India Art Fair Speakers’ Forum
Friday, 27th January 2012
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Session 4
Topic : European Reception of Contemporary Indian Art
Speakers : Ranjit Hoskote, Cultural theorist, poet, and independent curator
Sophie Duplaix, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou
Holly Brackenbury, Director, Indian Art, Sotheby’s, London
Peter Nagy, Director, Nature Morte
Moderator : Deepak Ananth, Art Historian & Faculty Ecole des Beaux Arts, Caen, Normandy
In keeping with the distinct profiles of the participants in this panel – Sophie Duplaix is a curator at the Centre Pompidou, Ranjit Hoskote is an independent curator and writer, Peter Nagy is the founder of one of the important private galleries in India and Holly Brackenburry heads the department of Indian art at Sotheby’s , one of the leading auction houses in the world - the title of this panel discussion ‘European Reception of Contemporary Indian Art’is perhaps more usefully approached keeping in mind the reception(s) – in the plural - that contemporary Indian has met according to the specific agendas and contexts framing it’s exhibitions in Europe. So, for example, the section on Bombay in Tate Modern’s ‘Century City’ exhibition (curated by Geeta Kapur and Ashish Radhyadaksha)
evidently had a different focus from the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition ‘Indian Highway’, just as the recent exhibition ‘Paris, Delhi, Bombay’ at the Centre Pompidou is different in approach from ‘Indian Summer’ that was co-curated by Deepak Ananth for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 2005. Ranjit Hoskote will doubtless have much to say about the criteria he had in mind when he was asked to curate the Indian section at the last Venice Biennale and Peter Nagy is well placed to comment on the evolving reception of Indian art, given the international visibility of a number of artists represented by his gallery. Holly Brackenburry would be in a position to provide an overview of the changing profile of the collector in view of the inroads that Sotheby’s has made in the market for Indian art – first in India itself and then abroad. The contexts of presentation of contemporary Indian art have a bearing on its reception (there are other factors at play, of course). Questions about the continuing validity (or not) of showcasing works whose sole common denominator is that they are made by artists who share the same nationality is something that could come up for discussion and whether it is on such occasions that the vexed notion of ‘influence’ rears its head. The difference between government sponsored exhibitions abroad (often undertaken as part of a ‘festival’ ostensibly celebrating all things Indian but usually framed by a political agenda) and initiatives taken by museums in Europe to show Indian art is a related topic that could be brought up.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Session 5 Asia Art Archive : Backroom Conversations
Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
In Retrospect: lecture panel
213
Speakers : Annapurna Garimella, Art Historian and Designer, Managing Trustee, A.R.T.,
Bangalore
Kuiyi Shen, Professor, Art History and Director, Chinese Studies Program,
University of California, San Diego
Moderator : Johnson Chang Tsongzung, Curator, Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, and Asia Art
Archive Board member
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Session 6 Asia Art Archive : Backroom Conversations
Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
Contemporary Currents: two conversations
Speakers : Budi Tek, Indonesian Entrepreneur, Art Philanthropist, and Collector in
conversation with
Claire Hsu, Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Anmol Vellani, Director, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore in conversation
with Savita Apte, Art Historian and Co-Director, Art Dubai
Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China, organised by Asia Art Archive for the 2012 India Art Fair, will examine the role and responsibility of private philanthropy in today’s reconfigured landscape of cultural support.Two panels will engage practitioners from different cultural models in historically mapping the diverse histories of art patronage in Asia and in understanding contemporary interdependent forms of support for art in India and China.
Support Systems: In Retrospect: lecture panel
Support Systems: Contemporary Currents/ two conversations
Friday, 27th January 2012
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Session 4
Topic : European Reception of Contemporary Indian Art
Speakers : Ranjit Hoskote, Cultural theorist, poet, and independent curator
Sophie Duplaix, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou
Holly Brackenbury, Director, Indian Art, Sotheby’s, London
Peter Nagy, Director, Nature Morte
Moderator : Deepak Ananth, Art Historian & Faculty Ecole des Beaux Arts, Caen, Normandy
In keeping with the distinct profiles of the participants in this panel – Sophie Duplaix is a curator at the Centre Pompidou, Ranjit Hoskote is an independent curator and writer, Peter Nagy is the founder of one of the important private galleries in India and Holly Brackenburry heads the department of Indian art at Sotheby’s , one of the leading auction houses in the world - the title of this panel discussion ‘European Reception of Contemporary Indian Art’is perhaps more usefully approached keeping in mind the reception(s) – in the plural - that contemporary Indian has met according to the specific agendas and contexts framing it’s exhibitions in Europe. So, for example, the section on Bombay in Tate Modern’s ‘Century City’ exhibition (curated by Geeta Kapur and Ashish Radhyadaksha)
evidently had a different focus from the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition ‘Indian Highway’, just as the recent exhibition ‘Paris, Delhi, Bombay’ at the Centre Pompidou is different in approach from ‘Indian Summer’ that was co-curated by Deepak Ananth for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 2005. Ranjit Hoskote will doubtless have much to say about the criteria he had in mind when he was asked to curate the Indian section at the last Venice Biennale and Peter Nagy is well placed to comment on the evolving reception of Indian art, given the international visibility of a number of artists represented by his gallery. Holly Brackenburry would be in a position to provide an overview of the changing profile of the collector in view of the inroads that Sotheby’s has made in the market for Indian art – first in India itself and then abroad. The contexts of presentation of contemporary Indian art have a bearing on its reception (there are other factors at play, of course). Questions about the continuing validity (or not) of showcasing works whose sole common denominator is that they are made by artists who share the same nationality is something that could come up for discussion and whether it is on such occasions that the vexed notion of ‘influence’ rears its head. The difference between government sponsored exhibitions abroad (often undertaken as part of a ‘festival’ ostensibly celebrating all things Indian but usually framed by a political agenda) and initiatives taken by museums in Europe to show Indian art is a related topic that could be brought up.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Session 5 Asia Art Archive : Backroom Conversations
Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
In Retrospect: lecture panel
213
Speakers : Annapurna Garimella, Art Historian and Designer, Managing Trustee, A.R.T.,
Bangalore
Kuiyi Shen, Professor, Art History and Director, Chinese Studies Program,
University of California, San Diego
Moderator : Johnson Chang Tsongzung, Curator, Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, and Asia Art
Archive Board member
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Session 6 Asia Art Archive : Backroom Conversations
Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
Contemporary Currents: two conversations
Speakers : Budi Tek, Indonesian Entrepreneur, Art Philanthropist, and Collector in
conversation with
Claire Hsu, Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Anmol Vellani, Director, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore in conversation
with Savita Apte, Art Historian and Co-Director, Art Dubai
Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China, organised by Asia Art Archive for the 2012 India Art Fair, will examine the role and responsibility of private philanthropy in today’s reconfigured landscape of cultural support.Two panels will engage practitioners from different cultural models in historically mapping the diverse histories of art patronage in Asia and in understanding contemporary interdependent forms of support for art in India and China.
Support Systems: In Retrospect: lecture panel
Support Systems: Contemporary Currents/ two conversations
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