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The maverick Chinese artist/activist marks a presence at this year's fair with two works at Berlin-based gallery Neugerriemschneider, a first-time participant at the fair. The tree in the foreground, one of them, may look like a regular wooden one, but it's actually made of cast iron and so heavy a crane was needed to install it.
A large retrospective of this little-seen Bengal master, comprising sketches, reproductions of his murals, scrolls and the paper collages he made after he lost his vision little-seen Bengal master painter. Also being screened is Inner Eye, a film that Satyajit Ray made on the artist he credited with forming his aesthetic vision.
This year's fair tent, a dramatic play of monochrome, has been specially commissioned by the Mumbai-based Instagram artist known only by his handle – @thebigfatminimalist. The patterns, minimal yet striking, are apparently taken from road signs found all around Delhi.
There's a David Hockney at the fair – the BMW Art Car he painted in 1995. Why should you care? Well because he's about the most influential pop artists of the 1960s and is the most expensive living artist – a painting by him sold for $90.3 million last November. Go check out the 'rolling sculpture' in funky brown, white, green and some black.
TIRAF, as this venture, calls itself has all the 'other' artists and artworks that don't, or haven't yet, found a dekko at the NSIC art fair grounds. In its second year now, it's grown to include more than 130 artists, 30 performances, a mural and poster show, and a reading room with zines and sketchbooks.
24 Jor Bagh, The Gujral Fundation's atmospheric bungalow-art space is the site of this rather novel site-specific artwork that brings together hymns from the Rig Veda, drawing connections with the Zoroastrian Avesta and the Jewish Torah. An immersive experience with photographs, sounds and video.
