India Art Summit Art Projects have been conceived and designed to cover all genres and media of contemporary art. They will be presented to result in an artistic and energetic atmosphere in the fair environment. They are designed to offer the visitors an opportunity to interact with and contemplate a wide range of modern & contemporary art.
IAS Art Projects include:
IAS Sculpture Park
Located strategically at the entrance of the Indian Art Summit™ the sculpture park was open to all visitors. Large scale sculptures by a range of artists had been carefully selected, with the aim of creating a dialogue with the audience. The works displayed represented a diversity of individual styles.
IAS Video Lounge
The purpose of the video lounge at India Art Summit™ is was acquaint art lovers with video art in its fullest form. The works being screened were to showcase the growth of this medium, and its significance on the Indian as well as international art scene.
Purple Wall Project
Curated by independent art critic and curator, Gayatri Sinha, the Purple Wall project aimed to showcase the best of Contemporary Indian Art.
The Purple Wall Project spread over three or four interconnected spaces. Distributed over the central foyer and the outer fringes of the display sites of the India Art Summit, it involveed mainly sculptural installations and photographs which allowed the viewer a palpable difference in the way the works were experienced.
The work selected reflected on the chosen site, Pragati Maidan as a bourse for trade and the city as a site of colossal human traffic. The nature of this movement invoked industry, migration and the speedy transactional nature of urban markets. Pragati Maidan which translates loosely as the “field or arena of progress” invokes the socialist ideal of the nation on the move. Progressivism within pre 1990’s socialist India was tied in with a number of art and literacy movements, and carries with it the echo of a Nehruvian value system. In the current context, however it reflected on the shifting role of the site as witness to the capitalist system of exchange in world art markets.
Content by: Gayatri Sinha
Lecture Performances
20th August, 2009 (6:30pm-7:30pm)
Phantoms & Photographs - A Lecture Performance by RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE
21st August, 2009 (6:30pm-7:30pm)
Nine Mores - A Lecture Performance by CAMP |
