Art meets Design

Should art be put on a pedestal and enveloped in an aura of exclusivity or should it be allowed to proliferate to the masses? This question seeks opinion/ debate afresh with the recent exercise in public art driven by upcoming artists Sangeeta Babani and Anil Dingankar under the curatorship of Gallery Pradarshak, acclaimed as the smallest (physically) gallery for contemporary fine art in Mumbai, India. .   . Invited by a leading company to paint a car, merging the disciplines of fine and commercial art (the latter is generally the norm in the automobile industry per se), the gallery and […]