India Art Summit: India’s first art fair will be held at the Pragati Maidan in the capital from August 22-24. It will see the particpation of 34 galleries from all across the country, and a handful from abroad, showcasing the entire spectrum of modern and contemporary Indian art — everyone from MF Husain and SH Raza to Kriti Arora and Baiju Parthan.
Other highlights include an “art forum” where experts and institutional investors will debate Indian art and its future directions; a special preview for collectors and “meet the artist” interactions. The organisers confirm participation by several international dealers, collectors and museum authorities.
AstaGuru online auction - Vickram Sethi’s recently set-up online auction house has its inaugural auction on August 20-21. On offer are 80 lots, predominantly works by the well-known contemporaries like the Kallats, Subodh Gupta and TV Santosh, that showcase the new vocabularies and practices these artists have evolved. There are the moderns as well — a Husain, a Bawa, a Raza — but it’s the younger artists who are in focus here.
Current: Gallery SKE, Bangalore has an ongoing show of four under-30 years artists — Sreshta Premnath, Minam A, Sakshi Gupta and Avinash Veeraraghavanat — who were asked to respond to the many implications of the word “current”. Lot’s of new-age work involving video, industrial scrap and light bulbs. (On till August 25)
Drawing Sculpture opened on August 12 at Mumbai’s Galerie Mirchandani+Steinrucke and will continue until September 20. Featuring the works of N N Rimzon, Tushar Joag and Dutch artist Juul Kraiger.
Eternal Varanasi: Gallery K2, one of the many galleries that have mushroomed in Kolkata over the past year or so, is holding this group show pegged around the holy city. It includes a recent work by Bengal’s reclusive genius, Ganesh Haloi. On until March 31
