• Saturday, April 20, 2024

Arts and Culture

Venice Biennale display features Indian artists who channelled Mahatma Gandhi’s life

Covering Letter by Jitish Kallat

By: Keerthi Mohan

by AMIT ROY THIS is only the second time that India has had a pavilion of its own at the Venice Biennale – the last occasion was in 2011 – but it is being held up by critics at the world’s biggest festival of art as “one of the very best”. This is emphatically the opinion, for example, of Sundaram Tagore, who owns art galleries in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore and who has been showing his own documentary, Tiger City, on the architect Louis Kahn, at the biennale. Tagore marvels at the way seven carefully chosen Indian artists…

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