The Indian Art Fair ended last week in New Delhi, highlighting a community of collectors eager to support India’s booming contemporary art world, a sector that is steadily embracing a more global outlook. News of the fair’s recent announcement of its expansion to Mumbai strengthened the city’s emergence as a cultural powerhouse. The debut of the work from the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai is the first to introduce the debut of the work in the Dia Art Foundation series, a sprawling multimedia domain founded by philanthropist and art customer Patron Nita Ambani.
The opening of “Light Enters Space” today (February 13) is the concept of working with the organization and is curated by DIA’s Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan and assistant curator Min Sun Jeon. The Observer spoke with Morgan before the opening to explore her vision of an artist known for minimal aesthetic, light and space exploration in India’s rich artistic landscape, known for its complex symbolism and decoration.
The exhibition stems from Morgan’s long-term relationship with the NMACC, and she has served on the Advisory Board of the Gallery since 2018. Let’s talk about it all. “This partnership provides a new platform for DIA to bring the works in our collection to India for the first time and align with the NMACC’s mission to introduce major international contemporary artists to Indian audiences.”
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Artists included in the show include famous names for American post-war art such as John Chamberlain, Mary Coles, Walter de Maria, Dan Flavin, Nancy Holt, Robert Elwein and Robert ·Smithson, and French artist François Morelte. “The exhibition brings together a group of artists who get along with the medium, pioneering this work in the United States and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s,” Morgan said. “These artists are at the heart of the DIA collection, where they create works that broad, experience and perceive challenges,” he said. The approach remains as relevant and influential as it was first explored decades ago. “It is worth noting that although these light and space masters are celebrated around the world, it marks the first time many of these artists will be in On display in India.
All artists on the show pioneered a new immersive art concept, working with light, perception and environment, inspiring a slower, contemplative way of interaction, a relentless overdose on objects, experiences, and information The production and over-consumption of antidotes enters obsolete. Together, their desire to create meditation, touching and attractive environments discovers a fascinating and unexplored resonance of the use of light in traditional Indian spirituality. In Indian culture, light is celebrated throughout the year as a symbol and tool for purification, redemption, knowledge and joy. Diwali is a “Festive of Lights” and is a great example: a spectacular display of fireworks, lanterns and candles celebrates the victory of goodness and evil. The lighting of the lamp, or Deepas (Diyas), is the core of Hindu rituals and rituals, symbolizes wisdom, invokes blessings, purifies the environment and creates a positive atmosphere.
In the artwork selected by curators for programs and Indian religions such as Jana and Sikhism, light shapes positive spatial experiences senseably and is in some ways more spiritual and metaphysical, And ignited the external and internal meditation. Morgan explained: “Diwali is certainly a point of reference when thinking about the symbolic and spiritual importance of light in Indian culture.” She added: “At the same time, the works in this exhibition are also in line with the Indian Contemporary environment conversations. “She refers to how these works interact with neon over-advertising in the increasingly commercialized Urbanscape and the aesthetics of industrial materials. As she points out, the exhibition is similar between “the immateriality of light and the potential of brightness and the experience of work and light in the audience and the surroundings of the building” – a landscape of the American metropolis and the quality of major Indian cities in this quality. Our global culture.
“The light enters spacetransparent run Until May 11 Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai.
