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mardi 28 octobre 2014

Shine Shivan et Patti Smith 30 ans de la Fondation Cartier Paris 20 oct 2014

Shine Shivan, Hervé Perdriolle et Hervé Halgand, Gilbert & George galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin 23 oct

Shine Shivan et Gilbert & George galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin 23 oct 2014

Kaleidoscopic India Guerlain opening

lundi 27 octobre 2014

Guerlain, Kaleidoscopic India


Source Oh My Luxe ! par Diana Leszczynski
Si vous êtes passionné(e) d’Inde ou tout simplement fan d’Art Contemporain, rendez vous vite à la boutique Guerlain du 68 Champs-Elysées (à Paris) jusqu’au 14 Novembre prochain. En effet associé au parcours privé de la FIAC, la maison Guerlain vous offre un rendez-vous haut en couleurs sur le thème de l’Inde si cher à son histoire. Et oui ! Tout a commencé en 1921, lorsqu’un Maharadjah, de passage à Paris, raconta à Jacques et Raymond Guerlain la célèbre histoire des jardins de Shalimar, qui ont abrité au XVIIème siècle les amours du Shah et de son épouse adorée, la persane Mumtaz Mahal. Une histoire qui a donné naissance au célèbre parfum Shalimar…
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Guerlain explore les multiples facettes de l'Inde


Source Les Echos
Jusqu'au 14 novembre, la Maison Guerlain à Paris accueille une grande exposition d'art contemporain. Ouverte dans le cadre du Parcours Privé de la FIAC, la manifestation réunit quinze artistes autour de la création indienne. La sélection a été réalisée par Caroline Messensee, commissaire des expositions Klimt au musée Maillol, Braque au Kunstforum de Vienne et Dubuffet au Guggenheim de Bilbao.
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Honouring Jagdish Mittal

Source The Hindu by Neeraja Murthy
t is a special celebration for the grand old man of the art world, Jagdish Mittal, as he enters his 90th year. Shrishti Art Gallery is launching ‘Ramaniyam’ — a three-day art festival from October 10-12. This is the first edition of the festival honouring Mittal’s contribution to Indian art over the last 60 years.
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Inde au MNBAQ: l'art indien sous la loupe

Source La Presse par Isabelle Houde
«C'est vraiment exceptionnel. Le terme est galvaudé, mais cette fois, on est devant des chefs-d'oeuvre qui sont comme des portes d'entrée sur une culture fascinante. On ne connaît tellement rien à l'Inde, et pourtant, c'est le deuxième pays au monde en termes de population, c'est une civilisation plurimillénaire, avec des religions extraordinaires», a exprimé Anne Eschapasse, directrice des expositions et de la médiation au Musée.
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Why see Art ?


Source Livemint by Sanjukta Sharma
The abiding reason is that a lot of the art on display in our galleries tell us something about the world we live in. Talking of diversity, don’t miss the paintings of N. Parsharamulu currently on display at Mumbai’s Gallery Maskara. He is an artist in his early 30s, and has been painting with small means on the outskirts of Hyderabad for more than 10 years. It is his first solo show and the gallery’s first show of paintings after four years. He is remarkably provocative, and you will meet him in our Culture pages soon.
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La Pinacothèque propose un voyage Spiritualité et érotisme, en Inde

Source ActuaLitté par Cécile Mazin
L'exposition est cependant déconseillée – pas interdite, attention – aux mineurs. Si l'esthétique du livre offre un regard sur la vie culturelle indienne, et plus encore, sur l'hindouisme, elle présente cependant des visuels pour le moins explicites. On pourra y retrouver, cependant, des explications claires sur le regard que le monde occidental pose sur ce livre.
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Art From a Sojourn or Two to India


Source The New York Times by Kareen Rosenberg
“Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India,” at the Rubin Museum of Art, ties the peripatetic Italian-born painter to a single country. The exhibition is also something of a comeback, the first Clemente retrospective in New York in more than a decade, although at just 20 works or so, it’s not exactly comprehensive. It is, however, thoroughly immersive. The installation, in the Rubin’s skylit top-floor galleries, evokes the structure of an Indian temple with a combination of large and small spaces; it has an open central area of paintings, intimate nooks for sculpture and a “sanctum” of watercolors.
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A Closer Look At The Contemporary Art From India At SAM


Source Seattle Refined by Melanie Biehle
The exhibition is divided into three sections of focus - work that explores the ideas that influence contemporary Indian society (including Hindu mythology, Bollywood movies, and Indian and western art), how people interact in and with public places in cities, and a more contemplative look at family and self. “Photography is a potent choice for contemporary Indian artists, perhaps because the country has been somewhat photographically over-exposed by western visitors,” says Catharina Manchanda, SAM’s Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art. “City Dwellers conveys the complexities and also the excitement of everyday life in India today.”
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Swiss show plucks Indian tribe from obscurity


Source Swiss Info by Keerthana Nagarajan
Intricately carved in the shapes of humans, birds and animals, a collection of stringed musical instruments from India is attracting people to Museum Rietberg in Zurich. The Sculpted Sound exhibition features more than 90 stringed lutes – most of them made by the Santhal people, one of India’s oldest and largest tribes. An estimated six to ten million Santhals live in the rural areas in the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam, as well as in neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh. It was the Sarinda – one of the oldest sculpted musical instruments carved by the Santhals –that first caught the interest of collector Bengt Fosshag. A successful illustrator and graphic designer from Germany, Fosshag is known for collecting some of the world’s most important lutes.
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Seattle: City Dwellers The Schizophrenic Harmony of India


Source L'Oeil de la Photographie by Sybile Girault
What City Dwellers shows us it that Indian culture likes contrast, the alliance of opposites: the past and the present, the local and the global, the East and the West. It plays with space and time in a “harmonious schizophrenia,” as the writer Pavan Sharma has said. This exhibition is also the opportunity to present a part of the collection of Sanjay Parthasarathy, a former Microsoft executive who founded the tech company Indix, based in Seattle and Chennai. He is an Indian collector at an intersection of cultures.
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Fifty Stages of Man: Rameshwar Broota’s palette has held many a delightful encounters


Source The Indian Express by Vandana Kaira
When he started his artistic career though, he was to completely refrain from the genre, trotting the path of depicting human condition instead. Traversing through the city, from his home in Rajouri to Triveni Kala Sangam, he was plagued with what he saw; the labourers on the Capital’s streets appeared on his canvases as stark figures of emaciated men, their ribs protruding, and sharing tables with flesh-eating gluttons. At KNMA, Broota recalls that period vividly. “There was a lot of gloom, poverty that I saw,” he says. People walking into the museum have before them distinct phases of Broota, in a retrospective of five decades, which has works sourced from world over. The Head of the Art Department at Triveni Kala Sangam confesses of being far from prolific. “There aren’t more than six-seven paintings each year, and when I’m practising photography that too becomes difficult,” he says.
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Guer­lain: l'art de l'Inde à l'honneur


Source Gala par Pauline Gallard
L’on peut être une immense maison de parfum qui nous prend dans son sillage capi­teux, mais aussi avoir un regard sur l’art contem­po­rain. Guer­lain nous présente cet automne, en marge des festi­vi­tés de la FIAC, son expo­si­tion Kalei­do­sco­pic India et nous donne à voir l’Inde avec un œil nouveau. A travers Kalei­do­sco­pic India, le visi­teur s’in­ter­ro­gera sur les termes perma­nence et chan­ge­ment, iden­tité et diffé­rence. Autant de prismes par lesquels péné­trer la vision poly­morphe des artistes, cette jeune garde de la créa­tion contem­po­raine : Bhuri Baï nous présen­tera ses dessins de silhouettes semblant flot­ter en apesan­teur; Rina Banerjee ses œuvres sensuelles, acry­liques ou sculp­tures...
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Gallery Espace celebrates its 25th anniversary with a mega-show on DRAWINGS: Nov 10-28

Source Ground Report by Sumedha Dhasmana
Incidentally, Gallery Espace was started in 1989 by Renu Modi at the suggestion of the Husain himself and was one of the first art galleries in India to introduce variable lighting and sound systems, in recognition of the crucial factor that is the environment within which a work of art is displayed. In a similar vein, Gallery Espace was a pioneer when it came to video installations, going so far as to organize a first-of-its-kind monthly out-reach programme (Video Wednesday I, 2008-09 and Video Wednesday II, 2011-12) in order to bring artists working in new media into the spotlight. Drawing 2014 will showcase more than 100 artists from India and features works dating from 1947 to the present in which drawing is presented as a broad and inclusive practice.
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Indian Modernist, Artist of Mystery


Source New York Times by Arthur Lubow
When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V. S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. Displayed in a group show in 1997 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, the large abstract canvases, with layered colors and textures, invited long contemplation. “This was a feeling that wasn’t ephemeral, it stayed with me, and I could recall it whenever I wanted to go to a place of silence,” she said. Gaitonde, in his early 70s at the time, was living in a one-room rented apartment in New Delhi. Although fellow artists and knowledgeable collectors admired his work, he remained in the shadows, as he preferred. He had friends but never married. He gave few interviews. “He was a special kind of fellow,” said the New Delhi painter Krishen Khanna, a friend. “He didn’t doubt himself. He didn’t go around beating his drum. He was very quiet.” By the time Ms. Poddar, 38, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum, was in a position to help raise awareness of Gaitonde’s achievement, the painter, whom she never met, was no longer available to assist her. He died in 2001.
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Why India's art scene is increasingly being defined by foreign collectors and museums


Source Scroll In by Girish Shahane
The net result is that a number of galleries now focus on foreign collectors rather than Indians. The best example of this trend is Calcutta’s Experimenter, run by Priyanka and Prateek Raja, which has turned the misfortune of being located in a visual arts backwater to its advantage, building a international roster of artists, and a reputation far greater than its small permanent space would have permitted in the pre-art fair era. Both the market for modern masters and the one for young contemporaries, then, are increasingly defined by foreign judgments: the stamp of esteemed institutions such as the Guggenheim and Tate Modern in the first case, and the pocketbooks of adventurous collectors in the other.
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V.S. Gaitonde Exhibit Opens at Guggenheim Museum, Illuminating India’s Little-Known Legend


Source The Wall Street Journal by Jessica Dawnson
One of India’s most radical and reclusive contemporary artists until his death in 2001, V.S. Gaitonde was little studied in his lifetime, even in his own country. “He’s legendary, in part, because people don’t know very much about him,” said Sandhini Poddar, the curator of a major exhibit devoted to the painter, opening Friday at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. “Everybody knows his name in India, but no one was able to pin it down in any sophisticated way.” The Guggenheim show marks the first time so many Gaitonde works—45 paintings and works on paper created between 1953 and 1997—will be seen together.
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Modernists lead yet again at Sotheby's South Asian art auction; Tyeb Mehta tops with £1.1 million

Source Blouin Art Info by Archana Khare-Ghose
Tyeb Mehta, the modern Indian artist credited with triggering the art boom in the country with a record auction price achieved in 2002, has topped the charts yet again. At the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art auction held by the Sotheby's in London on October 7, Mehta's 'Blue Painting' went for £1,118,500 (Rs 11.04 crore approximately), fetching far more than its highest pre-auction estimate of £800,000. 'Blue Painting', a 1982 oil on canvas came to the auction table from the contemporary Indian art collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum in Jihoji Himeji, Japan. Masanori Fukuoka, founder and director of the Japanese museum, has shared in the catalogue notes that the Blue Painting had transfixed him so much when he had stood in the living room of its then owner Bal Chhabra that it had become the first ever painting of the artist that he bought. Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) created very few monochromatic paintings in his career that was marked by innumerable superlative works.
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mardi 21 octobre 2014

Artists from world over at India Art Fair


Source Jagram Post
"One significant new element introduced to IAF is the appointment of Girish Shahane as Artistic Director," a statement from the organisers said.Highlights of the programme include renowned French artist Daniel Buren's massive installation work, supported by the French Embassy in India and specially designed for the art fair facade. This is the first of an annual artist-led facade installation project at the fair. Artist Atul Bhalla is set to create an interactive walk through maze of turnstiles while Chitra Ganesh and Dhruvi Acharya would create a collaborative on site painting designed to give visitors an insight into the processes contemporary artists employ in their work. A further dramatic project comes in the form of Francesco Clemente's tent installation. "For 40 years Clemente, one of the world's most renowned painters, has collaborated with a range of Indian artisans in Chennai, Orissa, Varanasi and Jodhpur creating his series of tents using a range of techniques such as embroidery, block printing and his own spectacular paintings," organisers said.
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vendredi 17 octobre 2014

It is just a goodbye!


Source Feito Por Brasileiros by Marc Pottier
We are pleased to announce that the exhibition Feito por Brasileiros had received more than 100.000 visitors, 400 journalists coming from all over the world during its 5 weeks. This total success would not have happened without your great support and your amazing energy. I wanted to thank you so much for your key participation and for having believing that we all could do it in such a short period of time. We are pleased to announce you that more than 500.000 people all around the world had share their passion for the exhibition throughout the social media. Not only in Brasil, but also also in USA, France, Italy, Spain, Corea. Brazilians from Rio de Janeiro, Manaus, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Recife, Salvador had also joined our creative invasion throughout facebook, instagram and other networkings. The exhibition's last day, Sunday 12th, brought about 15.000 visitors. Marc Pottier curator
Thank you all for inviting us to participate in this amazing adventure, Hervé Perdriolle, Shantaram Gorkhana, Sadashiv, Balu and Kishor Mashe
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jeudi 16 octobre 2014

Kaleidoscopic India

Source Maison Guerlain

Découvrez en avant-première le montage de l'exposition KALEIDOSCOPIC INDIA, présentée à partir du 17 octobre par la Maison GUERLAIN au 68, Champs Elysées, avec des oeuvres de Jangargh Singh Shyam, Atul Dodiya, Jivya Soma Mashe, Jitish Kallat, Pushpa Kumari, Sudarshan Shetty, Shine Shivan, Nalini Malini, Bhuri Bai, Bharti Kher, Ram Singh Urveti... exposition associée au Parcours Privé de la FIAC.

samedi 11 octobre 2014

mercredi 8 octobre 2014

Kaleidoscopic India, un événement du parcours privé de la FIAC


Source Galerie Hervé Perdriolle
Parmi les quinze artistes contemporains Indien présentés dans l'exposition "Kaleidoscopic India" conçue par Caroline Messensee pour la Maison Guerlain, dont Rina Banerjee, Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Nalini Malani et Shilpa Gupta, six font partie de la galerie. Bhuri Bai, première femme de sa tribu à avoir commencé à peindre sur toile. Pushpa Kumari, présente dans les collections du FNAC. Jangarh Singh Shyam, exposé à la dernière biennale de Gwangju en Corée. Jivya Soma Mashe, montré lors des 30 ans de la Fondation Cartier. Ram Singh Urveti, présent dans les collections du Bharat Bhavan. Et enfin Shine Shivan, jeune artiste de 33 ans, nominé pour le Skoda Prize, l’équivalent du prix Marcel Duchamp en Inde.
> "Kaleidoscopic India" Maison Guerlain 68 Champs-Elysées 17 oct - 24 nov

YIA Art Fair Paris NG & Shine Shivan


Source Galerie Hervé Perdriolle
Artiste nomade voyageant de résidence en résidence à travers le monde et déjà présentée au Palais de Tokyo et au MAM de Paris ou encore tout récemment au Rockbund Art Museum à Shanghai, NG participera ici à son premier salon d’art contemporain. NG y présentra une série de 100 dessins intitulée "Erotic Jungle". NG dessine avec la précision des botanistes les plantes quelles croisent sur son chemin. Survivre en se nourrissant de plantes est l'une de ses expériences de vie. Les dessins érotiques sont nés de l'observation des plantes.
Shine Shivan, découvert pour la première en France au YIA 2013, avec sa série de dessins "Glimpse of Thirst" réalisés avec une épine de cactus, en guise de plume, et du venin de cobra en guise d’encre, nous propose pour le YIA 2014 une performance intitulée "Lucifer", une série de dessins réalisée au rythme d’un dessin par jour pendant trente jours dans l’enfer de Faridabad, une ville industrielle devenue banlieue éloignée de New Delhi.
> YIA Art Fair Carreau du Temple 23-26 oct Galerie Hervé Perdriolle stand 36

lundi 6 octobre 2014

Prajakta Potnis the kitchen debate


Source Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Prajakta Potnis (born 1980 in Thane, India, lives and works in Mumbai) holds a grant by KfW Stiftung for the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and will be finishing her residency by showcasing her current project the kitchen debate. Her work explores the interplay between the invisible and the visible, the private and the public, the internal and the external. In her art, walls, partitions and even the skin as the outer limit of the human body appear both as material objects and metaphorical concepts. Her installations, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photos and videos are distorted representations of everyday items, inventing new contexts and creating bizarre new worlds.
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dimanche 5 octobre 2014

Tribal India on the world map

Source Times of India by Kasmin Fernandes
How the textiles and techniques of our native people are entering mainstream fashion and global ramps. Tribal India was never cooler. While a small bunch of revivalist desi designers are modernising rural textiles from the subcontinent, international labels and celebrities can't get enough of our heritage weaves and patterns. Whether through Ikat printed pants on Hollywood actress Jessica Alba, Rajasthani bangles adorning the arms of models at Paris Fashion Week, a Warli print mini dress at fashion week in Mumbai, the intricate embroidery on a red carpet dress worn by British popstar Jessie J, a slice of tribal India is peeking through every corner of the world.
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mercredi 1 octobre 2014

Auction house Sotheby's to launch first India week in UK

Source Business Standard
International auction house Sotheby's will launch its first 'India and Islamic Week' in London, a high profile series of public exhibitions that will feature works never offered before, including paintings by M F Husain and Sayed Haider Raza. The event will cover three major sales of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, Art of Imperial India and Arts of the Islamic World between October 3 and 8. During the period, the entire central London premises of the auction house will be devoted to Indian and Islamic art.
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The Korea Bizwire Historic Buildings in Jeju Island Reopen as Contemporary Art Museum


Source The Korea Bizwire
Following a museum in the Space Group building inaugurated last month, three new museums plan to open in Top-dong and Dongmun-dong in Jeju Island by Kim Chang-il, an art collector and founder of Arario Galleries. An old cinema, a bike shop and a motel are expected to be transformed into contemporary museums in the island, named after traditional names of the buildings called “Top-dong Cinema,” “Top-dong Bike Shop” and “Dongmun Motel.” The 3,048-square-meter cinema building in Top-dong used to be a cultural hotspot among young people but financial problems have forced it to be closed in 2005. Mr. Kim purchased the building to open a contemporary museum with his collections. “What does the vessel contain, that the river does not,” a work by Indian artist Subodh Gupta, is exhibited in the museum.
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