Category:Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi

Template:Infobox Museum Art Alive Gallery is an art gallery located in New Delhi. Established in 2001, Art Alive Gallery is an independent and professional art gallery that is known for endorsing and supporting Indian Contemporary Art. Ever since its inception, the gallery has marked its presence with works of over two hundred senior and young artists from different parts of India. Art Alive gallery has thus sought to foster an active discourse on art by bringing together artists, buyers and critics, through regularly organized shows, retrospectives, seminars and published books. The gallery seeks to balances itself by supporting contemporary, young talent along with the likes of older, established masters^[1].

Contribution to the present art scenario is a constant factor with this gallery and it has sought to cement that aspect with a sustained interest in art publications. Amongst the archival publications are sketches on the life and art of legendary artists such as Mandala on S. H. Raza and Thota Vaikuntam on T. Vaikuntam in the ‘Master Series’, which plans to embrace different artist, and a varying range of works^[2]. The other acclaimed publication is ‘Faces of Indian Art^[3]’ which is the first volume that offers an inside view into the studio of the artist through the lens of Nemai Ghosh and has a profile text by distinguished art writers and critics. The gallery’s list of publications also include, an illustrated book of articles and visuals on Shuvaprassana two more covering the life and sculptures on K.S. Radhakrishnan, and another on Paresh Maity, and S.H Raza, the details of which are to be found on the website of the gallery.

In addition, Art Alive has very actively showcased works of august Indian artists Thota Vaikuntam and Sujata Bajaj with participation in the Singapore Art Fair, 2008^[4], it also showcased the works of 24 artists, in the Arad International Biennale, 2005^[5], Romania, and of very recently, its participation with 45 artists, in the 2nd India Art Summit (2009)^[6], and the year before with the 1st India Art Summit^[7] was widely noted. In the international front too, Art Alive gallery has actively sought to cultivate an awareness of contemporary Indian art by holding shows in the London’s Royal College of Arts (2007)^[8] which generated a considerable amount of interest.

The Art Alive gallery also supports and presents art projects of creative merit and cultural resonance through its foundation, The Art Alive Foundation (TAAF) which attempts to particularly seek and associate works that challenge the audience with new ways of perception.

Artists currently represented[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Investing in Art^[9][edit]

Getting Initiated into Art[edit]

Working from the double mantras of interest and instinct to guide the first time enthusiast about the ways of the art world. This section attempts to guide the interested but naïve audience into the manner by which they could best educate themselves about the complex workings of the contemporary art scenario.

Investing in Art[edit]

Proceeding now from an informed audience to an informed buyer is the next step of the exercise. The aim is to turn the purchase into an investment, and it breaks the myth of an extended art vocabulary as a must for the understanding and knowledge of the arts.

How to Start Investing in Art[edit]

Art investment is soon turning into a reliable and enjoyable way of investing, with better returns than those that fixed deposits or other sources offer. Putting forth a detailed and highly informative summary on the procedure and the artist on whom one could invest in, this article educates in simple terms the complex strata within.

Indian Art^[10][edit]

A Perspective on Process - By Geeti Sen[edit]

Painting is most significantly, a process of realisation: from that initial point of stimulus, reverie or impassioned response to its transposition into the mind’s eye of the artist and her/his tentative experiments – to a stage when the image is brought ‘to life’ on paper or canvas. This is the final moment of realisation; but the journey remains equally relevant.

Emerging India : Young Contemporaries - By Parul Dave Mukherjee with contributions from Giridhar Khasnis & Nandini Ghosh[edit]

A Good Taste and a Fair business sense - that is all that takes to make a smart investment in art. It is a myth that as a pre-requisite for buying art, one has to have a great art vocabulary, with the history of the evolution of art on the fingertips and a knowledge bank to distinguish one art form from another. It is instead a simpler theory.

Books on Indian Art^[11][edit]

• Nemai Ghosh Faces of Indian Art, Hardback, 392 Color Pages, 400 Photographs, Size 13.5" x 9.5" ISBN: 978-81-901844-5-8.
• S.H. Raza Art Alive Masters Series Books - A Life in Art, Hardback, 364 full color pages, Size 12" x 9.75" ISBN: 978-81-901844-4-1.
• Olivier Germain-Thomas Mandalas By Olivier Germain-Thomas, Published by Art Alive Gallery, Originally published in French by Albin Michel, Paris in 2004, Translated by Muthusamy Varadrajan & Padma Natarajan, Hardback, 128 full color pages, Size 10.25" x 10.25" ISBN: 978-81-901844-8-9.
• Paresh Maity An Enchanting Journey – Paresh Maity’s Kerala, Hardback, 224 Color Pages, Size 12" x 15" ISBN: 978-81-901844-7-2.
• Thota Vaikuntam Art Alive Masters Series Books, Hardback, 224 full color pages, Size 12" x 9.75" ISBN: 81-901844-1-5.
• K.S. Radhakrishan Book on Sculptor, Hardback, 252 full color page, Size 12" x 9.75" ISBN: 81-901844-0-7.
• Shuvaprasanna Evocative Expressions - In Quest of Krishna, Hardback, 64 full color pages, Size 13.25" x 9.75" ISBN: 81-901844-2-3.
• Art Alive Gallery Freehold, Hardback, 96 full color pages, Size 13.25" x 9.75" ISBN: 81-901844-3-1.

See also[edit]

• Indian art
• India Art Summit

Gallery[edit]

• 
  Release of the book - An Enchanting Journey : Nemai Ghosh, Paresh Maity, Rani Mukherjee, Montek Singh Alhuwalia, Ambika Soni, Mamooty.
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  Release of the book - An Enchanting Journey : Sunaina Anand, Jayasri Burman, Paresh Maity and Montek Singh Alhuwalia.
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  Featured Artists at the release of the book - Faces of Indian Art : Artists featured in the book.
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  Dubai Art Fair 2008 : Sunaina Anand, Ina Puri with M F Husain.
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  Art Alive stall at India Art Summit : Neha Kripal, Minister Ambika Soni, Rajeev Lochan and Sunaina Anand.
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  Art Alive stall at India Art Summit : Arundhuti Roy, Ina Puri and Riyas Komu.

External links[edit]

• Art Alive Gallery - Contemporary Indian Art Gallery Website
• The Art Alive Foundation, (TAAF) Website
• No Hussain canvas at summit, fans canvass for him
• Ladakh chronicler paints Eden in colours of Southeast Asia (With Images)
• Spotlight on experimental, new age works at India Art Summit
• Indian art heading East - Madhusree Chatterjee
• ‘Fiscal brake hits canvas but artists hopeful’
• ‘People tell me I’m an artist and that’s why I think I am one’
• Sakti Burman returns to Delhi with sculptures

References[edit]

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