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Christie's offer Indian art at Hong Kong sale
New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) Artworks from India and Pakistan
would figure prominently at Christie's upcoming Autumn sale of
contemporary art in Hong Kong.
The leading auction house which had grossed over Rs 21
crore, the highest total ever for Indian and Pakistan art, in
May 2008 would put up a selection of works from Subodh Gupta,
T V Santosh, Jitish Kallat Thukral and Tagra among others.
In order to offer collectors a unique cross-cultural
view of the current dynamic art in Asia works of artists from
China, Japan and Korea would also figure at the day and night
sale on November 30 and December 1 according to information
released by Christie's.
Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta's two oil on
canvasses are put up for the sale. The first'Doot' (Ambassador
car) painted in 2003 is estimated to sell between Rs
25,854,517.01 and Rs 38,789,179.90. Another untitled oil on
canvas is estimated to fetch between Rs 22,631,346.11 and Rs
32,330,147.42.
Gupta utilizes the cliche of colonial style Ambassador
car to comment on the greater social ills of political
corruption and power struggles to explore and expose anxieties
about the rapid pace of change taking place in his homeland.
'Re-Ornamented' by Rashid Rana, one of the leading
artists from Pakistan is a digital image of a temple by
combining several pixels of ubiquitous advertisements.
Christie's, which holds sales of modern and contemporary
art in New York, London and Hong Kong had totaled global sales
of USD 6.3 billion in 2007 marking the highest total in
company and in art auction history. For the first half of
2008, art sales totaled USD 3.5 billion.
The untitled canvas by Gupta employs stainless steel
utensils to question the the dramatic shifts in wealth that
have accompanied India's recent economic boom and its effect
on the nation's ancient, agrarian and deeply spiritual
culture.
'Tracing an ancient error,' TV Santosh's oil on canvas
is estimated to fetch between Rs 6,467,181.27 and Rs
9,697,821.0600 depicts the 2006 Mumbai train blasts.
Collaborative artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra
draw from a wide variety of stylistic devices and media in
'Phantom @ XIB-V' to carefully juxtapose a variety of every
day observations in an extraordinary way. PTI ANS
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would figure prominently at Christie's upcoming Autumn sale of
contemporary art in Hong Kong.
The leading auction house which had grossed over Rs 21
crore, the highest total ever for Indian and Pakistan art, in
May 2008 would put up a selection of works from Subodh Gupta,
T V Santosh, Jitish Kallat Thukral and Tagra among others.
In order to offer collectors a unique cross-cultural
view of the current dynamic art in Asia works of artists from
China, Japan and Korea would also figure at the day and night
sale on November 30 and December 1 according to information
released by Christie's.
Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta's two oil on
canvasses are put up for the sale. The first'Doot' (Ambassador
car) painted in 2003 is estimated to sell between Rs
25,854,517.01 and Rs 38,789,179.90. Another untitled oil on
canvas is estimated to fetch between Rs 22,631,346.11 and Rs
32,330,147.42.
Gupta utilizes the cliche of colonial style Ambassador
car to comment on the greater social ills of political
corruption and power struggles to explore and expose anxieties
about the rapid pace of change taking place in his homeland.
'Re-Ornamented' by Rashid Rana, one of the leading
artists from Pakistan is a digital image of a temple by
combining several pixels of ubiquitous advertisements.
Christie's, which holds sales of modern and contemporary
art in New York, London and Hong Kong had totaled global sales
of USD 6.3 billion in 2007 marking the highest total in
company and in art auction history. For the first half of
2008, art sales totaled USD 3.5 billion.
The untitled canvas by Gupta employs stainless steel
utensils to question the the dramatic shifts in wealth that
have accompanied India's recent economic boom and its effect
on the nation's ancient, agrarian and deeply spiritual
culture.
'Tracing an ancient error,' TV Santosh's oil on canvas
is estimated to fetch between Rs 6,467,181.27 and Rs
9,697,821.0600 depicts the 2006 Mumbai train blasts.
Collaborative artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra
draw from a wide variety of stylistic devices and media in
'Phantom @ XIB-V' to carefully juxtapose a variety of every
day observations in an extraordinary way. PTI ANS
DEP
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