Ranbir Kaleka Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Oberhollenzer. Gunther. Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art. 2009.
  2. Book: Sambrani. Chaitanya. Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India. 2005. Palgrave Macmillan. 127–129.
  3. News: Cotter. Holland. Art in Review; Ranbir Kaleka. New York Times. 14 June 2017. 21 October 2005.
  4. Malhotra. Priya. Ranbir Kaleka at Bose Pacia. Asian Art News. May–June 2008. 157.
  5. Book: Roy. Tania. Armitage. John. Bishop. Ryan. History of the "Mise en Abyme of the Body": Ranbir Kaleka and the "Art of Auschwitz" after Virilio in Virilio and Visual Culture. 2013. Edinburg University Press. Edinburgh. 102–127.
  6. Book: Cohen. Richard. Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History. 2012. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 231.
  7. Book: Kaplan. Brett Ashley. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. 2010. Routledge. 141.
  8. Web site: Cohen. Sharon. The Arts: A Museum of Great Reflection. 4 August 2017. 2 April 2008.
  9. Web site: Kapital & Karma Art since 1945 Hatje Cantz. www.hatjecantz.de. 2019-11-03.
  10. Web site: I am not a surrealist painter: Ranbir Singh Kaleka. Aman. Nath. 10 January 2014. India Today. en. 2022-04-04.
  11. Web site: iCon: India Contemporary. Archive. Asia Art. aaa.org.hk. en. 2019-11-03.
  12. Web site: Commemorazione dei defunti e dei Caduti di tutte le guerre e Festa dell'Unità nazionale: il programma delle iniziative. www.comune.venezia.it. 2019-11-03.
  13. Web site: A Moment in Time. 2019-03-03. The Indian Express. en-IN. 2019-11-03.

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