Enkita Arts is the first website by a multinational organisation to focus
on Indian art exclusively as part of its endeavour to
keep Indian and international audiences all over the world
in touch with today’s fast-moving world of contemporary
Indian art. In the wake of the much celebrated growth
and recognition of contemporary Indian art, its effects
on art making and art consuming practices, will be examined
by our internationally renowned experts. While exploring
the endless possibilities of a liberated Indian art scene,
the idea is to serve as a platform for art making, critical
re-evaluation, reformulations of notions of art and artistic
practices, seeking to radicalize the definition of art.
The idea is to focus on art and artists who have the potential
to or already are important in shaping the history of,
contemporary Indian art, or attempting to explore new
directions. Our chosen mandate is art that is both mainstream
and fringe. Fully celebrating the potential of the mainstream,
we will try to negotiate the ephemeral space between the
dynamics of the ‘emergent’, ‘dominant’,
and the ‘residual’ forces within contemporary
artistic practices. Not treating the hugely vibrant traditional,
folk and tribal arts as second grade activity, the idea
will be to help provide a platform to arts and artists
from diverse regions of the country to international audiences.
