Monday, February 21, 2011

Mint: The museum of ‘wow’


The museum of ‘wow’

How one collector’s showpieces might make the country’s largest museum of contemporary art accessible to all kinds of art lovers

The first work one encounters on entering the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is artist Bharti Kher’s lifesize elephant sculpture. The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own, which depicts a fibreglass elephant down on its knees with over 100,000 sperm-shaped bindis arranged in whorls on its skin, made auction history at Sotheby’s in London in June when it sold for around R
s.
7 crore.

Monumental: (from top) Nadar in front of Sudarshan Shetty’s Taj Mahal installation (2008) at the KNMA; A. Ramachandran’s Genesis of Kurukshetra (2005); and Subodh Gupta’s Family on Scooter (2006). Photographs by Priyanka Parashar/Mint

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