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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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde’s paintings sell for $3.7 million in New York

Source Livemint
The Guggenheim in New York on 24 October opens the first museum exhibition dedicated to the famously reclusive artist, and Gaitonde’s work has recently set records in the Asian art world. In 2012, Christie’s set a world record for a modern Indian painting by selling a canvas for $3.79 million. Born in Nagpur, India in 1924, Gaitonde was inspired early on by Swiss artist Paul Klee, then turned towards abstraction and cultivated a lifelong interest in Zen Buddhism. He studied in Bombay and in 1964 lived at New York’s Chelsea Hotel, then a cultural hub that housed Bob Dylan, Arthur Miller and Leonard Cohen.
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Two day orientation programme from tomorrow

Source Business Standard
The Kochi Biennale Foundation will organise a two-day orientation programme in Fort Kochi from tomorrow to put young curators through the processes for the Student's Biennale, a first-of-its-kind project that will feature an exhibition of students' works parallel to the main Biennale event. The KBF has selected 15 talented, young curators with national and international exposure to put together the Student's Biennale. Selected from 70 applicants from across India, the curators will be guided by a dedicated advisory committee of leading artists, art thinkers and educators.
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SAM’s ‘City Dwellers’: Deity in a hotel, Gandhi with an iPod

Source The Seattle Times by Michael Upchurch
Say the words “contemporary art,” and it’s usually American and European artists who come to mind: big international names represented by a work or two in almost every museum around the world. But lively scenes have been emerging in other hemispheres and on other continents. In Seattle, the Frye Art Museum’s Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker has been terrific about bringing us the latest art-scene developments from China. Now it’s the Seattle Art Museum’s turn with “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India,” featuring a dozen artists ranging in age from their 20s to their 50s.
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Paris montre ses muscles

Source Art Aujourd'hui
La France compte-t-elle encore ? Est-elle toujours une grande puissance ? C’était la teneur d’un certain nombre d’éditoriaux, dont celui du respecté Paul Krugman dans le New York Times, au lendemain du remaniement ministériel de fin août 2014. Piquée au vif, la capitale du pays entend montrer que dans un autre domaine, la culture et le tourisme, elle est toujours en première division. Mais c’est dans le domaine des arts qu’elle semble vouloir faire la différence. Outre l’offre habituelle de grandes expositions et de foires (voir ci-dessous), elle prépare l’ouverture en salve d’institutions spectaculaires. Ainsi, en septembre et octobre, verra-t-on le président Hollande, malmené dans les sondages, couper le ruban de la fondation Pathé-Seydoux pour le cinéma (dessinée par Renzo Piano) et de la fondation Louis Vuitton (par Frank Gehry) ainsi que d’un musée Picasso rajeuni (par Jean-François Bodin). « J’ai deux amours, mon pays et Paris », chantait Joséphine Baker.
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On a Mission to Save Our Intangible Culture

Source The New Indian Express by Archana Ravi
She also talked about the difficulty of charting a definitive cultural policy. “To protect the Warli paintings of Maharashtra do we issue a copyright and if so, can it just belong to one community?” she asked. Then there is always the delight of a living heritage which would evolve with time. “For example, bicycles and aeroplanes might creep into tribal art, because it is very much part of their everyday life. We cannot restrict the art form from doing this, saying that what has always been there should always be so. How do we define the authenticity of an art form while charting cultural policies? Still, a policy is needed to protect the community from being exploited by middlemen, who would reap huge profits,” said Nerupama. There were 500 and more tribes to talk about.
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Gen-next artists of India on the rise

Source Zee News
With younger artists, there is no reference point. It is also impossible for an artist to produce a masterpiece with each work and many young artists may not be able to take the pressure of producing great works for every exhibition. On the other hand, it is the most exciting part of the art market—to watch an artist develop his/her artistic virtuosity and the trajectory of the artist’s career;
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Sauvez la Papouasie, sauvez l’Indonésie

Si l’on veut comprendre cet état de non droit qui règne en Papouasie Occidentale, on doit s’interroger sur l’un de ses ferments les plus actifs : l’impunité érigée au rang de culture, cet ensemble de connaissances acquises qui permet généralement de développer le jugement; non d’échapper à la justice. Cette culture de l’impunité gouverne l’action des puissants aussi bien à l’ouest qu’à l’extrême est de l’archipel indonésien où les peuples papous sont confrontés à un péril génocidaire de plus en plus évident. Pourtant en revenant à une situation de droit en Papouasie, c’est l’ensemble de la société indonésienne qui en bénéficierait. Elle tournerait enfin le dos à ce déni d’humanité qui hypothèque son avenir. Un avenir parfaitement contemporain selon la définition qu’en donne le philosophe Giorgio Agamben : « Est contemporain celui qui prend en pleine face le faisceau obscur de son temps ! » Également sur mediapart : Papouasie Occidentale, des peuples papous en sursis

TRAJECTOIRES VI : Indian Tribal Contemporary Art

Frédéric Moisan Gallery and Hervé Perdriolle Gallery present in the Parcours des mondes 2014 an exhibition of Contemporary Indian Tribal Art. This exhibition brings together major works of historical figures and emerging artists of that described in India as contemporary vernacular art. The exhibition includes paintings by Jivya Soma Mashe and Jangarh Singh Shyam (both present at Magiciens de la terre), other warlis artists as Sadashiv and Balu Mashe (which realize large murals paintings currently visible in Sao Paulo "Feito por Brasileiros "), Chano Devi (first untouchable to have received a National Award) and young artist of the Gond tribe, Mayank Kumar Shyam.
> Exhibition from 9 to 27 September 72 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris

TRAJECTOIRES VI : Art tribal contemporain indien

La galerie Frédéric Moisan et la galerie Hervé Perdriolle présentent dans le Parcours des mondes 2014 une exposition d’art tribal contemporain indien. Cette exposition réunit des œuvres majeures des figures historiques et d’artistes émergents de cet art qualifié par les indiens d’art contemporain vernaculaire. Cette exposition regroupe des peintures de Jivya Soma Mashe et de Jangarh Singh Shyam (tous deux présents aux Magiciens de la terre), d’autres artistes warlis comme Sadashiv et balu Mashe (lesquels viennent de réaliser de vastes fresques murales actuellement visible à Sao Paulo « Feito por Brasileiros »), de Chano Devi (première intouchable à avoir reçue un National Award) et du jeune artiste de la tribu Gond, Mayank Kumar Shyam.
> Exposition du 9 au 27 septembre 72 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris

Booming Art Market Puts Smiles on Faces of Delhi’s Elite

Source Newsweek by John Elliot
It hasn’t taken much to lift the gloom of Delhi’s elite. Three good months of economic growth plus a booming stock market were capped last week when India’s modern art market came alive with sales totalling Rs 38.27 crore ($6.38m) at an auction mounted by Saffronart of Mumbai. Only four of ninety works on offer had to be withdrawn after failing to meet their reserve prices, which is far less than usual in Indian art auctions.
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Rare film memorabilia go under the hammer at Osian’s auction

Source The Indian Express by Suanshu Khurana
1949. Just before the popular Raj Kapoor and Nargis starrer love story Barsaat was to release, a studio in the bylanes of Bombay’s Shivaji Park was bustling with activity. Sambanand Monappa Pandit was busy painting a poster. The image of a heroine hanging on a hero’s arm was to become a critically-acclaimed masterpiece. Such was its appeal that Kapoor made this image the logo for RK Films, which enjoys an iconic status today. The offset lithography poster, acquired from a private collector, will go under the hammer as part of art auction house Osian’s event “The Greatest Indian Show on Earth” on Friday in Mumbai.
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Área que abriga Hospital Matarazzo vai se transformar em polo cultural

Source Globo TV

MADE BY…FEITO POR BRASILEIROS: TRIBO WARLI

Source Arte 1 Video

Feito por Brasileiros Sao Paulo

Made by... Feito por Brasileiros Curated by Marc Pottier 05/08-12/10 Cidade Matarazzo, Alameda Rio Claro 190, Bela Vsita, Sao Paulo

En plein cœur de Sao Paulo, un hôpital abandonné depuis plus de 20 ans va être investi par une centaine d'artistes de Tony Oursler à Adel Abdessemed. 50 artistes brésiliens et 50 artistes internationaux sont invités à réaliser des œuvres éphémères avant que ce lieu extraordinaire s'étendant sur plus de 35000 mètres carrés soit réhabilité. Parmi ces artistes, 4 peintres de la tribu Warli (Maharashtra Inde) réaliseront du 19 aout au 6 septembre de vastes fresques murales.
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In the heart of Sao Paulo, an hospital left to ruin for over 20 years will be taken over by a hundred artists from Tony Oursler to Adel Abdessemed. 50 Brazilian artists and 50 international artists are invited to create ephemeral works before this extraordinary place covering more than 35,000 square meters is rehabilitated. Among these artists, 4 painters from the Warli Tribe (Maharashtra India) will realize from August 19 to September 6 several huge wall paintings.
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Blood, gore and a deadly story

Source The Hindu by Sruthi Radhakrishnan
The golden era for pulps in English, sadly enough died out in the 1950s. But in India, specifically in Tamil, pulp acquired a new life in the form of monthly magazines. Before the 1980s, serialised stories in weeklies were and remain cult hits (these are now successful novels). Readers of that generation would wait every week for a new issue of Ananda Vikatan or Kalki for the next installment in the story they’d been following with avid interest, a kind of fan following unimaginable by those very magazines today. But the 80s saw a change in the market, and thus the Tamil pulp magazine was born.
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