Gurugram. BMW Group India is the presenting associate of the most recent version of India Art Fair from February 1–4, 2024 on the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. India Art Fair is the main platform for showcasing trendy and up to date artwork in India and South Asia. The truthful has introduced a whole bunch of artists from the area to the world’s consideration over its many profitable editions.
Mr. Vikram Pawah, President, BMW Group India stated, “BMW Group India is deeply committed to nurturing corporate citizenship and fostering intercultural dialogue, integral to our societal responsibilities. We are proud partners for the fair, as it celebrates 15 incredible years of establishing itself as the leading platform for discovering modern and contemporary art in India and South Asia. As the ‘Presenting Partner’ of the India Art Fair, we have been instrumental in promoting the growth and visibility of modern Indian art and artists. This year, BMW India is excited to unveil the third installment of the ‘Future is Born of Art’ commission. We invite art and automobile enthusiasts alike to join us in exploring new realms of creative expression at the India Art Fair.”
BMW Group India has supported the evolution and publicity of recent up to date Indian artwork and artists since 2012. Through this 12 months’s collaboration, BMW India will exhibit the first-ever absolutely electrical BMW i7 sedan as a part of third ‘The Future is Born of Art’ fee and host the BMW Art Talk on the theme ‘Through the Looking Glass’.
The first-ever BMW i7 is a real all-electric luxurious sedan that clearly demonstrates how an unique driving expertise might be mixed with an unwavering dedication to sustainability. The i7 presents all-electric innovation, visionary design, and highly effective driving dynamics so as to make a hanging impression in all places you go. Built for the luminaries with next-level type and substance, it’s undeniably alluring from the within out.
‘The Future is Born of Art’ fee is an initiative by BMW India and India Art Fair which goals to propel rising Indian artists and enhance BMW Group’s dedication to advertise artwork, sustainability and innovation. BMW India will showcase its third fee based mostly on the theme ‘Forwardism’.
Sashikanth Thavudoz is the winner of the third version of ‘The Future is Born of Art’ fee, following Faiza Hasan and Devika Sundar, the winners of the 2022 and 2023 commissions, respectively. Selected by the advisory panel comprising of HRH Radhikaraje Gaekwad – a distinguished patron and conservationist, Jaya Asokan – director, India Art Fair, Veeranganakumari Solanki, curator and Sameer Kulavoor, up to date artist.
For his set up on the India Art Fair, titled ‘Symphony of Nature: The Harmonic Forest’, Thavudoz has mixed supplies and mediums from his previous experiences and tasks, together with illuminated lights and wooden blocks, right into a multi-sensory and immersive expertise. In-line with the theme ‘Forwardism’, the set up is greater than an idea. It is an ongoing journey of the artist emphasizing accountable creativity amidst change. It combines pure and manufactured supplies that goals to focus on the fragility of this stability that we should all contemplate as we go into the long run.
BMW Art Talk on the theme of ‘Through the Looking Glass’ will probably be hosted on February 2, 2024 on the India Art Fair. Three ground-breaking up to date artists, Anita Dube, Barthélémy Toguo and Jitish Kallat share the inspiring tales of their inventive journeys in a candid dialog with Prof. Dr. Thomas Girst, Global Head, BMW Group Cultural Engagement.
Both Dube and Kallat have been main the Kochi-Muziris Biennale as creative administrators in 2018, and 2014, respectively. BMW is a dedicated long-term associate of the biennial because it’s inception in 2012.