DOCSLIB.ORG

Contemporary Indian Art

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Contemporary Indian Art CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART A SELECTION FROM THE AMAYA COLLECTION ONLINE AUCTION | 4 – 5 DECEMBER 2018 1 CONTENTS 4 SALES AND ENQUIRIES 12 THE AUCTION CATALOGUE 144 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 149 CONDITIONS FOR SALE 158 CLOSING SCHEDULE 159 ABSENTEE/PROXY BID FORM Cover Inside back cover Facing page Lot 23 Lot 33 Lot 14 SUBODH GUPTA BHARTI KHER SHILPA GUPTA 2 3 All bidding will take place on saffronart.com. All lots are published in the printed catalogue and may also be OUR TEAM viewed on the website. Select lots may be viewed in New Delhi, Mumbai and London by appointment. AUCTION DATES Start: Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 8 pm Indian Standard Time (9:30 am US Eastern Time, and 2:30 pm UK Time) Close: Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 8:30 pm Indian Standard Time (10 am US Eastern Time, and 3 pm UK Time) Please note that bidding closes at different times according to Lot Groups. These times have been listed in DINESH VAZIRANI MINAL VAZIRANI PUNYA NAGPAL ABHA HOUSEGO ANU NANAVATI the Bid Closing Schedule. Chief Executive Officer President Senior Vice President Vice President International Vice President International and Co-‒founder and Co-‒founder London New York PREVIEW AND VIEWINGS NEW DELHI MUMBAI LONDON CLIENT RELATIONS PREVIEW PREVIEW PREVIEW Thursday, 15 November 2018 Friday, 30 November 2018 Wednesday, 21 November 2018 6.45 pm 6.45 pm 6.30 - 9 pm A conversation on contemporary A conversation on contemporary Indian art with Amrita Jhaveri and Indian art with Amrita Jhaveri and Dinesh Vazirani, followed Mortimer Chatterjee, Chatterjee & by cocktails Lal, followed by cocktails DHANASHREE SHAHEEN VIRANI AMIT KAPOOR ADITI PARAB AASHISH DUBEY DEEPIKA SHAH JOE CYRIL WAIKAR Associate Vice President Associate Vice President Junior Manager VIEWINGS VIEWINGS VIEWINGS Senior Manager Manager Business Client Relations Jewellery Associate Vice President Jewellery and Collectibles Client Relations Client Relations Development 16 - 25 November 2018 20 November - 6 December 2018 22 November - 6 December 2018 Client Relations 11 am - 7 pm, Monday to Saturday 11 am - 7 pm, Monday to Saturday 11 am - 7 pm, Monday to Friday 11 am - 4 pm on Sunday 11 am - 4 pm on Sunday Saturday and Sunday by appointment EDITORIAL AND DESIGN VENUE VENUE VENUE Saffronart Saffronart Saffronart The Oberoi Industry Manor, Ground and 3rd Floor 73 New Bond Street, 1st Floor Dr. Zakir Hussain Marg Appasaheb Marathe Marg London, W1S 1RS New Delhi 110003 Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400025 SALES TEAM AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES MEERA GODBOLE‒ ALKA SAMANT EESHA PATKAR KRITI BAJAJ KRISHNAMURTHY Vice President Design Editorial Manager Editorial Manager India Mumbai Contact: Punya Nagpal, Dhanashree Waikar, Shaheen Virani, Aashish Dubey or Deepika Shah Editor‒-in-‒Chief Email: [email protected] Help Desk Tel: +91 22 2432 2898 / 4333 6200 / 2436 4113 extension 203/228/205/244 Fax: +91 22 2432 1187 OPERATIONS AND FINANCE New Delhi Contact: Amit Kapoor Email: [email protected] Tel: +91 11 2436 9415 USA Contact: Anu Nanavati | Email: [email protected] | Tel: +1 212 627 5006 UK Contact: Abha Housego or Maia Jasubhoy | Email: [email protected] | Tel: +44 20 7409 7974 ADDRESSES India Mumbai: Industry Manor, 3rd Floor, Appasaheb Marathe Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400025 MANU CHANDRA VINAY BHATE NARSINGRAO HARESH JIANDANI ANJALI GHATGE CHANDRA POOJARI GAURAV YADAV Head of Operations Vice President Lead Software Engineer Associate Vice President Manager Senior Manager Manager New Delhi: The Oberoi, Dr. Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi 110003 Finance Technology Logistics Finance Logistics Logistics USA The Fuller Building, 595 Madison Avenue, Suite 1207, New York, NY 10022 UK 73 New Bond Street, 1st Floor, London, W1S 1RS 4 5 A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMAYA COLLECTION MEERA GODBOLE-KRISHNAMURTHY Amrita Jhaveri is among the earliest collectors What criteria do you use for selecting contemporary art? of contemporary Indian art. As precise and I approach art visually before responding to it intellectually. An artwork must have visual impact and draw me thoughtful in her choice of words as she has in. When I visit exhibitions, I usually look at the work before reading the press release or any interpretation. been in her process of selecting art over Then I think about how I might live with it, where I can imagine it in my home. I also consider if it is an artist the years, she finds the arbitrary dichotomy who I might wish to follow and how an individual work stands up to others within an exhibition. Finally, between modern and contemporary art I consider if I can afford to acquire it. disingenuous. The Amaya Collection has been called eclectic and methodical, but it is her very Tell us a little about the artists in your collection and the works you have selected for this sale. personal choice of artists and works that makes The works included in this sale are some of my absolute favourites, and very difficult to let go. The selection the collection singularly refined. Contemporary captures a particular moment in time from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s when there was a great sense art does not have the luxury of being assessed over the passage of time to be deemed timeless. Jhaveri’s collection, by virtue of being almost twenty years old, is as close as one can get to having stood the test of time. The works she has selected for this Saffronart sale are among the earliest in the careers of some of the artists. Filtered through her discerning eye, each piece stands as a testament to the early and essential truths of their respective artistic visions. I spoke to Amrita about her journey as a collector, her interest in contemporary art, and her selection of works for this catalogue. Portrait of Amrita Jhaveri by Derry Moore You were among the first serious collectors of contemporary Indian art. What prompted you to look at contemporary and emerging artists? There are several significant collectors of contemporary Indian art who preceded me and were an inspiration in my earliest ambitions to collect. I enjoyed visiting galleries, especially those showing artists from my own generation. Visiting galleries was part of my upbringing and while my father bought artists of his generation, Selection of works in the catalogue on view in Amrita Jhaveri's Mumbai home I went on to acquire artists from mine. 6 7 Collage is represented in the works of Jagannath Panda (lot 32) and Mithu Sen (lot 24), photography by practices as diverse as those of Dayanita Singh (lot 16) and Tejal Shah (lot 42). So overall, I feel this small group of works covers a lot of ground, coming together to form a unified collection. What was the first work of contemporary Indian art you acquired? It was 1998 and the artist Girish Dahiwale (lot 41) presented Toxic Tales: Therapy, a solo exhibition of nine large paintings at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture in Worli, Mumbai. Among them was a 5' x 7' painting of the Indian 100 rupee note with Gandhi’s image replaced by a self-portrait, and a quote from Pearl Jam. I had never seen anything like it and I recall paying a handsome Rs 38,000 for this wonderful painting. Tragically, the artist passed away prematurely the same year. However the painting travelled to Century City, the opening exhibition at Tate Modern. The exhibition looked at nine cities, and Bombay (Mumbai) between 1992 and 2001 was one of them. I believe Girish was the youngest artist in this section, which was curated by Geeta Kapur. Why did you decide to sell these works now? The reasons are complex, but I would say that I somehow ended up having too many works in storage for long periods of time, as I now spend less time in India. I wanted to simplify my life and at the same time, share these works which I have loved and lived with over the years, with a new generation. Selection of works in the catalogue on view in Amrita Jhaveri's Mumbai home of optimism in the art world. It was a time of easy camaraderie between artists, gallerists and collectors who socialised at openings and parties. Artists experienced growing interest from both local and international collectors and opportunities to travel and exhibit. This sale is a snapshot of those happy days. Amongst the earliest works are a painting by Atul Dodiya and a sculpture by Dhruva Mistry. Atul Dodiya’s Saurabh Society (lot 9) belongs to a series of paintings of small town architecture and middle class environments. The language is very direct and the scene very familiar. Dhruva’s sculpture (lot 35) on the other hand, is remote, almost inaccessible. The landscape and the human body, especially the male body are themes that emerge through the collection – the former in the works of Jyothi Basu (lot 12) and N N Rimzon (lot 26) and the latter in the works of Surendran Nair (lots 2, 3), Shibu Natesan (lot 29) and Nataraj Sharma (lots 6, 7). I am also interested in how artists use diverse materials - wood, thread, lights, steel, wire, velvet, glass, gold leaf and feathers. I am interested in sculpture and installation on a domestic scale. Sculptures by Subodh Gupta (lot 23), Ravinder Reddy (lot 5), L N Tallur (lot 36), Rina Banerjee (lot 17) and Sudarshan Shetty (lot 37) and installations by Monali Meher (lot 27), Shilpa Gupta (lot 14), and Pushpamala N (lot 4) add interest to the wall-based works. 8 Selection of works in the catalogue on view in Amrita9 Jhaveri's Mumbai home LOTS 1-15 Closing Time: Wednesday, 5 December 2018 8 pm (IST) 9.30 am (US Eastern Time) 10 11 1 A BALASUBRAMANIAM UNTITLED SELF Signed 'A.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Chitra Ganesh Cv 2020
    CHITRA GANESH CURRICULUM VITAE Born 1975 in Brooklyn, NY Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY EDUCATION 2002 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY 2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY 1996 BA Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature, (magna cum laude, phi beta kappa), Brown University, Providence, RI SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Chitra Ganesh, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India 2020 Queer Power Façade Commission, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY Chitra Ganesh: Sultana’s Dream, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2019 Chitra Ganesh: Selected Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Chitra Ganesh: Her Garden, a mirror, The Kitchen, New York, NY The Scorpion Gesture, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY Face of the Future, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY The Scorpion Gesture, Midnight Moments, Times Square, New York, NY 2017 On Moonless Nights…, King School Museum of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 2016 Afterlives of Blacksites: The Seen Unseen, Index of the Disappeared, Mining Warm Data, Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Kishoreganj, Bangladesh 2015 Protest Fantasies, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA Dana Artist Series: Chitra Ganesh, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Eyes of Time, Elizabeth A. Sackler Gallery for Feminist Art’s Herstory, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY 2014 Phantom Worlds, John and June Alcott Gallery, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Drawing from the present…,
    [Show full text]
  • Catalogue Fair Timings
    CATALOGUE Fair Timings 28 January 2016 Thursday Select Preview: 12 - 3pm By invitation Preview: 3 - 5pm By invitation Vernissage: 5 - 9pm IAF VIP Card holders (Last entry at 8.30pm) 29 - 30 January 2016 Friday and Saturday Business Hours: 11am - 2pm Public Hours: 2 - 8pm (Last entry at 7.30pm) 31 January 2016 Sunday Public Hours: 11am - 7pm (Last entry at 6.30pm) India Art Fair Team Director's Welcome Neha Kirpal Zain Masud Welcome to our 2016 edition of India Art Fair. Founding Director International Director Launched in 2008 and anticipating its most rigorous edition to date Amrita Kaur Srijon Bhattacharya with an exciting programme reflecting the diversity of the arts in Associate Fair Director Director - Marketing India and the region, India Art Fair has become South Asia's premier and Brand Development platform for showcasing modern and contemporary art. For our 2016 Noelle Kadar edition, we are delighted to present BMW as our presenting partner VIP Relations Director and JSW as our associate partner, along with continued patronage from our preview partner, Panerai. Saheba Sodhi Vishal Saluja Building on its success over the past seven years, India Art Senior Manager - Marketing General Manager - Finance Fair presents a refreshed, curatorial approach to its exhibitor and Alliances and Operations programming with new and returning international participants Isha Kataria Mankiran Kaur Dhillon alongside the best programmes from the subcontinent. Galleries, Vip Relations Manager Programming and Client Relations will feature leading Indian and international exhibitors presenting both modern and contemporary group shows emphasising diverse and quality content. Focus will present select galleries and Tanya Singhal Wol Balston organisations showing the works of solo artists or themed exhibitions.
    [Show full text]
  • Rina Banerjee ​STUDIO BANERJEE
    Rina Banerjee STUDIO BANERJEE www.rinabanerjee.com Born:1963 Kolkata, India​ Banerjee lives and works in Manhattan, New York. Education 1993 Case Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, Polymer Engineering, BS 1995 Yale University, Yale School of Art, Painting and Printmaking, MFA Teaching Experience 2020 Yale School of Art, Core Critic Painting and Drawing Department MFA program. ​ ​ 2018-19 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Senior Critic BFA and MFA programs. 2002-5 Bennington College Course works in Mixed Media, Sculpture, Figure Drawing, Drawing Mixed Media Projects MFA Seminar. 1998 Midway Studios, University of Chicago, Visiting Artist, MFA seminar classes, Drawing Classes, Studio Practice Core Critic. 1997 Pennsylvania State University, Feminist Art Making, Making History. Ways of seeing colonial Motives in global Art making practice. 1996 Bucknell University, Color Theory, Painting foundation, Mixed Media painting with collage, Art Department: Art History/Art Theory, Patterns of Seeing Identity Politics, shaping the body toward a discipline. 1995 Yale University, History Department: Intro: Feminist Thought and visual photo archive. Biennials 2019 XIII International Cairo Biennial, “Eyes East Bound”, curated by The Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem, Cairo, Egypt. th 2018 5 Kochi​ Biennial, curated by Anita Dube, Kochi, India. ​ Open Spaces, curated by Dan Cameron, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. th 2017 57 Venice​ Biennial, Vive Arte, Arsenal, curated by Christine Marcel, Venice, Italy. th ​ 4 US​ Biennial "Prospect.4" NOLA, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, New Orleans, LA, USA. 2016 Busan​ Biennial, “Hybridizing Earth Discussing Multitude”, curated by Yun Cheagab, Busan Art Museum, Busan, South Korea. 2015 "Asian Art Biennial”, curated by Iris Huang, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
    [Show full text]
  • Courtney J. Martin Assistant Professor History of Art and Architecture
    Courtney J. Martin Curriculum Vitae January 11, 2016 Courtney J. Martin Assistant Professor History of Art and Architecture 2. Home Address 28 Barnes Street Providence, RI 02906 3. Education 2009 Fall Yale University Doctorate, History of Art Dissertation: “Cyclones in the Metropole: British Artists 1968-1989” (Advisors: Dr. Timothy Barringer and Dr. Kellie Jones) 2001 Spring State University of New York at Stony Brook Master of Arts in Art History and Criticism Thesis: “Side-long Glance: An Examination of the Artist Kara Walker” (Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff) 1996 Spring Oberlin College Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts (Art History and Studio Art) and Women’s Studies Concentration: Postcolonial Studies (Advisor: Dr. Patricia Mathews) 4. Professional Appointments 2013-Present Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, History of Art Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History of Art Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2009-2010 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Art University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Mentor: Anne Wagner) 2005-2006 Graduate Research Assistant, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut 2001-2003 Grants Administrator, Media, Arts and Culture Ford Foundation, New York, New York 2001 Interim Head Curator 1 Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 1995 Helena Rubenstein
    [Show full text]
  • Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World December 8, 2019–May 31, 2020 Press Contact: Erin Connors, 310-825-4288, [email protected]
    Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World December 8, 2019–May 31, 2020 Press contact: Erin Connors, 310-825-4288, [email protected] Los Angeles—The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, the artist’s first mid-career retrospective that brings together her sprawling installations, exquisitely crafted sculptures, and ethereal paintings. The exhibition offers an opportunity to experience almost 20 years of Banerjee’s work, including a re-creation of her installations from the 2000 Whitney Biennial and 2017 Prospect New Orleans, as well as a selection of sculptures featured in the 2017 Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva. Banerjee is a voracious gatherer of things. In a single sculpture, one can findAfrican jewelry, a Chinese feather fan, Italian Murano glass, Japanese and Korean fabrics, and South Asian antiques, all joined together in conversation and conflict. Through her assemblages, she makes visible the transnational movement of people, objects, and ideas, an approach and aesthetic greatly influenced by her own global trajectory. Banerjee was born in India, immigrated to London as a young child, and then, at age 7, moved with her family to the United States, which has been her home ever since. Since 2000, she has lived and worked in New York. Today, Banerjee is considered one of the most important artists of North America’s post-colonial Indian diaspora. “Although Banerjee has exhibited extensively in Europe and South Asia, this critically acclaimed retrospective, which premiered at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018, gives her original, vibrant, and provocative multi-media oeuvre the spotlight it deserves in the U.S.,” said Marla C.
    [Show full text]
  • Subodh GUPTA (B.1964)
    Subodh GUPTA (b.1964) Biography Studied B.F.A. Painting at the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, India 1983 – 1988 Solo Exhibitions 2018 Adda/ Rendez-vous, Monnaiede Paris, Paris, France 2017 In This Vessel Lies the Philosopher’s Stone, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy From Far Away Uncle Moon Calls, Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK Terminal, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, USA 2016 Unstruck, Famous Studios, Mumbai, India Ali Baba, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France Guests, Strangers and Interlopers, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA 2016 Subodh Gupta: Everyday Divine, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Hauser & Wirth, ‘Invisible Realities’, Somerset, England 2015 Victoria & Albert Museum, ‘When Soak Becomes Spill’, London, England Hauser & Wirth, ‘Seven Billion Light Years’, New York NY 2014 Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China Museum für Moderne Kunst(MMK), 'Everything is Inside'Frankfurt am Main, Germany National Gallery of Modern Art, 'Everything is Inside, New Delhi, India 2013 Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, ‘The imaginary order of things’, Malaga, Spain Gallery SKE, ‘Recent Works’, Bangalore, India Kunstmuseum Thun, ‘Spirit Eaters’, Thun, Switzerland 2012 Kiran Nadar Museum, ‘Line of Control’, New Delhi, India 2011 Hauser & Wirth New York, ‘A glass of water’, New York Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture Southwood Garden, St.James’s Church, ‘Hauser & Wirth, Outdoor Sculpture: Subodh Gupta, London, England Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland 2010 Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea Arario
    [Show full text]
  • Subodh Gupta 12 January – 2 May 2016
    TEACHERS’ NOTES SUBODH GUPTA 12 JANUARY – 2 MAY 2016 TOUCH, TRACE, TASTE, TRUTH, (SIDE-VIEW), 2015 © SUBODH GUPTA About Subodh Gupta Subodh Gupta was born in Khagaul, Bihar, India, in 1964. He studied Bachelor of Fine Art: Painting at the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna, India from 1983 to 1988. Subodh Gupta currently lives and works in New Delhi, India with his wife Bharti Kher who is also an artist. His work has been prominent in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. What inspires his work? Subodh Gupta gets inspiration from the everyday objects that surround us; he notices the functional objects that are intrinsic to everyday life in India. Materials and objects can signify specific genetic, geographic and psychoanalytic meanings and Gupta is interested in the relationships between them and their cultural and social contexts. What does his work look like? He works mostly in sculpture, installations and painting. Gupta is best known for creating huge metal sculptures of everyday objects, such as ‘Untitled’ (2008), which was displayed at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2014. The huge water bucket overwhelms the viewer with its mass, an enormous gleaming vessel, which the viewer can simply imagine tipping over, and flooding the surrounding ground with a torrent of water. Here, playing with the size of an existing object could be compared to the sculpture of Claes Oldenburg. However, there is also a more serious agenda: to impress the importance of sustainable growth and the limitations of available environmental resources. ‘Untitled’ (2008), is an ode to the common water bucket still widely used in India for providing people with water.
    [Show full text]
  • Rina BANERJEE (B
    Rina BANERJEE (b. 1963) Education 1995 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Print Making, Yale School of Art, Yale University 1993 Bachelor of Science, Polymer Engineering, Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University Awards 1995 Drawing Award Norfolk, Yale University Skowhegan School of Painting Scholarship Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Disgust, LA Louver, Los Angeles 2013 What am I made of and How do you know my name?, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo A world lost, Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. 2012 Creationism’s Kiss, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels A World of Lies, Galerie Espace, Hong Kong 2011 Chimeras of the India & the West, Musée Guimet, Paris Imagining the other half of the world from here, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2010 Forever Foreign, Haunch of Venison, London Without face: Cultivating the foreign, Armory Art Fair, Art Fair, New York, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels 2009 Look into my eyes and you will see a world unexplainable – out of place, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels Rina Banerjee and Raqib Shaw, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London 2008 Distant Nearness (with Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas Allure, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2007 Foreign Fruit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris Where the Wild Things Are (…is no place at all and all places that cannot be lived in but visited, realized out of our careful, playful and tenacious tourism of others, realized as our mobility wanders too far), Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair,
    [Show full text]
  • Tang at Home Studio Wild
    TANG AT HOME STUDIO: WILD ONE! Featuring artist Rina Banerjee from the Tang exhibition Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond Rina Banerjee, Mother gathered Three and no more dirty stones, tossed them to sky that could break what had hardened her ground and without frown or flirt of flower father like grease or butter slipped aside to free from forty and some more grown men who held her as housewife like plant life with Three or no more daughters, 2017, acrylic and collage on wood panel, 79 x 39 inches, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels Rina Banerjee, Mother gathered Three . .or no more daughters (details), 2017, acrylic and collage on wood panel, 79 x 39 inches, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels LOOK AND DISCUSS 1. Look closely at Mother gathered Three and no more dirty stones, tossed them to sky that could break what had hardened her ground and without frown or flirt of flower father like grease or butter slipped aside to free from forty and some more grown men who held her as housewife like plant life with Three or no more daughters. 2. What do you notice? Discuss with a partner: What stands out to you? What shapes and objects can you find? What looks familiar? What looks unusual? What textures and materials do you think the artist used? What are the figures doing? 3. Reflect: What do you imagine happening in this artwork? What connections do you see between the title and the artwork itself? Rina Banerjee, 2017 ABOUT THE ARTIST Rina Banerjee is a multimedia artist who was born in Kolkata, India, and currently works in Queens, New York.
    [Show full text]
  • Paris Asian Art Fair
    Paris Asian Art Fair Press Release - October 2020 6th Edition 21 - 24 October 2020 Preview 20 October 9, avenue Hoche - Paris 8th Paris Asian Art Fair ASIA NOW 2020 6th edition We are excited to invite you to the 2020 edition of ASIA NOW. The current situation has highlighted our need to experience artworks in real life and the desire to connect and exchange with the artists, gallerists, curators and collectors. It is for this reason that we have decided to maintain the sixth edition of ASIA NOW, which will take place at 9 avenue Hoche, Paris 8e, from 21-24 October, with a VIP preview on 20 October. In order to ensure a safe visit, this edition of ASIA NOW will be held in compliance with the sanitary protocols and the latest recommendations of the French health authorities. An online platform will also highlight the programmes that cannot be physically presented at the fair. We are pleased to welcome the galleries that will be able to travel as well as international galleries that have been established in France. Among them, we are pleased to announce the participation of galleries Almine Rech, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Nathalie Obadia, Perrotin, Templon, Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois. For the very first time, ASIA NOW opens its doors to the Indian art scene and a selection of historical and contemporary artists. Several highlights will be presented by international galleries and will bear witness to the vitality of Indian contemporary art: the Nathalie Obadia gallery with artist Rina Banerjee, Perrotin with Bharti Kher, Templon with Jitish Kallat, Atul Dodiya and Anju Dodiya.
    [Show full text]
  • Rina Banerjee
    RINA BANERJEE 1963 Born in Kolkata, India Lives and works Manhattan, New York Training 1995 Yale University, Yale School of Art, Painting and Print Making, MFA 1993 Case Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, Polymer Engineering, BSc. Solo Exhibitions 2011 Musée Guimet, Paris Project room, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2010 Forever Foreign, Haunch of Venison, London 2009 Look into my eyes and you will see a world unexplainable, out of place, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels Rina Banerjee and Raquib Shaw, Thomas Gibson Ltd., London 2008 Distant Nearness, with Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas Allure, Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2007 Foreign Fruit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris "Where the Wild Things Are"... is no place at all and all places that cannot be lived in but visited, realized out of our careful, playful and tenacious tourism of others, realized as our mobility wanders too far, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 2006 Fantasies of travel, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy 2002 Phantasmal Pharmacopeia, Curated by Susette Min, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia 2001 Phantasmal Pharmacopeia, Debs and Co., New York Antenna, Bose Pacia Modern, New York 2000 Auf Weidersehen, Admit One Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy RoundAbout, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel Embodiement,Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Modern & Contemporary, San Francisco via Farini
    [Show full text]
  • Rina Banerjee Interviewed by Tausif Noor." Bomb
    Noor, Tausif. "Forms of Exchange: Rina Banerjee Interviewed by Tausif Noor." Bomb. 2019. Web. Forms of Exchange: Rina Banerjee Interviewed by Tausif Noor The artist discusses her current retrospective. Rina Banerjee, Her captivity was once someone’s treasure and even pleasure but she blew and flew away took root which grew, we knew this was like no other feather, a third kind of bird that perched on vine intertwined was neither native nor her queens daughters, a peculiar other., 2011. Anglo-Indian pedestal (1860), Victorian birdcage, shells, feathers, gourds, grape wine, coral fractured charlotte doll heads, steel knitted mesh with glass beads, Kenyan tourist sculptures, and apple gourds. 84 × 84 × 72 inches. Courtesy of the San José Museum of Art. For the past two decades, Rina Banerjee has scrutinized the processes of cultural exchange and circulation vis-à-vis their material products. Cowrie shells, beads, fabrics, feathers, and assorted gewgaws: vestiges of the colony and its post- prefixed progeny are all in attendance in the artist’s remarkable sculptures and installations. In affixing these assorted residua of empire into sprawling assemblages, Banerjee investigates the changes that necessarily take place once culture is forced into flux. We discussed the mutability of our shared cultures, the limits of learning in art school, and the clumsiness of trying to fit everything into neat narratives. —Tausif Noor Tausif Noor You and I happen to share a similar trajectory in terms of our being here together. We are both from Bangladesh and immigrated to America at a young age—I was four, and I believe you were also quite young.
    [Show full text]