Tamarind Celebrates Asian Contemporary Art Week

Tamarind Art proudly presents Creative Circuit: Indian Contemporaries, a museum-quality show of paintings and sculptures from the Charugundla collection featuring some of the most provocative artists in today’s Indian art scene. These works will showcase some of the contemporary artists who are currently setting the standards in the Indian art market, and a few whose names may not be well known but are poised to become so.

Featured artists include Samir Aich, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jayashree Chakravarty, Avinash Chandra, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Sumana Chowdhury, Samit Das, Pratul Dash, Ganesh Haloi, Prabhakar Kolte, Mahjabin Majumdar, Kamal Mitra, Anil Sen, and Hema Upadhyay.

Opening reception will be 19 March 2008 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pmRSVP - rsvp@tamarindart.com. The exhibition will run from 19 March – 5 April 2008.

About Asian Contemporary Art Week

Over 100 artists will present their works at 60 special events, including receptions, exhibition-viewings, screenings, artists’ conversations and walkthroughs at 46 leading galleries and museums across New York City. Since its inception in 2001, ACAW continues to respond to the rise in public interest and demand for knowledge about artists producing works both inside and outside of Asia.

Participants include an incredibly diverse and broad array of presenting venues, as well as an ever-expanding list of artists from almost every region of Asia. China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and for the first time, the Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.

In its fifth year, ACAW launches a series of talks to highlight the week entitled Artists in Conversation. Nominated by a number of art experts from the region, over 75 leading and emerging artists submitted their portfolios from which 25 were selected by the ACAC to speak about their works and concepts at participating venues.