Christie’s too hails KMB as cultural achievement of worldwide vitality
New Delhi, Jan 31: The ongoing Kochi-Muziris
Biennale (KMB) has succeeded in ensuring that a chunk of its exhibits
“brilliantly” follow the curatorial theme so as to become a “milestone” in
modern contemporary art, according to renowned cultural activist and
philanthropist Kiran Nadar.
Addressing art lovers and patrons at her
residence in the national capital, the veteran art collector said she “enjoyed
tremendously” the 108-day exhibition which is based on ‘Whorled Explorations’
that deliberates across axes of time and space to interlace the bygone with the
imminent.
“It is a must-visit. Those of you who haven’t
been to the biennale, should go there at the earliest,” she said at the
function organised, in association with leading fine arts auction house
Christie’s, to honour the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) for having
successfully organised the second chapter of India’s only such event of its
kind.
Present on the occasion were KMB’14 curator
Jitish Kallat besides KBF president Bose Krishnamachari, secretary Riyas Komu
and top functionaries such as Bonny Thomas, Shwetal Patel and Abhayan Varghese.
Speaking on Friday evening after a lunch she
hosted on the occasion, Ms Nadar said she particularly enjoyed the KMB’14 works
of Anish Kapoor, Madhusudhanan, Aji V N, Bharti Kher and Gigi Scaria.
Christie’s Director (Asian Art) Amin Jaffer said
KMB’14 has been a “cultural achievement” of worldwide significance — both for
its quality of curatorship and the works of art.
“What’s more, it has got a unique setting,” he
added. “Kochi is one Indian city that has an enchanting history of centuries of
contacts with the outside world. The biennale has well reflected that ethos.”
Ms Nadar, who is the founder of the Kiran Nadar
Museum of Art and a trustee of Shiv Nadar Foundation instituted after her
entrepreneur husband, said KMB’14 has retained its world-class artistic spirit
in the second edition. “I would say the proportion of the Indian and foreign
artists (at the biennale) is ideal and fair,” she opined.
The debut KMB (in 2012) “saw things falling into
place after being a bit disorganised initially”. The ongoing show, which is on
from December 12, 2014, is “all cohesive right from its start”, Ms Nadar noted.
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