A discussion with art market analyst Anders Petterson on the business of art. Bhavna Kakar and Shivani Chandra caught up with Petterson on email and phone to discuss his impressions of the South Asia art scene, what happened to the Indian art market in 2009, and what it will take for Indian investors to become more savvy collectors of art.
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Art critic Bharti Lalwani catches up with Jaffer for a brief conversation on his early years, his role at Christie’s and his personal aesthetic inclinations.
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Most artists’ careers are made at the overlapping point of various subject positions - of critics, curators, dealers, historians, collectors, enthusiasts and media houses. And steering these subjectivities, profitably or non-profitably has become the business of art. This issue hopes to somewhat loosen this knot of various strands, and observe if there indeed is a method to the madness of the art world.
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The fourth episode of the 3-year-long project 'Does the Blue Sky Lie: Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities' is a staged hearing titled 'In the matter Re: Rights of Nature'. Conceived by Khoj International Artists' Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari, in collaboration with lawyer Harish Mehla, the hearing leads an inquiry into the suspended histories of agrarian communities and the environment through the naturalist and socio-economic standpoints.
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In the hierarchical structures of the global contemporary art world, the lure of self organisation holds immense power over alienated art workers. Strategies of artistic collaboration to come together, be together, and work together are foregrounded in the name of collectivism as a remedy to create alliances against the exclusive nature of the art world. In this book, Premjish Achari unravels the problems of the deliberative processes of consensus building in collaboration, exposing the exclusive nature of these procedures of decision-making.
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Manchester-based curator Alnoor Mitha curated his very first show in India at Art Centrix Space, 'The Circle of Life', which ran from 12th November 2022 to 12th January 2023. Combining films, painting, drawing, installation, mixed media, and sculpture, the show was conceived in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit and came to fruition after 2 years and 9 months.
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The fifth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale "In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire", curated by Singapore-based Indian origin artist Shubigi Rao, opened in its entirety on December 23, 2022.
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Datta’s objects carry secrets around knots and folds at the kernel, and point to his practice of cutting patterns in a circular fashion at the formative stage. The circular pattern-cutting registers as an attempt to eliminate the possibility of waste, where the leftover fabric is turned into appendages for the installations.
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As a long-time viewer of the Venice Biennale, I was particularly struck by the challenges of the post-human condition which Alemani engaged with. Ecology, technology, mental health, and the human body became key concerns for Alemani.
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In bearing witness to the historical and the everyday, Alam continuously blurs the boundaries between the aesthetic, the political and the personal. Simultaneously, the retrospective showcased Alam’s critique of the Global South’s erasure from the history of photography and how his prominent presence in the “West” is a corrective towards decolonizing photography.
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