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samedi 27 juin 2015

L'art tribal indien, un art contemporain au sens littéral du terme

Source La Montagne par Pascal Guinard

vendredi 26 juin 2015

Galerie Hervé Perdriolle, une plongée dans l'art indien


Source Le Figaro par Marie Perrier
Dans un bel appartement parisien, Hervé Perdriolle accueille les amateurs d'art d'une manière très décontractée: nous sommes chez lui, ne l'oublions pas. Les grandes pièces blanches éclairées par ce soleil de juin donnent un contraste intéressant avec les œuvres graphiques colorées et les quelques sculptures présentes: tout respire la vie dans cet appartement proche du jardin du Luxembourg. Bien assis dans un fauteuil et entouré d'œuvres indiennes, l'hôte est comme un poisson dans l'eau. Collectionneur, critique d'art et commissaire d'exposition depuis des années, c'est un homme passionné qui souhaite partager ses découvertes.
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Anish Kapoor réagit au vandalisme de son œuvre polémique


Source Le Figaro par Valérie Duponchelle
Quel avenir demain pour ce Dirty Corner» qu'il a fallu installer avec une logistique énorme? «Les dégâts sont importants. On sait seulement que les vandales sont venus très tôt mercredi matin avec d'importantes quantités de peinture. Il y a des caméras partout à Versailles. J'espère qu'ils seront identifiés», nous répond Anish Kapoor, sans aucune démesure. «Oter la peinture jaune de l'acier Corten impliquerait forcément d'ôter la patine qui donne sa couleur rouille à Dirty Corner. C'est donc impossible in situ. Je ne sais pas si je dois la démonter ou la laisser en l'état, je vais y réfléchir. Il y a bien longtemps à Documenta (la grand-messe de l'art contemporain qui se réunit tous les 7 ans à Kassel, au cœur de l'Allemagne, NDLR), une œuvre de Joseph Beuys - des roches empilées - avaient été vandalisées, peintes en rose, certaines avec des graffitis de lapins. Beuys a retourné cette agression en utilisant ce graffiti de lapin dans d'autres œuvres postérieures. C'est l'énergie même de l'art que de chercher une solution».
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jeudi 25 juin 2015

Abhishek Poddar invests $200,000 in new online auction startup FAB

Source Economic Times by Vijaya Rathore
ndian businessman and avid art collector Abhishek Poddar has invested $200,000 in a new online business that has been set up by an Australian entrepreneur Tim Goodman to auction fine art and diamonds globally. Set up with an idea of slashing fees and simplifying the auction process, Fine Art Bourse (F.A.B.) will challenge the current business models of giants like Sotheby's and Christie's, according to its founders. There are a few more Indians who have made small investments in the company and bought the shares. "It is an ambitious and bold project," Poddar told ET. "The USP of the project is the financial model and the global reach."
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Indian artists play with photography at San Jose museum


Source SFGate by Kimberly Chun
Feather or dot? That stereotypical joke about Indians, be they of South Asian or North American descent, is wittily sent up in Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s “An Indian From India — Portfolio II” series, in which the New York artist re-creates portraits of American Indians by photographers like Edward S. Curtis to make a pointed statement about the construction of exotic stereotypes. “It’s an interesting idea that Columbus was confused about where he was, that we call Native Americans ‘Indians’ because he thought he was in the West Indies,” says curator Jodi Throckmorton of Matthew’s work. “That has caused hundreds of years of confusion, and that confusion has affected the way people are stereotyped now."
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mardi 23 juin 2015

Pictures of people taking part in Yoga Day celebrations


Source Hindunstan Times
Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined nearly 37,000 fellow participants at Rajpath on Sunday to mark the International Day of Yoga. The UN resolution, which Modi had proposed during his last visit to New York, has seemingly garnered significant support, with everyone -- from celebrities to Muslim groups -- agreeing to participate in the event. People across the world practised the ancient art, which, the Prime Minister states, promotes a cleaner way of living and a healthier body. Below are some pictures of people taking part in Yoga Day celebrations.
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Millions of people bend and twist their bodies for Yoga Day


Source Seattle Times by Nirmala George
Indian officials said more than 35,000 people participated in the New Delhi event that was also an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest single yoga class at a single venue. Guinness representatives said they hired more than 1,500 members of a global accounting firm to count participants. India’s Defense Ministry said that soldiers on the Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battleground in the Himalayas, and naval cadets on navy ships at sea also had participated in the Yoga Day events. Although Modi’s message was one of peace and harmony, many in India were concerned that the push for yoga was an attempt by Hindu groups to give a boost to Hinduism.
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International Yoga Day 2015: Watch Summer Solstice Live Stream In New York's Times Square With Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


Source International Business Times by Lora Moftah
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the beginning of the celebration, which will be captured on the iconic seven-story-tall Nasdaq screen in Times Square. “Yoga offers a simple, accessible and inclusive means to promote physical and spiritual health and well-being,” the U.N. chief said in a message before the event. “It promotes respect for one’s fellow human beings and for the planet we share.” The idea of an international celebration of the ancient practice was first proposed last year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called yoga “a holistic approach to health and well-being” during his address to the U.N. General Assembly in September. Government officials have promoted the event as a means of advancing Indian soft power around the world, an effort that has been met with controversy back home.
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50 nations, including China and US, back Modi's call for International Yoga Day


Source Times of India by Sachin Parashar
One of PM Narendra Modi's first global imprints could come soon with the fructification of his proposal - which he announced in his UNGA speech — for an International Day of Yoga. As many as 50 countries - US, Canada and China most recently — have signed up for co-sponsorship of a draft resolution which India's UN mission is preparing for declaring June 21 as international Yoga day. The resolution will be submitted soon to the UN secretariat with the government looking to aggressively push for its adoption before the end of this year. Perhaps India's most significant export to the world, the ancient art of Yoga is fast taking centre-stage in Modi's soft power push.
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Chinese Takeaway: Yoga Diplomacy


Source The Indian Express by C. Raja Mohan
As Modi imparts a fresh momentum to India’s cultural diplomacy, Delhi could learn a set of useful dos and don’ts from China’s massive cultural diplomacy over the last decade. As one of the oldest continuing civilisations, China has always had much to offer other societies. Chinese statecraft, which dates back two millennia, has a deep understanding of what we now call “soft power”. Mao’s Cultural Revolution, however, broke that tradition by attacking the very symbols of Chinese civilisation. His successors have now put culture back at the centre of China’s international relations. Making China a “global cultural superpower” is now the avowed aim of the Chinese Communist Party.
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jeudi 11 juin 2015

Hazaribagh nouvelles peintures disponibles


Source Galerie Hervé Perdriolle
Une fois de plus l'Inde nous surprend avec l'art des femmes d'Hazaribagh, l'une des régions les plus délaissées de l'Inde. Cet art nous surprend tant parfois, au grès de l'imagination de certaines de ces femmes, il convoque fortuitement l'art moderne ou l'art brut. C'est l'incroyable simplicité des formes qui rappelle l'art moderne, ou plus exactement un autre art primitif dont s'inspiraient les modernes pour s'affranchir de l'académisme. La dimension brute saute aux yeux. Elle n'est pas celle des exclus, cher à Dubuffet, mais celle des autodidactes, ou devrait on dire, des affranchis.
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Obataimu, l'art de la lenteur


Source Made in Town
Pour son premier voyage à l’étranger, le collectif indien Obataimu a choisi de poser ses valises à Paris. En exclusivité chez Made in Town, Obataimu présente ses collections et raconte son histoire en images. Une histoire, écrite sur le ton du manifeste, qui défend l’art de la lenteur dans une société lancée à pleine vitesse. C’est lors d’un voyage en terre tokyoïte, que Noorie Sadarangani, fondatrice du projet Obtaimu, observe non sans étonnement l’aptitude nippone à s’endormir à toute heure et à tout endroit. « Dans cette ville surmenée, il n’est pas rare de croiser un banquier en costume endormi, à même le sol, sa mallette en guise d’oreiller », explique-t-elle. Ce concept de sieste urbaine, qui mêle sans complexe la sphère privée à la sphère publique, l’intrigue tant qu’elle décide de s’en inspirer pour ses collections, avec l’idée de transposer des étoffes habituellement destinées aux vêtements d’intérieur à des tenues quotidiennes.
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New York : Pablo Bartholomew, Outside In


Source L'Oeil de la Photographie by Robert Stevens
Pablo Bartholomew, who covered photo stories for me at Time Magazine, and is a legendary photojournalist who has won a World Press award for a powerful story on morphine addicts and the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of a dead child after the Bhopal chemical tragedy of 1984, takes us back to his youth in the India of the 1970s in this exhibition of gritty black & white photographs at the Thomas Erben Gallery in Chelsea, New York until June 20th.
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Indian artists Jitish Kallat, Bharti Kher in Australia exhibit

Source Business Standard
The 'Go East' collection, which puts together 31 artworks from 10 countries including India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Tibet, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, is being showcased at the AGNSW and the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Paddington (SCAF). The artists' practices range from installation and performance to photography and sculpture. AGNSW Director Michael Brand said 'Go East' celebrates a significant collection created by two individuals renowned for their long-standing commitment to the visual arts.
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Indian artist shines at Bonhams auction in London


Source The Economic Times
Six artworks by modern Indian artist V S Gaitonde, sold for a total of 727,000 pounds at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale in London. In total the sale held on June 11 made 1,370,000 pounds with over 90 per cent of the lots being sold, auctioneers said. The six untitled ink on paper drawings (estimated between 20,000 pounds to 35,000 pounds each) were acquired directly from the artist by American abstract painter Morris Graves, who visited Gaitonde's studio.
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lundi 8 juin 2015

British-Indian sculptor causes uproar with "queen's vagina" sculpture at Versailles


Source Straits Times
British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has sparked an uproar in France by installing a huge work he has called a "queen's vagina" in the stately grounds of the Palace of Versailles. The 60m long, 10m high steel-and-rock abstract sculpture, resembling a funnel in the form of an orifice, is set up in the garden facing the royal chateau, which attracts five million tourists a year. Kapoor, 61, has titled the work Dirty Corner. It is part of an exhibition of his work in the grounds of the 17th century palace that opens on Tuesday and runs until November.
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vendredi 5 juin 2015

Anish Kapoor et le vagin géant de Marie-Antoinette


Source L'Express
Nouvelle polémique sur l'art contemporain au château de Versailles. Le sculpteur Anish Kapoor, invité cette année, a évoqué une oeuvre de dix mètres de haut qui serait "le vagin de la reine." Explications. Depuis 2008, le château de Versailles s'ouvre à l'art contemporain. Chaque année ou presque, c'est l'occasion d'une nouvelle polémique. Le symbole de la France du Grand Siècle peut-il servir d'écrin à des oeuvres volontairement décalées? Après le homard de Jeff Koons en 2008 et les oeuvres de Takashi Murakami en 2010, c'est au tour du sculpteur britannique Anish Kapoor de servir de cible aux critiques. En cause, des oeuvres qui ne sont pas encore visibles, l'exposition ouvrant le 9 juin, mais que l'artiste a déjà évoqué.
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Book Review: Forms Of Devotion, The Spiritual in Indian Art, by Sushma K. Bahl

Source Blouin Art Info by Archana Khare-Ghose
But the genius of the book lies in assembling not just these examples of contemporary spiritual art but also making space on that platform for traditional artists who create works of art used in spiritual pursuits, and who often go nameless. Both the volumes carry a detailed glossary of artists featured in the book. The research was carried out by the team of Archana B. Sapra and Puja Bahri of Arts4All Trust. Needless to add, the aspect of spirituality explored in the book is not just limited to Hinduisum or Hindu artists; other religions, and artists following non-Hindu religions find equal space.
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Indian Artists Look Westward, and Homeward, at the Queens Museum


Source The New York Times by Holland Cotter
In 1997, Jane Farver, the farsighted and much-loved American curator who died in April in Venice, put together an influential exhibition called “Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora” at the Queens Museum. It was one of the few surveys of its kind in the United States up to that time, and Ms. Farver was careful to advertise it as the broad sampler it was: The oldest participant, Homai Vyarawalla, was born in 1913; the youngest, Navin Rawanchaikul, in 1971. In addition to India, countries of origin included Canada, Britain, Kenya, Tanzania and Thailand. Now, almost two decades later, that exhibition’s successor, “After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997,” is at the same museum.
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jeudi 4 juin 2015

Art tribal contemporain indien à Chamalières


Source Galerie Louis Gendre
La galerie Louis Gendre souhaite inviter régulièrement d'autres galeries ou institutions à présenter leurs artistes dans son nouvel espace, à Chamalières. Cet été, c'est la galerie Hervé Perdriolle qui nous propose un voyage initiatique dans l'art tribal contemporain. Des œuvres de la galerie Hervé Perdriolle ont été présentées notamment à la Halle Saint Pierre en 2007, à la Fondation Cartier en 2012 et à la Maison Guerlain en 2014.
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mercredi 3 juin 2015

Perspectives mondiales Inde

Source La Banque Mondiale
En Asie du Sud, la croissance a été estimée à 5,5 % pour 2014, soit une augmentation par rapport aux 4,9 % enregistrés en 2013, le taux le plus bas depuis 10 ans. Ce redressement a été stimulé par l’Inde, la plus grande économie de la région, qui a mis fin à deux années de croissance faible. La croissance régionale devrait atteindre 6,8 % en 2017, grâce à l’assouplissement des contraintes affectant l’offre en Inde, au relâchement des tensions politiques au Pakistan.
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‘Lucky to have got support across border’


Source The Tribune by Nonika Singh
Easily the most recognised Pakistani artist in India, Rashid Rana’s claim to fame, however, isn’t just his India connect. He’s put Pakistani contemporary art on the world map. Head of the Fine Art Department at the School of Visual Arts and Design, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, his seminal works are a part of many international collections. Be it his steel-and-photo installation Desperately Seeking Paradise II or photo-mosaics like What’s So Pakistani About This Painting, Rana’s art straddles many mediums and worlds. Perfectionist, contrarian or control freak, one thing he isn’t is a conformist.
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The Man Who Brought Van Gogh to China


Source Sotheby's by Ye Ying
I hit my first fortune around 1998 and purchased the paintings of several classical artists like Luo Zhongli, Ai Xuan and Wu Guanzhong. This collecting period was closely related to my art education. Gradually, my tastes evolved. Around 2000, I began collecting sculpture. In the early 2000s, Chinese contemporary art began picking up, but the prices were still very low and I started buying. A series of more modern renovations I was doing on my home made me wonder if it wouldn’t be interesting to have some Fang Lijun paintings hanging on the walls. I started purchasing Impressionist works only in the past three or four years. I’ve acquired a few paintings by Renoir and Cézanne. The most thrilling was the van Gogh I bought last year. It was a higher-priced, very important museum-quality painting.
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