ouis Vuitton and India have enjoyed close ties ever since the 1920s, when the famous Parisian trunkmaker created extraordinary pieces of luggage and bags for some of the country's greatest Maharajahs. More recently, Louis Vuitton opened two stores in India, first in New Delhi in 2003, then in Mumbai in 2004.
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The adventure continues today with "India of the senses", the second exhibition held in the brand new Espace Louis Vuitton gallery. We see contemporary India as never before through the eyes of a dozen French and Indian artists.
Photography, video, sound and visual montages, reinvented objects… in very different registers, each of the works assembled for the exhibition testifies to incredibly fast-paced change in a country that is beginning to unfurl its economic and political power in the global arena. While the Indian artists tend to accentuate the profound contradictions accompanying these transformations, the European artists more readily favor the side of Indian culture that revels in the senses.
Like a kaleidoscope, this highly original exhibition provides glimpses of the thousand and one facets of India…
"India of the senses" from May 5 to August 25 at Espace Louis Vuitton
60, rue de Bassano /101 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris
Hours: 12 noon to 7pm, Monday through Saturday, 1pm to 7pm on Sunday
Curator: Hervé Mikaeloff
Artistic Advisor: Deepak Ananth
Scenographer: Alain Batifoulier
(Published on April 28th, 2006)
