11 March 2013, 12:40 PM IST
The Saffronart Spring Online Auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art will take place online on March 25-26, 2013. The auction features 90 works by 40 artists. This auction will take place exclusively on www.saffronart.com. The structure of the auction and its time span allows serious collectors as well as first-time buyers, worldwide, to place their bids over a period of two days, as opposed to a period of a few hours in a live auction.
The auction has some hand picked works by India's contemporary artists who are ranked high in the auction calendar. From Husain and Ram Kumar, to Reddy Subodh Gupta and the recently awarded LN Tallur. Then there is the delightful painterly idiom of Arpita Singh.
Ram Kumar; Oil on canvas
G.Ravinder Reddy (1956 -); Untitled, 2007
Begin with the best sculpture-Subodh Gupta whose 2009 stainless steel work is being sold by his gallery Hauser and Wirth. Always littered with references to past and present experiences this is yet another masterpiece that has been created in the contour of a pail-a stainless steel bucket that however has been morphed into a handle that is heavy and somewhat stodgy in the way the arch has been filled with the little tiffins that are his leitmotif. Gupta has the power to swing from significant information to seemingly irrelevant motifs, even as he weaves highly eccentric imaginings with public myths and rituals and creates limited edition installations out of his ideations. He also takes an ironic swipe at Capitalism's materialist ethic, and portrays the social and economic aspirations of rural communities and lower class Indians with a compassion that is both affectionate and attentive because he never forgets his roots.
Subodh Gupta, Untitled, 2009
The next best sculpture is that of Tallur. The work is that of an elephant and it is called Esophagal Reflux Part 2. The present lot, a burnt wood figure of an elephant excreting silver, is titled after an ailment of the digestive tract where acid from the stomach leaks into the esophagus, leading to heartburn and other painful symptoms. Visually representing a possible consequence of excess and greed, the work could be a contemporary reminder of the fable about the goose that laid golden eggs.
LN Tallur (1971); Esophageal Reflux Part 2, 2006
Tallur, also a trained museuologist, perhaps intends the scorched and degraded figure of the elephant to be a symbol for the state of tradition or heritage today, and particularly the ways in which it is commoditised in contemporary society.
Among paintings is the heart-warming oil on canvas of Arpita Singh that belongs to 1999. Arpita Singh's body of figurative work frequently draws on the private and public lives of women like herself, and by the external events that act on them. Like these lives, her dense, multilayered canvases defy any single interpretation. As critic Holland Cotter observed, "The psychological and the political merge in paintings by New Delhi artist Arpita Singh. So do everyday life and allegory, expressionism and ornament, historical sources from Bengal folk painting to Marc Chagall, and a formal approach that is at once unassuming and hard-worked, gauche and poised" (The New York Times, 3 October, 2003).
Arpita Singh, Oil on canvas, 34.5 x 48 in (87.6 x 121.9 cm)
Meticulously constructed from vivid layers of oil paint, manipulated to expose a diversity of subjects and motifs, the present lot weaves a sense of the magical into the mundane day-to-day life of Singh's female protagonist. As she sleeps, a bright dreamscape unfolds around her; a garden with a pink bench and a flowering tree takes over the painted surface, edging out the cars and people from her waking life. The sole male figure that remains in the bright yellow garden likely represents a fond memory, while the tree shedding its numbered leaves is indicative of the units of time that have cruelly passed the couple by.
The auction also has works by other artists and is certainly slated to touch new frontiers in terms of realistic notions for its hand picked quality of exclusive gems.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Saffronart Spring Auction
Dengan url
http://osteoporosista.blogspot.com/2013/03/saffronart-spring-auction.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Saffronart Spring Auction
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar