Sundaram Tagore, gallerist, collector and curator, is really mixing up home and the world. Far from his native Kolkatta in India and the family’s iconic roots, he has long maintained a gallery in Chelsea in the heart of New York’s art world.
Always interested in the intersection of east and west in the worlds of art and spirituality, he has now opened the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in heart of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. The opening night bash celebrated the portraits of artist Lee Waisler including some powerful images of Gandhi, Muhammad Yunus, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf and pro-democracy activist Aung San Su Ky, “people who have defined the modern world and have expanded our view of life.”
The gallery, in the heart of Beautiful People Country, is attracting a new and sophisticated international art audience for the boundary-bending artists that Tagore showcases in his gallery. Sundaram Tagore has been jumping continents as contemporary Indian art and India influenced art goes global. After having established a foot on both coasts of America, he has just opened another Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Hong Kong, taking the intercultural dialogue to new shores. His ancestors would have been pleased!
© Lavina Melwani
Photos: Sundaram Tagore Gallery
