, Festival of India Contemporary Indian Art Exhibition . 0 • 0 • A small note on the exhibition From: Ms. Geeta Kapur Commissioner E/ 4 Maharani Bagh New Delhi 110 065 .Q.Q!l.i§!!!EO£~.ELI.n.slian.... ~!: . 2. .! __ .£1_!-,_esti v~l o.f_._lnd~ ~ibitio~_ihe Ro~~J:_Ac.adeillil.......Qf Arts,_Lo~, ~eptember - OctobeF_12§g 1. Under the joi~t auspices of the Governments o:f India and :Britain, a F ~s~iYP.:L2f_J4 . S!i~ is being presented in England this year. The patrons of the Exhibition are Mrs. Indira Gandhi and !·'Irs. r1arga.ret Thatcher. The Chairman of the Festival Advisory Committee in India is !'1rs. Pupul Jayakar. Among the exhibitions to be presented in England is a major exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art. The Commissioners for this exhibition are Akbar Padamsee, Gee~a Kapur and Richard B artho1omew 3 2. The work of 44 artists will be exhibited. There wilJ_ be altogether about 1 40 works. Such a representative exhibition of Contemporary Ind:..a~1. Art has not been presented b e~~ ~e in Engl~nd. 3. The exhibition will be held at the Royal Academy of Arts (Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WIB ODS)o It will be shown in two cogent sections. The first vlill be inaugurated on Soptem'Ler 1'7 and will be open to the public from September 18 to October 5th; the second 't-vill be ine.ugurated on October 8th and will be open to the public from October 9th t~ Octobe:.." 31st. Contd.2/ / - 2 - 4. The Festival Advisory Committee will iss1~ a Catalogue (100 pages) with 22 colour and 38 bl.aok and 1<1hi t e reprod·u.c tions. The Catalogue will carry portrait photographs· and short biographies o£ all. the participating artists. The Introduction is by l1iss Geeta. Kapur. 5. The Festival Advisory Committee and the Commi~sioners have approached all the major museums of ccntemporary art in India, galleries and institutions which have collections of Indian art and also private collectors, and the artists themselves, to loan specific works selected for the exhibition. Consent has been received from all concerned. 6. The works will be borrowed for a maximum period of six months and will be insured for the amount indicated by the ~lender from wall to wall. The agreement for loan and insurance wi11 be forma1ieed on the basis of a printed loan £orm signed by the lenders and the organisers which wi11 be issued in June 1982. 7. The Festival Advisory Committee has requested the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to collect the works and have them brought to the La1it Kala Akademi premises between July 10 to 20th. At Del.hi these works "t-rill be grouped in two sections, and repacked for despatch to London. B. All works will. be air-freighted. The consignment will be sent to reach London by September 7 1 1982. When the exhibition closes the works wi11 return to Delhi by air and then be forwarded to different centres in India. I I FESTIVAL Q.~J.NDIA IN...J!ONDON Q.Q.li!EM£:ORA.BY INDIAN AR~EXHIBITION P.AINTERS 1. M.F. Husain 2. F .N" Souza. 3, Akbar Padamsee 4. Tyeb Mehta. 5. Krishen Khanna · 6. Mohan Samant 7. S.Ho Raza 8. Ram Kumar 9. VoS. Gaitonde 1 0. Bal Chhabda 11. K~c.s. Paniker 12. J. St·Jaminathan 1 3. Biren De 14. GoR. Santosh 15. A. Ramachandran 16. Bhupen Khakhar 17. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh 18. Bikash Bhattacharjee 19. Viv:J.n Sundaram 20. Gieve Patel 21. Nalini Malani 22. Ranbir Singh Ka1eka 23. Sudhir :PatvTardhan -24"' J ogen Cho·:JJ.hury 25. IJian~ eet E a -w a. 2 6. Manu :r arekh 27.. Ganesh :P:s:rr.l.e Cont.d • ...... 2/ ~: 2 :- SCULPTORS 28. Satish Gujral 29. A. Davierwalla 30. K.G. Subramanyan 31. Nagji Patel 32. Himmat Shah 33. Meera Mukherjee 34. K. Kunhiraman 35. Mrinalini Mukherjee 36. Latika Katt 37. Ved Nayar 38. Dhruva Nistry GRAPHIC ARTISTS 39. Krishna Reddy , 40.. Jeram Patel 41. Nasreen Mohammedi 42. Arpita Singh 43. Laxma Goud 44. Anupa.nl-.-Sud ***** ~ ~ ------------~----~----------- ' .