Linke - Artinfo
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64<br />
When<br />
What’s What’s<br />
neW is<br />
heritage,<br />
too<br />
Progressive<br />
and contemporary<br />
Indian art are<br />
Kiran Nadar’s passions<br />
BY ROSALYN D’MELLO<br />
in april 2012 more than a few visitors to the dlf<br />
Place mall in Saket, New Delhi, believed they had come<br />
upon an unconventional retail display of stainless<br />
steel pots and pans in the form of a soaring mushroom<br />
cloud, nearly 33 feet tall. The installation was, in fact, the<br />
monumental sculpture Line of Control, a 2008 work by<br />
Subodh Gupta, the reigning star of contemporary Indian<br />
art. The baffled visitors had unknowingly left the mall<br />
proper and entered the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (knma),<br />
an 18,000-square-foot exhibition space that opened<br />
in 2011 and bears the name of the collector, patron, and<br />
philanthropist who founded it.<br />
Line of Control debuted in London in the 2009<br />
Tate Triennial, which is where Nadar first encountered the<br />
MARCH/APRIL 2013 | Blouin<strong>Artinfo</strong>.comAsiA<br />
KNMA, New Delhi; OppOsite: RAM RAhMAN<br />
Blouin<strong>Artinfo</strong>.comAsiA | march/april 2013<br />
thecollector<br />
Subodh Gupta’s Line<br />
of Control, 2008,<br />
a 32¾-foot-tall<br />
mushroom cloud of<br />
stainless-steel<br />
kitchen utensils, was<br />
installed last spring<br />
at the Kiran Nadar<br />
Museum of Art in<br />
Saket, New Delhi.<br />
Opposite: Kiran<br />
Nadar at her New<br />
Delhi home. Behind<br />
her hangs Raja Ravi<br />
Varma’s Shakuntala<br />
Patralekhan, 1894.
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