ET Dialogue on Luxury: Indiatimes Art Show 'Kaleidoscope'

With Indian art coming of age on the global platform, it is being increasingly seen as an investment opportunity while remaining a niche market. The rise of interest in art, coupled with the increasing number of high net worth individuals in India who have the means but not the ways to get closer to art, has made it critical to let them experience Indian art in its diversity and various nuances. Indiatimes Art takes this opportunity to present the art show ‘Kaleidoscope’ at ITC Maurya, New Delhi, on the 20th and 21st of September. The art show takes viewers through the nascent modern, modern and post modern movements of Indian art.

A kaleidoscope carries three pieces of mirrors slanting towards each other at 45 degrees and a few colorful filings, which when watched through a view finder appear in astonishingly innovative patterns by multiple reflections. Consider the nascent- modernism, modernism and post modernism in Indian art as the three slanting mirrors, artists belonging to these historical/aesthetical categories as colorful filings and the view finder as the ken of contextualized art criticism then one would get magnificent reflections on Indian art ranging from the late 19th century to till date.

The current presentation of India Times Art, in several ways, is a kaleidoscopic view. A conveniently beautiful metaphor, the kaleidoscopic view predicates the collapse, merger and renewal of categories/patterns, which are subjective to the movement of the hands that in an aesthetic discourse hold the tools of criticism. Hence, this show throws open opportunities for the viewers, who could generate critical links between the given historical/aesthetical categories using their own faculties of engaging with the works of art.

Artists work on view:
Abanindranath Tagore, Anjolie Ela Menon, Arpana Caur, B. Prabha, Chintan Upadhyay, F.N. Souza, Gaganendranath Tagore, Ganesh Pyne, H.A. Gade, Jamini Roy, Jayasri Burman, Julius Macwan, K.H. Ara, K.K. Hebbar, Krishen Khanna, Manjit Bawa, Nandalal Bose, Paresh Maity, Prabhakar Barwe, Ram Kumar, S.H. Raza, Sanjeev Khandekar, Satish Gujral, V.S. Gaitonde


The ET Luxury Dialogue:
The objective of the conference is to address the opportunities and challenges in the Indian Luxury Industry. ET has signed up with A.T.Kearney as their knowledge partners.

Indiatimes ART:
Indiatimes.com is the country’s largest portal, and the flagship brand of Times Internet Ltd (TIL), a digital venture of the Times Group. Indiatimes.com is one of the largest portals for online shopping with a huge business and consumer base of over 14 million registered users with a billion page views per month.

The Times Group is known for its rich collection of art for many years now. It is this age-old association that Indiatimes.com is leveraging to launch its own art portal - Indiatimes Art. Indiatimes ART’s entry into the world of art was inevitable.

By launching its online art initiative it is giving a fillip to Indian Art by providing the right platform for emerging and established artists to get the right appreciation and value for their works. This will revolutionize the Indian art industry and help transcend borders whereby art lovers can come and patronise Indian art from anywhere in the world.

What also gives credibility to this meeting of art and the Internet is a renowned panel of art experts, an independent body, whose words hold their weight in gold. They will be instrumental in selecting emerging artists and their works from across the country. This art endeavor is an example of yet another path breaking initiative by Times Internet Ltd and holds a promise to take it to the next level and beyond.