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YOUR WEEKEND FIX
TAKETO ART
übercool IF YOU AREN’T IN ON THIS, YOU AREN’T IN ON IT AT ALL
CANVAS SHOPPING Several affordable art exhibitions in the
city this monsoon offer young buyers the chance to start
collecting and encourage new talent
Riddhi Doshi
■ riddhi.doshi@hindustantimes.com Ongoing…
In the art gallery calendar, the monsoon is AFFORDABLE ART FAIR
usually the off-peak season. Galleries hold GALLERY: Artic Vision
fewer exhibitions at this time of the year as
WHAT: This fair has 300 paint-
established artists either travel to international ings of 50 established artists, such
events such as Art Basel in Switzerland and as Subrata Sen, Achhyut Palav and
dOCUMENTA in Germany, or retreat to their Milon Mukherjee.
studios to create new work. PRICE RANGE: Rs 500 to Rs 25,000
■ Sakshi Art Gallery This, however, allows galleries to showcase ADDRESS: 348/2788, Motilal Nagar- 2,
new talent, the work of less known artists or off New Link Road, Goregaon (W)
Last day...
old paintings and prints of established artists TELEPHONE: 2878-5507 ■ A ceramic
from their store rooms, at affordable art exhi- kettle by
WHEN: Until July 16. It opened on June
bitions. Here are some you can visit: 16. Open daily, 11 am to 8 pm Neha
Pullarwar
EASY BUYS
GALLERY: Sakshi “Most people from the middle class do not enter an
DESCRIPTION: The gallery has exhibit- art gallery, thinking that they will not be able to
ed 300 paintings, prints, drawings, pho-
tographs and posters from its in-house
afford anything in there. We wanted to encourage
collection. In its second year, the exhi- buyers from this section of the society and young-
bition consisted of small, old works
and prints of well-known artists such
sters to get initiated into seeing and buying art.”
as Jitish Kallat, Sudarshan Shetty and D E B A S H R I TA B A I DYA , gallery owner
MF Husain, and cost much less than
these painters’ more recent works. ART FOR YOUNG COLLECTORS “All the artists of
In the first week, the gallery sold GALLERY: Galerie the show are in
nearly a third of what was on offer. Mirchandani+Steinruecke
It added more works to the exhibition WHAT: The show has 15 paintings and
their 20s. Their
every week. ■ A painting by Harsha NS
new-media works created by recent thoughts and visual
PRICE RANGE: Rs 1,500 to Rs 2 lakh. art graduates from Vadodara and culture would
Hyderabad.
ADDRESS: Sakshi Gallery, Tanna
House, Ground floor, 11-A, Nathalal PRICE RANGE: Rs 4,000 to Rs 12,000
appeal to buyers
Parekh Marg, Colaba “We have had many young ADDRESS: 2 Sunny House, 16/18 of the same age
TELEPHONE: 6690 9191 people, most of them first-time Mereweather Road, Behind Taj Mahal group.”
WHEN: Today is the last day. It began buyers, purchase works.” Hotel, Colaba
RANJANA
on May 23. Timings are 11 am to 7 pm TELEPHONE: 2202-2030 M I RC H A N DA N I ,
G E E TA M E H R A , gallery director
WHEN: Up to July 9. It began on June gallery director
12. Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm
UNTITLED
GALLERY: Clark House Initiative ■ A painting by B Kumaraswamy
DESCRIPTION: The gallery has exhibited
100 prints, paintings, drawings and
sculptures of 12 students of JJ School of
Art, Rachna Sansad and MS University
of Vadodara.
Coming up...
PRICE RANGE: Rs 1,500 to Rs 12,000
CHATAK
ADDRESS: Ground floor, Clark House,
GALLERY: Nehru Centre Art Gallery
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse WHAT: This show, in its 20th year, has 64
Road), opposite Sahakari Bhandar, paintings and sculptures by 34 artists from all
and Regal Cinema, near Woodside Inn around the country.
TELEPHONE: 9820213816 PRICE RANGE: Rs 5,000 to Rs 1 lakh
WHEN: Today is the last day. It began on ADDRESS: Nehru Centre, Annie Besant
June 15. Timings are 11 am to 7 pm Road, Worli
TELEPHONE: 24973827
WHEN: July 3 to 15, open daily, 11 am to 7 pm
“These students have worked with us A painting by Poorvesh Patel at
as researchers and assistant curators “The aim of the annual show is to promote ■
Galerie Mirchandani BUYER’S VIEW
on other projects. We thought it would young and new talent. The show always At Artic Vision, I bought a painting
be a nice idea to give them a platform attracts hordes of art collectors and each of artist Madhumita
Bhattacharya and Arabinda Samanta,
for their works.” enthusiasts looking for good works at a for a total of Rs 50,000, for my new
S U M E S H S H A R M A , gallery curator reasonable price. house. I have been following
Bhattacharya’s work for a long time
■ A painting by student Sachin Bonde N I N A R E G E , assistant director
and am particularly fond of her paint-
ings of Buddha.
THREE REASONS TO BUY THREE TOP TIPS — Asish Bao, 34, bank employee
The Indian art market is in a Living with art develops An interesting art DON’T WASTE your money on decora- IF YOU CAN’T afford a IF YOU ARE STARTING OUT, I bought six ceramic pots of artist
nascent stage, and is expected your aesthetic sensibilities work gets you think- tive art. You will eventually find it bor- work that you want, ask first seek advice from gallerists, Naladvar from Artic Vision for a
to grow fivefold in the next few and facilitates the apprecia- ing. You get to see the ing, a waste of money, and might give the gallery or the auc- artists and curators, who wont charge client. I regularly buy works both
years. Buying good art could be tion of the finer things in work every day and up on art altogether. Instead, visit tion house if you can pay anything. Once you buy a work, consult for myself and my clients. I liked
a wise investment. life. An art work is not live with it. scores of galleries and as many art in installments. If you the gallery about how to frame and these pots because I loved the
merely a commodity. fairs as possible before buying your are persuasive enough, conserve the piece. Here too, most contrast in the textures.”
TUSHAR SETHI, owner of the VEERANGANA SOLANKI,
Institute of Contemporary Indian Art MANISHA PATIL, art historian at independent city-based first piece, to get a sense of what kind galleries will agree. galleries will not charge anything. — Prithi Majumdar, 34,
gallery and an auctioneer the JJ School of Arts and artist curator of work strikes a chord with you. architect
—Maithili Parekh, director of the Indian division of auction house Sotheby’s
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