EXHIBITION "Love in the Time of Choleric Capital" a group art show at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 14th October to 15th November 2016
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14th October : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 14/10/2016 18:30 14/10/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION "Love in the Time of Choleric Capital" a group art show Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/10/exhibition-love-in-time-of-choleric.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY - Inauguration
15th October to 15th November : 10:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sunday & holidays Closed) Add to Calendar 15/10/2016 11:00 15/10/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION "Love in the Time of Choleric Capital" a group art show Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/10/exhibition-love-in-time-of-choleric.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View
Entry : Free
Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Description : EXHIBITION "Love in the Time of Choleric Capital" a group art show.
With Agha Shahid Ali, Akshay Manwani, Aman Sethi, Ambarish Satwik, Anant and MK Raina, Ayodhya Sahmat, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Felice Beato, Gagan Singh, Gitanjali Dang, Himali Singh Soin, John Murray, Kush Badhwar, Lorena Herrera Rashid, Mac Robber, Mona Gandhi, Mustansir Dalvi, Naman Ahuja, Nirmal Kulkarni, Phalguni Desai, Rashmi Sawhney, Raul Irani, Raqs Media Collective, Rehaan Engineer, Sahir Ludhianvi, Sarover Zaidi, Simit Raveshia, Sudarshan Shetty, Superflex, The Temple Project (Adiv Pure Nature), Vishal K Dar, Zohra Segal, Zuleikha Chaudhari
From Rabindranath Tagore to Rudyard Kipling to Eleanor Roosevelt, there is an appropriately glowing and indefinitely large body of literature addressing the Taj. The contrariness of Ludhianvi’s poem, titled after the monument and written in 1943, stands at a distance from the reams written in praise. In the poem, Ludhianvi urges his lover to meet him someplace other than the Taj because the mausoleum is the symbol of an emperor’s vanity and imperious love.
Two decades later, Ludhianvi wrote the lyrics for the film Taj Mahal. Here the contrarian is missing. Instead we find glowing words in service of the Shah Jahan-Mumtaz Mahal romance; Ludhianvi even won the ‘best lyricist’ award for his work on the film.
A little less than five decades later in Kaser Kalan—a village in Dibai tehsil approximately 150 kms outside of Delhi—Saidul Hasan Qadri began work on a maqbara in the memory of his wife Tajammuli Begum. The couple were childless and Begum feared that their graves would go unvisited. And so Qadri promised her a mausoleum that would bring people to their graves.
The skyline of Dibai has yet to see a building like Qadri and Begum’s Maqbara Yaadgare Mohabbat (Tomb in the Memory of Love). No sooner had the production begun than people started referring to it as the Taj Mahal (Crown of Palaces). And not for nothing too, the Maqbara bears more than a passing resemblance to the Taj, which Qadri has visited on more than one occasion.
Work on the Maqbara is currently stalled because Qadri, who turned 80 in July this year, has already spent his life savings, i.e. Rs 10 lakh, on its construction.
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The intertwined stories of the opening encounter were sent out as probes and over time these probes returned with traces, segments, pathologies of kaleidoscopic situations. The exhibition is a coproduction of these situations, with its ‘centre’ getting reconfigured in and with every situation.
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Accompanying Event : TALK "Working with Architecture and Language" by Sarover Zaidi at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 6:30pm on 19th October 2016
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EXHIBITION "Love in the Time of Choleric Capital" a group art show at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 14th October to 15th November 2016
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