Artists ranging from Sudarshan Shetty, L N Tallur, Jitish Kallat, Mona Rai, Shakuntala Kulkarani and Dayanita Singh are among those whose works are currently on show at the prestigious Art Basel, one of the world's biggest and contemporary art fair.
The 44th edition of the fair, which opened with a media preview at Basel in Switzerland on June 11 has a number of artists from India being represented by multiple galleries.
Four Indian galleries have been selected as exhibitors at the event, which features over 300 of the world's leading galleries for modern and contemporary art.
Photographer Dayanita Singh, artist L N Tallur and Mona Rai are being shown by the Berlin and New Delhi-based Nature Morte Gallery run by its directors Peter Nagy and Aparajita Jain.
"Third Sex Portfolio," by Dayanita Singh comprise eight silver gelatin prints of photographs of eunuchs a project that she began in 1989 when the photographer first encountered Mona Ahmed who eventually became the subject of her book "Myself Mona Ahmed."
Dayanita's is also currently one of four artists who is exhibiting in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
L N Tallur is showcasing four large scale works. Three of them are through the Nature Morte Gallery. They include - "Pedestal on Pedestal," a cast bronze pedestal placed on a museum cube pedestal; "Chromatophobia," a granite sculpture with a wooden leg, coins, hammers, and wall text; and "Apocalypse," an electro-magnetic coin polishing machine.
Bangalore-based Tallur had previously shown at the Kochi Muziris Bienalle and won the 2012 Skoda Art Prize.
Tallur is also represented by Mumbai gallery Chemould Prescott Road.
His most recent work "Veni Vidi Veci," an installation made out of Basel Mission Mangalore terracotta roof tiles, iron truss, and eight framed photographs is being shown at the "Arts Unlimited" section of the Basel fair.
The section curated by director of the Swiss Institute in New York, Gianni Jetzer, will be showing emerging talent along with established biggies such as Chinese artists Ai Weiwei.
Mona Rai's mixed-media artworks, titled "Chandra and Prabha," "Kaal" and new works - "Mitti-Earth," "Rakh-Ashes," and "Sona-Gold" are also being exhibited.
Riyas Komu, co-founder of the Kochi Biennale Foundation, which conducted India's first art biennale last year is the only Indian to be in the Salon program of the Art Basel.
Komu, himself an artist, would be participating in a panel discussion "The future of biennials in local and global context." included in the Salon programme of the art event.
