Kumari Selja inaugurates contemporary photography exhibition
March 10th, 2011 - 9:51 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): Union Culture Minister Kumari Selja today inaugurated an exhibition of contemporary photography from the Victoria and Albert Museum - “Something That I’ll Never Really See.”
Speaking on the occasion, Selja said: “Victoria and Albert Museum has been playing an active role in cementing bilateral cultural relations between India and United Kingdom. “Even before an MoU on cultural exchange was signed between the two countries in July 2010, Victoria & Albert Museum had an agreement with the Ministry of Culture, under which several exhibitions entitled ‘Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists’ were hosted in different metros of India,” she added.
Selja said, signing of an MoU between India and United Kingdom on Culture in 2010 after 63 years of bilateral relations was a historic occasion. It marks a new chapter in our cultural relations, which have a legacy of several centuries. But, we now need to carry forward into the 21st century, in a vastly changed paradigm.
She said, the exhibition has been drawn from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum that has been avidly collecting photographic works, and includes some of the most innovative works created during a pivotal period in photographic history.
“The selection explores a broad array of styles both by internationally well-known names as well as emerging talents. This is the first time that this eclectic collection of works is being showcased at a series of venues outside of the U.K.,” she added.
She further said that over the past two decades photography has become an integral part of the world of contemporary art.
Kumari Selja said that her Ministry is aiming to actualize much such dynamic collaboration, in an endeavour to bring the international world of art and culture to India, and to take the Indian art and culture to audiences worldwide.
Congratulating the Victoria and Albert Museum for holding this exhibition in India, Selja expressed the hope that they will now take a lead for hosting reciprocal exhibitions of Indian art and photography in London.
Work by internationally-acclaimed photographers such as Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and leading fashion photographer Tim Walker are on show as part of this exhibition.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has the UK’s national collection of photography, and this exhibition, curated by Martin Barnes, presents 40 works of over 30 artists from pivotal moments in photographic history. (ANI)
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