A amazing and informative evening spent at The Fushcia Futures Art Event.

I was lucky enough to win an invite to an exclusive event by The Fuschia Tree Online art gallery. This was an exclusive event organized to launch their ambitious Fuschia Futures program, held at the Trident Hotel Mumbai on the 12 th of March.
The event was also targeted at educating the collectors about the intricacies of collecting meaningful art, through the discussions of the eminent panel members. The panelists were from a diverse cross section of the art world. These included, Anders Petterson, Louisa Buck, Dr. Alka Pandey, Anupa Mehta and Arshiya Lokhandwala.
The event was moderated by Sharmishta Ray. Each an expert in their field.

        Being one of the few artists present in the audience, my perspective of the discussion held was perhaps a little different.A variety of topics were discussed ranging from how the value of a particular art work appreciates, to the role of art critics in educating not just the collectors but also the public in general.
The major topic that seemed to overlap all these other discussions was how the Indian Art market was different form the international or 'western' art market. One of the major point under this subject was the lack of good museum spaces and public institutions for showcasing contemporary art, most artists even most collectors in India  have to solely depend upon art gallery spaces for any kind of  interaction with contemporary art.
        While I found the entire evening riveting  and educational, the one or two subjects that were meant solely for the artists attention were, that as an artist we must try to build a long term relation with the gallery that we are dealing with, rather than just have a short term deal that may seem lucrative at the time, but would probably run out of steam rather quickly.
         Coming back to the stars of the show the artists that had been chosen through a rigorous procedure and then some extensive training withe the expert jury members. Their work was seriously thought provoking, the fact that artists at such an initial stage in their careers had developed such a deep style, surely had me going back to my drawing board :)!!