"Nobody came, nobody went
But he took in the milk and he paid the rent!"
-T.S. Eliot
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After so many years (also in a new place, Hyderabad), I had agreed to participate in a group show in India.
But my show was a total disaster!
It
didn't generate any interest in anyone! The so called 'curator*' (one of
the participating artists!) some failed micro-biologist turn self proclaimed artist, just made
some easy money from the fees he charged the participating artists!
A total scam!
He
invited one of the local IAS officer/ bureaucrat from Hyderabad as one of
the participating artists!! She didn't even know how to hold a
painting brush!! The 'curator' made the 'IAS-bureaucrat-artist' to also 'inaugurate' (an unnecessary 'tamasha' but now a part & parcel of any art show in India) the show!! I had hoped the press and media (MSM) would show some interest in
my works... Non! My work and my background should have naturally arose some curiosity and interest in them...but they had no perception for art they were like brain drain zombies who are trained to run after "celebrities", politicians, film stars etc!!
So the local main-stream-media (MSM) surrounded the pompous bureaucrat-artist for her 'bytes' on art!!
Contemporary Indian art and artists have gone completely to the dogs!!
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*Curator:
In India these days an art 'curator' is someone who goes around
collecting participating fee from naive artists and hold these kinds of
sham art shows... They make good money from the fees they collect.
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‘I have seen yesterday, I will see tomorrow'.
(Inscription found on Tut's grave - died 3,400 years ago).
