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Presentation about The Art of India
From November 25, 2013 until December 09, 2013
Casa Árabe and Casa Asia are presenting this event, which will be taking place on Monday, December 2 at our headquarters in Madrid. This encounter is being organized on the occasion of the recent publication of the book El arte de India (The Art of India, Editorial Akal, 2013) by Eva Fernández del Campo. Taking part in the presentation, in addition to the author, is the work’s publisher, Jesús Espino, and Asian art historian Carmen García Ormaechea. Also participating in the event are Eduardo López Busquets, the Director of Casa Árabe, and Teresa Gutiérrez del Álamo, Program Director of the Casa Asia Center in Madrid.
From Neolithic civilizations to the figure of Anish Kapoor, the art of India shows us a panorama of wealth and variety far beyond any stereotype. A melting pot of cultures and religions, its contributions have formed a collection of amazing character across more than three millennia, constituting one of the milestones in mankind’s history.
Eva Fernández del Campo, a well-known specialist on Asian art, is offering the first, and very ambitious, written overview of artistic creation in India to be written in Spanish, through her work in The Art of India. It is handbook which provides guidance for study and an itinerary that can be used by travelers and lovers of this civilization who wish to take a closer look at its forms of artistic expression and way of understanding the world.
The event is taking place at 7:00 p.m. in our auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Eva Fernández del Campo
A Professor of Asian Art and Contemporary Art in Art History Department III at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid since 1997, Ms. Fernández del Campo also directs the Complutense Research Group “Trama” (“Transculturalism, cultural mixture and internationalization in Contemporary Era art. East-West”). She has been a visiting professor at different Spanish and foreign universities and has performed research and taught classes in the “World Awareness Program” at the IE Business School in Madrid, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, the University of Salamanca and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, as well as others.
Her teaching work is focused both on Indian and East Asian Art and on Contemporary Western Art. Most notable amongst her publications are Babel’s Ark: Theory and artistic practice in the transcultural scene (2013), Art in Global Banishment: Contemporary culture and uprootedness (2012), The Ajanta Paintings: Indian Nature Theatre (2007) and Anish Kapoor (2006).
