Reliable Copy

Reliable Copy is an Indian independant publishing house and curatorial practice dedicated to the realisation and circulation of works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions, undertakes research projects, organises workshops, and hosts a wide variety of programming.
Reliable Copy is based in Bangalore, and was founded in 2018. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal, Sarasija Subramanian, and Stuti Bhavsar.

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13 titles

Jason Hirata
Supporting Role

2024

English edition

A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.

Nilima Sheikh
The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art

2024

English edition

The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art, written in 1971, reevaluates the legacies of painting inherited by the artist Nilima Sheikh.

Kiran Subbaiah
Melancholia in the Age of Mechanization

2024

English edition

Indian artist Kiran Subbaiah reevaluates the history of Modernism, through its ideals of growth and progress, as one steeped in contradictions around industrialisation and its effects on society.

At the kitchen table

2024

English edition

An exhibition guide for a multi-part show conceived by Reliable Copy in India, featuring a range of cookbooks, videos, and artworks around food, by a strong grouping of practices.

Leone Contini
Human Pelvis, Bitter Radish

2024

English edition

This publication features a project by Leone Contini looking into the canned food available during the war of Caporetto in 1917 and especially its iconography. It brings together an essay by the artist along with reproductions of a selection of his drawings.

David Robbins
High Entertainment

2023

English edition

High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.

Praneet Soi
Urban Kitsch

2022

English edition

Urban Kitsch, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalisation of the Indian economy.

Jyoti Bhatt, Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta
Modernism/Murderism – The Modern Art Debate in Kumar

2022

English edition

Modernism/Murderism brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of India's Gujarati-language literary periodical Kumar between 1959 and 1964.

Mochu
Nervous Fossils – Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether

2022

English edition

A surrealist anticipation novel by the Indian artist.

$Pushpamala N - Sculptor\'s Notebook$

Pushpamala N
Sculptor's Notebook

2022

English edition

In Sculptor's Notebook, originally written in 1985, the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then.

The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook

2020

English edition

The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram.

Mario Santanilla
Still Life – Mirrors and windows

2020

English edition

Moving across personal anecdotes, moments in history, cultural memory, and scientific did-you-knows, Mario Santanilla's Still Life takes the reader on a virtual journey across a range of sights and sites.

Ravikumar Kashi
Flexing Muscles

2019

bilingual edition (English / Kannada)

sold out

A Kannada-English bilingual book of essays on the culture of flex banners put up by pro-Kannada outfits and political parties.