Ranbir Kaleka


ArtIndia Event, Metaphor, Memory

"Ranbir Kaleka has had a busy two years. A solo show of his video installations ran at Bose Pacia New York from March 20th to April 26th 2008, and in 2007, the Jewish Museum in Chicago commissioned him to make a multi-media installation especially for their premises. Latika Gupta catches up with the veteran artist..."

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Art AsiaPacific Indian Artist Commemorates Holocaust with New Commission

"A Holocaust memorial by New Delhi-based painter and video artist, Ranbir kaleka, is now a permanen ficture at the recently opened headquarters of Chicago's Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, inaugurated in November 2007..."

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The Indian Express Video Ga Ga

"54-year-old artist Ranbir Kaleka's video world is full of lingering shadows, sunbeams streaking across lengthy corridors and a sense of loss and resurrection, all seen through a brightly coloured acrylic overlapped on a video, with tinkling music in the background"

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ArtIndia Spectres of the Real

"Ranbir Kaleka's most recent artwork, Man Threading Needling (1999), is presented to the viewer as a painting set on a good easel and placed in a darkened alcove of what is presumably the white box of the museum or gallery..."

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