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AMAR KANWAR
(b. 1964, New Delhi, India. Lives and works in New Delhi.)
Amar Kanwar has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Best Public Service Short Film Award
at the Vatavaran International Environment Film Festival, New Delhi, India (2012), an Honorary Doctorate in
Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine (2006), the Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary
Art, Norway (2005), the MacArthur Fellowship in India (2000), and the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco
International Film Festival (1999). Amar Kanwar has exhibited internationally at such institutions as the
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich (2012), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008), the Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London (2007), the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2006), the Fotogallerie,
Oslo (2005), and the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2004). Kanwar has participated in Documenta 13,12, and
11 (2013, 2007, 2002), and has had retrospectives at numerous film festivals including the 5th International
Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, Kerala State (2012), the Documentary Dream Show, Tokyo
(2010), the Parallel Perspectives Film Festival, Hyderabad (2008), and the 9th International Short Film
Festival, Bangladesh (2005).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS AND SCREENINGS
2012
Amar Kanwar: Evidence, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Amar Kanwar: A Love Story + Henningsvaer, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway
2010
The Artists Cinema 2010, LUX and the Independent Cinema Office (ICO), London, UK | special preview
evening at Tate Modern
Amar Kanwar, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2009
Amar Kanwar Film Huis Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands. (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages’) In
collaboration with ‘Movies that Matter Amnesty International Film Festival’
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
No Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, United Arab Emirates
2012
Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany
Indian Highway, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Newtopia, The State of Human Rights, Visual Arts Flanders, Belgium
Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2011
Paris-Delhi-Bombay: India Through the Eyes of Indian and French Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah. (‘The Torn First Pages Part I, II, III’)
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York (‘A Season Outside’)
Against All Odds: A Contemporary response to the Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and Museums in
India. Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages + Henningsvaer + A Love
Story’)
Indian Highway, MAC-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (France) (‘The Lightning Testimonies’); Museo
nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia (The Lightning Testimonies)
29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
India 2011, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway
1st Equator Biennial, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2010
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
Indian Highway, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany
Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2009
Göteborgs Internatinella Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
The symbolic efficiency of the frame, Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania (‘The Smile’)
Significant and Insignificant Events, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, (‘A Season Outside’)
Indian Highway,Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
AMAR KANWAR EXHIBITIONS
AMAR KANWAR
MARCH 16 - APRIL 24, 2010
NEW YORK
TROUBLE AT THE FRONT (TROUBLES AUX FRONTIÈRES)
IN COLLABORATION WITH CAROLINE BOURGEOIS
MARCH 14 - APRIL 18, 2009
PARIS
AMAR KANWAR
MARCH 8 - APRIL 12, 2008
PARIS
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Amar Kanwar b. 1964, New Delhi
Amar Kanwar was born in New Delhi in 1964. In 1984, while he was studying history at the University of Delhi, two events occurred that impacted his subsequent philosophical and artistic development. On October 31, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, resulting in mass retaliatory violence against Sikhs in Delhi. Then, on December 3, a toxic gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant, known as the Bhopal disaster, killed thousands of people and exposed hundreds of thousands more. These pivotal experiences instilled in Kanwar a commitment to social activism.
Enrolling in the film school at the Mass Communications Research Center of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, he began to work on pushing the poetic limits of documentary filmmaking. He later
expanded his practice to multi-channel video installation, adding other audiovisual elements. Kanwar was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in India (2000), the first Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art (2005), and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Maine College of Art (2006).
While Kanwar works strictly with documentary and archival images, he employs various methods of editing and presentation to exceed their immediate facticity, conjuring atmosphere, underlying
motives, and furtive histories. The Torn First Pages (2004–08), which is included in the Guggenheim collection, is a nineteen-channel video installation arranged in three parts that surrounds the viewer with examples of oppression by and opposition to the Burmese military junta. The work pays tribute to the modest yet significant resistance enacted by a bookshop proprietor who excised those pages bearing requisite state slogans, and went to jail as a result. Not only does The Torn First Pages address past abuses, it also emphasizes the continuing struggle against dictatorship by staging
its documentation as a contentious chorus in the present. Reflecting on his most recent project, The Sovereign Forest (2012), which was exhibited at Documenta 13, the artist outlines the defining
characteristics of his practice: “The validity of poetry as evidence in a trial, the discourse on seeing, on understanding, on compassion, on issues of justice, sovereignty, and self-determination—all come together in a constellation of moving and still images, texts, books, pamphlets, albums, music, objects and organic materials, events and processes.”¹ Kanwar orchestrates actual traces and records into something that surpasses fact, revealing a richer perspective on reality.
Kanwar has had solo exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2003), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2007), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2008), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2008), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2010), and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2012). He has participated in Documenta 11, 12, and 13 (2002, 2007, and 2012), Biennial Jogja XI, Indonesia (2011–12), and Being Singular Plural, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012). A retrospective of his cinematic oeuvre was presented at the 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in India (2012). He has been honored with the Golden
Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival (1998), Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival (1999), and Jury Award at the Film South Asia in Nepal (2001). Kanwar
lives and works in New Delhi.
http://www.khojworkshop.org/user/amar_kanwar
Amar Kanwar
Country
India
Bio
Amar Kanwar lives and works from New Delhi. His films and installations are multi-layered, contemporary
experiences connecting intimate personal histories with the wider politics of power, violence, sexuality,
and justice. Kanwar’s meditative film essays do not aim to represent trauma or political situations as much
as to find ways through them to a more contemplative space. Characterized by a distinctly poetic
approach to the social and political, Kanwar’s work has been presented in several film festivals and
museums. Recent solo exhibitions have been at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Stediljk
Museum, Amsterdam and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has participated in Documenta 11 and
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany and is also the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for
Contemporary Art, Norway.
recipient of the first Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway.
http://www.heartmus.com/amar-kanwar-3389.aspx Wrong info ?? :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Kanwar
Website : http://amarkanwar.com/
http://www.eurartproject.com/artists/amar_kanwar/
BORN:
1964
LIVING IN:
New Delhi, India
EDUCATION:
Amar Kanwar is an independent film-maker whose lyrical and meditative work explores the political, social,
economic and ecological conditions of the Indian subcontinent. He is the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch
Award for Contemporary Art, Norway and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA.
EXHIBITIONS:
Kanwar's works have been featured in group shows at highly prestigious venues around the world, notably at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2006), and as solo exhibitions at institutions such as the
Renaissance Society in Chicago (2003), the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo (2006), or
the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (2007). Recent solo exhibitions have been at the Marian Goodman Gallery,
New York, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has participated in
Documenta 11 and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. His ‘A season Outside’ was
awarded the Golden Gate Award at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival
and the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Documentary Film Festival.
SITE:
http://amarkanwar.com/
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WORKS BY AMAR KANWAR
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ARTIST STATEMENT:
"Having directed and produced over 40 films, which are a mixture of documentary, poetic travelogue and visual
essay, much of Kanwar’s work traces the legacy of decolonisation and the partition in 1947 of the Indian
subcontinent into Islamic Pakistan and Hindu India. Recurrent themes are the splitting of families, sectarian
violence and border conflicts, interwoven with investigations of gender and sexuality, philosophy and religion, as
well as the opposition between globalisation and tribal consciousness in rural India...Rather than focusing on
traumatic or political situations, he attempts to move beyond trauma and its direct representation to a more
contemplative space." (Rebecca Morrild)
http://www.sharjahart.org/people/people-by-alphabet/k/kanwar-amar
awards , festivals, exhb
http://artandcommitment.umn.edu/pdf/kanwar_cv.pdf
Exhibitions
http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/amar-kanwar/
RECENT SOLO SHOWS AND SCREENINGS
2012
Amar Kanwar: Evidence, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Amar Kanwar: A Love Story + Henningsvaer, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway
2010
The Artists Cinema 2010, LUX and the Independent Cinema Office (ICO), London, UK | special preview
evening at Tate Modern
Amar Kanwar, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2009
Amar Kanwar Film Huis Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands. (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages’) In
collaboration with ‘Movies that Matter Amnesty International Film Festival’
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
No Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, United Arab Emirates
2012
Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany
Indian Highway, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Newtopia, The State of Human Rights, Visual Arts Flanders, Belgium
Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2011
Paris-Delhi-Bombay: India Through the Eyes of Indian and French Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah. (‘The Torn First Pages Part I, II, III’)
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York (‘A Season Outside’)
Against All Odds: A Contemporary response to the Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and Museums in
India. Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages + Henningsvaer + A Love
Story’)
Indian Highway, MAC-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (France) (‘The Lightning Testimonies’); Museo
nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia (The Lightning Testimonies)
29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
India 2011, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway
1st Equator Biennial, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2010
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
Indian Highway, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany
Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2009
Göteborgs Internatinella Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
The symbolic efficiency of the frame, Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania (‘The Smile’)
Significant and Insignificant Events, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, (‘A Season Outside’)
Indian Highway,Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)
AMAR KANWAR EXHIBITIONS
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2010-03-16_amar-kanwar/
AMAR KANWAR MARCH 16 - APRIL 24, 2010
NEW YORK
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2009-03-14_trouble-at-the-front-troubles-aux-frontieres/
TROUBLE AT THE FRONT (TROUBLES AUX FRONTIÈRES) IN COLLABORATION WITH CAROLINE BOURGEOIS
MARCH 14 - APRIL 18, 2009
PARIS
AMAR KANWAR MARCH 8 - APRIL 12, 2008
PARIS
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2008-03-08_amar-kanwar/
Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest + Other Stories Yorkshire Sculpture Park http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/amar-kanwar-the-sovereign-forest-other-stories
The Lightning Testimonies
Monday, October 14, 2013–Sunday, April 20, 2014
Gallery 291
http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/amar-kanwar-lightning-testimonies
A Season Outside (1997–8), To Remember (2003), A Night of Prophecy (2002): three short on India
and the Partition of India at Whitechapel Gallery, 2007[1]
EXHIBITIONS / LINES OF CONTROL: PARTITION AS A PRODUCTIVE SPACE
ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 - FEBRUARY 2, 2014
http://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/lines-of-control/
All exhibition details :
http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Amar-Kanwar/F4C6AB84F064D287/Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions & Group exhibitions:
http://www.photography-now.com/artist/details/amar-kanwar
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest + Other Stories - See
more at: http://www.yorkshireattractions.org/events/382/yorkshire-sculpture-park-presents-
amar-kanwar-the-sovereign-forest-other-stories#sthash.K6t4xUV5.dpuf
http://www.yorkshireattractions.org/events/382/yorkshire-sculpture-park-presents-amar-kanwar-the-
sovereign-forest-other-stories
Amar Kanwar
Evidence
http://fotomuseum.ch/fileadmin/fmw/bilder/presse/2012/Kanwar/AK_PressKit_engl.pdf
http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_mariangoodman_com/043b361f.pdf
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DETAILS FOR: AMAR KANWAR - KING OF THE NIGHT: WAMAN DADA KARDAK
http://www.eurartproject.com/artworks/king_of_the_night__waman_dada_kardak_/
Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/amar-kanwar/
exhibition
AMAR KANWAR - THE TORN FIRST PAGES (PART I)5 SEP - 1 OCT 2008
http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/amar-kanwar-the-torn-first-pages-part-i
Revisiting Documenta 12: The Case of Amar Kanwar
http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=313
BOOK:
http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/0634515258.html http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Artists/Amar-Kanwar/0025445458.html
The Sovereign Forest. 2012
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/sharjah_biennial/2013/tour/bank_street/24_amar_kanwar
The Renaissance Society
at The University of Chicago (selected exhibitions) AMAR KANWAR OF POEMS AND PROPHESIES
JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 23, 2003 http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Amar-Kanwar-Of-Poems-and-
Prophesies.17.html
A constellation of stories: India’s Amar Kanwar
exhibits in Yorkshire http://artradarjournal.com/2013/11/22/a-constellation-of-stories-indias-amar-kanwar-exhibits-in-
yorkshire/
Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest, 2010-2012
http://www.tba21.org/collection/event_detail/165
Amar Kanwar on the Disappearing Landscapes of
"The Sovereign Forest" by Emilia Terracciano, Modern Painters
09/12/13 4:26 PM ES
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/993451/amar-kanwar-on-the-disappearing-landscapes-of-
the-sovereign
Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest and Other Stories Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
12 Oct 2013 – 16 Feb 2014
http://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/exhibitions/2013/10/12/amar-kanwar
A Season Outside by Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Art Funded in 2011
http://www.artfund.org/what-we-do/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/11831/a-season-outside-amar-
kanwar
documenta 13
http://d13.documenta.de/#/participants/participants/amar-kanwar/
Carnegie Museum of Art
Amar Kanwar
Born 1964, New Delhi, India | Lives and works in New Delhi, India
http://ci13.cmoa.org/artists/amar-kanwar
blog : http://www.cifo.org/blog/?p=1788&option=com_wordpress&Itemid=24
review :
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/amar_kanwar/
First published in
Issue 110, October 2007
by David Shariatmadari
WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, LONDON, UK
A Love Story, 2010
Amar Kanwar
Biennial
http://www.sharjahart.org/projects/projects-by-date/2011/a-love-story-kanwar
The Sovereign Forest, 2012
Amar Kanwar
Biennial
http://www.sharjahart.org/projects/projects-by-date/2013/the-sovereign-forest-2012
review :
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/design/02galleries.html
review
http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/art-and-its-aftertaste/article3835760.ece
amar kanwar - the torn first pages (part I)
http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/amar-kanwar-the-torn-first-pages-part-i
Blog
http://girishshahane.blogspot.in/2009/08/amar-kanwar.html
Artist's Statement: Amar Kanwar on mining communities in Yorkshire
and India
| 14 October 2013
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/sculpture-and-installation/art456040
Interviewed by TJ Demos, Oct ‘10
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/about_us/academic_staff/dr_tj_demos/further_publications/Demos-
Kanwar.pdf
http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Amar-Kanwar/F4C6AB84F064D287
NEWSLETTER
MAUREEN SULLIVAN OCTOBER 15, 2013
A LOOK AT THE 2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/A-Look-at-the-2013-Carnegie-
Internationa/98A3DA256E109625
"Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest + Other Stories" opens at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/-Amar-Kanwar--The-Sovereign-Forest---
Oth/B7170552F3C50941
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Artist's Statement: Amar Kanwar on mining communities in Yorkshire
and India
| 14 October 2013
Tags:
Yorkshire
| West Yorkshire
| installation (Live Art)
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Artist-s-Statement--Amar-Kanwar-on-
minin/190AFC106DD25004
Inaugural TarraWarra International 2013: Animate/Inanimate
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Inaugural-TarraWarra-International-2013-
/4243D9E6218B43E6
Project Space: Word. Sound. Power. at Tate Modern, London - See more at:
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Project-Space--Word--Sound--Power--at-
Ta/E11E1D8BD44FD575
News:
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/No-Country--Contemporary-Art-for-South-
a/2D803182B1E16541
Sharjah Biennial 11
March 13–May 13, 2013
Sharjah, UAE
Opening Week Programme: March 13–17, 2013
www.sharjahart.org
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Sharjah-Biennial-11/BE6A3CC14E7D7AB1
BUDHADITYA BHATTACHARYA (PUT HINDU LINK)
Updated: August 29, 2012 20:43 IST
Art and its aftertaste
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Art-and-its-aftertaste/542BD1388FF42250
Indian artists to boycott major show in Israel
NEW DELHI, August 2, 2011
Updated: August 6, 2011 13:58 IST
RANA SIDDIQUI ZAMAN (PUT HINDU LINK)
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Indian-artists-to-boycott-major-show-in-
/FB4860917E1B4237
Indian Summer at Centre Pompidou
By Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi Monday, July 11, 2011
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Indian-Summer-at-Centre-
Pompidou/7302C34946F8BA1E
Being Singular Plural Curator Sandhini Poddar on her exhibition project for the Deutsche Guggenheim Being Singular Plural
Moving Images from India June 26- October 10, 2010 Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Being-Singular-Plural-Curator-Sandhini-
P/1C6B7537F3EA5729
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Bridget-Riley-and-Wolfgang-Tillmans-
Amon/AD0629A6CF8815E1
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/Indian-Art-on-the-Rise/6980C6BAE84E230F
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Gallery-Espace-Announces-the-Grand-
Final/72DC4FCB87508D29
ART IN REVIEW; Amar Kanwar -- 'A Season Outside' By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: February 20, 2004
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Peter Blum
99 Wooster Street, SoHo
Through March 20
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/movies/art-in-review-amar-kanwar-a-season-outside.html
REVIEWS JUN. 04, 2010
Amar Kanwar NEW YORK,at Marian Goodman by Nancy Princenthal
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/amar-kanwar/
Blog:
http://blog.saffronart.com/tag/amar-kanwar/
Amar Kanwar | The Sovereign Forest
21st October 2013
Tina Baraga http://www.ultravie.co.uk/blog/2013/10/21/amar-kanwar-the-sovereign-forest/
Amar Kanwar: Major New Exhibition At The Yorkshire Sculpture
Park DATE: 01 OCT 2013
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/amar-kanwar-major-new-exhibition-at-the-yorkshire-sculpture-park
Amar Kanwar: The Lightening Testimonies & The Torn First Pages
http://www.aaa-a.org/2010/04/07/amar-kanwar-videos/
Renaissance Society presents Amar Kanwar
January 12-February 23, 2003
Opening reception Sunday, January 12 4-7 pm
Opening reception will feature a talk with the artist from 5-6 pm
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/030110.amarkanwar.shtml
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
An interview with Amar Kanwar at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
by Jon Cronshaw
http://www.leedsartscene.co.uk/2013/11/an-interview-with-amar-kanwar-at.html
Documenta 12
Lunch Lecture Review: Amar Kanwar – Image and Education – The Lightning Testimonies
13 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
http://www.documenta11.de/amarkanwar.html?L=1
AMAR KANWAR: THE SOVEREIGN FOREST
November 23, 2013 – March 23, 2014
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Augarten, Vienna, Austria
Press Conference: Friday, November 22, 2013, 11:30 am
Opening: Friday, November 22, 2013, 7 pm
http://www.tb-cms.org/data/article_downloads/200/Press_information_AK_TSF_ENGL.pdf
Opening: “Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign
Forest”
22.11.2013 - 19:00
http://www.viennaartweek.at/en/event/?event_id=64
http://www.ysculpture.co.uk/event/amar-kanwar/
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/reviews/sculpture/amar-kanwar-exhibition-at-ysp/
news:
Indepth Arts News:
"Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages" 2008-10-08 until 2008-11-09 Haus der Kunst
Munich, , DE Germany
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/10/09/35228.html
Yorkshire Sculpture Park to host Amar Kanwar exhibition
By Val Javin
11 Oct 2013 11:27
http://www.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-sculpture-park-host-amar-6172906
Amar Kanwar
12 October 2013 – 2 February 2014 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
http://www.wsimagazine.com/uk/diaries/agenda/arti/amar-
kanwar_20130806105135.html#.UqhLRdIW0l8
AMAR KANWAR
collecting evidence
http://www.myfirstartcollection.com/1277/nl/amar-kanwar
preview
The Torn First Pages:
Amar Kanwar's personal need to understand
http://metropolism.com/previews/amar-kanwar-s-the-torn-first-pag/english
JUNE 17, 2013 | INTERN CHRONICLES
“We Are the Museum”: From the Kochi-Muziris Biennale to Mumbai
Posted by Debra Lennard, 12-Month Intern, Department of Painting and Sculpture
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/06/17/we-are-the-museum-from-the-kochi-muziris-
biennale-to-mumbai/
Kochi-Muziris Biennale…..A Layman’s Visit https://yezhuvath.wordpress.com/tag/amar-kanwar/
http://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/2013/07/17/exhibition-review-animate-inanimate-tarrawarra-
museum-of-art-denise-m-taylor/
http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/amar-kanwar-23340/profile.html
http://blogs.saic.edu/cate/the-films-of-amar-kanwar/
Amar Kanwar with Phong Bui by Phong Bui http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/02/film/amar-kanwar-with-phong-bui
Amar Kanwar gets the Edvard Munch Award
http://www.neme.org/117/amar-kanwar-gets-the-edvard-munch-award
http://www.claudia.as/oca/pdfs/oca_news_0505.pdf
http://www.artdubai.ae/blog/photo-tour-kochi-muziris-biennale/
http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/films/a-love-story
http://dartonarrow.co.uk/blog/first-major-uk-exhibition-amar-kanwar-yorkshire-sculpture-park/
http://greg.org/archive/2009/04/05/amar_kanwars_the_torn_first_pages.html
first solo show
Press Release: Amar Kanwar 8 August – 14 September 2007
The Whitechapel presents the first UK solo show of Amar Kanwar including the award-winning film A Season Outside.
http://white.cyberporte.net/content.php?page_id=3524
http://www.oca.no/programme/munch/munch-award-2005
news:
MAKING PEACE WITH OUR PARTITIONED SELVES NEWS: THE POINT BY HAMMAD NASAR FROM MAR/APR 2009
http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/62/MakingPeaceWithOurPartitionedSelves
Kanwar to take ‘crime’ to Kochi
DC | Ajayan | 08th Dec 2012
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/121208/news-current-affairs/article/kanwar-take-
%E2%80%98crime%E2%80%99-kochi
Videos
Audio:
http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/amar-kanwar/
intro
http://video.mit.edu/watch/amar-kanwar-intro-3961/
Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest + Other Stories
http://vimeo.com/77030739
Art is / india : speaking portraits : http://vimeo.com/52033504
documenta 13: Rundgang durch das Ottoneum (contemporary art exhibition in Kassel)
http://vimeo.com/43724444
Lise McKean Lecture
the backdrop for her reflections on Kanwar's films.
http://vimeo.com/39340495
India Radfar Reading
http://vimeo.com/39211753
Amar Kanwar
from Serpentine Gallery
http://vimeo.com/27239109
Interview with Amar Kanwar
from Serpentine Gallery
http://vimeo.com/25452514
Indian Highway - artist interviews part I
http://vimeo.com/13177740
Amar Kanwar Artist Talk
http://vimeo.com/16823718
Amar Kanwar-- The Torn First Pages (Part I) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRQSK0p95nk
Amar Kanwar, The Lightning Testimonies, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtZYuKSxMU
7 short films on the Commons - by Amar Kanwar and FES, India http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQn5rBkrSY
Many faces of madness - A Film By Amar Kanwar & FES India http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8wANvWYqA
The sovereign forest Amar Kanwar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxd5pA1G-Ns
Many Faces of Madness (A film by Amar Kanwar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKQUyThMQ-g
The Little Museum: Amar Kanwar
Location: Bangalore, India; Date: July 23, 2
http://pad.ma/BWW/info
Images
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2010-03-16_amar-kanwar/#/images/1/
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2010-03-16_amar-kanwar/
1. THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOUR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MINUTES 31
SECONDS; LOOP
2. THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOUR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MINUTES 31
SECONDS; LOOP
3. AMAR KANWAR
A SEASON OUTSIDE, 1997
INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, PARIS
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, COLOR, SOUND; 30 MIN
4. A SEASON OUTSIDE, 1997
INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, PARIS
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, COLOR, SOUND; 30 MIN
5 AMAR KANWAR
A SEASON OUTSIDE, 1997
INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, PARIS
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, COLOR, SOUND; 30 MIN
6. HENNINGSVAER, 2006
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO, COLOR, SOUND; 15 MIN, CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11860
7. HENNINGSVAER, 2006
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO, COLOR, SOUND; 15 MIN, CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11860
8. THE BODHI TREE, 2005
SINGLE CHANNEL COLOR VIDEO WITH SOUND; 8 MIN, CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11861
9. THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MIN, 31 SEC,
CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11862
10. THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MIN, 31 SEC,
CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11862
11. INSTALLATION VIEW
THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MIN, 31 SEC,
CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11862
12. INSTALLATION VIEW
THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MIN, 31 SEC,
CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11862
13. INSTALLATION VIEW
THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES, 2007
8 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION; SYNCHRONIZED, COLOR AND B/W, SOUND; 32 MIN, 31 SEC,
CONTINUOUS PROJECTION
INV.#11862
IMAGES 14 – 20:
http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/amar-kanwar-the-sovereign-forest-other-stories
http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/amar-kanwar-lightning-testimonies
21. Installation view of Amar Kanwar’s The Lightning Testimonies, 2007. Courtesy of the
artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, with the support of The Ford
Foundation, New Delhi, Documenta 12, Germany, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna.
22. Amar Kanwar. Still from The Lightning Testimonies, 2007. Courtesy of the artist and
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, with the support of The Ford Foundation, New
Delhi, Documenta 12, Germany, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.
23. Amar Kanwar
Still from A Night of Prophecy 2002
© Courtesy Amar Kanwar and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/project-space-word-sound-power
24. Amar Kanwar, The Scene of Crime (still), 2011. Film. Courtesy of the artist.
More images : http://www.amarkanwar.com/
Sharjah Biennial 11
13 March - 13 May 2013
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/sharjah_biennial/2013/tour/bank_street/25_amar_kanwar
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/sharjah_biennial/2013/tour/bank_street/24_amar_kanwar
14. Amar Kanwar, ‘A Love Story’, 2010, video still, commissioned by the Independent Cinema Office and
LUX, England. Image courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery (New York, Paris) and YSP.
15. Amar Kanwar, ‘The Sovereign Forest’, 2012. Photo by Anders Sune Berg. Image courtesy the artist
and YSP.
25. Amar Kanwar, ‘The Sovereign Forest’, 2012, installation, rice seeds samples. Photo by Jonty Wilde.
Image courtesy the artist and YSP.
17. Amar Kanwar, ‘The Sovereign Forest’, 2012, projected book. Photo by Jonty Wilde. Image courtesy
the artist and YSP.
26. Amar Kanwar, ‘The Sovereign Forest’, 2012, projected book detail. Photo by Jonty Wilde. Image
courtesy the artist and YSP.
18. Amar Kanwar, ‘Listening Bench’, 2013, installation. Photo by Jonty Wilde. Image courtesy YSP.
19. Amar Kanwar, ‘The Six Mourners and the One Alone’, 2013, outdoor installation. Photo by Jonty
Wilde. Image courtesy the artist and YSP.
16. The Sovereign Forest. 2012
Mixed-media installation
(Detail) http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/sharjah_biennial/2013/tour/bank_street/26_amar_kanwar
27.
A Season Outside by Amar Kanwar, 1997
© the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/ Paris Amar Kanwar
A Season Outside, 1997
From Trilogy, 1997-2003
Analog and digital color video with sound, 30 min
© Amar Kanwar
28. Amar Kanwar, installation view of Scene of Crime and A Love Story; Courtesy of Marian Goodman
Gallery, New York and Paris. Presentation supported by the Asian Cultural Council and The George
Foundation; Photo: Greenhouse Media
29. The Scene of Crime
Amar Kanwar, The Scene of Crime, 2011, HD video installation, colour, sound,42 minutes; courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.
http://ci13.cmoa.org/artwork/2501
30. Title: A Love Story
A Love Story, 2010, 5min 37sec, Directed by Amar Kanwar, camera by Dilip Varma, edited by Sameera Jain. Commissioned by the Independent Cinema Office and LUX, England. ©Amar Kanwar, 2010, Installation view, photo by Alfredo Rubio
http://www.sharjahart.org/projects/projects-by-date/2011/a-love-story-kanwar
http://ci13.cmoa.org/artwork/2502
the scene of crime stills :
http://www.tba21.org/collection/artist/585/artwork/778
The Sovereign Forest, 2012
Amar Kanwar
Biennial
Amar Kanwar, The Sovereign Forest, 2012, Mixed-media installation (The Scene of Crime, 2011 – Colour
HD video projection with sound; The Counting Sisters and Other Stories, 2011 – Silk-screened,
handmade banana-fibre-paper book and colour video projection; The Constitution, 2012 – silk -screened,
handmade ramie-and cotton-fibre-paper book and colour HD video projection; 266 varieties of indigenous,
organic rice seeds; eighty photographs and four books). Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman
Gallery, New York
http://www.sharjahart.org/projects/projects-by-date/2013/the-sovereign-forest-2012
http://www.photography-now.com/artist/details/amar-kanwar
30.
Amar Kanwar
A Season Outside, 1997
From Trilogy, 1997-2003
Analog and digital color video with sound, 30 min
© Amar Kanwar
31. Amar Kanwar
Thet Win Aung
4 min 35 sec, with sound
From I, Part I, 2004-2008
19 Channel video installation, loop, colour and b/w, sound
© Amar Kanwar
32. Amar Kanwar
The Face
4 min 35 sec, with sound
From The Torn First Pages, Part I, 2004-2008
19 Channel video installation, loop, colour and b/w, sound
© Amar Kanwar
33. Kanwar listening benches
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Images.Amar-Kanwar-Of-Poems-and-Prophesies.17.html
34. Amar Kanwar To Remember, 2003 Installation view
35. Amar Kanwar WamanDada Khardak, poetNasik MaharashtraA Night of Prophesy, 2002
video still
36. Amar Kanwar Dalit Drums, The Lelle EnsembleHyderabad, Andhra PradeshA Night of
Prophesy, 2002 video still
37. Amar Kanwar Gadar, singerHyderabad, Andhra PradeshA Night of Prophesy, 2002 video
still
38. Amar Kanwar Nagaland, folk musicianA Night of Prophesy, 2002 video still
39. Amar Kanwar Of Poems and ProphesiesStill from A Season Outside, 1997 Video: color,
sound, 30 min.
40. Amar Kanwar Of Poems and ProphesiesStill from A Season Outside, 1997 Video: color,
sound, 30 min
41. Amar Kanwar Of Poems and ProphesiesStill from A Season Outside 1997Video: color,
sound, 30 min. video still
42. Amar Kanwar Radney Nath Massarrat poetNew DelhiA Night of Prophesy, 2002 film still
43. Amar Kanwar A Night of Prophecy, 2002 film still
More images
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/documenta/2012/photo_tour/ottoneum/06_amar_kanwar
https://www.pinterest.com/yspsculpture/ysp-amar-kanwar-the-sovereign-forest-+-other-stori/
44. Amar Kanwar, Thet Win Aung, 2005. Film still
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/project-space-word-sound-power
45. Amar Kanwar
Still from A Night of Prophecy 2002
© Courtesy Amar Kanwar and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
46. Ma Win Maw Oo
4 min 35 sec, silent
From The Torn First Pages, 2004-2008
19 Channel video installation, loop,
color and b/w, some with sound
© Amar Kanwar
http://fotomuseum.ch/fileadmin/fmw/bilder/presse/2012/Kanwar/AK_PressKit_engl.pdf
