The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley is delighted to launch Vital Love: Collectors Speak Series, a new speaker series that addresses the collecting of South Asian art from the early modern period to the present and its intersections with art history and museum practices. The Series features conversations among collectors, art professionals, curators, and scholars of South Asian art.
The inaugural event features a conversation between noted collectors of Indian art, Jane and Kito de Boer and International Head of Department for Contemporary Indian & Southeast Asian Art at Christie's, Deepanjana D. Klein .
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DATE: Friday, September 18, 2020
TIME: 9am Berkeley | 5pm London | 9pm Lahore | 9:30pm New Delhi | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Speaker Bios
Jane and Kito de Boer , are noted collectors of South Asian art. Their collection, located in New Delhi, London and Dubai and numbering about 1,000 pieces, is one of the largest and most varied collections of modern Indian art in private hands, according to the introduction to a book on the collection by Giles Tilloston titled Modern Indian Painting: From The De Boer Collection. The collection includes works by Ganesh Pyne, Rameshwar Broota, S. H. Raza, Francis Newton Souza, A Ramachandran, Vasudeo Gaitonde, M. F. Husain and K Lama Goud.
Deepanjana K. Klein is the International Head of Department for Contemporary Indian & Southeast Asian Art. Prior to joining Christies she had been an independent curator in New York City and has numerous exhibitions of contemporary Indian art to her credit. Deepanjana played a central role in acquiring the business of the estate of Francis Newton Souza, one of the most important historical sales in the category. Deepanjana has a Ph.D. in Indian Art History from De Montfort University in England and has taught art history, theory, and aesthetics at the Leicester School of Architecture in England and at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies in Mumbai. Her publications include contributions to the Encyclopaedia of Sculpture (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004) and she regularly writes for various journals on the topic of contemporary Indian art. She is the recipient of several awards, including a grant from the Mellon Foundation (ArtStor) for her photographic documentation of the Ellora cave temples.
The South Asia Art Initiative, inaugurated in Spring 2018, is the culmination of a comprehensive art program, built over the past several years, that promoted conversation around the visual cultures of South Asia through talks, conferences, and exhibitions. The goal of the Initiative is to move onto the next level with local, national, and international collaborations that combine creative energies with insights drawn from scholarly research. To read more about the Initiative or to help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
