Who is kiran nadar

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Skip to main content. Kiran Nadar. Home Who we are? From creating simple musical instruments to recycling items, creating masterpieces using paper-cutting techniques, pottery , and origami, the list of activities is endless. On the other hand, what are the benefits?

Kiran Nadar: The joy of viewing and experiencing art in person can never be replicated online. However, the upside of online exhibitions or walkthroughs is that they enable access to new audiences. Making art accessible to all is our main objective. We are constantly looking for ways to engage people, young and old. Kiran Nadar: I think they are here to stay; the accessibility is unparalleled. It can be used to spark interest in audiences and perhaps convince them that seeing the exhibition in person will be an exciting and worthwhile experience.

Your thoughts on this fusion of classical art and technology? Kiran Nadar: Immersive art is a very interesting concept, and it is picking up as parts of the world emerge from lockdown. In a way, exhibitions like the various immersive Van Gogh ones are offering escapism to audiences who are limited in travel and now by social distancing. It is a fascinating way to attract new audiences and to experience art in a different manner. I would never have been able to build the collection without him. Sculpture: lorenzoquinnartist.

The Shiv Nadar Foundation is a field leader in social-impact projects. Nadar sees KNMA in the same light. I felt that the country has a lot of responsibilities and that the private sector should pitch in.

Art was one area where I felt I had a contribution to make. So the museum is free to anyone who likes to visit, plus we have a lot of educational and outreach programmes. I feel very strongly that the museum should be a place of confluence, where art is not merely housed and displayed, but is discussed and appreciated as a way of engaging with the world. Artwork courtesy Prabhakar Pachpute and Experimenter, Kolkata.

While this is not wholly bad news for a collector, Nadar takes the large view. After the Lehman Brothers crash, Chinese art lost as much as Indian art, but in China they recovered everything. Alwar Balasubramaniam, Knots , Diagonally opposite, a tiny, glowing Satish Gujral offers a vision of agrarian contentment. I have an amazing collection of F. Souza — I think his heart speaks out in his brushstrokes — and I have a huge affinity for S.