Tantric Paintings And The World Of Outsider Art In India

Source Huffington Post by Katerine Brooks
What is outsider art? It's a question we've been asking a lot this month, in the weeks leading up to one of the genre's biggest events: the Outsider Art Fair. It's difficult enough to summarize the characteristically "raw" creativity of the American painters, photographers, printmakers, illustrators and multimedia pioneers who create on the periphery, often in isolation or as the result of a loosely unconventional upbringing. It's even more difficult to pinpoint an overarching theme that connects the outsider artists across the globe. Hervé Perdriolle, a collector, curator and dealer who specializes in Indian contemporary art, attributes some of this blurriness to the fact that our conception of contemporary art itself is changing as artists from local cultures -- oftentimes outside the so-called mainstream market -- enter into mainstream consciousness.
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The Making of an Unexpected Art Star: 5 Tales From This Year’s Outsider Art Fair

Source ArtSpace by Dylan Kerr
In many ways, the story of Jean-Daniel Allanche (1940-2015) is the prototypical tale of the outsider artist, at least as established by giants like Henry Darger: a mysterious figure zealously working on a Gesamtkunstwerk of epic proportions from the privacy of his own home, only to be celebrated posthumously. Allanche (or Jda, as he signed many of his pieces) was a physics professor and researcher in Paris, but his real work took place in the confines of his apartment. The extent of his effort was revealed only after his death last year, when his daughter (a friend of Hervé Perdriolle) allowed the gallerist access to her father’s rooms. There, they found the floor-to-ceiling paintings Allanche had been working on since the purchase of his apartment in 1975, along with a collection of gouaches, paintings, sketchbooks, and souvenirs from his global travels (he apparently had a penchant for traditional African and Indian sculpture).
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Artists From Pakistan, Nepal Brave 'Visa' Issues to Attend IAF

Source The New Indian Express
Visual artist Ayesha Jatoi from Pakistan received her passport at the last moment and she literally walked across the border to be able to take part in the India Art Fair, which opened to the public here today. "I had to go through a lot to get visa and I missed my flight and had to walk across the border. I got my passport at 2.30 am yesterday. In fact, I had a flight to visit India in November too but I got my passport only on Thursday. I am but very happy to be here," she said. While Jatoi just about managed to mark her presence at the Fair, her contemporaries from the neighbouring country were unable to make it to the four-day long art event due to "visa issues."
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Lorenzo Rudolf | Art as a culture and also a market

Source Livemint by Preeti Dawra
“Szeemann invented the profession of contemporary art exhibitions. We owe a lot to him and his vision,” he adds. Rudolf says the market has changed and has a problem with curators today. He thinks that the title of curator is loosely used and abused in the art market today. “A curator is essentially an authentic storyteller. But today, many curators use artists and pressure them to make art that sells and not what is inspired from within.” “Everybody today who can hang a painting on the wall and sell it calls himself a curator.” Rudolf takes the role more seriously and has indeed shaped the art world by being a pioneer, risk taker and entrepreneur fighting for his vision that has often been ahead of its time.
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In 15 years, you’ll have to go abroad to see Indian art: Tasneem Zakaria Mehta

Source Livemint by Chanpreet Khurana
On till 31 January, the India Art Fair (IAF) has a new section this year. Called “Institutional”, it showcases projects run by museums and foundations like the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum (BDL) and the UK’s Delfina Foundation. We spoke to Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, managing trustee and honorary director of BDL, trustee of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation, a member of the advisory board of the National Gallery for Modern Art (NGMA), and a member of the International Council of the Museum for Modern Art, New York, about biennales and art events sprouting in different parts of the country, BDL’s interest in participating in such events, museum culture in India, and the new extension to BDL.
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After stint in the doldrums, India Art Fair shows signs of picking up

Source Artnewspaper by Tim Cornwell
The India Art Fair has struggled in recent years as international A-list contemporary galleries have dropped away, citing everything from bureaucratic import hurdles, to a crippling lack of wifi derailing follow-up efforts on potential sales. But participating galleries say that the quality of the fair has improved this year and that leading curators and patron groups from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Asian Art, have all been in attendance. The organisers repositioned the fair as a 'tier two' event this year with a strong focus on South Asia, but aiming for a more original regional feel. It remains a trade and social fixture in the Indian art calendar, pulling in galleries from Kolkata and Mumbai, accompanied by a string of openings at Delhi's leading public and private galleries. The number of galleries has been reduced by around 15 to 70 this year, and Delhi's traffic gridlock and continuing connectivity issues complicates the business of fair-going.
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Inde : un marché du livre en pleine mutation

Source Actualitté par Camille Cornu
Selon Nielsen, le marché du livre indien serait le sixième plus important du monde (il est estimé à 3,9 milliards de dollars) mais également le second plus important en termes d’édition anglophone. Il est surtout en pleine mutation et tente de s’ajuster, notamment dans le domaine du numérique.
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OAF NY Galerie Hervé Perdriolle booth 40

January 21 – 24, 2016 Metropolitan Pavilion 125W 18th Street New York

Tantric Paintings And The World Of Outsider Art In India

Source The Huffington Post by Katherine Brooks
What is outsider art? It's a question we've been asking a lot this month, in the weeks leading up to one of the genre's biggest events: the Outsider Art Fair. It's difficult enough to summarize the characteristically "raw" creativity of the American painters, photographers, printmakers, illustrators and multimedia pioneers who create on the periphery, often in isolation or as the result of a loosely unconventional upbringing. It's even more difficult to pinpoint an overarching theme that connects the outsider artists across the globe. Hervé Perdriolle, a collector, curator and dealer who specializes in Indian contemporary art, attributes some of this blurriness to the fact that our conception of contemporary art itself is changing as artists from local cultures -- oftentimes outside the so-called mainstream market -- enter into mainstream consciousness.
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"Le difficile pari indien", par Thomas Piketty

Source Le Monde
Alors que les doutes s’accumulent sur la Chine et son système financier, les regards se tournent de plus en plus vers l’Inde pour tirer l’économie mondiale dans les années et décennies qui viennent. La croissance devrait y être de près de 8 % en 2016-2017, comme en 2015, contre 6 % pour la Chine. L’Inde part certes de bas, avec un pouvoir d’achat moyen de l’ordre de 300 euros par mois et par habitant (contre 700 euros en Chine et 2 000 euros dans l’Union européenne). Il reste qu’à ce rythme-là, le rattrapage sur l’Europe pourrait se faire en moins de trente ans (contre quinze ans pour la Chine). Ajoutons que la démographie joue pour l'Inde : d'après l'ONU, la population indienne devrait nettement dépasser celle de la Chine (qui vieillit et décline déjà) d'ici à 2025. L'Inde est appelée à devenir la première puissance mondiale par la population au XXIe siècle, et peut-être aussi la première puissance tout court. > lire plus