Online BusinessSaffronart online art auction begins on June 10
"Saffronart", a leading art auction house in the city will host its annual summer online-art-auction of "Modern and Contemporary Indian Art" comprising works of 57 noted artists on June 10 and 11.
The auction will take place at www.Saffronart.Com.
Another significant modern work is Akbar Padamsee"s untitled canvas from his "Metascape" series.
Through his rugged, sweeping landscapes, meticulously faceted with a palette knife, Padamsee manages to simultaneously freeze the passage of time and communicate an impression of the interminable.
These unyielding vistas are marked by other oppositions as well. They are quiet, yet commanding; engaging, yet distant. The artist skillfully uses scale, texture and a dramatic primary palette to convey the overwhelming presence and power of nature in these works.
Also included in the sale is an untitled 2006 canvas by Subodh Gupta, where the artist juxtaposes the polished with the tarnished, the new with the old, bringing into focus the dualistic quality of stainless steel, and, by extension, the dualities of life in India following the country"s dramatic economic liberalisation in the 1990s. Pushing the viewer to question value, and the unique ways in which it is translated from traditional to contemporary contexts, this scene foregrounds the importance of outliers and departures from the flattening norms of globalisation and the immense significance of the local within the ascendant global matrix.
Also featuring amongst the contemporary works is Hema Upadhyay landmark mixed-media work, "Bleeding Hearts". Combining performance with painting, the personal with the political, Upadhyay"s works raise issues of loss, disenchantment and dislocation in modern urban life and, more generally, questions of security and survival in todays violent world.
The artist"s "Bleeding Hearts" series of works is part of her response to violence, both political and domestic, and its aftermath.
In these large works on paper, the artist questions the value of flippant apologies, and whether the deep hurt and wounds caused by such violence can be erased, particularly by decorative or showy flourishes.
The total lower and higher estimates for this auction are Rs 11 crore ($2.3 million) and Rs. 13.9 crore ($3 million) respectively.
The sale will also be accompanied by a illustrated print catalogue, also available online at www.Saffronart.Com.