New York’s Outsider Art Fair Releases Its 2015 Exhibitor List

Source New York Observer by Alanna Martinez
The Outsider Art Fair has released the list of exhibitors for its upcoming 2015 edition, which will be held in New York, January 29 through February 1, at Center 548 in Chelsea. The medium, which is described on the fair’s website “to include art made by a wide variety of art-makers who share this common denominator of raw creativity. Outsiders come from all walks of life, from all cultures, from all age groups,” has grown rapidly in recent years, with more dedicated galleries and an expanding presence at major art fairs. But the annual Outsider Art Fair remains one of the best places to discover self-taught and otherwise outsider artists. This year 40 galleries from 23 international cities will be exhibiting, with a special exhibition curated by Jay Gorney and Anne Doran.
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Dead serious

Source Mid Day
Starting today, a one-of-a-kind art show will see the talented Shine Shivan bring his drawings to life in an open studio space at Gallery Maskara for seven weeks, as a part of his show, Language of the Deceased. “French painter Paul Delaroche was often quoted as saying ‘From today, painting is dead;’ so if painting is dead, I felt that drawing might be a better idea,” 32-year-old artist Shine Shivan recalls this quote by the celebrated French painter, to give us an idea of the main focus of his most recent show, Language of the Deceased. “Be it cave etchings or later, in the 14th century, with greats like Leonardo da Vinci, drawing was in the forefront. I want to bring back that mood with my new show.”
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Shine: Artist first, provocateur next

Source The Asian Age by Somudra Banerjee
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud,” had said the French writer Émile Zola. And close home, artist Shine Shivan is doing exactly that. Through his latest collection of work he reiterates the issues that bother him formal as well as social. Language of Deceased has shaped up from his experiences and knowledge from extensive travelling within as well as outside the country. “I had stayed and worked closely with the famous Warli artist Jivya Soma Mashe for a few days. It was during that period that I had come to know that the last names of most of he tribal regions come from the colonial era. For example, ‘Mashe’ means ‘one who went to the furnace and turned black’. Another popular name is ‘Pasari’, which suggests ‘one who has hanged herself from a tree’.”
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Du musée urbain Tony Garnier au musée des Confluences : Shantaram Tumbada à Lyon

Source L'Inde à Lyon
Cette exposition est le premier solo show de Shantaram, un artiste de la tribu Warli (Inde), né au début des années 1970 et découvert à Lyon en 1995 grâce à la réalisation d'un mur peint pour le musée urbain Tony Garnier. Des peintures de Shantaram Tumbada ont été acquises, en témoignage de cette intervention, par le musée des Confluences dont l'inauguration doit avoir lieu en décembre 2014. Galerie TerreMer du 20 nov au 3 janv 4 rue des Pierres Plantées Lyon 1er
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Rural painting, photography merge in unique 'Experimenter'

Source India TV News
In a unique fusion of the urban and the indigenous folk art traditions, the Warli school of paintings of an indigenous artisan in rural Maharasthra has been brought to metro art galleries. A collaborative exercise between the tribal artiste Rajesh Vangad from an adivasi coastal village Dahanu and Gauri Gil of Delhi. Ways of Seeing’, brings alive the landscape viewed through the eyes of 50-something painter having drawn the typical tribal motifs including animals in his inimitable style chiseled through generations and captured through the lens of Gill. Bringing together two apparently disparate drawings the two complimented each other, Gill said. “This is a unique art form called photo-painting aimed at bringing tribal art, a distinct tradition thriving for centuries, in the polished form freezed through lenses, Gill said.
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'Rang Rasiya' review: Choppy editing, poor script and terrible costumes dilute the film's impact

Source IBN Live by Prajakta Hebbar
It is an intriguing idea to find out how the popular Indian perception of gods and goddesses came to existance. And theoretically, a subject like India's famous artist Raja Ravi Varma's life seems like a great melting pot to bring together varied subjects such as religion, art, censorship, love, lust and consumerism. But then again, theory and reality rarely do go hand in hand, especially in Indian cinema.
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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

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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