NRI company, S A
Fine Arts of London will promote Indian art.
Art Alive ties up with a UK-based
organisation to promote Indian art.
London, Nov 27, 2005
Express India
Kolkata
Aparna Chandra
The international spotlight on Indian art has just
got bigger. While London’s Grosvenor House and
Berkley Square Gallery are increasingly organizing
Indian art shows — saffronart will hold its winter
auction at Berkley next year and T V Santosh’s
exhibition titled False Promises will take place at
Grosvenor in 2006 — Delhi-based Art Alive gallery
has quietly sealed a deal with a London-based organisation
called S A Fine Arts to promote Indian art.
Run by London-based art promoter Sangeeta
Ahuja, who owns S A Fine Arts, it plans to showcase
several Indian artists in London. Through this partnership,
a show of T Vaikuntham was organized in the UK capital,
where all the 28 works priced between £ 900
and £ 9,000 got sold last week.
Anand says Vaikuntam’s works have received an
encouraging response not just from NRI collectors
but from ‘‘Europeans patrons’’
as well. ‘‘In fact, we also got inquires
from collectors based in Geneva and Paris. And this
doesn’t have anything to do with pre-conceived
notions about Indian exotica but out of genuine interest
in Indian contemporary modern art.’’
Meanwhile, Anand, who recently moved
her gallery from a Greater Kailash basement to a bigger
space in Panscheel Park, is keeping her fingers crossed.
She has two big international shows coming up in London
and Geneva next year.
