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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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