As many as 272 galleries from 33 countries / cities, including two from India – Experimenter (Calcutta) and the Chemould Gallery (Mumbai) are participating in this prestigious exhibition in Switzerland..
Art Basel 2021 is back with a bounce to its physical form and will be held from September 24-26 at Messe Basel.
As many as 272 galleries from 33 countries/cities, including two from India – Experimenter (Calcutta) and the Chemould Gallery (Mumbai) are participating in this prestigious exhibition in Switzerland..
The participating galleries are from Europe, Asia, North and South America, as well as the Middle East and Africa. The 2020 edition of the exhibition was cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Artworks by six artists, who form the Chemould component, reflect on the individual struggles and conflicts the artists went through during the pandemic’s nerve-wracking stress, trauma, and heartbreak.
Gallery director Shireen Gandhy says: “Last year, the global art world came to a sudden pause in the face of a worldwide pandemic. But not everything stopped. While some artists went silent, and some were unable to access their studios, others sat by a desk and drew every day, and some were productive like never before”.
She goes on to add: “Artist NS Harsha paints the Greek Goddess Themis (Goddess of wisdom and good counsel) as a local Mysore schoolgirl, with a grocery bag, to give voice to the countless unseen women caught in the domestic trap of contemporary society”.
Another artist Atul Dodiya’s set of six sketches capture his response to the events he learned of through the news during that time.
Gallery director Shireen Gandhy says: “Last year, the global art world came to a sudden pause. But not everything stopped. Some artists went silent, some were unable to access their studios, and others sat by a desk and drew every day
The gallery will also bring works by Anju Dodiya, Mithu Sen, Jitish Kallat, and Ritesh Meshram.
Kolkata-based Experimenter gallery’s show at the fair titled “The Production of Body-Spatiality” will feature works by artists like Ayesha Sultana, Bani Abidi, Biraaj Dodiya, Praneet Soi, Prabhakar Pachpute, Radhika Khimji, Rathin Barman, Samson Young and Sakshi Gupta.
Priyanka Raja, co-founder of the Kolkata gallery, says: “We are excited to return to Art Basel this year in its physical form. The exhibition is rooted in ideas of the body and brings together the work of key artists, all of whom are breaking ground across the world,”
The works at the exhibition will include artworks across all media, ranging from rare and historical masterpieces to new works by today’s emerging artists.
In addition, the fair will also present 62 large-scale artworks in ‘Unlimited’, 20 site-specific projects as part of ‘Parcours’, a Film programme, and the fair’s renowned talks series, ‘Conversations’.
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