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For instance, Emami Art will be partici- positioned at the forefront of the changing
pating as an Institutional Partner of Hub face of contemporary art in India. By doing
India at Artissima International Fair of an exhibition on Artificial Intelligence, we
Contemporary Art at Torino, Italy, curated are also tapping into the future. As the
by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, world changes and adapts to new frontiers,
from November 5 to November 7. At it becomes imperative to embrace change.
Artissima 2021, Emami Art will exhibit The works by Harshit Agrawal are not only
eminent artists like Bose Krishnamachari, edgy futuristic but are also philosophical
G Ravinder Reddy, Jogen Chowdhury, and make us rethink our humanity.
Prasanta Sahu, and talented emerging
artists Arpita Akhanda, Bholanath Rudra, RM: WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS TO TAKE
Gopa Trivedi, and Maksud Ali Mondal. The EMAMI ART AND KOLKATA CENTRE FOR
gallery works in close association with CREATIVITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL, GOING
these artists. The artists have created a FORWARD?
wide range of works with diverse materials Agarwal: Think of Karu, an exhibition of
and mediums, ranging from paintings and contemporary tribal and folk art and
sculptures to installation and AI Art, which miniature paintings of India. Done by the
are part of exhibitions at the fair, plus two widely recognized artists, the large body
important museums in Torino, Italy, Oval of diverse indigenous art from different
Lingotto Fiere and Palazzo Madama. parts of the country showed the ingenuity
of the pre-modern art forms and imagi-
RM: HOW ARE YOU EMBRACING NEW nations, giving us a sense of reassurance
FORMS OF ART LIKE AI-DRIVEN ARTS AND in our troubled present. Working within
ALL? the framework of tradition, the artists
Agarwal: Emami Art recently opened its are faithful to the heritage but do not
door to India’s first solo exhibition of AI Art imitate the past blindly. In the exhibition,
featuring works by pioneering artist Harshit what attracted us were their inventive-
Agrawal and curated by Myna Mukherjee. ness and self-developed ingenuity, which,
The project has been manifested by unlike modern art, are defused and do not
Engendered, a transnational arts and human dissociate them from the shared traditions.
rights organization and is in collaboration Karu is an astonishment. It is a space for
with 64/1. Harshit Agrawal is a pioneer in enjoyment, enchantment, and ethical and
the developing genre of AI Art. He has emotional investment in promoting India’s
worked with AI art since its inception in unique indigenous visual arts.
2015. His work has been nominated twice
for the top tech art prize, the ‘Lumen’, So on one hand, we will be promoting such
and he was the only Indian artist at the folk art, painting, culture and on the other
first global group exhibition of AI Art at a we will be embracing the thing of the
contemporary gallery in 2018. Emami Art, future- AI-driven art and so on. Our focus
through its programming, is challenging will also be on conservation and restoration
art viewership. By constantly evolving of art works of various forms. Then we
with cutting edge technologies, we are will also offer market linkages to artists,

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