United Art Fair 2013 at Hall Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, Pragati Maidan > 14th, 15th, 16th & 17th September 2013

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Time : 
14th September : 5:00 pm onwards 
VIP PREVIEW (by invitation only)
 Live performance by electro fusion act: "3 the people"
15th to 17th September : 11:00 am - 8:00 pm 
General Opening
Live performances by Electronica, Classical Fusion acts, Dj's & Dance performances

Entry : Tickets INR 100/- only

Place : Hall Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : United Art Fair 2013. 
While continuing with our radically new model of an artist-driven fair (as opposed to a gallery-driven fair, as most in the world are), in its second edition the United Art Fair will continue to expand on the parameters of contemporary art by looking at a wider variety of disciplines, practitioners, media and materials. Paintings, sculpture and photography will continue to be the majority of works on display, but the fair will also include examples from all fields of design (including graphic art, fashion, textiles, furniture, and ceramics) to expand on how we define "art" today. By also accommodating works from the genres of folk and tribal art, crafts and ritualarts, the fair will expand on how we define "contemporary" in India today. Boundaries between these various genres and disciplines will be breached, with exciting combinations of materials on display to challenge our preconceived categories of artistic production.

Commercial art fairs, as we know them, have proliferated across the world in the last ten years.  It has also had its positive impact in India  but despite this progress in the contemporary art scene in India there were areas that were getting stagnated. The market parameters were unable to support further expansion and the current system was not being able to accommodate the wide diversity of talent in the country.  Also the Gallery system in India though making constant efforts to work towards the expansion of the contemporary art scene in India owing to their own limitations are finding it difficult to support the vast talent pool in the country

 This is where United art fair model enters as a progressive forum and not as a competition or 
challenge to the existing infrastructure of commercial galleries or other art fairs in India, but rather an adjunct platform for undiscovered or over-looked artists who have not been able to enter the rather circumscribed gallery system.
 The United Art Fair had its premiere in September 2012. It radically ventured away from the normal art fair model, choosing instead to showcase works of art which could be sourced from artists directly, without the intermediary of a gallery or a dealer, but could be available for sale to the public visiting the fair.  Each artist would contribute to the fair by giving work of art to the organizers for their participation, while the organizers themselves would be responsible for selling the multiple works on display by each artist directly to the collectors and paying the artistsfor their works which had been sold. The scale of the fair and diversity of works on view matched that which can be seen in any large art fair anywhere in the world, while the exhibition display was characterized by a certain democratic chaos. both artists and the general public responded enthusiastically to the fair.
Website : www.unitedartfair.com

Apne Aap Exhibition as part of United Art Fair : 

Apne Aap women worldwide is showcasing an art installation titled ‘Representing Folklore: Private and Public’ to  showcase the socio-cultural and political representation of the community life of the girls who make an attempt to go on with their everyday routine life even while being stuck in prostitution.
The art installation is on display as a narration of their traumatic journey and will act as a kaleidoscope that shares tales of their everyday experiences and their constant battles to live a dignified life.

Theme of the art installation: ‘Representing Folklore: Private and Public’ 

Artists on the project: Shilpa, Kajal, Khushboo, Monica, Aarti, Rita guided by artist Mithu Sen

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