Art Paris Art Fair

Source La gazette de Drouot 15 mars 2013
Avec 74 nouvelles participations, vingt pays représentés et 43% d'exposants étrangers, la sélection, cette année, met l'accent sur la présence internationale. Hervé Perdriolle (stand B13) a sélectionné une sculpture de Ravinder Reddy et y ajoutera une trentaine de dessins de T. Venkanna. L'artiste légendaire de la tribu Warli, Jivya Soma Mashe sera représenté par l'un de ses fameux filets de pêche.

Foreign art foray

Source Times of India by Supriya Sharma
His creative footprints can be traced from the UK's Tate Modern, the Louvre in Paris, the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the La Scala in Milan! Now, iconic South African artist William Kentridge is in Mumbai to showcase his versatile art, at the Volte gallery. Volte isn't the only gallery garnering foreign attention of late. The past year has seen a tsunami of art shows by foreign artists in India. And it is not just artists, even foreign art collectors are showing a keen interest in the Indian art market.
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India Art Fair 2013

Hervé Perdriolle Gallery booth India Art fair 2013. Photo : Jangarh Singh Shyam, Yamuna Devi, Jivya Soma Mashe and Balu Mashe, Chano Devi, furniture Rooshad Shroff.

Indian Modernism and an Out-of-the-Blue Bowl Kickstart Asia Week Auctions

Source Art Info
Asia Week kicked off on Tuesday with a bang. As has been the trend in the last few years, there were plenty of lots selling for 10 times estimates. As always, Chinese ceramics are hot, as are traditional Indian and Himalayan works of art. Perhaps more surprisingly, modern and contemporary Indian art seems to be bouncing back from the low point it has been occupying for the past few seasons. At Sotheby’s, the evening sale of former Christie’s specialist and collector Amrita Jhaveri’s single-owner “Amaya Collection” sale bucked the underperforming Indian market, with 40 lots selling for $6,694,876. The well-curated sale was 93 percent sold by lot and 90 percent sold by value. This success affirmed both the importance of Jhaveri’s collection and her decision to choose works to sell based on the artist’s proven record at auction.
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Les bons résultats de la vente de la collection Jhaveri à New York redonnent des couleurs au marché de l'art indien

Collectionneuse de la première heure, Amrita Jahveri s'est séparée d'une partie de sa collection pour acquérir de nouvelles œuvres. Cette première vente du soir consacrée à l’art contemporain indien chez Sotheby’s New York a inaugurée la semaine d'Art Asiatique avec de très bons résultats. Le lot le plus disputé a été Untitled (1962) de Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, l’un des artistes abstraits les plus recherchés aujourd’hui en Inde. Il a été adjugé $965,000 (€747,000). A noter également les bonnes performances de Manijit Bawa ($389,000), Jogën Chowdhury ($118,750), Bhupen Khakhar ($341,000) et Ravinder Reddy ($341,000).
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New York Indian art sale breaks artist records

Source Times of India by Neelam Raaj
The sale that was billed as the hottest of the season and featured the who's who of Indian art netted $6.7 million and broke four artist records in New York on Wednesday. On the block was the collection of Amrita Jhaveri, a reputed gallerist and art advisor who divides her time between London and Mumbai. Jhaveri, the daughter of a wealthy Malabar Hill Gujarati family, started collecting in the 1990s. The collection, titled "Amaya" (which means "without illusion"), has grown substantially over the years. Jhaveri said she decided to part with some of her prized pieces to buy new works.
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Heart in art?

Source The Hindu by Lakshmi Kupra
What is it that drives people to collect, particularly if they aren’t rich — such as the Vogels? “You can never say why someone collects. It might have started slowly or with one piece that they may have reacted to, but they continue going back to it because art changes your life forever, for the better,” he said and recounted his own experience of picking up a piece that suddenly became available when he wasn’t so financially sound, having just quit his job. “I saw it and I had to buy it. I wake up in the morning and I look at it hanging on my wall; something I have wanted ever since I was a kid, it charges me up. It makes me want to go out there and do something. That’s what art does to you,” he concluded.
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"I Felt the Need to Do Something Unusual": Massimiliano Gioni on Curating Venice

Source Art Info
I’ve been including artists that are defined as “outsider” or “self-taught” in my shows for a while. It was the idea already for the Gwangju Biennial in 2010 and I’ve been looking at that field quite regularly in my group shows at the New Museum. Auriti’s piece is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum (New York), so I had heard about it. I saw it in person not that long ago, like 2011. As the ideas for the Venice exhibition were developing, I thought that somehow it was the ideal starting point.
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Artists Announced for Massimiliano Gioni’s Venice Biennale Exhibition

Source Art Info
“Blurring the line between professional artists and amateurs, outsiders and insiders, the exhibition takes an anthropological approach to the study of images, focusing in particular on the realms of the imaginary and the functions of the imagination. What room is left for internal images—for dreams, hallucinations and visions—in an era besieged by external ones? And what is the point of creating an image of the world when the world itself has become increasingly like an image?”
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New York Asian art auctions span bronze antiquities to contemporary art

Source Reuters
The four days of auctions, estimated to take in anywhere from $74 million to $106 million, begin on Tuesday with Sotheby's sales of contemporary Indian art and Chinese ceramics and art, and Christie's Indian and Southeast Asian sale, which includes some of its higher-priced works. The semi-annual sales of Asian works of art have become an important driver in the global market, with strong activity in recent years. But a recent report found art spending by Chinese collectors fell 24 percent last year because of slowing economic growth and a lack of availability of top-quality works.
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We want a global market for modern Indian art: Mark Poltimore

Source Business Standard
India is an important market for Sotheby's. Our Indian client base continues to grow steadily. In 2012, Sotheby's saw a 20 per cent rise in the number of Indian buyers participating in our auctions and a 42 per cent rise in the amount they spent with the company. Indian buyers are now active right across our selling categories - not just Indian art, but also increasingly in our impressionist and modern, international contemporary and jewelry sales. We are keeping a close watch on the market in India. Our main goals are to develop the international market for modern and contemporary Indian art and to bring a higher level of client service to our buyers and collectors based in India and those of the Indian diaspora around the world.
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Jatha in Warli Tribal Revolt Region

Source Communist Party of India
The Western Sangharsh Sandesh Jatha journeyed into the historic Warli tribal revolt region in Thane district on its second day on Saturday, March 09. Impressive meetings were held in Dahanu, Jawahar and Talassery towns, which were the epicentre of the tribal revolt in 1945. It may be recalled that the Warli tribals led by the Communist Party and its legendary leaders Godavari Parulekar and Shamrao Parulekar revolted against the big landlords, sahukars and the British in 1945. The landlords who were holding thousands of acres of land each as absentee landlords had to flee the area due to this rebellion and the lands were re-occupied by the tribals.
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Sting Rocks Indian Art Auction

Source Art Info
Sting Will Open Landmark Indian Auction: A rare sale of antiquities and artworks — including an orientalist masterpiece by J.M.W. Turner, a painting by M.F. Husain, and design objects by Étienne Drian, René Lalique, and others — staged by Bangalore-based auctioneer Bid & Hammer will feature an even more improbable opening act. The three-day sale kicks off on Thursday with a performance by rock legend Sting. "Auctions in India are moving away from gallery spaces to luxury venues to fit into the lifestyle segments of the upend buyers who make up the bulk of the collectors of rare art and antiquities in the country," Bid & Hammer chairman and managing director Maher Dadha explained.

Art in their abode

Source Business Standard by Kishore Singh
Some homes keep their secrets well. In Mumbai, Mukesh Ambani's Antilla, which has hosted its big-ticket parties, has floored visitors to such an extent that few recall seeing any art there. On prodding, they might recall "a kind of bird" - possibly a massive Garuda by artist Satish Gupta - at the entrance, part of a series of artworks commissioned especially for the skyscraper, though it is the junior Ambanis who take art collecting more seriously, with both office and their residence brimming with masters and contemporaries from F N Souza to Chintan Upadhyay, Jogen Chowdhury to Sujata Kejriwal. Unsurprisingly, really, with Tina Ambani supporting the Harmony show, and spouse Anil Ambani providing discreet inputs. In New Delhi, it is Sunil Mittal's home that has remained unreported for its art collection, with the Mittals apparently inclined to support emerging artists over established masters.
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Artistes contemporains indiens de moins de 40 ans

Source Art Price Art Market Insight
Loin de la puissance de frappe des maisons de ventes occidentales et chinoises, l'art contemporain indien fait face à une demande locale toujours plus importante et possède une forte représentation internationale. Le classement révèle ainsi, sans surprise, une géographie des ventes d'art contemporain indien qui s'articule entre Londres, New York et Hong Kong. Si cinq artistes se partagent le Top, deux d'entre eux sortent du lot et occupent sept des premières marches. Avec un ticket d'entrée à 11 000 $ et une première marche à 85 000 $ pour les artistes de moins de 40 ans, le marché de l'art contemporain indien n'occupe plus les mêmes sphères qu'entre 2006 et 2008, mais semble avoir trouvé son équilibre... Parallèlement à ces statistiques d'Art Price on peut saluer l'entrée des artistes contemporains tribaux sur le marché de l'art international. Une peinture sur papier de Jangarh Singh Shyam (artiste présent aux Magiciens de la terre) obtenait 31250 $ chez Sotheby's NY en 2010, introduction confirmée par les ventes récentes concernant cet artiste chez Saffronart (maison de vente indienne) en 2012 et 2013. Une oeuvre de Jivya Soma Mashe (exposé en 2012 à la Fondation Cartier) a obtenue 21000 $ chez Artcurial en 2007. Des résultats qui mettraient ces artistes en 5ème et 7ème positions de ce dernier palmarès mis en ligne par Art Price.
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L’art : un marché sans frontières ?

Source Art Media Agency
La mondialisation du marché de l’art n’est pas un phénomène récent. Il s’agit même d’une condition structurelle de la constitution de ce marché, et ceci dès le XVIe siècle, lorsque la circulation des œuvres et des artistes s’est intensifiée en Italie, puis sur l’axe Paris-Londres-Amsterdam. Ce qui a changé, c’est l’amplification des échanges internationaux et l’accélération des basculements d’un pôle à l’autre, après une longue période de concentration sur les États-Unis et l’Europe. Pourtant, l’Amérique a longtemps été considérée comme indétrônable : elle représentait encore 50 % du marché mondial en 2000, deux fois moins une décennie plus tard. En 2011, 43 % du marché de l’art mondial a été réalisé en Asie, loin devant les États-Unis (23,6 %) et la Grande-Bretagne (19,4 %). Retour sur une cartographie en profonde mutation.
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Outsider Art Fair NY

Source Art Forum by Michaela Slavid
Part of the fair’s draw is the generous program of talks, organized for the second year by Valérie Rousseau. (She’s a new member of the American Folk Art Museum’s curatorial team, and is married to Edlin.) Sunday’s panel, “A Bridge Between Art Worlds,” brought curators Massimiliano Gioni, Daniel Baumann, and Ralph Rugoff together on the roof of the Dia building. Their priority: how to lift the veil from outsider art’s seclusion. Referencing similarities between work (created concurrently, and without cross-pollination) by Adolf Wölfli and the Dadaists, Baumann implied that similar parallels might hold keys to a more comprehensive art history. Gioni, in turn, suggested exhibiting outsider artwork “not as a new king or queen we crown in our museums,” but as a force to disrupt the status quo. (Perhaps a dethroning in favor of anarchy!)
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Amrita Jhaveri: A Prescient Eye for Indian Art

Source Sotheby's by James Reginato
In the late 1990s, Amrita Jhaveri took a gamble when she paid nearly $500 for a painting by a young, unknown Indian artist. It was so large she had nowhere to hang it, and Contemporary Indian art was then barely recognised as a field in which to collect. Three years later, in 2001, Tate Modern asked to borrow the picture – We Will Repay our Debt Sometime, by Girish Dahiwale – for its inaugural exhibition, Century City. “I felt really flattered,” Jhaveri recalled on a recent afternoon over tea in the boardroom of Sotheby’s London offices. Moreover, Jhaveri sensed she was on to something: Contemporary Indian art was a field about to come of age.
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India's First Contemporary Art Biennale – Bucking the Trend

Source Mutual Art by Lihi Raviv
“There are parallel contemporaries in Indian art”, concludes Sunish, “One that is learnt and produced by artists coming out of urban ‘fine art’ institutions (the systems of which are a colonial residue), and a whole lot of others coming from a traditional or ‘folk’ stream of art and craft, that is integral to the various regions of India, and is now producing artists who are keen to take part in the expression of an Indian contemporary. This period is one of negotiation and collaboration among these two sections, and the market also has to make space for these experimental contemporaries.”
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Material World

Source Art Forum by Zehra Jumabhoy
The Fifth Edition of the India Art Fair kicked off with a bang. Or should I say a smash? At the fair’s opening a couple weeks ago, dealer Lorenzo Fiaschi subbed in for artist Michelangelo Pistoletto—infamous in recent years for his performance Twenty-Two Less Two, in which he breaks giant gilded mirrors with a sledgehammer—and had a go at a piece of long, silvery looking-glass. CRACK! it went, shooting glittery shards all over Galleria Continua’s booth: The VIP preview had begun.
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François Hollande : Ganesh, ce dieu éléphant qui lui ressemble énormément

Source The Huffingtonpost
François Hollande, réincarnation d'une divinité hindoue ? L'hypothèse développée, non sans humour, par un économiste spécialiste de l'Inde a bien fait rire les invités de l'émission 28 minutes sur Arte. Mais sa théorie a fini par convaincre la correspondante à Paris du quotidien indien The Hindu : "Il y a une certaine ressemblance" a-t-elle concédé, un brin amusée.
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Pick of the lots

Source Business Standard by Kishore Singh
Fifteen years ago — a lifetime in Indian art, according to some — Amrita Jhaveri started collecting modern and contemporary art somewhat more seriously than most, becoming one of the earliest specialists with a calibrated eye for picking art works that represented the best of each generation’s artists. The catalyst for that original impulse had been triggered by the inclusion of a work she’d acquired — “even before I had a flat”, she laughs during our conversation — in the Tate’s Garden City exhibition, and now Jhaveri seems bent on returning that favour by providing the Indian art market with a pleasant jolt.
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The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989

Source Smart Musuem Chicago
Since 1989, the influential Delhi-based Sahmat has offered a platform for artists, writers, poets, musicians, actors, and activists to create and present works of art that promote artistic freedom and celebrate secular, egalitarian values. The collective formed in the weeks after playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play. In the more than twenty years since, Sahmat has drawn on India’s secular heritage and an expansive group of collaborators to produce a series of projects that engage in important political and social debates through a mix of high art and street culture. This exhibition will introduce Sahmat's work to the United States.
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The 5th India Art Fair and Parallel Events

Source Art Agenda by Natasha Ginwala
Between thematic panel sessions at the Speakers’ Forum bringing together a dynamic line up of participants including critic-curators Adriano Pedrosa, Chus Martínez, Geeta Kapur, and Barbara London, among others, I slipped back into the fair to view the exceptional works of indigenous women artists, Yamuna Devi (1915–2011) and Chano Devi (1938–2010) at Paris-based collector and gallerist Hervé Perdriolle’s booth. These artists significantly transformed the traditional style of Mithila painting, interspersing native divinities and animist faith-motifs with local botanical and celestial references.
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Kiran Nadar Is Bringing Contemporary Indian Art Home in a Big Way

Source Art Info by Rosalyn D'Mello
Line of Control debuted in London in the 2009 Tate Triennial, which is where Nadar first encountered the piece. “Overwhelmed,” as she describes it, by the work’s “awe-inspiring” nature, she decided on the spot to acquire it for KNMA, India’s first private museum for modern and contemporary art. “It is one of the most phenomenal works any artist could have done. I had to have it,” Nadar said with conviction when asked if she had considered the logistical challenge that transporting and installing such a gargantuan work would present.
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