For the Love of Printmaking – International Symposium (Online)

November 2023

India’s first ever online international symposium dedicated to printmaking was co-conceptualised and implemented by Faandee with IPEP India under the darshak: a decade of printmaking and viewership. It was a remarkable gathering of 22 scholars from 11 countries, with a presentation of 17 papers, contributing valuable insights into Printmaking theory, criticism and contemporary practice. 

The inclusive platform emphasised on the participation of practicing artists despite their limitations academic research inviting notes right from the studio spaces as well as research desks.

Through rigorous data handling during and after the symposium with all the 22+ members, we are now soon to publish the symposium proceedings in a book form.

  • From Exchange to Documentation

    For the Love of Printmaking emerges from the urge to build a printmaking repository – dreaming to become an encyclopedia. Over the past twelve years (2013–2025), IPEP India has functioned…

  • Braiding the Void | पोकळीतली वीण

    In a moment when contemporary art is increasingly compelled to declare its position, socially, politically, and rhetorically; what does it mean to remain with abstraction? Umesh Patil’s practice does not…

  • Bharatan Archives – A Family & Artists’ Archive

    Modern Indian art is shaped through several celebrated and many unknown hands. Maledath Bharatan a Textile Chemist from Kerala who initially finds a job at Mumbai, then joining the Communist…

  • अपने हिस्से में सूरज – Rajesh Pullarwar

    Apne Hisse Me SurajThe light of acknowledgement Actions – yours and mine shape our identity. Often given, imposed, but also acquired;  in a democratic, republican state, how, who, and what decides…