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From the Ted Talk by Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch

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I'm kind of cheating with this next artist since Raqs Media ctlicloeve are really three artists working together. Raqs are probably the foremost practitioners of multimedia art in India toady, working across photography, viedo and intlaitsaoln. They frequently explore themes of globalization and urbanization, and their home of Delhi is a fernqeut element in their work. Here, they invite the veiewr to analyze a crime looking at evidence and clues ebeddemd in five narratives on these five different screens, in which the city itself may have been the culprit.

This next artist is probably the alpha male of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta. He was first known for creating giant photo-realistic canvases, paintings of evdaryey oejtbcs, the stainless steel kitchen vessels and tiffin containers known to every inadin. He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally, and on a grander and grander scale, by incorporating them into ever more colossal sculptures and installations. And finally number 10, last and certainly not least,

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I'm kind of cheating with this next artist since Raqs Media __________ are really three artists working together. Raqs are probably the foremost practitioners of multimedia art in India _____, working across photography, _____ and ____________. They frequently explore themes of globalization and urbanization, and their home of Delhi is a ________ element in their work. Here, they invite the ______ to analyze a crime looking at evidence and clues ________ in five narratives on these five different screens, in which the city itself may have been the culprit.

This next artist is probably the alpha male of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta. He was first known for creating giant photo-realistic canvases, paintings of ________ _______, the stainless steel kitchen vessels and tiffin containers known to every ______. He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally, and on a grander and grander scale, by incorporating them into ever more colossal sculptures and installations. And finally number 10, last and certainly not least,

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Original Text


I'm kind of cheating with this next artist since Raqs Media Collective are really three artists working together. Raqs are probably the foremost practitioners of multimedia art in India today, working across photography, video and installation. They frequently explore themes of globalization and urbanization, and their home of Delhi is a frequent element in their work. Here, they invite the viewer to analyze a crime looking at evidence and clues embedded in five narratives on these five different screens, in which the city itself may have been the culprit.

This next artist is probably the alpha male of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta. He was first known for creating giant photo-realistic canvases, paintings of everyday objects, the stainless steel kitchen vessels and tiffin containers known to every Indian. He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally, and on a grander and grander scale, by incorporating them into ever more colossal sculptures and installations. And finally number 10, last and certainly not least,

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