PINK is dedicated to the ‘intention of display’ of generations of artists who are both emerging and established, national and international, within the framework of the seasoned art fairs. Having previously participated in the Russian, Eastern and Oriental Art Fair, Piccadilly in June 2010 with leading works by Indian artists Samarendra Raj Singh and Probir Gupta, Iranians Shirin Fakhim and Maryam Amini, together with works by Afsoon Hayley and Shumon Ahmed, ART ATT was applauded for its will and intention to exhibit leading works of contemporary art of international reputation. For October 2010, ART ATT is participating in the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, in contrast, with works by a number of leading London art graduates for a spirited collection of contemporary works of art.


Russian and Oriental Art Fair ' 10 

The catalogue essay for the fair became a detailed and deliberate labour of love that lead to my wanting, beyond writing, to engage with the artists that best represents the diorama of India, the Middle East and my growing interest in the emerging contemporary art scene in Bangladesh. Without the routine of a more established gallery, ARTATT comes to the Russian, Eastern and Oriental Art Fair as a collision of the great and good of what I have in my vision currently, as a consequence I have spent the last four months corresponding, contacting and procrastinating over what is possible and profitable for my involvement in this art fair of much claim and notoriety. 

Samendra Raj Singh  Blood Sweat Sprangle 


ARTATT’s first and most significant inclusion in the fair is the inclusion of works by Delhi based artist Probir Gupta, having exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery with twenty five of his contemporaries for the Empire Strikes Back and showing with Nature Morte in Berlin and Delhi. Gupta is an established and much celebrated artist of the sub-continent who studied in Kolkata and has the political gusto of someone like Richard Hamilton.These works are reflective of his time as Hamilton’s have been decade upon decade. Included in the fair art are rarely seen watercolours that demonstrate Probir’s impulsive ability to create scene of brilliant abstraction with episodes of wondrous reality. Included with Gupta, I have a striking new acquisition Blood, Sweat and Spangle by Samaraendra Singh Raj; engaged in the decorative and the destructive visions that appear to manifest themselves from his tormented mind.   

Mariam Amni Winter Lullaby 

Emerging photographers, Shumon Ahmed and Khaled Hasan, both of whom are from Bangladesh, are part of a new wave of profitable practitioners of the urban complexity and fragility of their turbulent country. Shumon Ahmed was recently included in the recent Whitechapel Gallery exhibition Where Three Dreams Cross, 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, using photography to rewrite their cultural histories as a thoroughly engaging protest against the ignominy of belonging to a country branded a disaster and geographical catastrophe. Ahmed and Hasan have conceived of works that are as challengingly absorbing as anything from the photo-galleries in London and they are of a generation in Bangladesh that are at the forefront of something radical and rewarding, as they seek international recognition for their printed matter. Additional works confirmed for the ARTATT stand is Vinita Khanna Hassard, a photographer and sculptor residing on the periphery of the contemporary art scene with a beautiful sensitivity for visual aesthetics.    

Vinita Khanna Hassard Gathering Likeness


ARTATT has obtained significant works from the Middle East and Iran; Maryam Amini’s Phillip Guston styled coloured canvases of biomorphic forms wrestling with their preserve morality. The arresting indignity of Shirin Fakim’s sculptural forms of Tehran prostitutes seated as figures in loose configurations and Morteza Zahedi’s child-like reproductions of indecipherable figures, toned and tanned, all eager to gesticulate their physical prowess; that are all as a consequence of a sustained research interest and boundless correspondence with Iranian art specialists Maria Vega, based here in London.  With everything present there is a real urgency to introduce something engaging that pulls back the cultural significance of the new world. It is fundamental to my involvement in this year’s art fair to introduce a board spectrum of works that balances established artists with more emerging ones. 

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