The capital is gearing up to welcome what could perhaps be the country’s most eventful art season. The first of three back-to-back mega art events in the capital starts Wednesday.
Global art auction house Christie’s will get the ball rolling with a preview at the Imperial hotel here of a collection of South Asian modern and contemporary art for its Sep 26 New York auction.
The preview will be followed by the country’s first art fair on an international scale at the Pragati Maidan Aug 22-24 - the India Art Summit.
International auctioneer Sotheby’s will bring to India a body of 15 works by the world’s most expensive artist Damien Hirst at the Oberoi hotel Aug 27-28.
This is the first time India will get to see works by the leading British contemporary artist Hirst, whose installation art, ‘For the Love of God’, sold for a record $100 million in an auction last year.
‘The show, part of of a collection,’Beautiful In My Head Forever’, will be accompanied by a lecture on the art of Damien Hirst by a close confidante of the artist, Oliver Barker,’ deputy director of Sothbey’s Maithili Parekh told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
‘We will also organise two lectures - one on the influence of post-war master Francis Bacon on top-selling Indian artist Tyeb Mehta and another on the opulent jewellery of the 1950s.’
According to Parekh, this is one of the most exciting art shows Delhi is going to see this season.
