India Art Festival : Art Market Dynamics

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By Rajendra

Interactive session on ART MARKET was organised by India Art Festival at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai on 19 April 2011. The experts in the field were invited to talk on ART MARKET and its present condition. In the Interactive session at Mumbai, Dr. Saryu Doshi spoke on the need for quality Art Fair in Mumbai, in which artists and art galleries can exhibit artworks and art collectors, connoisseurs can interact with them. Rajendra, Secretary of India Art Festival introduced India Art Festival’s dynamic module and how this Art Festival is different from other commercial Art fair. He Said “India Art Festival is a platform for Art Galleries as well as individual Artists. In the Art Festival, Art Galleries would exhibit artworks of their associate artists. However, there are many talented artists in India who have not been inducted in to gallery system as there are very few galleries compare artists’ population in the country. Art Galleries are doing their best to promote art and artists but as there are many artists who are not represented by any art gallery, India art festival have created special artists’ ...
... section to provide democratic platform to such artists.

The other speakers at Art Market session were Anupa Mehta, Director, The Loft at Lower Parel, Art writer Gopal Mirchandani and Abhijeet Tamhane.

The similar Art Market interactive session was also organized at Lokayat, New Delhi on 15th April 2011 The experts in the field invited to talk on ART MARKET at Delhi included Siddharth Tagore, Publisher and Editor, Art and Deal, Johny ML, Art Critic & Curator, Anubhav Nath, Director, Ojas Arts, and Rajendra, Editor, Art Journal. Siddharth Tagore spoke on the practical aspect of Art Market and elucidated on current state of art market. He added that “Event like India Art Festival would introduce buoyancy in the art field”. Johyn ML, Curator, India Art Festival highlighted importance of Gallery system. He also explained pitfalls associated with disorganized art field and how event like IAF will help organize it to some extent. The event was attended by Veer Munshi, Manu Dosaj, Director, Art Alternatives, Arpana Caur, Manjunath Kamath, Dharmendra Rathod, G. R. Iranna, Manish Pushkale, Manoj Tripathi, Publisher, Creative Mind, Harsh Singh, Varun Khandelwal, Sudhanshu Paliwal, Virendra Pani, Ms. Krishna, Director, Krishna’s Collection, Keval Anand, Rajashree Biswal, Associate Editor, Art Fair and many others.

This was the first series Art Talk event organized by India Art Festival at Mumbai and Delhi many more to follow in the next few months till the India Art Festival, which is slated to take place at Nehru Centre, Mumbai from from 17 to 20, November 2011.

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About Author :

Rajendra is the founder and editor of Indian Contemporary Art Journal, a quarterly art magazine distributed and circulated by Outlook India Publishing Pvt. Ltd. He is the founder of Kalavishkar, an NGO dedicated to the promotion of fine arts. Kalavishkar promotes fine arts through its quarterly Art Journal and initiates various platforms for the artists. Kalavishkar is organizing a mega art fair, “India Art Festival” at Nehru Centre, Mumbai in Nov 2011.