Written by Vandana Kalra |Published: April 12, 2019 12:44:01 am
Take a Modernist Home
The CIMA Art Mela promises an array of artwork at competitive prices. It will be held from April 12 to 16 at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
In 2008, months before the Lehman Brothers debacle brought the chips down in the art market as well, Rakhi Sarkar, director of Kolkata-based CIMA art gallery was trying to find new ways to expand the narrowing base of art collectors in India. She found inspiration in Nandan Mela, Santiniketan’s annual art fair conceived in 1973, where teachers and students would sell their work together to garner funds. “Till the 1990s, a lot of upper-middle-class professionals could afford art, but when the prices soared during the boom, this segment found it very expensive. Art became a prerogative of a few and could not reach average homes, which began to concern senior artists because those people truly appreciated art,” says Sarkar.
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