Art Paris Grand Palais Galerie Hervé Perdriolle stand C12 du 31 mars au 3 avril 2016

Art Paris 2016 : Galerie Hervé Perdriolle

La galerie Hervé Perdriolle présente 3 approches de l’art mural à travers les œuvre de 3 artistes du 31 mars au 3 avril (Art Paris, Grand Palais, stand C2). Jivya Soma Mashe, le légendaire artiste de la tribu Warli (Inde) interprète sur papier l'art mural ancestral et rituel de sa tribu. Julien Malland (alias Seth) expose pour la première fois son oeuvre photographique, medium à part entière de son travail de street artiste. Des oeuvres sur papier et toile d'un artiste singulier à mi-chemin entre art brut et outsider art, Jean-Daniel Allanche (1940-2015), côtoieront des éléments de son appartement parisien entièrement peint et repeint, du sol au plafond, pendant plus de 40 ans.
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Nouvelles peintures Warli au Grand Palais

Découvrez le catalogue en ligne des nouvelles peintures de la tribu Warli présentées par la galerie Hervé Perdriolle à Art Paris, Grand Palais du 31 mars au 3 avril 2016, stand C2.

Bhupen Khakhar Emerges Star at Sothebys Auction

Source Blouin Art Info by Archana Khare-Ghose
At the Sotheby’s auction of Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art in New York on March 15, it was a V.S. Gaitonde canvas that was billed as the most valued in the pre-auction estimates. And it, indeed, emerged as the highest grosser, fetching $2,770,000 (approx. Rs 18.3 crore), slightly more than its lower estimate. However, the clear star of the auction was Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) whose canvases distinctly generated a lot of long overdue interest, with quite a few selling over and above the highest pre-auction estimates.
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Vaudeo Gaitonde, Raja Ravi Varma lead sale of Sotheby’s Asia auction which raised $55 million

Source The American Bazaar by Sujeet Rajan
Vasudeo S. Gaitonde’s ‘Untitled’ sold for $2,770,000, to lead all of Sotheby’s Asia Week New York auctions, which raised altogether $55,056,743. The auction of Indian and Southeast Asian art, including property from the estate of Dr. Claus Virch, raised $13,865,063; Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art totaled $5,679,688, while Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art – despite a high number of works going unsold – raked in $8,185,375.
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Jangarh Singh Shyam’s Acrylic On Canvas Sells For Double The Estimate at Saffronart

Source Blouin Art Info par Archana Khare-Gose
The most well-known tribal artist of India, Jangarh Singh Shyam (1960-2001) continues to rule the auction world. His 1997 acrylic on canvas sold for $12,660 (approx. Rs 8.35 lakh) at Saffronart’s auction titled “Living Traditions: Folk & Tribal Art” that concluded yesterday. The winning bid was slightly more than double the pre-auction estimate of $4,550 - $6,065 (approx. Rs 3 lakh - Rs 4 lakh). A total of 54 lots were sold, accounting for 72% of the lots on offer. The total winning value of the sale was $261,293 (approx. Rs 1.72 crore).
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The Incredible Lahiri Collection at Christie’s Asia Week Auction on March 15

Source Blouin Art Info by Archan Khare Ghose
The incredible Lahiri Collection – a labour of love for art of the medico couple Prof Avijit and Dr Bratati Lahiri – goes under the gavel in New York on March 15. Though two lots from the total of 71 stand withdrawn after the Federal Agents in New York seized the two sculptures believed to be stolen antiquities, there’s nothing that diminishes the brilliance of the collection put together by the Lahiris over several years of their stay in London.
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‘Nasreen Mohamedi’ at the Met Breuer Review

Source The Wall Street Journal by Michael Fitzgerald
A retiring presence in Indian art during her life, Nasreen Mohamedi is now at the center of global issues of contemporary art. Mohamedi emerged in the wake of the first generation of Indian artists to gain recognition on the international scene and quickly defined a pristine, profoundly meditative approach to abstraction that both isolated her from most Indian art of her time and earned her a place among the leading artists of the late 20th century—an achievement acknowledged only posthumously. The show builds on the achievements of scholars in India, who have overcome nearly intractable problems to reconstitute her career. Mohamedi rarely signed, titled, dated or exhibited her work. This lack of documentation is especially challenging because Mohamedi suffered from Huntington’s disease, a neuromuscular impairment that progressively diminished her physical dexterity and ended her life in 1990, at age 53.
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Lahore Biennale Foundation : Rashid Rana to curate Lahore’s largest public art forum

Source Daily Times by Imran Chaudhry
In traditional terms, the role of the artistic director is to create a vision and narrative for the biennale and Rashid Rana aims to create exhibitions and programmes catering especially to the shifting realities of Lahore. LBF Chairman Osman Khalid Waheed commented, "LBF views art as not just an exercise in aesthetics, but as a vehicle for social engagement. The biennale is part of an ongoing effort to reclaim a space for the arts in the country's public discourse and in doing so, help support a more balanced and humane society. Our hope is that the Biennale will leave a lasting footprint in the city that outlives the seven weeks of the event itself and will help revitalise a renewed engagement between the public and the arts."
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Art Dubai 2016: All Roads Connect

Source Harper's Bazaar
Art Dubai 2016 seems to be looking in every direction at once. This year, the fair reflects on its past ten years through a marketing campaign that highlights significant and mundane events from 2006 (think first Brazilian astronaut in space, the deaths of James Brown and Steve Irwin, launch of twitter), further commemorated through the fair’s special project space given over to the newly created non-profit Atassi Foundation for Art and Culture as tribute to Syrian artists and through its galleries and project artists. With over 500 artists representing 70 nationalities, highlighting a region stretching from Algiers to Manila, Art Dubai is truly representative of the widest possible array of current art production from across the globe.
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India’s Richest Woman Eyes the Art World

Source The Wall Street Journal by Kelly Crow
Nita Ambani is India’s wealthiest woman, with a $20 billion family fortune and a 27-story home in Mumbai, but she hasn’t been a power player in the art world, until now. Over the past six months, her Reliance Foundation—named after her husband Mukesh Ambani’s textile and petroleum empire, Reliance Industries—has emerged as a go-to donor for major U.S. museums seeking to mount shows with ties to her homeland. Last fall, her foundation sponsored a show of traditional Hindu paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. She’s also the biggest funder of the new Met Breuer’s debut show of modernist drawings by Nasreen Mohamedi, the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the U.S.
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Artists of indomitable spirit

Source The Times of India by Madhuri Kumar
The doyens of Mithila painting, popularly known as Madhubani painting, Godavari Dutt, Karpoori Devi and Baua Devi are embodiments of women's empowerment. Waging a dour struggle, they came out of the confines of their homes and used their unique style and imagination to infuse a fresh life into the folk art of Mithila paintings, which is today recognized across the world. In the process, they have earned name and fame not only for themselves but also brought laurels for their motherland. Though quite old now, their love for the art continues to be as strong as ever.
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Anticipation Building Up to Asia Week New York Auction Sales

Source Epoch Times
by Kati Vereshaka
As Asia Week New York 2016 (AWNY) begins, dealers, buyers, and Asian art lovers have started converging on New York, where Asian works of art spanning millennia will be shown and bought. Last year, during the seventh AWNY, sales reached an unprecedented total of $360 million. This year, from March 10 to 19, four auction houses are holding numerous sales that continue to attract an international audience in terms of both consignment and buyers. Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams, and Doyle are holding their sales during Asia Week, while iGavel is holding a viewing of its exhibition Asian, Ancient, and Ethnographic Works of Art with the online auction to follow— March 29–April 19.
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Indian art, artists feature at 20th Biennale of Sydney

Source Business Standard
The 20th Biennale of Sydney, titled The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed and presented free to the public from 18 March until 5 June 2016, is featuring the work of Indian artists Dayanita Singh and Sudarshan Shetty, as well as artists based in India, Neha Choksi and Bharti Kher.
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Brushstrokes of power

Source The Hindu by Deepanjana Pal
We’ve just survived Women’s Day, second only to Valentine’s Day in a list that I have affectionately titled “Die, Day-maker, Die”. Many complain (and rightly) about how it’s pointless to have a single day to “celebrate” women when the misogyny is so all-pervasive. But it’s not really the tokenism of Women’s Day that annoys me. What makes me grind my teeth and want to scalp people are the gestures that are offered. You are a woman, so go shop, with discounts! Buy a diamond! Get fed by a man! Giggle with other women as though you are all hysterical and have nothing to actually say to each other! And as if these stereotypes weren’t bad enough, there’s the artwork that shows women who are about as real as the mannequin you can see from the Kemps’ Corner flyover.
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Market News: Wyndham bids farewell

Source The Telegraph by Colin Gleadell
The Indian art market is the subject of a forthcoming survey by Art Tactic, a number-crunching market analyst which focuses on emerging markets. The survey rates the modern and contemporary Indian market as one of the most improved emerging markets in 2015 in terms of auction sales. “With US, European, and Chinese art markets showing a decline in auction sales in 2015, the Indian Modern and Contemporary art market saw a 14 per cent increase (based on Sotheby's, Christie’s and Saffronart). This result is even more positive (a 36 per cent increase in 2015) if we add results from Bonhams, Pundoles and Asta Guru,” the report says. Only the much smaller African market has improved by more.
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Art Sales: Indian art on the rise

Source The Telegraph by Colin Gleadell
In the earliest stages of the transition it became a matter of intense speculation what exhibitions The Met Breuer, under the chairmanship of former Tate curator, Sheena Wagstaff, would launch with. “One of our goals is to present thoughtful exhibitions that posit a broader meaning of modernism across vast geographies of art,” said Wagstaff. So, with globalism beckoning, it was not altogether surprising when it was announced that one opening exhibition was to be devoted to the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi.
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An Expansive Show of Undersung (Don’t Call them ‘Outsider’) Artists

Source The New York Times Style Magazine by SASKIA de ROTHSCHILD
But don’t call it “outsider” art. Brett offers a manifesto of sorts to this effect on the show’s entrance wall: “Imitators, segregators, false messiahs, please be warned. Art brut is a fiction, outsider art is a myth; discover the art-makers who re-write art history,” he writes, setting the Museum of Everything up in opposition to the rising trend of “outsider art fairs,” which are often defined as on the sidelines of mainstream art circuits.
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'It's ironic that a history of Indian art show couldn't be shown in India'

Source Mid-Day by Benita Fernando
Shilpa Gupta, whose work of marble slabs referring to the unlawful killings in Kashmir, was to be exhibited at the show, said, “The situation at the museum is not easy, and one hopes that it will pass. Tasneem has been one of the few to bring contemporary art to a wider audience and we are aware of the many challenges she is facing.” Prajakta Potnis, the youngest artist in the show, said, “It is a reflection of today’s times and it is tragic that the show got cancelled,” she said. Mithu Sen, who was to show her installation, Museum of Unbelonging at the exhibition, said, “We got to know of the cancellation over email, and we are still not sure of the exact reasons. This show celebrated India.”
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The Samdanis are married to art

Source Business Standard by Ritika Kochhar
The waiting room and lobby with white walls on the first floor of the six-floor house is disorienting because it’s so bland after the interesting exteriors. But when you look around, there’s an unmistakable Anish Kapoor mirror at the far corner. The Samdanis say they spent a year looking for a piece they liked. Next to it is a series of Zarina Hashmi’s works with their clean monochromatic lines, interspersed with a similar work from the same genre by Prabhavathi Meppayil called Untitled II (2009).
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The art insiders

Source Livemint by Chanpreet Khurana and Dhamini Ratnam
Curators, gallerists, auctioneers and collectors are the tastemakers of a country’s art scene. They pick the works we see in exhibitions, support artists by funding their ideas, and point out to us the important art themes and experiments of our times. In India, people in the contemporary arts have been waging a battle to emerge from the shadows of their rich cousin: modern art. Globally, a retrospective of Nasreen Mohamedi is opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in March. In money terms, the biggest haul is still for works by artists like M.F. Husain and V.S. Gaitonde. We met 14 people who are shaping the contemporary art space in India, spotting talent and taking it places.
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Gaitonde, Anish Kapoor Top Saffronart’s Feb 24 Sale, But Do You Know The Surprises?

Source Blouin Art Info by Archana Khare-Ghose
Something interesting is beginning to happen in the Indian art market. No, it is not about the global favorites Vasudeo S. Gaitonde and Anish Kapoor, who predictably emerged as toppers in Saffronart’s Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art held on February 24. It’s about those few works of art that were picked up by buyers for three and four times the pre-auction estimates. A glimpse of that maturity was visible at Saffronart’s February 24 Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art. Two early landscapes by K.H. Ara (1914-1985) were sold for four times their pre-auction estimates, a wood sculpture by Sankho Chaudhuri (1916-2006) went for a little more than three times its estimate, and an oil on canvas by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (b. 1937) was sold for three times its estimate.
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Japanese artists adopt village to revive Warli

Source The Free Press by Vishal Rajemahadik
Japanese artists have adopted Ganjad village in Palghar district and have decided to give this age-old art the required boost and keep it alive. This group will also continue to construct traditional huts made of cow dung and bamboo sticks and accordingly have been creative enough to initiate cow dung banks which would assist in collecting the required cow dung. Till now, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), New Delhi has been organizing annual conclaves to spread traditional Warli paintings. According to Kazunori Hamao, Director of Warli Project Ganjad village was selected as this is where this art was accepted and flourished in the earlier days. He has been regularly visiting this village for the last 4 years and hence his group decided to promote this art globally.
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WAF image movie from Kazunori Hamao on Vimeo.

How Indian artists are fighting against the Modi-fication of history

Source The Conversation by Sajan Mani
The student president of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, a major Indian university, was recently arrested after a speech later deemed an insult to “Mother India”. This is simply the latest event in a trend of regressive actions from the Indian government – a similar agenda can be seen from unfolding events at Jadavpur University and Hyderabad Central University. As commentators have suggested, “the government does not want to just crush dissent; it wants to crush thinking”. Intellectual whitewashing is gaining momentum. And in response, Indian artists are increasingly delving into history in order to critique the present.
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