NN Rimzon - “Speaking Stones”
First in the “Only ONE” Series at Kashi Art Café
19 July 2008 – 30 August 2008

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Created in 1998, “Speaking Stones” has been widely exhibited in major international art centers including Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Geneva, New Delhi, Manchester, Berlin, Perth, and New York.

1999 The first exhibition was in Tokyo, “Private Mythologies” Contemporary Art from India, curated by the well known Japanese art historian Tatehata Akira for the Japan Foundation.

Also in this same year “Speaking Stones” was featured in the prestigious show “The Edge of Awareness”, presented in Geneva, New Delhi, Sao Paulo and New York curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg.  Produced by ART for the World Association on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the World Health Organization.

2002  “Speaking Stones” was exhibited in the “Art South Asia” in Manchaster, UK - the first international program of visual culture from Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka, the Indian section (“New Indian Art”) was curated by Prof. Gualmmohammed Sheikh.  Following this the artwork was included in Sahmat’s “Artist Against Communalism” exhibition curated by Vivan Sundaram at Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, New Delhi.

2003  Body. City: citing contemporary culture in India, curated by art historian, Geeta Kapur, and held at the House of Culture, Berlin Germany

2004-2005 “Speaking Stones” was exhibited in “Edge of Desire: Recent Art from India”, Chaitanya Sambrani curated this exhibition that was held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, in collaboration with the Asia Society, New York.  This work then traveled back to the USA and opened at the Asia Society Gallery and Queens Museum Gallery, New York.

Sometimes an artwork is so strong that people can not help but take note.  It could be a shout, or maybe a whisper, but it demands attention.  It takes ‘Only ONE’

‘Only ONE’ is an art experience at Kashi Art Café.  We are inviting several very talented artists to participate in a series of ‘ONE’ works that are so noteworthy that you must involved yourself.  Invited artists will use this space to provoke, force thought, question, tickle, infuriate or communicate whatever it is that is so important to them that they became artists to do exactly that.  

Each season four or five artists will create ‘ONE’ work for the Kashi ART Café gallery space.  This season’s series is called ‘Only ONE’, followed by different artists participating in ‘Next ONE’, next season; continuing the process with ‘ONE more’, ‘(not only) ONE’, etc., in years to come.

After eight to ten “one” works, we will document the series with a professional publication that includes several photographic views and articulation of each artwork.  The artist and gallery will jointly determine the most appropriate art professional to articulate each particular work. 

Information regarding the availability of this future publication will become available on the Kashi website as the publication date draws near.  The “Only ONE” publication date is projected to be in Jan 2010 and will include our first 8 to 10 artworks in this ongoing series.

Upcoming in the “Only ONE” Series:
Nov 15 to Dec 15 - Jitish Kallat
DEC 20 to Jan 20 - Bose Krishnamachari