Despite its swankier avatar (a set designer was roped in to transform the bare NSIIC grounds into a tented venue), the atmosphere is more like a celebratory bazaar where the interested woman-or-manon-the-street can experience the buzz that crackles through the rarefied echelons of the art world. So, from the art student taking diligent notes next to an Akbar Padamsee , the new mom trying to find something appropriate for her kiddo's pink bedroom to the businessman who can't stop himself from wondering aloud a crawling ant is classified as art, they were all there.
For anyone who loves art, even as an amateur, the show itself is quite an experience , especially in a country where there is a dearth of museums. Subodh Gupta's shiny bartan sculptures rub noses with erotic Souzas and architect Gautam Bhatia's witty works taking digs at netas are just a few aisles away from Somnath Hore's sombre white paper works on the Bengal famine. For a bit of a smile, there is Aussie dealer Peter Burke lugging around a suitcase (and a suit) full of tiny art works. Burke, who has tied up with Nature Morte, even has works tucked into his socks that he whips out like a magician if you show the slightest interest.
Remembering Nirbhaya
The art fair may be about the market but art comes from the heart. Mumbaibased artist Atul Dodiya's rolling shutters which have been narrating vivid stories of India for many years now tell the tale of Nirbhaya , the 23-year-old whose gang rape on a moving bus sparked nationwide outrage. The shutter on which Gandhi is painted lifts to reveal a crying eye, a nod to Roy Lichtenstein's distressed Crying Girl, explains Vidya Shivadas, curator of Vadehra gallery. Dodiya's girl is surrounded by sharks and the date of her death - 29/12/2012 is emblazoned on the bottom.
Gandhi with fizz
One of the highlights of the fair is a light-projection of a historic letter written by Gandhi to Hitler in 1939, urging him to reconsider his violent means. The work by Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat at the Nature Morte booth appeared like a flat illuminated document at the end of a tunnel. Viewers go through the fogladen tunnel with their bodies touching Gandhi's words. While on the subject of the Mahatma, Thai artist Pakpoom Silaphan's Gandhi on Coke buttons gathered quite a crowd. Silaphan combines vintage advertisements with icons like Dali, Picasso and Frieda Kahlo. Showing his work was London's Scream gallery which made its debut this year. It also did good business with Chinese artist Ye Hongxing's mandala paintings made with cartoon stickers.
Global flavour
Besides a bigger contingent of foreign journalists, there is quite a big contingent of big-name artists such as South African William Kentridge and British Palestinian Mona Hatoum. But what has piqued the interest of galleries is the 17 museum groups (the Tate and the Louvre among them) scouting for Indian artists. As for business, galleries are hoping the downturn is behind them and the smell of commerce will ignite Delhi's frigid air.
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