This issue of TAKE on Art tries to re-explore the history and the contemporary situations in Bengal in order to regenerate an alternate form of history-writing. Situating the narrative within the framework of a number of iconic images that define art in Bengal, spanning across different historical periods, the idea is to delineate a history in parts to create a whole through a visual narrative.
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In this age of the internet, we have a group of artists presented as ‘Neti-netizens’. Curated by Girish Shahane at Gallery Threshold, these ‘Vanguards’ bring forth a legacy that produces meditative imagery, which differs refreshingly from the populist present-day avant-garde expression.
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Kansara seems obsessed with his family. He records and rerecords conversations around the dining table; his grandparents sleeping and moaning and reminiscing, projecting videos previously recorded, onto wall spaces and then re-recording them.
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Over the past decade, Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat has risen to international stardom as one of the beacons of Indian contemporary art. Curator Sharmistha Ray engages the artist in a conversation fine-tuned to key developments in his artistic practice, his most significant works and how they have shaped him as a conceptual artist.
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An expert in modern and contemporary Indian art, Amrita Jhaveri, India’s first representative at Christies, author of 101: A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists and more recently consultant to Frieze Art Fair, London, terms her journey as an art collector ‘a moving feast’.
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This moment recognizably is time when a pelt of enthusiasm and commitment to create a self reliant as well as a sustainable economic model for the arts, surfaces in extended bounds within the realm of artistic praxis.
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It has been a momentous journey for Indian art from the by lanes of Hauz Khas village to swanky locations in luxury malls in the cities which dot the cultural landscapes of the country.
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I have, for several years, had excellent relations with galleries across the country. When I started collecting, blissfully unaware of who was who, I was guided by the Sarkar of CIMA and by Geetha Mehra and Usha Gawde at Sakshi. All four wonderful women to whom I am forever indebted.
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In 2007, riding the wave of the Indian art market, Mithu Sen, a young Santiniketan trained artist advertised a ‘Summer Dhamaka’. Select hundred invitees logged onto www.mithusen.com that redirected them to ‘Free Mithu’.
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What is fascinating about Europe is Europe’s lack of feeling a historical connection to the rest of the world, Okwui Enwezor told one of Holland’s biggest dailies in an interview in 2008.
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