Closing Party - Art Summit

Gallery Espace Hosts The Closing Party for Art Summit with a

preview of a drawing show titled Keep Drawing!

To celebrate the closing ceremony of India Art Summit 2008, Gallery Espace recently hosted a cocktail party on Sunday evening which coincided with the preview of ‘Keep Drawing!’ - a group exhibition of drawings by 34 eminent artists, conceptualized and designed by prominent artist Chintan Upadhyay. The works are on view from August 25, 2008 to September 13, 2008 at Gallery Espace, 16 Community Centre, New Friends Colony.

The live jazz performance and poetic verses by Murad Ali made the night even more memorable. Present on the event were Gallery Espace Director Renu Modi, Sotheby’s Deputy Chairman Henry Snyed, fashion designer Rohit Gandhi, theatre actor Sita Raina and Murad Ali, NGMA Director Rajeev Lochan with wife Yuriko Lochan, artists Satish Gujral with wife Kiran, Manu Parekh with wife Madhavi, Satish Gupta with wife Ameeta, Krishen Khanna, Subodh Gupta, Gopi Gajwani, Vivan Sundaram, Amitava Das, Chintan Upadhyay, Prayag Shukla, Manjunath Kamath, Ram Rahman, Veer Munshi, Nupur Kundu & Mekhala Bahl, cartoonist Sudhir Tailang, curator Ina Puri, Sunaina Anand, Poonam Sarin & Aarti Sarin Jain, art collectors Supriya Trikha & Anand Narayanan.

Said Renu Modi, Director, Gallery Espace: “All works in this exhibition are of an identical size of 5 feet by 3 feet and displayed in a manner such that one work merges into the next… transforming the entire exhibition into an integrated installation and thus challenging the audience to decipher the exhibit from the exhibition.”