Jitish Kallat at Nature Morte (Above)
We do hope that next year India Art Fair challenges expectations
and these are our suggestions for achieving that end:-
1.
Again, we say that IAF
should consider either
personally bringing in or
subsidising the entry of top
international galleries, who will surely
bring an edge.
2.
Secondly, let artists work on
specific projects like Saffron
Art’s ‘Monumental to the
Odd,’ which could have been
debuted here, a large number of works
that have never been seen. That would
have given a spark to the event.
3.
Also, many exhibitors don’t
have real ‘gallery spaces’
and have just opened
‘transaction shops’ hoping
to close sales in these 4 days. Such
elements are not healthy for the
already ailing Indian art market and we
feel that the organisers should look
into this issue and focus on quality
rather than quantity.
4.
Support International artists
and/or galleries who can
bring in cutting edge art. The
images from Rashid Rana’s
work in 2012 and the works by White
Cube and Lisson are still fresh in our
memories.