The Indian art had a incredible weekend at the second Indian art summit held at Pragati Maidan, Delhi from 19th-22nd August and most of the art fraternity have visited the art fair including the artists, collectors, connoisseurs, critics, art lovers buyers and of course the art students। This time the summit was bigger and better in terms of three fold enlarged spaces, international participation from galleries increased from 3 to 17 from around the world including some prominent international galleries from Europe, Asia and the US. The event was also supported by Sotheby’s and collaborated with related organizations like Lalit Kala Akademi, Asia Art Archive, Art Society, Devi Foundation and the British council. As a private initiative the event was also supported by the 54 leading art galleries from the country. With this package the Indian art summit had provided large and diverse nature of art for the public to enjoy and appreciate across the world. In comparison with last year the footfalls this year was huge almost 40,000 people have dropped in.
The Indian art summit said to have its focus on education and raising awareness about art and over 45 influential Indian and international speaker participated in speakers’ forum that brought closer only the artists, curators, scholars, museums directors and art professionals. But we need to concede the fact that popularity of Indian art or art appreciation is not extended beyond the art curators, critics, collectors, students and buyers as general mass or the ‘Aam Aadmi’ gave this art summit a miss.
With collaboration the summit has brought affordable art to the city and within 4 days 40-45% sales were reported, it shows that the Indian art summit has brought good news for the Indian art during recession. It was a great success that the total value of art works in summit was between 40- 50 crore and it sold around 250 works worth 26 crore, this appears to brought back little confidence among collectors and gallery owners.
This year Beck and Eggelin art gallery brought originals of Picassos which was one of the major attractions this year including subodh guptas ‘three monkey’, megha Joshi’s installation ‘Peace and Grace’ etc.
One of the interesting corners at Indian Art Summit was the Devi Art Foundations Booth that had most imaginative and interesting expressions by the visitors. Entitled ‘Dream Museum’; a Project initiated by the collector Anupam Poddar; had displayed thousands of small cards filled by visitors from all walks of life and age group expressing their thoughts about a Dream Museum.
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