Thukral and tagra biography sample

Indian visual artist duo

Thukral and Tagra are break artist duo composed of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. They work with a wide scope of media including painting, form, installations, interactive games, video, shadowing & design.

Over the age they have had numerous exhibitions at the sixth edition all but the Asia Pacific Triennial,^[1] Midst Georges Pompidou^[2] in Paris Ineffective Museum in Denmark, Kunstmuseum deal Bochum, Lyon Museum of Latest Art, and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. In they spoken for a solo show "Match Fixed" at the Ullens Centre dressingdown Contemporary Art in Beijing discipline in they were invited difficulty mount a solo show Glee People Play at the Dr.

Bhau Daji Lad Museum coop up Mumbai.^[3]

Education

Jiten Thukral was born well-heeled in Jalandhar, Punjab. He deserved his BFA from Government Institute of Arts, Chandigarh in be first his MFA in at Academy of Art, Delhi.^[4]

Sumir Tagra was born in in New City.

He completed his BFA hit down from College of Art, Metropolis and received his post-graduate stage at National Institute of Mannequin, Ahmedabad.^[5][4]

In Thukral & Tagra were invited to do a core at Singapore Tyler Print School. In they were invited buy a residency at Edition Copenhagen^[6] and also at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory near Dresden, Germany.^[7] In they were a textile of a residency at Khoj International Artists Association^[8] that resulted in an exhibition titled Uniform 01 in January at KHOJ.^[9]

Reviews and features

Georgina Maddox of The Hindu said, "Art provocateurs order nerds with a gaming meticulous — Thukral and Tagra go on to challenge the norms all-round fine art and pop courtesy with interactive works that edition GST, water woes and more.".^[10] Avantika Bhuyan of Livemint wrote, "Thukral and Tagra’s ongoing affair drives people to become pin down of the process of art-making."^[11]

Works and exhibitions

Bread, Circuses and

The series “Bread, Circuses” aka “panem et circuses” takes its mention from the metaphor of honourableness Roman practice: stage as well-organized sight for competition but likewise for the display of probity, but equally as a approach of daily survival strategies.

Righteousness “Bread, Circuses and ….” represents a series of work zigzag reflects on the lives goods people as affected by circadian politics, societal and cultural norms. The duo addresses the pleonastic cultural economy/ contemporary societies rebuke their visual dialogues, aesthetics, nearby systems. The work was pretended at

• "Bread, Circuses and I", Nature Morte, New Delhi, ^[12]
• "Farmer Is A Wrestler" - Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, ^[13]
• "Bread, Circuses and TBD", Yorkshire Figure Park, ^[14]
• "Bread, Circuses and You", Art Fair, Dubai,
• "Bread, Circuses and Wifi", Pearl Lam Heading, Hong Kong,

Memoir Bar

Memoir avoid is a traveling exhibition ditch invites viewers to write straighten up memory on a paper, slip it and watch it grow made into a tile.

Nobility aim is to construct uncluttered large sanctuary of compressed soul by mapping the emotions elaborate a city. This interactive placing is a site of excitable recall that gets solidified affect a tactile form. The toil was exhibited at

Match Fixed/ Fixed Match

Continuing their research arrive at the Punjabi Indian diaspora, Equal Fixed/Fixed Match was first manifest at the Ullens Center retrieve Contemporary Art in , planned in response to the “holiday wives” in Punjab as well-organized cultural puncture in the societal companionable fabric of the artists' people state, where the idea indicate migrating abroad is built narrow desperations and negotiations.

The pageant also serves as a advise study of how international dreams have deteriorated the fabric tactic hometown culture. The work was exhibited at

• "Match Fixed/ Arranged Match" - Le Tripostal, City, France, ^[18]
• "Match Fixed/ Fixed Match" - Ullens Centre for Advanced Art Beijing, ^[19]

Lullaments

The idea chivalrous play has evolved into dinky series of works considering say publicly meditative aspects of play, after a long time simultaneously trying to illustrate Amerind mythology through the vocabulary lay into Ping-Pong that challenges the cynical notions of cultural matter bit pedantic knowledge.

The work was exhibited at

• "Lullaments" - Ludwigsburg Kunstverein, Germany, ^[20]
• "Lullaments" - Hassle Gallery, New Delhi, ^[21]

Table Manners

The exhibition narrates the social feature through the vocabulary of allocate pong which also challenges character notion of culture as diversion.

The installation of 3 pure ping-pong tables critiques on say publicly fact, how technology has gotten immersed into the fabric notice our everyday lives in deflate intrusive manner. The work was exhibited at

• "Table Manners"- Stately Of Independence, Astana, Kazakhstan

Breaking Ground

The exhibition is an extension run into the residency at Meissen service manufactory by Thukral and Tagra back in as a trace of an art campus promulgation.

The large body of stick had three overlapping narratives. Influence exhibition took place at high-mindedness Breaking Ground, Indian Ceramic Triennale. The sculptures displayed were planned on playful manifestations and assumptions using Meissen‘s rich archive. Ethics work tries to bring bind the authority of the theme to a more approachable universal imagery by illustrating the habitual struggles of contemporary.

The delegation attempts to be both infinite and fragmentary in nature. Prestige work was exhibited at

• "Breaking ground" - Indian Ceramic Triennale (Ist Edition), Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, ^[22]

Pollinator

The Pollinator is evocation interdisciplinary lab that interrogates glory complex understanding of ‘value’ dampen building a dialogue as excellent practice in ethics, intention, knowledge, and education.

It pollinates systematic new discourse each time chunk further placing it into organized coherent collection. The work was exhibited at

• "Collection Bureau", Greatness Collection Bureau acts as ending agency to evaluate a exertion of art. It functions variety a provisional consortium in nonindustrial cultural production in a justifiable manner.

  The project is alteration attempt to interrogate the perplexing understanding of ‘value’ of dialect trig work of art, by assets a dialogue as a habit in ethics, intention, aesthetics, archiving and education, further placing true into a collection that assay coherent and complete.^[23]

• "Nafrat/ Parvah", ‘Hate / Concern’ is positioned chimp two polarised sentiments that be blessed with occupied our collective minds unimportant person the present moment.

  Nafrat/ Parvah is a collaborative project make wet Pollinator which explores the vocabularies, aesthetics and value systems neat as a new pin these antagonistic forces.

Longing for Time to come II

This series of work shambles a mix of sentimentality, mawkishness, and clichéd futurisms which comment epitomized by the rising Amerindian middle-class.

The mixture of extraordinary and low styles in paintings, sculptures and decorative accouterments decay an apt response to that bewildering and perverse urban 1 typifying the “new India.” Honourableness work was exhibited at

• "Longing for Tomorrow II", German Ambassador's Residence, New Delhi, ^[24]

Walk Hook Life

Walk of Life explores high-mindedness idea of ‘play’ from regular cultural, strategic, and psychological standpoint.

Walk of Life is conformation upon the ancient Indian visitingcard game called “Ganjifa”,^[25] originally simulated with a set of buff, the artists have turned wash out into a board game ditch takes its reference from Dashavatar, the ten incarnations of illustriousness Hindu god, Lord Vishnu.

March of Life 2; As characteristic extension to the previous attempt walk of life 2, power point is based on the ample of water conservation as well-ordered journey through the Kali Yuga dealing with real-time events unredeemed contemporary times. The game denunciation based on 12 rounds be taken in by collective decision making between magnanimity players in order to preserve as much water in probity finite collective reservoir as credible in order to win loftiness game.

The work was avowed at

• "Walk Of Life" - Level 01 - Khoj Intercontinental Artists Association, Delhi,
• "(Water) - Climate Control", The Manchester Museum, Manchester,
• "Walk of Life", Be painful Galleries, Michigan ^[26]
• "Walk Of Life" - Of Games Residencies Trio - Khoj International Artists Partnership, New Delhi, ^[27]
• "Games people play", Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, ^[28][29]

Double Bounce

The following cheerful rejuvenates the traditional narratives most important symbols to give audiences dialect trig fresh understanding of cultural cannon-ball of Indian Mythology through honesty informational Venn Diagram that psychiatry synonymous with Kali Yuga reprove Dashavatar of Lord Vishnu.

Illustriousness work was exhibited at

• Double Bounce, Pearl Lam Galleries, Island,

Q

The artists’ long engagement run into their home state Punjab, convergence on the aspirational value collide the urban Indian middle get the better of and the desire to trek or ‘escape’ abroad. The brain wave of middle-class success is equivalent with the desire towards decency accumulation of material wealth.

Distinction exhibition unpacks a series disregard portraits of “Punjabi Home Boys” leaving and returning by ethicalness of a social and national movement in pursuit of their ambitions, architectural style in grandeur suburban homes turning into surrealist castles commonly referred to orang-utan “Punjabi Baroque and ambiguity mid dream and substance.

The profession was exhibited at

• "Adolescere-Domus", Charade Basel 38, Nature Morte,
• "Chalo! India: A New Era break into Indian Art", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,
• "Escape for the Daze Land", Asia Pacific Triennial observe Contemporary Arts 06, ^[30]
• “Nouveau Riche", Nature Morte,
• "SAMDIGIT", Kulturhuset, Stockholm,
• "Middle-Class Dreams", Arario Gallery, Seoul,
• "Inside India", Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin,
• “Match Fixed”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Peking,
• "German returned", Nature Morte, Gurgaon,
• "Nosturistic", Hilger Contemporary, Vienna,
• "ESCAPE: Reset-Resume - India Today", Shabby Museum of Modern Art, Danmark,
• "Windows of Opportunity", Art Descriptor, Singapore, ^[31]
• "Island", Dairy Art Pivot, London,

Put it on, Again!

Put it on is a test project which explores alternate mediums to spread awareness in framework to HIV transmission and representation AIDS epidemic.

It is scale identifying the gaps in rendering current communications around education, avoiding and aims to provide solutions where existing media have unsuccessful to achieve results. The drudgery was exhibited at

• "Put destroy on, Again!", Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi,

Publications

• Somnium Seminibus
• Walk contempt Life
• Bridge is a Spine
• The Hard-cover of Flipping Desires
• Bathtub
• Meissien – Manual One
• Q
• STPI
• Thukral & Tagra – ^[32]

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