.
  3. Cotter, Holland (21 October 2005). "Art in Review; Ranbir Kaleka". New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  4. Malhotra, Priya (May–June 2008). "Ranbir Kaleka at Bose Pacia". Asian Art News: 157.
  5. Roy, Tania (2013). Armitage, John; Bishop, Ryan (eds.). History of the "Mise en Abyme of the Body": Ranbir Kaleka and the "Art of Auschwitz" after Virilio in Virilio and Visual Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press. pp. 102–127.
  6. Cohen, Richard, ed. (2012). Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 231.
  7. Kaplan, Brett Ashley (2010). Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. Routledge. p. 141.
  8. Cohen, Sharon (2 April 2008). "The Arts: A Museum of Great Reflection". Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  9. "Kapital & Karma | Art since 1945 | Hatje Cantz". www.hatjecantz.de. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  10. Nath, Aman (10 January 2014). "I am not a surrealist painter: Ranbir Singh Kaleka". India Today. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  11. Archive, Asia Art. "iCon: India Contemporary". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  12. "Commemorazione dei defunti e dei Caduti di tutte le guerre e Festa dell'Unità nazionale: il programma delle iniziative". www.comune.venezia.it. Retrieved 3 November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. "A Moment in Time". The Indian Express. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.


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