Visitors at the India Art Fair (Source: India Art Fair)
The India Art Fair (IAF) has brought together 120 exhibitors in a showcase that spans centuries of Indian art while embracing contemporary global voices and catering to a diverse range of interests. Walk into the India Art Fair and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with giants. This year’s fair opens with an architectural statement –– a facade designed by Ayesha Singh based on her ongoing research on women’s contribution to Indian architecture, setting the tone for the event.
Dance of the modern masters
From M F Husain to S H Raza, A Ramachandran to Sakti Burman, the modernist masters continue to command attention, and they get dedicated spaces marking significant milestones. Notable among these is the birth centenary celebrations of K G Subramanyan and Satish Gujral. Delhi Art Gallery’s exhibition “India Past and Present” has the final sculpture by Gogi Saroj Pal, who left us last year, a striking sculpture titled Hathyogini Kali 1, towering in blue. Nearby, M F Husain and S H Raza hold court. It also features a 90-year-old oil on canvas of Krishna surrounded by gopis by M V Dhurandhar, painted for the ruling family of Kolhapur, and paintings of the same muse by artists Jogen Chowdhury and Sunil Das.
Art Heritage has, among others, Haren Das’s woodcuts on paper, and Photoink is showing photographs of Vivan Sundaram alongside his grandfather Umrao Singh Sher-Gil.
At the Dhoomimal Gallery is a Raja Ravi Varma portrait alongside canvases of other renowned modernists, but also their smaller works on paper. “We understand that several of the bigger works have a higher price-point and the smaller works are also meant for younger collectors, a way for them to acquire works of renowned masters,” said Uday Jain, director of Dhoomimal Gallery.
Stop at Crayon Art for 11th century stone sculptures and works of Thomas and William Daniell showing India of the late 1700s, from Jama Masjid to Taj Mahal.
Source: Indian Express
