Dear Artists friends,
You are invited to send your entries for International artists catalogues as well as 10th Indian art exhibition in Jakarta in 2010.Approx.100 entries from around the world have been recieved till now for selection…
Dear Artists friends,
You are invited to send your entries for International artists catalogues as well as 10th Indian art exhibition in Jakarta in 2010.Approx.100 entries from around the world have been recieved till now for selection process.
First list of artists selected for International artists catalogue for 2010 has been released.37 artists out of 120 artists ( who sent entries before 15th dec 2010) have been selected .All artists who do not appear in this first list will be considered for the second list of selection by end of January 2010.,Last date for sending your entries is 31st January 2010.
All artists who participate after getting through selection process for catalogue and exhibition will be promoted through out the world by emails to 3000 art galleries and art buyers along with artists' contact addresses / mobile phones and emails so that those art galleries and art buyers can contact our artists directly.
If you wish to send entries for International artists catalogue2010 or for the joint 10th exhibition of Indian and Indonesian artists in Jakarta in 2010, please join the new website specially created for the same and add your artworks there.Full details are also mentioned in the same website.
Catalogues are open to any artist from any country in the world.
Exhibition in Jakarta is open only to Indian and Indonesian artists.
For selection, we shall be considering the overall body of artworks and style of every artist and not a particular single artwork in most of the cases.Once the selection is done, we shall select one artwork for full page in the catalogues.
Contribution of Rs.10000 per page of catalogue should reach us before end of Feb.2010
Please mention all details about your artworks and you may add the write up too if you wish to explain about your views on Art in general and your own work in particular.
Dear Artists friends,
We have started accepting entries for the selection process for Indian art exhibition in Taman Ismail Marzuki,Indonesia's most famous Cultural complex in Jakarta for Art exhibitions/Dance/Theatre/Music .
For full details visit our website www.indianfinearts.com and see NEXT EXHIBITION section on the top of the website or go to the link http://www.indianartistsnetwork.com/nxt_int_exhibition.asp
Highlights of the Exhibition
For year 2009, you may participate in our exhibition or if you can not afford the contribution fees, you can put your artwork in full page in our catalogues by paying just Rs.7000.Your full A-4 size page will have one of your artworks image and your full contact details. Catalogues will be printed only if there are enough paid entries to cover the cost of catalogues. Selected Artists contributing and participating in the exhibition will be put into catalogues free of charge.
Catalogues is the best option for sculptors / ceramic artists / Installations artists as it is expensive to take these heavy objects abroad
1)All artists complete contact details will be printed on price tags of paintings during the exhibition. We have sold more than 100 paintings so far in our exhibitions and in 2008 we have sold 16 paintings and full amount has been paid to all artists
2) All art buyers are encouraged to directly contact you from exhibition hall itself
3)If paintings are sold,100% amount goes to respective artists without any deductions-No commission to anyone including us.
4)Full support of Indian Embassy and Indian cultural centre in Jakarta who every year arrange a grand opening ceremony and call all important VIPs and Indonesian and Indian business leaders. This year a grand dance program and a lavish dinner party was arranged for us by Indian Embassy and JNICC. We are deeply thankful to JNICC and Indian Embassy who encourage us every year.
5) Massive Publicity was in various media.
A) Our exhibition was given one full page in Monthly program bulletin by TIM and 2000 were distributed to their regular mailing list. Rest of 8000 pamphlets were distributed throughout the city from various places.
B) Newsletter of Indian cultural centre published our exhibition news in their monthly issue
C) Invitation cards were sent to all major websites and yahoo groups connected with Indonesia. Please see following websites and yahoo groups.
a) www.artsindonesia.com
b) www.rovinginsight.org
c) www.indoindians.com
d) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends_of_india_abroad/
e) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OurArtistsFriendsExhibitions/
f) 3 more art related yahoo groups in Indonesia
These websites may have removed our exhibition from their websites but we have taken all prints of those items if anyone wants to see them.
D) Thousands of emails were sent to all art lovers , friends and cultural related personalities
E) Following newspapers gave us wide publicity-All newspaper cuttings are available
1) Jakarta post-Indonesia’s biggest no.1 English newspaper-Two days news items and 7days in WHERE TO GO IN JAKARTA section for 7 times
2) Kompas-Indonesia’s No.1 Bahasa Indonesia newspaper
3) Media Indonesia-Indonesia’s Major newspaper
4) 1/3 Page advertisement in Visual Art Magazine –Indonesia’s biggest Art magazine
5) Nine huge banners were put up at strategic locations in TIM complex so that no one who enters TIM complex miss the banners.
6) Because of our communication efforts, majority of 15 Indian artists went to Olympic art events during Olympics games in Beijing in China. Four Indonesian and one Brirish artists also got selected for Olympics because of us.Olympics Art organizing committee has thanked us for our efforts by email and had even invited us to China and sent us Visa too but I could not go because of exhibition in Jakarta
Many Indian artists have applied for Switzerland residency program and Asian paintings award by Sovereign foundation in Hongkong.Wishing our artist all the best.
7)This is a Not-for-profit activity and selling paintings is not our goal even though we try hard for it. Connecting artists with art buyers and art galleries abroad is our MAIN GOAL. Those artists who are looking for SALE ONLY need not apply for the exhibition as they may get frustrated if there is no sale.
In 2007 more than 70 paintings were bought by Korean art buyers directly from artists who participated in our Jakarta exhibition.There was no commission paid to anyone including us. All artists directly dealt with Korean art buyers themselves.
8) Your contribution per painting will be Rs.20000 for 7 days exhibition and Rs.25000 for two weeks exhibition. We do Framing / Media publicity Air freight / Transportation / Invitation cards / Inauguration function and huge banners for publicity in TIM complex
9) We keep on sending information to all Indian artists in India and abroad about all new chances that our artists may apply for Competitions /awards / scholarships / residency programs in the world.
10) We had successfully participated in Art Singapore in 2007 and Art expo Malaysia in 2009.Please ask us about them if you are serious about participating there.
11) I am returning from Jakarta in Feb.2009 and will return all artists paintings which were not sold during exhibition in 2008 except those artists who have not paid their contributions.
12)Certificates signed by H.E.Indian Ambassador Me.Biren Nanda and Mr.Singh , Director of Indian cultural centre in Jakarta will sent to all artists who participated in 2008
Please send your resumes in word file and images of your artworks in jpeg files to admin@indianfinearts.com for the selection process
Full report of exhibition will be sent to all artists who apply for exhibition in 2009.Artists can see paintings and exhibition photographs on our website www.indianfinearts.com
Thanking you and wishing you a highly creative and peaceful new year 2009
Mystic Inspiration Limited is a U.K based company owned by The Honorable Anjli Paul and Mrs Blory Chana who are directors of the company. The India gallery and office is handled by our partner and director Mrs Vanaja Banagiri. The online gallery is www.mysticin.com.
We invite you to showcase your works on our online gallery. If you are interested please contact me on blory.chana@mysticin.com