ART ATTACK Opening night at an art gallery can be intimidating, but an art show should never be judged on art alone
I'm still savouring the afterglow of Mumbai Gallery Weekend, a collaboration that's more relevant than ever in its tenth year. Crawling out of the Omicron-shaped hole we've been slumbering in through the winter is not easy. The gift of excellent art from an eclectic range of artists, spread across the southern tip of the city, has been a real booster for the spirit. Post-lockdown, it's freeing to lose oneself in physical galleries where nothing is expected of you but a serious-looking gaze at assorted walls, with the occasional gasp or sigh.
Abstract art and fake laughs
No matter how many books you've read or lectures you've attended, nothing prepares you for the initially forbidding atmosphere you encounter in an art gallery. In time you realise the image you're fighting in your head is not one of an undemanding near-empty room, a serene setting in which to experience art, but the much-touted art opening, an absolute assault on the nerves and senses. Vikram Seth captures it best in his little parodic verse, Overheard at a Cocktail Party: But empathy with the Id is the quintessential
Je-ne-sais-quoi-as it were of the Existential...'
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