CMAC was invited by American Embassy to design an exhibition on the eve of visit of president Barack Obama. The exhibition was mounted at the American Center, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, from November 1st till November 30. Curated by photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer Parthiv Shah, the exhibition, titled U. S. President Barack Obama showed the various sides...
Mere Paas Raho
Mere Paas Raho, an audio CD As part of a centenary tribute to the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, CMAC produced an audio CD called Mere Paas Raho. The CD includes an array of songs composed and performed by Vidya Shah, based on the work of Faiz. Mere Paas Raho was produced in collaboration with the Faiz...
Art as Witness/ Voices of Dignity
Art As Witness Art As Witness was a photo-exhibition curated by Parthiv Shah and jointly conceived by CMAC & Amnesty International, India. The exhibition featured images by eminent photographers from all over the world on the harsh realities of day-to-day life as experienced by ordinary people in South Asian zones; and specifically, of infringes from...
ArtMoves
ArtMoves is a joint project produced by MAKE ART STOP AIDS and CMAC. It is a fully portable human-rights based AIDS/arts intervention, and it consists of multiple workshops, events and displays. Conveyed and presented in five retrofitted auto-rickshaws, ArtMoves is better described as a moving event or a “happening”, than an exhibition. View Graphics...
Vistaar
CMAC was invited to do the product styling and photography for the “Vistaar”, the art and design collaborative exhibition with artists and designers, for the Limited Editions, Delhi. View Photography...
Collaborative Photography Exhibitions
TRENT PARKEMinutes to Midnight ‘Minutes to Midnight’ was exhibited for the first time at the Australian Centre for Photography as part of the Sydney Arts Festival in 2005. The exhibition was presented in India by the Australian High Commission with the support of the Australia International Cultural Council. It is a part of the...
Figures, Facts, Feelings: A Direct Diasporic Dialogue
In an era of globalisation, where society is becoming a large melting pot of multiple cultures, the issue of the diaspora stands out in itself. Added to this, the Indian diaspora today constitutes an important, and in some respects unique, force in world culture and therefore augments more understanding. Parthiv Shah’s image-text exhibition- “Figures,...
Maanush
CMAC curated an exhibition “Maanush”, which showcased art works by Haku Shah. The exhibition of paintings, collages and mix-media works was designed and mounted by CMAC at the Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre in Delhi– which traveled to Mumbai and Kolkata. The catalogue which was brought out had poems selected from all over...
The Word is Sacred: Sacred is the Word
CMAC had the opportunity to curate and design an exhibition on the Indian tradition of manuscripts at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, as a part of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The exhibition showcased multiple Indian manuscripts from different time periods. Commissioned by the National Manuscript Mission, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, The...
Sadak.Sarai.Sheher.Basti: The Recurring Figure
Stretched Terrains ‘Stretched Terrains’ was a set of seven uniquely interrelated-yet independent-exhibitions at the Kiran Nadar Museum in New Delhi. It included solo exhibitions of three modern masters from the Progressive Artists’ Group: MF Husain (‘Yatra: The Rooted Nomad’), SH Raza (The Black Sun), and FN Souza (Man Grinding his Teeth). Also, part of the...