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jeudi 31 janvier 2013

La foire India Art Fair a construit un marché en Inde


Source Le quotidien des Arts par Roxana Azimi
Chaque année, de nouvelles galeries ouvrent et nous avons de 20 à 25 % de candidatures supplémentaires provenant de galeries indiennes. Nous n’en retenons que peu car nous avons un comité très sélectif. Mais nous avons reçu à peu près 200 candidatures cette année. En quatre ans, nous avons eu un total de 300 000 visiteurs, ce qui est la plus grande contribution possible pour apporter l’art au plus grand nombre. Nous avons des bénévoles issus de 70 écoles d’art de toute l’Inde qui depuis deux ans viennent faire leurs armes sur la foire. D’ici cinq à dix ans, le salon jouera un rôle significatif en Asie. Les Indiens sont de plus en plus des citoyens mondiaux.
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Le marché indien en (lente) progression


Source Le Quotidien des Arts par Roxana Azimi
Lentement, mais sûrement. Tel est le rythme de croisière (ou d’éléphant) du marché indien depuis la première vente d’art moderne indien organisée en 1995 chez Sotheby’s à Londres. La donne changera-t-elle avec la dispersion à New York chez Sotheby’s, le 19 mars prochain, d’une quarantaine d’œuvres de la collection de la courtière Amrita Jhaveri, estimée de 5 à 7 millions de dollars ? On y trouvera notamment une toile du rarissime Vasudeo S. Gaitonde pour 600 000-800 000 dollars, ainsi qu’une toile de Tyeb Mehta estimée de 800 000 à 1,2 million de dollars.
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vendredi 25 janvier 2013

Illustrious affair: India's art fair is less than a week away from its grand opening


Source Mail Today by Nikita Puri
The fair which opens on February 1, has an eclectic mix of artists and speakers. "You have to see Jitish Kallat's Covering Letter (supported by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai)," gushes Kirpal, "It's a piece on Gandhi's letter to Hitler written in 1939 – it's a tunnel in the middle of the maidan, you can actually walk through it." In the maidan, contemporary Indian set designer Sumant Jayakrishnan's tent made out of paper cups on an aquamarine background is where the action will take place.
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The Fair Fares Well

Source Livemint by Pradip Kumar Saha
“The Art Fair is a key event in the Indian cultural calendar. The growth in the appreciation of contemporary art from India is the responsibility of us all—auction houses, organizers, curators, gallerists and exhibitors,” Jaffer adds. Jaffer’s enthusiasm is justified. Austria’s Galerie Krinzinger, which has been participating for the past two years, says, the response “has been very good for us. We made interesting contacts and good sales”.
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mardi 22 janvier 2013

Nasreen Mohamdei retrospective at the NKMA


The drawings and photographs of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) are slowly but surely becoming better known to a wider American audience. In 2003, Holland Cotter, who has been her most eloquent champion in New York, wrote in the New York Times, “if people, especially young artists, knew about Mohamedi, they would love her the way they do Eva Hesse.” The first retrospective dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi at the KNMA will be one of the strong events in parrallel to the India Art Fair.
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A view to infinity


L'un des évènements parallèles à L'India Art Fair sera la première rétrospective dédiée à l'une des figures majeurs de l'art contemporain indien Nasreen Mohamedi au KNMA (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art). Curieusement les seules pages Wikipedia que l'on trouve sur le web à propos de cette artiste née à Karachi en 1937 et décédée en 1990 sont en allemand et en polonais ! Cette rétrospective devrait nous permettre d'admirer un travail minimaliste d'une grande rigueur allant principalement du dessin à la photo.
> site web KNMA

lundi 21 janvier 2013

Living Walls of legend


Source Livemint by Shreya Ray
As one of the collateral events surrounding the India Art Fair that opens on 3 February, Living Walls is a unique initiative that reverses the logic of the art fair itself. “The idea here is to decommoditize art,” says Sunaina Anand of Art Alive Gallery. “Art has become so focused on the commercial aspect that we wanted to do something that would not give in to the logic of buying and selling.” And so came the idea of some of the biggest names in the country painting the walls of the gallery. “This is not something you can pick up and walk away with,” says Anand.
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vendredi 18 janvier 2013

En Inde, il y a aussi des Biennales


Source Le Quotidien de l'Art par Cédric Aurelle
Alors que le Tout-Paris s’ébaubit du bleu du ciel sur la rade de Marseille en hiver et s’interroge, entre pastis et bouillabaisse, quant au devenir culturel de la capitale provençale, c’est à un exotisme non moins portuaire et à un déplacement de regard tout aussi fécond que deux jeunes artistes indiens, Riyas Komu et Bose Krishnamachari, invitent les amateurs d’art dans le cadre de leur Biennale de Kochi-Muziris.
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jeudi 17 janvier 2013

Mumbai gallery to present five top artists at India Art Fair

Source Times of India by Kasmin Fernandes
In the plethora of artworks by 1,000 artists displayed by 105 galleries from 24 countries at the upcoming 5th edition of India Art Fair, one contemporary gallery from Mumbai is set to make distinct mark. Mumbai's Volte gallery, located near Radio Club in Colaba, will bring down some of the best works of renowned international artists Wim Delvoye and William Kentridge along with Ranbir Kaleka, Raghava KK & Sheba Chhachhi.
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dimanche 13 janvier 2013


Source ArtInfo
We got the news this morning that award-winning South African artist William Kentridge is to join the final jury for the Skoda Prize. The legendary artist will also “present the Skoda Prize trophy to this year’s winner,” art critic and the prize director Girish Shahane confirmed, adding that the credit for the honor goes to gallerist Tushar Jiwarajka “for facilitating it”. Jiwarajka is currently in the process of putting together a show of Kentridge’s work at his Volte gallery in Mumbai.
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samedi 12 janvier 2013

Biennale de Kochi: sur la côte Malabar s’affiche l’art nouveau de l’Inde et du monde


Source RFI par Tirthankar Chanda
La visibilité grandissante de l’art indien contemporain a conduit les professionnels à mettre l’accent sur sa valeur commerciale. Le chiffre d’affaires du marché d’art indien est en effet passé de 3,5 millions d’euros en 2003 à 280 millions d’euros en l’espace d’une décennie. Une croissance certes exponentielle, mais l’art ne se réduit pas à son prix calculé en espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes. Pour énoncer un nouveau discours basé sur les valeurs esthétiques et sociales de la pratique artistique, il fallait s’éloigner de Delhi et de Bombay, les deux grands centres de l’art contemporain indien.
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mercredi 9 janvier 2013

mardi 8 janvier 2013

Break out the bubbly yet?

Source Business Standard by Kishore Singh
Any hope of that rests to an extent on what is now the annual hoopla of the India Art Fair (opening January 31), though to say — as has been said, or perhaps hoped, in previous editions — that it alone reflects the fluctuations of the art market would be fatally flawed. Several gallerists have tended to load all their eggs in the Art Fair basket, ignoring the significance of holding more ambitious exhibitions within their own ambit for the rest of the year, to their own detriment. But where the Fair will have to deliver this year in particular is in the form of serious, new, corporate as well as international buyers who in previous years have tended to be scarce on the ground. Participants will no longer view its success on the number of eyeballs it garners — which is an important measure of people’s interest in art — but on the number of wallets it ends up emptying.
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dimanche 6 janvier 2013

Showcase: Transforming space


Source The Hindu by Swati Daftuar
Curated by Raqs Media Collective and presented by Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, the exhibition attempts to bring various methodologies and art practices together over a nine-month period. Raqs’ emphasis on growing an exhibition organically within a particular space will shape the gradual appearance of the show, which will grow over the next nine months, with contributions from as many as 100 people from different fields.
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vendredi 4 janvier 2013

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