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One of the biggest icons of of the Twin Towers merging with
1980s German Neo-expressionism, the blasted aesthetics of countless
All the Raj
Anselm Kiefer has built on the conflict zones. Aperiatur Terra has
successes of last year with a crescendo since toured to the Art Gallery of
of major exhibitions in 2007. After New South Wales, Sydney. Since
Indians, both living in India and outside (Non
museum shows in Montreal and then, the Guggenheim Bilbao
Resident Indians) almost only buy Indian artists.
San Francisco, Kiefer hit his stride has hosted a massive six-month
this year with a major solo show at retrospective of Kiefer’s work, during
Names such as Francis Newton Souza, M.F.
White Cube Mason’s Yard. Aperiatur which time he has managed to fill the
Husain and Tyeb Mehta are revered, but are
Terra furthered the sixty-two-year- atrium of Paris’s Grand Palais with
not necessarily to Western tastes. Those that
old artist’s interest in the symbolic an installation of truly apocalyptic
and the mythological, drawing on proportions. This autumn sees the
are to Western tastes, however (such as Subodh Biblical texts alluding to the coming opening of a special commission
Gupta), are getting snapped up quick, and prices
of Christ to produce a massive at the Louvre. Now the question
for their works are rising.
installation of painting and sculpture. could be; can Kiefer’s work get any
Kiefer scored a simultaneous hit bigger?
with the architectural sculpture
Neville Tuli (see 99)
Jericho, two tottering towers of
Founder of Mumbai-based auction house Osian’s, a one-man
reinforced concrete that dominated
tornado with a wealth of projects brewing.
the courtyard of the nearby Royal
Academy of Arts; allegorical echoes
Subodh Gupta (see 85)
An artist who has captured the attention of certain noteworthy
collectors: for evidence look no further than his Very Hungry God
(2006), stationed outside the Palazzo Grassi.
Masanori Fukuoka
He is not Indian – he’s Japanese. But he does own a vast collection 69
of Indian art and the Glenbarra museum in Himeji near Osaka,
which he founded in 1991, houses exclusively contemporary
Indian art.
Anselm Kiefer
Anupam Poddar (see 100)
Category: Artist
A paper and hotels magnate who collects primarily Indian art and
Nationality: German
is due to open a not-for-profit space in Delhi next year. A selection
Last Year: 88
of his 3,000-strong collection of works was recently on show at
Berlin’s DaimlerChrysler Contemporary.
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Aby Rosen
Category: Collector
Nationality: German
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The New York real-estate developer – dusted off his starry Rolodex and
Aby Rosen is a man with big buildings, brought a number of art and social
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big ambition and the art to match. celebrities to testify to the project’s
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– such as the Seagram Building, the publicity-shy, and like many men
Gramercy Park Hotel and the Lever with starry rolodexes, he sees his
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House – and then restoring them artistic counterpart in showmen
to their former glory; a move that like Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and
endears him to most but not all. In Damien Hirst – all artists represented
a recent real-estate controversy, in his collection, as are other top-tier
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Norman Foster-designed skyscraper Christopher Wool and Sol LeWitt.
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