Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 30 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 31 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 20 cm x 24 cm, 2020
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 27.5 cm x 19 cm, 2020
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth,
180 cm x 120 cm, 2019
Kingsley Gunatillake, Book of Violence, Used Book and charcoal,
20.5 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm, 2016
Kingsley Gunatillake, Wounded Book, Used Book and charcoal,
22.5 cm x 14 cm x 1.5 cm, 2013
Kingsley Gunatillake, Election, Used book, 15 cm x 21 cm, 2019
Kingsley Gunatillake, Face, Used Book, 18 cm x 24.5 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Songs of a Coward, Book pages, Glue on Archival paper,
55 cm x 75 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - A Full-Body Shave (Perumal Murugan), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 14 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Oppressed By Nights Of War
(S. Sivaramani ), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book – Buddha Murdered (M. A. Nuhman), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Sexualpathologie (Magnus Hirschfeld), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 29 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Mansha Chhatwal, Drawing the Line of Intolerance, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper, 55 cm x 37.5 cm each, 2019
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“The Book – a traditional object, which nevertheless is capable of the most contemporary adaptation, yet retains an aesthetic dimension” – Mabel Kaufmann, The Book as Art and Idea
The concept behind the exhibition is to showcase and exhibit works of art that is made by using books, or by full time book artists. Book art is popular in the medium of artist's journals or sketchbooks but not known as medium where books can be altered to depict an idea.
These books, be it historical or contemporary, also become the medium by which artists interrogate its form and structure, it's content and reinterpret it in their own practice. Reinterpretation of books takes the forms by drawing in them, carving them, tearing them, to convey contemporary issues of displacement, war, fantasy, nostalgia, or history.
- Arpita Akhanda
- Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
- Kingsley Gunatillake
- Mansha Chhatwal
Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 30 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 31 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 20 cm x 24 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 27.5 cm x 19 cm, 2020
Freeing the Book
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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth,
180 cm x 120 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Kingsley Gunatillake, Book of Violence, Used Book and charcoal,
20.5 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm, 2016
Freeing the Book
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Kingsley Gunatillake, Wounded Book, Used Book and charcoal,
22.5 cm x 14 cm x 1.5 cm, 2013
Freeing the Book
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Kingsley Gunatillake, Election, Used book, 15 cm x 21 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Kingsley Gunatillake, Face, Used Book, 18 cm x 24.5 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Songs of a Coward, Book pages, Glue on Archival paper,
55 cm x 75 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - A Full-Body Shave (Perumal Murugan), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 14 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Oppressed By Nights Of War
(S. Sivaramani ), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book – Buddha Murdered (M. A. Nuhman), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Sexualpathologie (Magnus Hirschfeld), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 29 cm x 17 cm, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Mansha Chhatwal, Drawing the Line of Intolerance, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper, 55 cm x 37.5 cm each, 2019
Freeing the Book
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Freeing the Book
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Freeing the Book
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Freeing the Book
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