{"id":2747,"date":"2012-05-18T17:11:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2012-05-18T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:11:50","slug":"thukral-tagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Thukral &#038; Tagra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mitue\/7222043062\/\" title=\"Longing for Tomorrow 3 von mitue bei Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7075\/7222043062_b8a5134b38.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Longing for Tomorrow 3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With their latest group of works, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thukralandtagra.com\/home\/\">Thukral &#038; Tagra<\/a> explore the bizarre mix of sentimentality, nostalgia and clich\u00e9d futurisms that is epitomized by the rising Indian middle class and especially in the burgeoning new city of Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi where the artists live and work. Gurgaon, a rising hub of manufacturing and information technology, is also a sprawling residential community characterized by faux-classical mansions, towering apartment blocks decked out like colonial bungalows, mega-malls dominated by globalized food courts, and steel and glass behemoths connected by dirt roads. Thukral &#038; Tagra\u2019s frenetic mixture of high and low styles in paintings, sculptures and decorative accoutrements is an apt response to this bewildering and perverse urban reality typifying the \u201cnew India.\u201d<br \/>\n (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturemorte.com\/exhibitions\/2012-04-28_thukral-and-tagra\/press-release\/\">more<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturemorte.com\/\">Nature Morte Berlin<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mitue\/7222037406\/\" title=\"Longing for Tomorrow 2 von mitue bei Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7074\/7222037406_0b62945f69.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Longing for Tomorrow 2\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their latest group of works, Thukral &#038; Tagra explore the bizarre mix of sentimentality, nostalgia and clich\u00e9d futurisms that is epitomized by the rising Indian middle class and especially in the burgeoning new city of Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi where the artists live and work. Gurgaon, a rising hub of manufacturing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ausstellungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}