Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch

翻译人员: Tan Jun 校对人员: JINGJING DONG

Right now is the most exciting time

现在是最振奋人心的时刻，

to see new Indian art.

让我们来领略一下最新的印度艺术作品。

Contemporary artists in India are having a conversation with the world

如今，印度的当代艺术家正以前所未有的方式

like never before.

和世界交流。

I thought it might be interesting, even for the many long-time

我觉得对TED在座的长期

collectors here with us at TED, local collectors,

收藏家，和本地收藏家来讲，

to have an outside view of 10 young Indian artists

对这十位年轻的印度艺术家有个大概的了解，是很有趣的。

I wish everyone at TED to know.

我同样希望TED的听众也对此感兴趣。

The first is Bharti Kher.

首先是巴哈提·科尔(Bharti Kher)。

The central motif of Bharti's practice

她作品的主要装饰图案是来自

is the ready-made store-bought bindi

商店卖的已经做好的吉祥痣（印度妇女装饰额头中心的人工痣）。

that untold millions of Indian women apply to their foreheads,

无数印度女性每天都把吉祥痣贴在额头，

every day, in an act closely associated with

这和印度的婚姻制度

the institution of marriage.

紧密联系着。

But originally the significance of the bindi

但起初吉祥痣的意义

is to symbolize the third eye

是象征着第三只眼，

between the spiritual world and the religious world.

存在并联系着精神世界与宗教世界。

Bharti seeks to liberate this everyday cliche, as she calls it,

巴哈提(Bharti) 称她致力于打破日常传统，

by exploding it into something spectacular.

她让吉祥痣变得更加炫丽。

She also creates life-size fiberglass sculptures, often of animals,

她也创作一些实物大小的玻璃纤维雕塑，一般以动物为题材，

which she then completely covers in bindis,

之后用吉祥痣覆盖整个雕塑，

often with potent symbolism.

通常是用于覆盖有强大象征意义的雕塑。

She says she first got started with

她说起初她用

10 packets of bindis,

10袋吉祥痣，

and then wondered what she could do with 10 thousand.

然后她想她能用一万袋吉祥痣做什么。

Our next artist, Balasubramaniam,

下一位艺术家，巴拉苏布拉马尼亚姆（Balasubramaniam），

really stands at the crossroads of sculpture, painting and installation,

他的作品站在了雕塑、绘画和装置艺术的十字路口，

working wonders with fiberglass.

用玻璃钢创造出了奇迹般的作品。

Since Bala himself will be speaking at TED

由于巴拉（ Bala）本人将在TED演讲，

I won't spend too much time on him here today,

我今天就不再多花时间介绍他了，

except to say that he really succeeds

但我还是要说他确实是很成功的，

at making the invisible visible.

他把无形变得有形。

Brooklyn-based Chitra Ganesh

纽约的布鲁克林（Brooklyn）的居住的齐塔拉·格涅沙(Chitra Ganesh)，

is known for her digital collages,

以她的数字拼贴画著称。

using Indian comic books called amar chitra kathas

她用印度连环漫画《亚玛·齐塔拉·卡萨》（印度最畅销的漫画书之一，《Amar Chitra Kathas》）

as her primary source material.

作为他的主要参考素材。

These comics are a fundamental way

这些连环漫画提供了一种基本的学习途径，

that children, especially in the diaspora,

让那些印度孩子，尤其是给那些散居异乡的孩子

learn their religious and mythological folk tales.

学习他们的宗教以及民间神话故事。

I, for one, was steeped in these.

举个例子，我就很迷恋这些漫画。

Chitra basically remixes and re-titles

总的来说,齐塔拉（Chitra）重新组合和命名了

these iconic images

这些标志性的形象，用他们

to tease out some of the sexual and gender politics

梳理清楚一些有关性与性别的政治信仰，

embedded in these deeply influential comics.

将它们融入令人印象深刻的连环画中。

And she uses this vocabulary in her installation work as well.

在她的雕塑装置艺术中也同样运用了语言技巧。

Jitish Kallat successfully practices across photography,

吉提希·卡拉特(Jitish Kallat) 成功的实现了摄影、

sculpture, painting and installation.

雕塑、绘画和现代雕塑装置艺术的完美结合。

As you can see, he's heavily influenced

你们可以看到，他深受

by graffiti and street art,

涂鸦和街头艺术的影响，

and his home city of Mumbai is an ever-present element in his work.

他的老家孟买 (Mumbai)也是他创作的永恒要素。

He really captures that sense of density

他确实捕捉到了密集度

and energy which really characterizes modern urban Bombay.

和活力，而这正是现代孟买 (原名Bombay, 现名Mumbai，中文名没变) 城的标志。

He also creates phantasmagoric sculptures

此外他还创作了一系列幻影似的的雕塑作品，

made of bones from cast resin.

用树脂浇铸的骨骼制作而成。

Here he envisions the carcass

他想象出一辆电动三轮车的残骸，

of an autorickshaw he once witnessed burning in a riot.

他曾见到这辆三轮车在一起暴乱事件中烧为灰烬。

This next artist, N.S. Harsha,

下一位艺术家，N.S.哈莎(N.S.Harsha)

actually has a studio right here in Mysore.

事实上，他就在我现在演讲的印度的迈索尔（Mysore）有自己的画室。

He's putting a contemporary spin on the miniature tradition.

他在微型绘画作品中展现出当代艺术气息。

He creates these fine, delicate images

创造出精美细致的人物，

which he then repeats on a massive scale.

然后大规模的重复这些人物。

He uses scale to more and more spectacular effect,

如此将量形成质的飞跃，营造出惊人的效果，

whether on the roof of a temple in Singapore,

可以看到无论是在这个新加坡寺庙的屋顶上，

or in his increasingly ambitious installation work,

还是在他宏伟的现代雕塑装置艺术作品中。

here with 192 functioning sewing machines,

这是192个正在工作的缝纫机，

fabricating the flags of every member of the United Nations.

正在制造每一个联合国成员国的国旗。

Mumbai-based Dhruvi Acharya

孟买（Mumbai）居住的杜·阿查里亚（Dhruvi Acharya）

builds on her love of comic books and street art

基于他对漫画和街头艺术的喜爱，

to comment on the roles and expectations

来表达她眼中

of modern Indian women.

当代印度妇女的角色和期望。

She too mines the rich source material of amar chitra kathas,

她也同样挖掘了《亚玛·齐塔拉·卡萨》这部连环画的丰富资源，

but in a very different way than Chitra Ganesh.

但是与前面介绍过的齐塔拉·格涅沙（Chitra Ganesh）有着截然不同的构思。

In this particular work, she actually strips out the images

在这个特别的作品中，她去除了人物，

and leaves the actual text

仅仅留下了文本，

to reveal something previously unseen, and provocative.

揭示那些不曾被人发现的、有煽动性的东西。

Raqib Shaw is Kolkata-born,

拉齐布·沙出生于印度的加尔各答（Kolkata），

Kashmir-raised,

在印度的克什米尔（Kashmir)长大，

and London-trained.

在伦敦(London) 学艺术。

He too is reinventing the miniature tradition.

他也革新了微型绘画传统。

He creates these opulent tableaus inspired by Hieronymus Bosch,

他从希罗尼穆斯·波希（Hieronymus Bosch）以及

but also by the Kashmiri textiles of his youth.

他年轻时代克什米尔（Kashmiri）纺织业获得灵感，创作了这些华丽又生动的画面。

He actually applies metallic industrial paints to his work

事实上，他在画作中运用了金属工业涂料，

using porcupine quills to get this rich detailed effect.

用豪猪刺笔达到最丰富多彩的效果。

I'm kind of cheating with this next artist

如果我说接下来的是一位艺术家的话，我就有欺骗之嫌了。

since Raqs Media Collective are really

因为 Raqs 媒体小组事实上是由

three artists working together.

三位艺术家组成的。

Raqs are probably the foremost practitioners

Raqs 可能是当今印度多媒体艺术

of multimedia art in India today,

的先驱，

working across photography, video and installation.

它将摄影、影像和装置艺术结合于一身。

They frequently explore themes of globalization and urbanization,

他们经常挖掘全球化和城市化的主题，

and their home of Delhi is a frequent element in their work.

他们的家，印度的德里（Delhi）也经常成为他们作品的主题。

Here, they invite the viewer to analyze a crime

这幅作品中，他们请观众分析一起犯罪事件，

looking at evidence and clues embedded

从5个不同屏幕上的不同陈述

in five narratives on these five different screens,

找寻证据以及线索，

in which the city itself may have been the culprit.

也许城市本身才是真正的罪犯。

This next artist is probably the alpha male

下一位或许是位印度当代艺术最有发言权的人物：

of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta.

Subodh Gupta （苏博德·古普塔）。

He was first known for creating giant photo-realistic canvases,

他首先创作出巨型照片般仿真油画，

paintings of everyday objects,

日常用品的绘画作品，

the stainless steel kitchen vessels and tiffin containers

每个印度人都熟悉的不锈钢的厨房用具

known to every Indian.

及午餐盒。

He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally,

他向世界展示了这些当地的平凡物件，

and on a grander and grander scale,

在更大规模的创作中，

by incorporating them into ever more colossal

他将这些物件容于更巨大的

sculptures and installations.

雕塑作品和现代雕塑装置艺术中。

And finally number 10, last and certainly not least,

最后第十位，同样很重要的一位：

Ranjani Shettar,

Ranjani Shettar （班加尼·谢塔尔）

who lives and works here in the state of Karnataka,

她居住并工作在印度的卡纳塔克（Karnataka），

creates ethereal sculptures and installations

致力于创作优雅的雕塑及雕塑装置艺术。

that really marry the organic to the industrial,

她的作品确确实实将有机生命融入到了工业，

and brings, like Subodh, the local global.

像苏博德（Sudodh）一样，将本地文化传扬到全世界。

These are actually wires wrapped in muslin

这些实际上是细布包着的金属丝

and steeped in vegetable dye.

浸泡在植物染料而成的。

And she arranges them so that the viewer

她这样布局使观赏者

actually has to navigate through the space,

感受在太空中遨游，

and interact with the objects.

并且有与这些物体交流接触的感觉。

And light and shadow are a very important part of her work.

在她的作品中，光线和光影是十分重要的。

She also explores themes of consumerism,

除了这些作品，她同样探寻一些其他主题，比如消费主义，

and the environment, such as in this work,

以及环境。就像这幅作品：

where these basket-like objects look organic and woven,

酷似篮子的物体看上去是绿色有机物和编织，

and are woven,

它们确实是编织而成的，

but with the strips of steel, salvaged from cars

用钢条--从班加罗尔的废品旧货场的报废汽车上回收利用

that she found in a Bangalore junkyard.

编织而成的。

10 artists, six minutes, I know that was a lot to take in.

十位艺术家，六分钟，我知道大家要吸收的内容太多。

But I can only hope I've whet your appetite

但我只希望我能够促进大家的食欲，

to go out and see and learn more

是大家走出来并了解更多

about the amazing things that are happening in art in India today.

发生在印度现代艺术的各种不可思议的事情。

Thank you very much for looking and listening.

非常感谢大家的观赏！

(Applause)

（鼓掌）