Bose Krishnamachari’s rich art collection

Bose Krishnamachari has established himself as an artist, collector, curator and, a gallerist of high caliber. For him everything in essence is art - advertisements, bags, posters, and even invitation cards.

He reveals in an interview on eve of his new show: “There’s art in everything in the way you dress. Everything you do is art. There’s art in fashion, design and architecture.” In fact, he likes to call art works as art objects. He recounts the first artwork he collected was done by Professor Ingle from Sir J. J. School of Art. He had rusticated the artist while studying there. Later, he bought another work at a sale of 1,000 ink drawings while studying at Goldsmith in the UK.

He did not have enough money then, still he bought it for nearly 60 pounds. Since then he has expanded his collection. Explaining how he has managed to do that, the versatile art personality states: “I believe in Karl Marx’s famous statement that ‘man is his own maker’. I like to make things happen with my dedication and hard work.

Viewers can get to see about 30 of his carefully collected art works at Mumbai based Gallery BMB. One can check his collection of artists including Frank O Gehry, Andy Warhol, Tejal Shah, Nikhil Chopra, Minam Apang, Riyas Komu, Julian Opie, Bani Abidi, Damien Hirst, Sudarshan Shetty, Vivek Vilasini, Prasad Raghavan, Sudarshan Shetty, Sheba Chhachhi, CK Rajan, NM Rimzon, Alex Mathew, Anita Dube, Jon Kessler, Vivan Sundaram, Prajakta Palav, Praneet Soi, and Yashwant Deshmukh among others.

Summing up the essence of LaVA, his archival-documentation project on view along with his collection, Bose Krishnamachari says, “I am trying to make available, within my limitations, what I really missed during my student years. The laboratory manifests my ambition to extend this project, as an ideal place for visual art practitioners and theorists, as a museum of total knowledge: a room within an institution, an art project within a museum.”