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ArtSastra, Art Gallery

This is a project by VersionAbsolute Design Studio and it is located at Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, India. Project's program: Art gallery. There are sixteen images for ArtSastra, Art Gallery.

: © Vipul Saini

Project details

Project name: ArtSastra, Art Gallery
Location: Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, India
Program: Art gallery
Area: Built Up Area: 600 m2
Year: Completion: August, 2008
Project by: VersionAbsolute Design Studio
Team: Principal Designer: Arnab Banerji • Project Team: Arnab Banerji, Vipul Saini (Curator)

Project images

Designer's statement

A gallery designed for visual, performing and digital art, this gallery located in south of New Delhi, is spread over 5000sft. With the use of intelligent lighting, moving glass walls and fabric screens, this gallery modulates volume to cater to the need of the artist and artwork.

This one of a kind gallery is divided programmatically into four distinct zones namely the ‘crafts area’, ‘visual gallery’, ‘digital gallery’ and the ‘installation gallery’. These spaces overlap and blur into each other only divided and defined by their artistic occupants.

Lighting in this gallery has been achieved by using various layers of programmable fixtures with high CRI lamps. These utilities along with Audio-Visual aids are triggered by motion and occupancy detectors, hence saving energy and offering the flexibility to light up any kind of artwork or art installations as per the requirement of the artist and the object.