Indian Contemporary Art

Herve Perdriolle is a collector, art critic and exhibition curator. He was the promoter of Figuration Libre and was associated with the first exhibitions of Jean Michel Basquiat and Ravinder Reddy in France. Since 1996 he has been mainly involved in raising the profile of the "other Indian masters" through the works of the leading contemporary artists in the tribal and popular art of India. He was in charge of the Indian contribution to the Lyon Biennale in 2000 and organised a meeting in India between Richard Long and Jivya Soma Mashe, the legendary artist from the Warli tribe. This meeting gave rise to two exhibitions, one at the Kunst Palast Museum in Dusseldorf in 2003, the other at PAC in Milan in 2004. Jean Hubert Martin is a curator and art historian. He organised the famous exhibition Magicians of the Earth in 1989 and is still one of the major figure in the contemporary art world. He has been the director of: Kunsthalle Berne, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musee national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie and the Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf. He has been curator of Lyon (2000) and Moscow (2009) Biennials.