Gallery

TAKE Gallery, our second issue builds an objective methodology, on the role of the galleries operating within and across the national parameters vis-à-vis the attitude adopted post-recession towards promotion/sales/support vis-à-vis artists and artworks. Galleries in India have upgraded to professional white-cube spaces common in London or New York and high-quality publications are bridging the gap for documentation. In India and the subcontinent, art galleries, and not museums or institutions, pave the way for art and culture unlike art centric cities like Berlin and Zurich, amongst others. Quite evidently, the changing patterns in economic, political and social structures resulted in changes in forces that circulated the economy of art. TAKE Gallery underscores several crucial functions galleries perform today. Some being, examining the role galleries play in supporting the arts and the artist versus the role the artists expect a gallery should play. Are there any chalked out guidelines for galleries or can we make our own rules?