Thukral and Tagra - Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi - National Art Week of New Media

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) and Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi (National Academy of Art) organized National Art Week of New Media in Chandigarh from September 21 to 26, 2010. This was a 6 day event with lectures, slide shows and discussions on the new media involving most prominent signatures of art in India including Bharti Kher, Sudarshan Shetty, Thukral & Tagra, Raqs Media Collective and Art Hostorian Dr. Alka Pande along with a panel discussion with Rahul Bhattacharya, Vibha Galhotra, Dr. Awadhesh Misra and Dr. Rajesh Vyas. There are different video recordings of all of these days. All the videos are available on YouTube. This is one of the Videos of this event. Thukral & Tagra Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between Fine Art and Popular Culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype. Their works comment on the globalization of consumer culture and the repercussions of this as it is being experienced in India today. While both playful and humorous, their works express thoughtful questions about the nature of Indian identity as it is articulated by Indians themselves and projected on to India by the rest of the world. Jiten Thukral Born 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India Lives and works in New Delhi Education: 1998 BFA, Chandigarh Art College 2000 MFA, New Delhi College of Art Sumir Tagra Born 1979, New Delhi, India Lives and works in New Delhi Education: 2002 BFA, New Delhi College of Art 2006 PG, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad 1999 Shankar's Academy of Arts, New Delhi Solo Exhibitions 2011 "Solo Show" - Nature Morte, New Delhi "Thukral & Tagra Foundation" - Project Booth, Art Summit, New Delhi "Solo Show" - Tokyo Gallery and Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo 2010 "Low-Tech Family Vacations" -- Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore "Solo Show"- "Arario Gallery, Seoul "Solo Show"- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2009 "Nouveau Riche" - Nature Morte, Berlin "Thukral & Tagra, 315 Sector 23, Opp Bosedk Mall"- Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney 2008 "New Improved Bosedk" - Gallery Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai "Somnium Genero 02" - Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney "Somnium Genero Cafe"- Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo 2007 "Adolescere-Domus" - Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia "Put it On"- Bose Pacia, New York "Everyday Bosedk,"- Nature Morte, New Delhi 2006 "Vector Classics" - Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, NCPA, Mumbai "Vector Classics" - Alliance Francaise, New Delhi 2005 "Iconography" - Nature Morte, New Delhi Group Exhibitions 2011 "Lyon Biennale" -- Lyon, France "Maximum India"- Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. 2010 Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver "Urban Matters 2" - SESC Pompie, Sao Paulo "Khoj-in-Context" - Public Art.Ecology, New Delhi "11th Hour" - Tang Contemporary, Beijing "Inside India" - Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademie, New Delhi 2009 "Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art" - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Essl Museum, Vienna "Escape for the Dream Land" - Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 06, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2008 "The Audience & the Eavesdropper" - Philips de Pury, London and New York "Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art" - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo "Make Art Stop AIDS" - UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles "Imaginery Realities" -- Max Wigram Gallery, London "Face East"- Wedel Fine Art, London 2007 "Animamix Biennial" - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai "New Delhi New Wave"- Marella Gallery, Milan "Size Matters"- Art Consult, New Delhi Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai 2006 "Global Edit 06,"- Armani Casa with Wallpaper Magazine, Milan 2005 "New Paintings"- Nature Morte, New Delhi 2004 "Visual Dialogue"- Hype Gallery, London Awards 101 Emerging Designers of the World -- Wallpaper Magazine, Global Edit 2006 D&AD 2005 One Show Interactive 2005 Limca Book of Records 2004 One Show (New York) 2004, 2003 One Show Design (New York) 2004, 2003 Red Hot Ogilvy 2003 Graphis International Awards 2003 London international Awards 2003 Commissioned Projects Conde Nast India United Colors of Benetton Ogilvy & Mather Nokia Pepsi www.lalitkalachandigarh.com [email protected]