5 Reasons To Visit India Art Fair
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Now in its 10th year, India Art Fair is pushing creative and commercial boundaries for Indian and South Asian art.
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Since its inception in 2008, the India Art Fair has seen a dramatic increase in visitors, exhibits, and influence. At the 2018 edition, you can expect new strides of progress in art galleries and artists exhibiting work, discussions on the art market and its state, as well as insightful guides to the fair and art business for patrons, art lovers, collectors, and anyone with an interest in the vast world of Indian and Asian art.
There's art for every kind of audience
Never been to an art show? No problem. A gallery veteran? There's something for you, too! This year, India Art Fair is divided into five sections, each with a specific emphasis.
At Galleries, Indian and international exhibitors alike will focus on prolific works from renowned artists. Focus shines the limelight on an individual artist and their work. International and Indian museums and art foundations present selections and collaborations at Institutional, curated with an eye on India Art Fair.
Young, emerging artists and nascent art practices from across South Asia find home at Platform, which aims to highlight and amplify such work. India Art Fair will have several site-specific installations, often ambitious and made purely for this edition. See it at Art Projects, the fair’s arm designed for such discovery.
See art from India exhibited by its finest galleries
Prominent Mumbai galleries like Chemould Prescott Road (best known for shaping the reputations of artists like MF Hussain, SH Raza, and Tyeb Mehta) and Jhaveri Contemporary (who exhibit at Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Abu Dhabi frequently) will be presenting works. Kolkata-based Experimenter will cement a reputation won from representing artists exhibited at La Biennial de Venezia, MoMA NY, as well as Tate Modern and British Museum, London.
Appreciate international art by the world’s finest exhibitors
International galleries and exhibitors include the enormously influential David Zwirner, who is currently present in New York and London, with plans to open in Hong Kong. Blain | Southern of London and Berlin, whose previous gallery was acquired by Christie’s, will also present works along with wave-making Galeria Sabrina Amrani from Madrid and Indian-subcontinent focused Aicon Gallery from New York.
Leading cultural institutions support artists
The influential and lauded Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, revered Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, as well as Korean Culture Center and the Institut Français en Inde are among the national and international cultural institutions partnering with India Art Fair. In 2018, you will see work by Ravinder Reddy, Shilpa Gupta, Sudarshan Shetty, Imran Qureshi and Francesco Clemente to represent the voices of the region and beyond.
Bringing art to the people
In its tenth edition, India Art Fair 2018 aims to present the most inventive and relevant local and regional art from across India and South Asia. With an eye out for history and another on modern-day icons and emerging talent, you can expect a well-curated selection that offers works with a wide appeal. Visitors include people with an interest in the art world, like curators, artists, collectors, journalists, gallerists, critics, but mostly art lovers.
