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lundi 30 décembre 2013

Rétrospective Gaitonde au Guggenheim de New York


Source Art Market Insight
La première vente de Christie's à Bombay, qui se tenait le 19 décembre 2013, s'est ouverte avec un nouveau record, et non des moindres, puisqu'il s'agit du record mondial jamais enregistré pour un artiste indien. Ce nouveau sommet est du fait de Vasudeo. S. Gaitonde, grâce à une toile de 1979 estimée 1,04 -1,3 m$, et finalement cédée 3 792 400 $ frais inclus (Untitled 1979). Ce record témoigne d'un rattrapage de cote qui s'opère depuis quelques années sur les grands artistes modernes indiens, rattrapage qui se voit consolidé par l'adoubement de Gaitonde par les grand prescripteurs internationaux de l'histoire de l'art. L'annonce de sa rétrospective au Guggenheim de New York (du 24 octobre 2014 au 11 février 2015) est en effet d'une importance capitale dans la voie de la reconnaissance internationale de l'art indien. Le musée Guggenheim entame par ailleurs un travail de sensibilisation important concernant la création indienne puisque la rétrospective consacrée à Gaitonde intervient peu après l'exposition de Zarina Hashimi au sein du même musée (25 janvier - 21avril 2013).
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Beaubourg réécrit toute l’histoire de l’art


Source La Libre Belgique par Guy Duplat
Dans ce travail de "déconstruction" et de décolonisation, comme aurait dit Derrida, on y retrouve bien sûr les icônes bien connues de Picasso, Cézanne, Picabia, Arp, Kandinsky, Dix, Pollock et les autres. Mais elles deviennent minoritaires par rapport à des centaines d’œuvres d’artistes inconnus pour nous. C’est pourquoi le titre de l’accrochage parle de "modernités plurielles". Dans cette vision, il n’est plus question de raconter les seuls maîtres et la seule influence des courants nés à Paris, Moscou ou New York, mais aussi d’analyser, dans un monde devenu multipolaire, les échanges, les transferts, les résistances.
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dimanche 29 décembre 2013

Indian art market could hit the $200 mn mark next year


Source Business Standard by Nikhil Inamdar
Contemporary art starts at a range of Rs 50,000 - Rs 75,000. You may not be able afford a Raza, but there is scope to invest in contemporary or other genres like folk, tribal and rural art or even paper works of some of the masters. Artists work across mediums, surfaces and formats so there is always something affordable and within your range if you look carefully.
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Modern Indian Family in the Age of Hurt Sensibilities: Lessons from Literature and Art


Source Daily News & Analysis by Nishtha Gautam
Supreme Court of India’s judgment on Sec 377 has brought back the focus on ‘family’ in India. People are raising questions around procreative aspects of sex and the idea of a perfect family which presupposes the presence of a man, his wife and their children. Supporters of criminalization of homosexuality say that seeing same sex couples hurts their sensibilities rooted in the Indian family system. Also, it is difficult to explain the phenomenon to their children! How important really is ‘family’ or the idea thereof for Indians? There are multiple answers to this question. A decade back three contemporary mainstream writers/artists reimagined the ‘family’ and courted trouble.
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Vasudev Gaitonde, one of the most significant artists of this generation


Source DNA by Gargi Gupta
Vasudev Santu Gaitonde (1924-2001), whose untitled painting became the most expensive piece of modern Indian art to be sold at auction when it went for Rs23.7 crore at Christie’s inaugural auction in Mumbai on December 19, was a bit of an enigma. The tale could be apocryphal, but it’s a wonderful one and illustrative of the intellectual, single-minded rigour that gave his art that quality of meditative simplicity that so many critics consider Gaitonde’s hallmark. It is also one of the very few “human” stories concerning the artist who left his family behind in Goa when he moved to Bombay in the 1940s and never saw them again.
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samedi 21 décembre 2013

Christie's holds first art auction in India, hoping to cultivate burgeoning ranks of wealthy


Source Times Colonist by Kay Johnson
Rajan Sehgal, who manages private banking for Indian nationals for Credit Suisse, confirms that wealthy Indians are increasingly buying art. "Today, art is a very important and an extremely key investment over the years, much more than real estate in some markets," Sehgal said. Indian buyers have been snapping up pieces at Christie's events in London and New York, and the auction house believes the time is ripe to hold its first sale inside India, where it has had a representative office for nearly two decades.
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vendredi 20 décembre 2013

Christie’s hoping to develop art market with first auction in India


Source First Post Business
While China's wealthy have embraced art purchases and now rival the U.S. as the largest market in the world, India's elite have been slower to invest. China and the U.S. last year accounted for 25 percent and 33 percent, respectively, of the $58.7 billion global fine art and antiques market. India did not even make the top five, lumped together with "other countries" accounting together for 7 percent, according to a report by The European Annual Fine Art Foundation. But Christie's is expecting that will change as India's rich — who are already eating up luxury brands in clothing, jewelry and automobiles — train their attention and bank accounts on fine art.
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Vasudeo Gaitonde's work fetches record-breaking Rs.20.5 crore at Christie's first India auction


Source India Today
Christie's held its first art auction in India on Thursday, aiming to tap into a budding market for prestige purchasing among the country's fast-growing ranks of millionaires despite an economic slowdown. The top-selling work of the evening was a mustard-hued abstract oil on canvas by Vasudeo Gaitonde, which fetched Rs.20.5 crore ($3.28 million) - a bid that drew audible gasps when it was made and cheers when the final gavel fell at more double than its pre-sale estimate.
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mercredi 18 décembre 2013

Christie’s organise sa première vente aux enchères en Inde


Source Le Monde par Julien Bouissou
Avec l’arrivée, à Bombay, de l’une des plus grandes sociétés de ventes aux enchères, le centre de gravité du marché de l’art indien se déplace enfin de Londres ou New York vers l’Inde. Ce marché indien a approché 300 millions de dollars (217,9 millions d’euros) en 2012 au niveau mondial, six fois plus qu’en 2005. Mais les salles de marchés dans le pays ne génèrent que 20 millions de dollars de chiffre d’affaires.
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lundi 16 décembre 2013

vendredi 13 décembre 2013

Chassol, la mélodie des pixels

Source Le Temps par Arnaud Robert

En ce moment, dans son appartement parisien en poutres et charpentes, il écrit une musique pour la publicité d’un camembert. Il vient d’achever la bande originale d’un film d’horreur où la petite fille semble avoir grignoté la peau de son petit frère – rassurez-vous, elle est innocente. Et il prépare un nouveau documentaire en Martinique, donc relit Edouard Glissant, tout en digérant une collaboration avec l’artiste Sophie Calle. Dans un pays qui érige des chapelles hermétiques, où la pop ne croise presque jamais l’art contemporain, Chassol fait tache. «Franchement, je ne fais pas de différence entre Stravinski et The Cure. Les deux utilisent les mêmes outils, les mêmes harmonies, au service d’une même cause: toucher ceux qu’ils visent.»
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La performance, l’art invisible, fait recette


Source Slate par Anne de Coninck
Petit bol de soupe aux lentilles, bar fumé enveloppé dans une feuille de bananier servi avec des pommes de terre au curry suivi de poulet et d’aubergines frites présentées sur du riz. Et enfin comme dessert un yaourt parfumé à la banane et au safran… Non ce n’est pas mon dernier diner dans un restaurant, mais une performance artistique commissionnée à Subodh Gupta par la Biennale Performa 13 à New York. Dans les années 1960 et 1970, la performance était la partie la plus subversive de l’art contemporain. Les mutilations et autres provocations étaient permanentes et l’objet même des performances. Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Jack Goldstein défendaient une démarche radicale contre la société, l’establishment et le monde de l’art.
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jeudi 12 décembre 2013

The potential Indian buyer

Source Business Standard by Avantika Bhuyan
The new Indian art collector is young, well travelled, sensitive to cultural diversities and hence, clued in. “Gone are the days when art was to be bought once you became a millionaire. Today young executives and entrepreneurs want to start collecting art much earlier in life,” says Kirpal. Moreover a price correction of 20-30 per cent for modern art and over 50 per cent for contemporary art has encouraged first-time buyers. “The art centres are no longer Delhi and Mumbai; there are some very interesting collections in Mysore, Surat, Lucknow and Ahmedabad. Collections of great significance in smaller towns is an indicator of how the market is expanding nationally,” says Kirpal.
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mercredi 11 décembre 2013

Rock Garden to star in R-Day parade


Source Times of India by Shimona Kanwar
The 65th Republic Day of the country will for the first time see participation of the city in the form of Rock Garden as a tableau. After shortlisting the open hand, the theme of Jawaharlal Nehru's modern city, Rock Garden has been approved by the ministry of defence. Nek Chand, the creator of the garden was elated. "I am feeling proud that my garden has been selected for the national day celebrations."
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Inde : la justice confirme la loi pénalisant l'homosexualité


Source Le Monde
La décision de la Haute Cour de Delhi était contestée par plusieurs groupes religieux du pays, en particulier par des dignitaires musulmans et chrétiens, qui avaient fait appel devant la Cour suprême. « Le pouvoir législatif doit envisager de supprimer cet article de la loi conformément aux recommandations de l'avocat général », a ajouté le juge G. S. Singhvi. « Une telle décision était totalement inattendue de la part de la Cour suprême. C'est une journée noire pour la communauté homosexuelle » a réagi Arvind Narayan, avocat de l'association pour les droits des homosexuels Alternative Law Forum.
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Amar Kanwar on the Disappearing Landscapes of "The Sovereign Forest"


Source Blouin Art Info by Emilia Terracciano
The Sovereign Forest attempts to reopen discussion and initiate a creative response to our understanding of crime, politics, human rights, and ecology. The validity of poetry 
as evidence in a trial; the discourse on seeing, on understanding, on compassion, on issues of justice; sovereignty and the determination of the self—all come together in a constellation of moving and still images, texts, books, pamphlets, albums, music, objects, seeds, events, and processes. The Sovereign Forest has overlapping identities. It continuously reincarnates as an art installation, an exhibition, a library, a memorial, a public trial, an open call for the collection of more “evidence,” an archive, and also a proposition for a space that engages with political issues
as well as with art.
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mardi 10 décembre 2013

Multicultural Miami embraces Indian art

Source The Times of India by Neelam Raaj
Despite the contemporary art market not performing very well at home, Indian gallerists are venturing out to fairs in Miami and Hong Kong which attract important NRI collectors. Not that it's just the desi gallerists who show Indian artists. Austrian Galerie Krinzinger will be exhibiting the work of Delhi artist Mithu Sen's sensually charged works in the Kabinett sector of the Miami fair. Participants of the Kabinett sector are carefully chosen to present curated exhibitions, in this case for a rising star of the art world.
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With song and sadness, South Africans mourn Mandela

Source The Star Online

Workmen unfurl a giant banner with a photo of the late South African President Nelson Mandela to cover the facade of the Quai d'Orsay Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris, December 6, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully at home in Johannesburg at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant.
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Christie's turns to India to expand art auction network


Source Reuters by Frank Daniel
India's art market has been something of a roller-coaster in recent years, with valuations of contemporary artists sky-rocketing during a pre-financial crisis boom before coming back down with a bump. Indian modern paintings have held up better, helped by a growing clutch of Indian collectors snapping up works from overseas auctions. A November report by art market analysts Art Tactic said confidence in Indian modern art was on the rise. Much like China a few years ago, Indian collectors are largely interested in homegrown work from dead modern masters, whose valuations are seen as likely to increase.
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mardi 3 décembre 2013

Best of 2013

Source Artforum by Zeenat Nagree
Heightened attention in the latter part of the year was given to Mumbai’s Chemould Prescott Road. To mark the gallery’s fifty-year existence, during which its founders Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy played a pivotal role in promoting modern and contemporary art in India, the couple’s daughter and current director Shireen Gandhy invited the renowned curator, critic, and theorist Geeta Kapur to present five exhibitions. Drawing from Chemould’s roster without being bound by it, Kapur has gathered some of the most prominent contemporary Indian artists for this exhibition series titled “Aesthetic Bind.”
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Tarun Tejpal, l'icône déchue du journalisme indien

Source Le Monde par Julien Bouissou
Le scandale ébranle le pays tout entier. Car c'est une icône du journalisme Indien qui tombe, précipitant dans sa chute un magazine réputé pour ses enquêtes qui firent vaciller les pouvoirs politique et économique. Dès l'information rendue publique, les chaînes d'information ont aussitôt relégué au second plan la campagne électorale qui bat son plein dans plusieurs Etats, pour ne consacrer leurs éditions spéciales qu'au sort de ce héros déchu.
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London: Hayward Gallery presents a landmark project in the artistic life of Dayanita Singh.


Source Matters of Art
Singh brings her portable ‘museums’ of stories, themes and image repertoires to Hayward Gallery for the first time. The museums bring together Singh’s artistic oeuvre from the past several decades, mixing them with major new works that have never before been exhibited. These large wooden structures can be placed and opened in different ways, each holding about a hundred images. Old and new pictures are endlessly displayed, sequenced, edited and archived into the continually-evolving ‘museums’.
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6th edition of India Art Fair from January 30

Source Business Standard
The country's contemporary and modern art fair, is set for its 6th edition from January 30 to February 2 here. With a programme, which includes Art Projects, a Speakers' Forum and a city wide Collateral Events schedule, the India Art Fair (IAF) has a by invitation VIP preview on January 30, organisers announced in a statement today. The Fair, which held its first edition in 2008, has grown to be an epicentre for art in India, with a global reputation for being one of South Asia's leading art fairs. The upcoming edition showcases 91 booths from India and across the world and aims to expose local and international artists to a large and diverse audience.
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La prostitution dans l’art, d’Ishtar à ORLAN


Source Exponaute par Magali Lesauvage
Le débat sur l'abolition de la prostitution, qui devrait aboutir à un vote ce 4 décembre, déchaîne les passions (du moins hors de l'hémicycle). Et pour cause : pour beaucoup, ce que l'on désigne de manière péremptoire comme "le plus vieux métier du monde" fait partie de la culture populaire. Ainsi la prostituée (plus rarement le prostitué) est-elle l'un des avatars les plus récurrents dans l'histoire de la représentation de la femme dans l'art. Panorama, d'Ishtar à ORLAN. Mentionnée dans la Bible comme dans les textes antiques, la prostituée apparaît très tôt dans les représentations artistiques. En Mésopotamie notamment, elle est sacrée (comme c'est le cas dans les temples hindous d'Inde, où officient les servantes des dieux, les dévadâsî) et liée à la fertilité.
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Art Sales: Christie’s rekindles the Indian art market


Source The Telegraph by Colin Gleadell
Five years after the global financial crisis wiped out the Indian art market, Christie's sale at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai looks set to provide a much-needed boost. It seems like an eternity, but it was only six years ago that every financial column in the Indian press and on the internet was releasing emphatic statistics about the boom in Indian art. The two main areas of focus were "modern" and "contemporary".
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jeudi 28 novembre 2013

Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Claude Lévi-Strauss


Dans une des rares interviews accordées ces dernières années Claude Lévi-Strauss disait : «Nous allons vers une civilisation à l'échelle mondiale. Où probablement apparaîtront des différences - il faut du moins l'espérer [...]. Nous sommes dans un monde auquel je n'appartiens déjà plus. Celui que j'ai connu, celui que j'ai aimé, avait 1,5 milliard d'habitants. Le monde actuel compte 6 milliards d'humains. Ce n'est plus le mien.» Claude Lévi-Strauss nous a quittés le 31 octobre 2009.

Hedge Fund Legend Michael Steinhardt on His Peruvian Textile Obsession


Source Blouin Art Info by Julie Brener
The first works of art I ever purchased were two watercolors by Paul Klee. I subsequently developed a collection that emphasized 20th-century works on paper as well as some 19th-century works by J.M.W. Turner and Francisco Goya, a favorite if I had to pick. Today, however, I devote my energy to ancient art over other parts of my collection. I have Classical works, objects from the ancient Near East, and a fair number of pieces one would describe as Neolithic. I was so expansive that I started collecting Judaica, Peruvian textiles, and then, for a while, Chinese material as well.
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Labyrinth of Reflections launched


Source Dawn by Peerzada Salman
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman said Rashid Rana’s works (the exhibition and the catalogue) were spectacular, challenging and provocative. It needed a post-modern French philosopher to speak about them. She said culture got a low priority in Pakistan and that ‘it goes abegging’. She gave credit to Hameed Haroon and trustees of the museum for putting up the show. Ms Rehman said: “All of us value and understand the power of Rashid Rana’s work for it speaks about everyday issues and addresses the multiple lives that we lead.”
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mercredi 27 novembre 2013

Of the art and craft of Warli


Source The Times of India by Debarati S Sen
Yashodhara Dalmia says, "In annexing larger areas of experience and coalescing time as a continuous process, the undeniable contemporaneity of Jivya Soma Mashe cannot be ruled out....It stands sentinel to the anti-tradition and somewhat self-obsessive aspects of modernism in the past. It is now poised to be at the vanguard of a new sensibility." Jivya Soma Mashe is a much-revered national living treasure, acclaimed for his foundation of a radically developed Warli art form that has taken a predominantly feminine ritualistic practice into new cultural contexts. He continues to occupy the contested terrain of the authentic outsider artist on the margins of international contemporary art.
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Madhubani beyond the living rooms

Source The Hindu by Shailaja Tripathi
Rushed to the region by the Indira Gandhi government in the wake of a drought, Bhaskar Kulkarni, arrived with handmade paper requesting the women artists to shift from their house walls to paper. Sita Devi, Karpoori Devi, Mahasundari Devi, Godavri Dutt and Baua Devi were one of the first few who accepted the challenge and some of them feature in the show. Subject matter drawn from Ramayana, local customs and rituals, festivals, local deities and nature find expression with kalams on handmade paper. “They all had a very distinct style and this is what I want people to understand. Baua Devi arrived at an image of snake which appeared as the central motif in all her works, Chano Devi came up with a godana style after German scholar Erica Moser asked them to translate the tattoos on their body on to their art.
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Collector reveals ambitions for her private Delhi museum


Source Financial Times by Griselda Murray Brown
The Delhi-based art collector Kiran Nadar describes India’s often lacklustre museum scene more politely: “India has a great heritage of art, but unfortunately it’s kind of lost at the moment. Museums are not on people’s agendas, especially in Delhi. In Mumbai and Calcutta you still have a museum-going public but Delhi is not as involved with the arts. I would like it to become part of lives here.” Nadar now wants to move her collection out of the shopping mall into a purpose-built museum, which would become an attraction in its own right like, say, the Guggenheim in New York.
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Artists today are lucky – diverse influences make a huge canvas: Anjolie Ela Menon

Source The Times of India by Meenakshi Sinha
Practitioners of art in the present era are extremely lucky - never before have so many barriers been demolished, leaving artists to draw source material from both the past and the visual matrix of our own times. Folk, urban and rural influences, the new digital technology and multi-dimensional work all give us a huge canvas to explore. Personally, i remain a painter but endorse and admire all the bold new trends that are sweeping through India.
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samedi 23 novembre 2013

The allusionist


Source Livemint by Somak Ghoshal
Few artists in contemporary India have been as deeply invested in recovering and archiving so many histories of art as Atul Dodiya has done in his practice in the course of his long and distinguished career. Born in Mumbai in 1959, and educated in India and Paris, Dodiya is currently having a mid-career retrospective, thoughtfully curated by the cultural critic and poet, Ranjit Hoskote, at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
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mercredi 20 novembre 2013

Indomania

Source Connaissance des Arts
Plus déroutant et plus complexe, le projet du « Corps en Inde » déroule les multiples concepts qui, depuis l'origine de l'histoire indienne jusqu'à l'art contemporain actuel, se sont « Incarnés », et de quelle façon, dans la représentation d'un corps humain. L'audioguide, fourni gratuitement avec le ticket d'entrée, est indispensable à la visite, qui offre un florilège rare de collections indiennes s'exportant peu. Conçues par deux commissaires indiens, Deepak Ananth et Naman Ahuja, et un commissaire belge, Dirk Vermaelen, les deux expositions justifient pleinement l'embarquement pour Bruxelles.
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De Renoir à George Harrison en passant par Béjar


Source L'Avenir
Parmi les étapes proposées par Indomania, on ne manquera pas la plongée dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Ainsi, de larges extraits vidéo permettent de retrouver un Béjart et un Jorge Donn en pleine recherche et apprentissage de la danse indoue, pour le film-ballet Bhakti réalisé à la fin des années 60. De même on retrouve, sur ce qui ressemble fort à un campus américain, des jeunes s’initiant à la musique et aux rythmes indous avec à leurs côtés un George Harrison planant…
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L’art de Muyle parle de notre condition humaine


Source La Libre.Be par Guy Duplat
On n’aurait pu imaginer un Europalia Inde sans une grande grande exposition Johan Muyle. Il est le "plus indien des Belges" et le plus "belge des Indiens". Le sculpteur, professeur à la Cambre, est un passionné de l’Inde ou plutôt des Indiens et des objets divers qu’il y glane. L’Inde, hors de tout exotisme et clichés, est une partie de son "grand atelier du monde".
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Bollywood memorabilia go under hammer in UK


Source Business Standard
Vintage Bollywood memorabilia, including posters for classic movies like Sholay and Mughal-e-Azam, are set to go under the hammer as part of a British auction house's celebration of the centenary of Indian cinema. Conferro Auctions, which specialises in Indian art and collectibles, held a special preview of its upcoming inaugural auction at a hotel here last night.
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vendredi 15 novembre 2013

Jitish Kallat named curator for Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014

Source Business Standard
Noted artist Jitish Kallat will be the curator for the second edition of India's only biennale-- 'Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014. The 39-year-old Kallat, was selected unanimously as the artistic director/curator by the Kochi Biennale Foundation special advisory board, which met in Mumbai on October 14, in which Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu, co-curators of first biennale in 2012-13, also participated. Kochi Mayor Tony Chammany announced Kallat's name at a press meet here today.
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Christie’s maiden auction in India to feature Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy's collection


Source Times of India by Archana Khare Ghose
Christie's has finally lifted curtains off the eclectic collection of lots that it is going to offer in its maiden auction in India on December 19. The sale, to be held at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, will become the first ever by an international auction house in India. Christie's is offering art from the personal collection of the late Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy, one of the most significant promoters of modern Indian art during its formative stages; for those not in the know, their daughter Shireen runs the Gallery Chemould in Mumbai which the Gandhys had founded in 1963.
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Un triptyque de Bacon vendu pour 142 millions de dollars


Source Le Monde
Trois études de Lucian Freud, un triptyque de Francis Bacon datant de 1969, a été adjugé 142,4 millions de dollars (105,9 millions d'euros), mardi 12 novembre à New York, devenant l'œuvre d'art la plus chère du monde vendue aux enchères. Elle avait été estimée jusqu'ici à 85 millions de dollars (63,2 millions d'euros). Accueillie par de vifs applaudissements dans la salle, cette vente écrase le précédent record de 119,9 millions de dollars (89,2 millions d'euros) décroché pour Le Cri d'Edvard Munch, mis aux enchères en mai 2012 à New York par la maison concurrente, Sotheby's. Le précédent record pour une peinture de Bacon était de 86 millions de dollars en 2008.
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mardi 12 novembre 2013

dimanche 10 novembre 2013

From webs to tin, art finds a new canvas

Source DNA by Gargi Gupta
It has won acclaim abroad and been acquired by foreign institutions like museums, banks and companies as well as individuals. Though a growing number of galleries have come up all over the country and offer such art — Experimenter in Kolkata, GallerySKE in Bangalore, Gallery Maskara and Chemould Prescott in Mumbai and Nature Morte in Delhi to name a few — Indian collectors are still fixated on paintings and sculptures by artists who have proven their worth in the market.
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dimanche 3 novembre 2013

Merci !


Source Galerie Hervé Perdriolle Inde(s)
Je tiens à vous remercier d'être passé nous voir sur les salons auxquels la Galerie Hervé Perdriolle vient de participer. Je souhaite aussi m'excuser auprès de toutes celles et ceux que je n'ai pas eu le plaisir de rencontrer ou de revoir en cette occasion.
Notre participation à Art Elysées et à l'Outsider Art Fair a été particulièrement appréciée. Le solo show de Sine Shivan à la Young International Artists, boulevard Richard Lenoir, a créé la sensation et 90% des œuvres ont trouvé preneurs.
C'est avec grand plaisir que je vous recevrai, aux jour et heure à votre convenance, dans mon appartement galerie de la rue Gay Lussac, dans le 5ème arrondissement de Paris, pour revoir les pièces encore disponibles qui ont retenu votre attention et pour vous en faire découvrir bien d'autres provenant de ce vaste pays, encore méconnu dans sa diversité sans égale, qu'est l'Inde.
Dans cette attente, cordialement, Hervé Perdriolle
Tel 06 87 35 39 17
h.perdriolle@gmail.com
website : herve-perdriolle.blogspot.fr

samedi 2 novembre 2013

L'Inde des Livres à Paris 16-17 nov


Après le succès des deux premières éditions en 2011 et 2012, la grande librairie du salon l’Inde des Livres se tiendra à la mairie du XXème arrondissement les 16 & 17 novembre prochains. Plus de 50 auteurs en dédicace durant les deux jours, parmi lesquels Radhika Jha et Tarun Tejpal, plus de 5000 ouvrages consacrés à L'Inde, un salon de thé-restaurant, le salon L'Inde des livres rend hommage à Ravi Shankar, Rabindranath Tagore et Satyajit Ray à l'occasion du centenaire du cinéma indien.
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Jangarh Singh Shyam’s Traditions in Folk Art Carry On Strong


Source Saffronart by Elisabeth Prendiville
Artist Jangar Sing Shyam was the first Gond artist to use paper and canvas for his paintings. The Bharat Bhawan became a jump off for Shyam’s work being shown throughout India as well as internationally. Tragically Shyam took his own life while working in Japan. Details as to why he chose to end his life so young in his successful career are still unclear. He is survived by his wife Nankusia Shyam who’s creativity was immensely sparked by her husband’s art career. Since his passing she has used painting as a way to carry on his memory and remain connected to him.
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mardi 29 octobre 2013

We want to bring fresh works to the market: Paul Hewitt, Christie’s

Source The Economic Times by Vijaya Rathore
We think the Indian economy is doing just fine on a long-term basis and there are very healthy signs of liberalisation. We have had arepresentative office in India for 20 years and developed professional relationships. And the best way to take those relationships forward is to start transacting. We have taken strategic decisions to do auctions in China and India. These are two big economies and the biggest opportunities.
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Travel: Here’s singing your tune, India


Source Mumbai Mirror by Stuart Forster
The theme of the ongoing Europalia festival is all things Indic, from 5000-year-old artefacts to contemporary art installations. Belgium, the main host country for Europalia this year, has an interesting guest. This biennale international arts festival hosts a different country as its overarching theme each time — this year, it's India. Right until January 26, 2014, they will play host to a variety of theatre and dance performances, cinema screenings, talks and art exhibitions that will be held across seven areas. In all, Belgium will host 450 events across 100 venues. Here are the most interesting events to catch at the festival.
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Relative value: Art as adhesive


Source Mumbai Mirror by Reema Gehi
In more than one way, their 10-yearold journey as Chatterjee & Lal mirrors the trajectory of India's contemporary art scene. The couple who met while working for an auction house have grown to represent an impressive list of talent including performance artist Nikhil Chopra, one of Pakistan's most discussed contemporary artists Rashid Rana, Arunachal Pradesh's Minam Apang, and more recently, Sahej Rahal. "But it's no more just about the contemporaries," Lal insists, drawing attention to Simple Tales, a group show that spanned everything from ancient and folk art to recent contemporary video installations.
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Blame it on the economy, stupid

Source Business Standard by Kishore Singh
Who in government understands art? Once, the modernists who were invited to biennales and art events internationally, found the Indian embassies offering them bed and board. Often, they repaid their hosts with gifts of paintings which are part of India House archives and can be viewed as national treasures. They are certainly talking points. Today's younger artists prefer staying at hotels, thereby losing an opportunity to establish a relationship with India's spokespeople who, in any case, find it difficult to understand the language and meaning of contemporary art. And yet, can you imagine the impact of a stunning cascade of Subodh Gupta's steel utensils at the entrance to the Indian embassy in London or New York or even Beijing? Why is there such a lack of imagination among our bureaucrats? Jitish Kallat's depiction of Mahatama Gandhi's speech written across fibreglass bones should be a talking point in Parliament House or Rashtrapati Bhawan, but we have not been able to shed our sentimentality over a view of "Indian" art that begins and ends with Ajanta, and which had its moments of excellence (and, alas, mediocrity) under the revivalism of the Bengal School. Indian art cannot keep looking back to its golden age and past. If it needs to be taken seriously, younger, contemporary artists whose voices are steeped in the present need to be heard, and - more importantly - seen.
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Indian Performance Artist Nikhil Chopra To Create 18-hour Piece In Wolverhampton


Source Artlyst
An exhibition featuring an 18-hour live performance by the Indian performance artist Nikhil Chopra is to open at Wolverhampton Art Gallery this November. Shakti: Nikhil Chopra (16 November – 5 April 2014) is the culmination of an exciting and ambitious contemporary arts programme that has explored the cultural and artistic relationship between Britain and the Indian Subcontinent. Nikhil Chopra works across a number of media including performance, painting and photography to reflect upon personal histories and India’s colonial past.
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mercredi 16 octobre 2013

Indian Artist Explores Absence Through Presence


Source The New York Times by Sei Chong
For many artists, the creative process is about making something from nothing. But Neha Choksi seeks to do just the opposite: to make nothing out of something. “I actually am valuing presence through acts of erasure and absenting,” said Ms. Choksi, who works mainly with sculptures and video. “To make the sculpture, I had to somehow dematerialize the mold. That double tension between making something and diminishing something — that exists in most of my work.” That process is also on display at the Frieze Art Fair in London, which opens Thursday and where the Mumbai gallery Project 88, which has represented Ms. Choksi since 2008, is showing prints from the artist’s “Houseplant and Sun Quotation” series.
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samedi 12 octobre 2013

Paris Art Week 23-28 octobre

Autour de l'événement majeur qu'est la FIAC, de nombreuses Foires parallèles et expositions en musées, fondations privées et galeries, font de Paris le centre international des arts contemporains. La galerie Hervé Perdriolle Inde(s) participe durant cette semaine à trois Foires : Art Elysées, Outsider Art Fair et Young International Artists Art Fair.
Among this major event that is FIAC, many parallel Art Fairs and exhibitions in museums, galleries and private foundations, make Paris the international center for contemporary arts. Gallery Hervé Perdriolle is involved during this week in three Art Fairs: Art Elysées, Outsider Art Fair and Young International Artists Art Fair.

Art Elysées 24-28 octobre


La galerie Hervé Perdriolle Inde(s) est présente sur Art Elysées du 24 au 28 octobre avec un group show réunissant des grands formats des artistes majeurs de l'art contemporain vernaculaire indien.
Gallery Hervé Perdriolle participates to the Art Elysées October 24-28 with a group show bringing together major formats from the best artists of Indian Vernacular Contemporary Art.
Avenue des Champs Elysées Paris 75008 - Booth 135A

Outsider Art Fair 24-27 octobre


La galerie Hervé Perdriolle Inde(s) présente un group show à l'Outsider Art Fair du 24 au 27 octobre. L'Outsider Art Fair, créée en 1993 à New York, est la manifestation annuelle pour les arts hors-normes et fête à Paris ses vingt ans d'existence avec sa première édition en Europe. L'OAF a lieu dans un hôtel proche du Grand Palais : 25 chambres 25 galeries.
Gallery Hervé Perdriole presents a group show at the Outsider Art Fair from 24-27 October. The Outsider Art Fair, established in 1993 in New York, is the annual event for the outsider arts. The OAF celebrates in Paris its twenty years of existence with its first edition in Europe. The OAF takes place in a Hotel near the Grand Palais: 25 rooms 25 galleries.
Outsider Art Fair - Hôtel "Le A" 4 rue d'Artois Paris 75008 - Room 403

YIA Art Fair 23-27 octobre


La galerie Hervé Perdriolle Inde(s) propose un solo show du jeune artiste contemporain indien Shine Shivan à la YIA du 23 au 27 octobre. La YIA, Young International Artists, est la foire de la jeune création internationale. Pour la première fois, sera présentée une série de dessins de Shine Shivan dont un grand format réalisé spécialement pour cet événement.
Gallery Hervé Perdriolle presents a solo show of young contemporary Indian artist Shine Shivan at YIA from 23-27 October. The YIA, Young International Artists, is the event to discover the international emerging artists. For the first time, will be presented a set of drawings by Shine Shivan among which a large format especially realized for this event.
YIA 74 boulevard Richard Lenoir Paris 75011

vendredi 11 octobre 2013

A woman of substance

Source DNA India by Bhanu Pratap Panwar
Nayanaa Kanodia, a self-taught artist, has carved a niche for herself in the world of art. She is the pioneer of L’Art Naif in India. “I started really late, as far as painting is concerned. As a child, I used to love painting, but I never took it seriously. It was only after I got married that I took it up seriously. I shifted to Mumbai after marriage. As I had no friends here back then, I decided to take up painting again,” said Kanodia.
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I don’t believe in using LGBT themes for shock value: Chitra Ganesh


Source Times of India by Neelam Raaj
At first it was strange that I would be the only artist not from India in these big museum shows. But in a way it's nice to have an Indian audience view my work. They interpret the work differently. For them, it's not exotic like it is in New York. There are ways of categorizing art in the US that bother me. For instance, abstract work done by a Western painter is called abstract and everything else is described as tribal and decorative. There are artists from other diasporas like Iran and Brazil who are challenging this idea that modernism was European.
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jeudi 10 octobre 2013

MP Tribal Museum's exhibition on Baiga tribe, Bhopal

Source Times of India by Ekta Yadav
The MP Tribal Museum held an exhibition, Dehraag, last week, displaying photographs of godna art of Madhya Pradesh's Baiga tribe. "The exhibition showcases the cultural significance of tattoos in the Baiga tribe. For them, these patterns are like ornaments that get imprinted on their bodies forever." Youngsters too found it equally fascinating. Remarked Pragati, a visitor, "Godna art is simply beautiful and fascinating. In fact, the modern tattoo is inspired by this art form."
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High-End Art, a Way to Stand Out

Source The New York Times by Shivani Vora
Luxury hotels have been increasingly adorning their public spaces with high-end art, but now, some are going a step further by decorating their suites with museum-quality works. The Pierre hotel in New York City is planning to hang a canvas painting in the living room of its Tata Suite before the end of the year from its collection of eight masterpieces by Indian contemporary artists like M. F. Husain.
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jeudi 3 octobre 2013

Evoking India


Source The Hindu by Shailaja Tripathi
A massive exhibition of art probing the significance of the human body in Indian thought will mark the inauguration of Europalia India 2013 in Brussels. A human body that has often inspired creativity, encouraged enquiry and caused intrigue, has come to form the core of an enormous exercise ‘The Body in Indian Art’, an exhibition that is to take place at the Bozar Galleries in Brussels next month.
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India’s nine treasured artists: Can Christie’s create a market for their masterpieces?

Source The Economic Times by K P Narayana Kumar, Ishani Duttagupta and Suman Layak
The paintings of nine artists whose works are considered "national treasures" and banned from export will finally find their real value when Christie's features them in its first ever auction in India in December. A round 15 years ago Ashish Anand, an enterprising young art collector who had recently become a dealer, visited Banaras. The purpose of the visit was to meet an elderly artist who was in possession of some prized works. After meeting the old man at his modest home Anand, who runs the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), asked his host about the paintings. The elderly man pointed to a cloth bag. When Anand opened it, he found the works of artists such as Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose, all part of an extraordinary league of nine artists to have been honoured as "navaratnas" or nine jewels of Indian art. To add to Anand's disbelief, when he asked the old man how much he wanted for the works of art, the old man shrugged and he said he could have them for free. "You keep them. At least you have shown interest," he said before reluctantly accepting some money on Anand's insistence.
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samedi 28 septembre 2013

Top 10 : artistes indiens

Source Art Market Insight par Artprice
L'Inde en est à ses balbutiements en tant que place de marché pour l'art, mais son vivier d'artistes d'excellence et son important potentiel d'acheteurs sont surveillés de près par les grands acteurs du monde de l'art depuis une vingtaine d'années déjà. Christie's prévoit notamment d'ouvrir sa 12ème salle de ventes à Bombay, certainement courant décembre 2013, en centrant l'activité de cette salle sur l'art indien. Cette implantation fait partie d'une stratégie de développement et de valorisation des signatures modernes et contemporaines indiennes, initiée en 1995 à Londres (première vente d'art contemporain indien à Londres).
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mardi 24 septembre 2013

Le centenaire du cinéma indien en 21 films inédits


Source RFI par Siegfried Forster
On connaît les réactions que les premiers films des frères Lumières avaient suscitées en 1895 à Paris : un public terrifié qui a poussé des cris et s’est précipité vers l’arrière de la salle. Quelle était la réaction en Inde après la première projection d’un film indien ? À la différence de la première en France, il y a en fait très peu d’éléments pour savoir quelle était la première réaction du public en Inde. Dans les journaux, l’événement est relaté comme un événement majeur, comme une surprise. Ce sont les mêmes émotions de stupeur, de peur etc., mais aussi d’enthousiasme.
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lundi 23 septembre 2013

A secular collage


Source The Hindu by Lise Mckean
The exhibition — The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989 — was in Chicago from February until early June and travels to museums at the University of North Carolina and then the University of California at Los Angeles. The first image in the exhibition is ‘Safdar Hashmi’s Funeral Procession (1989)’, a large black and white print of a photograph taken by Ram Rahman. The photo shows Hashmi’s corpse covered with a hammer-and-sickle flag and surrounded by a packed procession of mourners. Thirty-four-year-old Hashmi was assassinated while leading a pro-labour street theatre performance in an industrial area outside Delhi. His family, friends, and fellow travellers formed Sahmat (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust) in the aftermath of this unprecedented onslaught on artist-activists.
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Raghuram Rajan, banquier central et super-héros des Indiens

Source Le Monde par Julien Bouissou
D'où vient cette immense ferveur dont bénéficie Raghuram Rajan, le nouveau gouverneur de la banque centrale indienne, la Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ? En à peine une demi-heure, le temps d'un discours le jour de sa prise de fonctions, le 4 septembre, il a rassuré les marchés et stoppé la chute de la roupie. C'est une prédiction qui va rendre célèbre Raghuram Rajan. Lors d'un discours tenu à l'occasion d'une cérémonie d'hommage à Alan Greenspan en2005, alors président sur le départ de la Réserve fédérale américaine, Raghuram Rajan met en garde contre les risques que les produits financiers complexes font peser sur la stabilité financière internationale. Ces remarques lui valent à l'époque les moqueries de l'ex- secrétaire au Trésor Lawrence Summers.
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samedi 21 septembre 2013

Stunning gilt bronze figures soar past estimates at Bonhams New York sale

Source Art Daily
The auction's top lot was a seated bronze figure of Marichi, a goddess whose name means "ray of light," cast in 18th century Qing Dynasty China. Coming from a private Canadian collection, the transcendent sculpture reached a stunning $254,500 after a lengthy bidding war, more than eight times its pre-auction estimate. Another Chinese example from a private American collection, a delicate Qianlong period standing bronze Buddha, achieved more than 10 times its pre-auction estimate, realizing $158,500. Other sculpture that performed well included a powerful figure of Yama Dhamaraja and Chamundi, or the Lord of Death with his consort, astride a superbly modeled angry buffalo from the 17th/18th century. The frightening trio, who are adorned with skulls and snakes, are together crushing a prostrate human on a lotus platform. Coming from a private Northern California collection, the sculpture sold for a remarkable 20 times its pre-auction estimate, bringing $242,500.
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2014 highlights include UK's largest solo show of work by Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi


Source Daily Post by Laura Davis
Francesco Manacorda, artistic director, Tate Liverpool said: “I’m extremely proud of the programme we have announced and I’m confident that 2014 will be a fantastic year for Tate Liverpool. The exhibitions are very diverse and explore a range of topics that will inspire the public.” Mohamedi (1937-1990) is considered to be one of the most significant modernist artists. Born in Karachi and raised in Mumbai, she studied art in London and worked in an Parisian atelier in Paris before returning to Mumbai where she mixed with abstractionist artists.
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vendredi 20 septembre 2013

Ackland exhibit offers another view of India


Source The Herald Sun by Blue Greenberg
The new show at the Ackland Art Museum is not the conventional exhibition with paintings on the wall and sculpture on pedestals. In this show the galleries are full of posters, signs reproduced on burlap, a motorized rickshaw, on-site photographs and lots of videos. This is pop art, that is the art of the people, and it speaks out against injustices in India. This is art by Indians about the freedom of expression in their own country. These are voices against secularism and censorship. n this exhibition we read and see contemporary Indian protest art. Through videos, photographs and original art we witness the records of giant exhibitions of posters and slogans, all-day dance festivals and street theater. This is yet one more part in the story of this giant country and its culture.
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mercredi 18 septembre 2013

Works by Indian Artists Fetch $3 Million


Source The Wall Street Journal by Saptarishi Dutta
Poetry and artwork by celebrated Indian artists, Rabindranath Tagore, his nephew Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose went under the hammer at Christie’s auction house in New York Tuesday for around $3 million. Rabindranath Tagore’s handwritten poem ‘Where The Mind Is Without Fear,’ realized $363,750 - a world auction record for the artist. An Asian institution bought the work.
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dimanche 15 septembre 2013

Indian Documentary Screening


Source Asia Society
The documentary form has been employed in myriad ways to record the ecology of the art field, offering endless potential to create new stories, complicate old ones, and circulate them to an expanded audience. This screening series looks at how documentaries can shape the way histories of art are constructed, remembered, mystified, and debated—within the context of India’s thriving contemporary art scene. Through different genres and traditions of film-making, this two-day program explores how Indian film-makers have looked at the field of contemporary art.
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Indian art goes under the hammer in Sotheby’s auction in New York

Source First Post World by Uttara Choudhury
Although most buyers at these auctions are Indians — usually successful non-resident Indian entrepreneurs, hedge fund managers or Masters of the Universe — there’s growing interest among non-Indian collectors. Investing in Indian art has proved as profitable as the stock market — or more so. Prices for modern Indian art tripled across the board in 2006 before a shakeout during the 2008 financial Armageddon.
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Francis Newton Souza : théorie de la relativité et prix records !


Plus de 100 dessins de Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) étaient proposés par sa fille, Keren Souza Khon, chez la maison de vente indienne Saffronart ce 11 septembre 2013. Alors que le marché de l'art indien semble, à l'instar de son économie, grippé, cette vente a été d'un dynamisme incroyable attirant l'enthousiasme de nombreux collectionneurs. Les prix de vente ont été de 2 à plus de 10 fois supérieurs aux estimations basses. Un succès qui vient relativiser l'ambiance morose qui accompagne le marché de l'art indien depuis la crise de 2008.
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In the Name of the Father

Source Indian Express by Vandana Kalra
It was years before FN Souza travelled to London to accomplish his dreams. The Progressive Artists Group was yet to be established. Then known as the young Newton from Goa, he headed to Mumbai to fulfil his artistic pursuits. Being suspended from the JJ School of Art for his support of the Quit India Movement did not deter his plans.
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Les forces de l'Inde face au ralentissement de la croissance

Source Les Echos par Raghuram Rajan gouverneur de la Reserve Bank of India
En effet, malgré ses lacunes, le PIB de l'Inde va probablement croître de 5-5,5% cette année – ce qui n’est pas énorme, mais certainement pas mal pour ce qui est se révélera probablement être un plus bas de performance économique. La mousson a été bonne et stimulera la consommation, en particulier dans les zones rurales, qui croissent déjà fortement grâce à des améliorations dans le transport routier et la connectivité des communications. Cela dit, l'Inde pourrait faire mieux – beaucoup mieux. La route vers une économie plus ouverte, compétitive, efficace et humaine sera sûrement cahoteuse au cours des années à venir. Mais, à court terme, il y a beaucoup de fruits mûrs à cueillir. Se débarrasser à la fois de l'euphorie et du désespoir concernant ce qui est dit à propos de l'Inde – ainsi de ce que nous disons de nous-mêmes Indiens – aiderait probablement à nous rapprocher de la vérité.
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Israeli artist explores the supernatural at United Art Fair


Source Business Standard
Do soldiers see supernatural elements while fighting a war? Ayelet Albenda, an Israeli artist who has travelled to India to participate in the upcoming United India Art Fair 2013 here, is also confused about this and attempts through her work to engage viewers in a debate on the supernatural. The artist portrays in her mixed media works Israeli soldiers, who have reported the appearance of "Mother Rachel" inside the Gaza strip, who spoke to them and saved lives in the 2009 war.
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Fairs without dealers could make sense


Source The Art Newspaper by Robert Turnbull
UAF’s artistic director for its second edition is Peter Nagy, the founder of the New York and New Delhi gallery Nature Morte. Partly by breaking away from the dealer model of most sizeable art fairs, Nagy seems determined to establish an alternative way to do business. “Typically, art fairs rent space to galleries but don’t much care what transpires,” Nagy says. “We are looking to create a more organic layout of diverse spaces where the works are mixed up. We want to get away from ‘the boxy booth thing’, so it will be more like a biennale than a fair.”
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