Painting a Photograph

The photo above was taken by Giriraj Agarwal and appears in the November/December issue of SPAN magazine. Giriraj, who is the Hindi Editor of the magazine (SPAN appears in English, Hindi, and Urdu editions) visited Udaipur and met all of the collaborating artists before writing a five page article on our work. If you can get a hold of a copy it is worth the read.

A short video of Rajesh painting this same photograph appears on my YouTube channel. Check the sidebar or click on the below link.

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Another Book Launch

The Bombay launch of the Harper-Collins book Leela is about to happen. This "erotic play of verse and art" has been edited by Dr. Alka Pande and contains four of my hand-coloured images.

The launch is to be held at Gallery Art and Soul on November 28th, and is coupled with a mini-exhibition of some of the art from the book. Four of my photographs will be on display.

Click on the image to enlarge the invite and check the details.

Cover Art

To my surprise an image of mine has appeared on the cover of XTRA, the largest and most widely distributed gay magazine in Austria. Horizontal image turned vertical! But I am not complaining.

This image accompanies their cover story announcing the release of Mein Schwules Auge 6, an anthology of homoerotic verse and images. Several of my photographs and miniatures, plus some of my poetry is contained in this anthology.

Pressing Dates

Several important exhibitions are looming on the horizon, and we have been working almost non-stop in Udaipur to meet the deadlines. Couple this to a few commissions that have come my way, the opening of Gallery One (see previous post) and this month's move from Chinar Villa to a new home at Moti Magri and you will realize why I have been quite frantic! On top of all, I must be in Brussels near the end of November!

I am thinking it might be a good time to blog the most important dates;

December 9th - the opening of Sunil Mehra's "Marvelous Reality" show in New Delhi. This is a large group exhibition that includes some of the most important names in Indian art, and I am happy to have been included among them.

December 11th - the opening of "A Studio in Rajasthan: Select Hand-coloured Photographs from the Series" at Patrick Guicherd's Coromandel Art Gallery in Pondicherry.

January 11th - the opening of "New Myths: Incarnation One" at Bombay Art Gallery. This will be the premiere of work from my new series.

Mark the dates.