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Iranian Artists Star at India Art Fair

January 24, 2012 by Marion Maneker

The National points out that Iranian art is about to be the star attraction at the India Art Summit:

Contemporary Iranian art from the Anupam and Lekha Poddar Collection will be unveiled at the fair’s closing party on Sunday. Curated by the Tehran-based graphic designer and curator, Amirali Ghasemi, the invitation-only event, titled “The Elephant in the Dark”, has already generated a buzz in Indian art circles, if only because Poddar is known for being a collector that is ahead of the curve.

Ghasemi, the curator of this exhibition, is himself one of the artists who is being shown at the fair by Dubai’s 1×1 gallery, along with Alireza Fani, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Nosratollah Moslemian and Pooya Aryanpour, who will be juxtaposed against five Indian artists: Rameshwar Broota, Ravinder Reddy, Chittouvanu Mazumdar, Simrin Mehran Agarwal and Biju Joze. “We have a huge captive audience in India as against, say Hong Kong, Singapore or Dubai with smaller populations,” says the owner of 1×1 gallery Malini Gulrajani, who has been showing at the IAF for the past four years.

Curators and gallerists put finishing touches to 2012 India Art Fair (The National)

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