As in most cities, Bangalore Art Galleries are scattered in small pockets, in different areas. One of these is the Cunningham-M.G-Lavelle Road neighbourhood, very much in the heart of the city.
Crimson Art Resource, Renaissance Gallery, Gallery Blue Spade, Time and Space, Gallery G and Tasveer are all located nearby - so that a buyer or an enthusiast - can "do the gallery circuit," in the words of the receptionist at Blue Spade.
Most of these galleries depend heavily on the walk-in crowd as their clientele. This makes it doubly important that they are well located. However, due to the current slump in the art market in Bangalore, the business isn't booming. Gallery Time and Space, for examples, sells 30-35 pieces of work every month, and the gallery stocks a variety of price-ranges. Blue Spade has approximately one buyer every month for their "high-end" collection. Renaissance, a page 3 gallery, has had to resort to rent out their exhibition space where they would once only work with consignments.
Each of these galleries, owned by different people, are completely different spaces. Apart from the fact that the artwork they stock is selected differently, with each gallery's ideologies in mind - the spaces themselves range from a naturally lit hallway in a colonial bungalow(Crimson), shaded by a tiled roof to an artificially lit small basement room with a central pillar(Blue Spade).
Consequently, the experience of the display in each of these galleries is quite unique - although they belong to the same "art walk." This makes this particular gallery circuit very different from, say - Lado Sarai in Delhi, a street with lines of different art galleries, all with similar interiors and stock.
No comments:
Post a Comment