India Focus

Two architectures of glass and iron house in the capital of major events, to offer hospitality to Indian culture and the forms it takes in the visual arts of our time.

These institutions foster a dozen other proposals that share their way of samples of this otherwise fascinating. Typical exotic, India suffers today probably the monolithic character of Bollywood in which it is always more comfortable to confine it. And an exhibition that respects this land should be able to go beyond the caricature.

"A picture is expected too (picture) does not seem right, even if it is. "
(Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography , Edition Gallimard, 1975)

It is an international star, now comparable to other affluent peers that drive the scandals and joys of the art market. Anish Kapoor was honored by four events that allow it to adapt its minimalism sensitive different contexts: a prestigious industrial hall, a gallery, a church and the virtual space of a website. Under the canopy, the artist met the challenge of monumental, plunging initially reduced gauge of spectators in the color nude, powerful, no longer fit, but feeling alone. The intensity glowing absorbs any reluctance sensitivities and drowns in a relentless monochrome breathing by hours of day and night. The public is then expelled in the familiarity of the nave, where everyone can enjoy the contours of the volume in which his mind was lost a few minutes. And compete with it. Until June 23, 2011 Grand Palace - Main Gate Avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 Paris 01 44 13 17 30 Monday and Wednesday from 10h to 19h and from Thursday to Sunday from 10am to midnight.




In addition to this work motivates superlatives, Anish Kapoor is also known to bow to domestic and dimensions shown in the French merchant who is now with a few sculptures always exciting our eyes, spectacular or discreet. Until July 23, 2011 Galerie Kamel Mennour 47, rue Saint-Andr des Arts - 75006 Paris January 56 March 24 63 Tuesday to Saturday from 11h to 19h




And among the casts of Fine Arts, massive cement lined cells. Not strictly optical effects this time, but a constructive principle disturbing, making the mineral volume almost tender, sinking here and there to suit the weight of the material. Until June 11, 2011 Chapelle des Petits-Augustins Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts 14 rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris 01 47 03 50 00 Tuesday to Sunday from 11h to 19h




Finally, a dozen projects of the artist were appropriate to the scale of the city using technology to experiment online. (Www.urbandive.com / Monumenta)

This news led many rich gallery of Indian artists to be invited for an initial collaboration or otherwise confirm commitments with those already incorporated into their team.