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Services Fine Art Handling
Fine Art Handling

 

Star Worldwide Movers is the only Company in India, offering a truly specialised and professional service for “fine art” handling & transportation. With our meticulous planning, extra care and a team of skilled packers and supervisors specially trained in the packing and handling of works of art, we are able to offer a premium quality service, totally built around your specific requirements.

Star has the necessary infrastructure, including purpose built vehicles for transporting works of art, handling equipment, pallet trucks, fork lifts, dollies and an excellent warehouse with air conditioning storage facilities, and in house carpentry shop for storing, packing and crating of works of art. With offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata, we offer an all India network for handling & transportation of works of art.

Star Worldwide is the official Fine Art handling agent for National Museum and The National Gallery of Modern Art in India besides serving several other Government and private Art institutions and Art Galleries in India and overseas.

We undertake to assist the lending and host Museums/Institutions with all the necessary formalities/clearances from the local authorities and to provide total support to cover all aspects of shipping these works to/from India and until their subsequent return to the respective lenders.

Over the past few years we have been privileged to handle the transport of some of the most prestigious art events in India and overseas. Some of these are:

 

“Maharaja : The Splendour of India's Royal Courts” - Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 10 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

The exhibition spans the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid-20th century, bringing together several objects from various locations in India, many being lent from India’s royal collections for the first time.

“Hanging Fire” – Asia Society, New York September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010

Hanging Fire is the first time a U.S. museum has focused on contemporary art from Pakistan. The exhibition comprises nearly 50 works by 15 artists from various locations in Pakistan, and includes installation art, video, photography, painting, and sculpture. Star was appointed as the Fine Art agent to oversee all the creating, handling and transportation out of Pakistan and its subsequent return.

“Indian Life and Landscape” – Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 2008-2009

This exhibition shows 94 works (Paintings and Drawings) drawn from the V&A's collection by 20 Western artists depicting the architecture, landscape and people of India. Following a highly successful tour to two venues (Mumbai and Jodhpur) in India in 2008/09, the exhibition will tour three further venues in 2009/10.

“Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur” - Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, USA October, 2008–January 4, 2009

This exhibition includes court painting from Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, during the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. The exhibition included a loan of fifty-five works from the Mehrangarh Museum Trust in Jodhpur. Virtually none of the works on view in "Garden and Cosmos" have ever been published or seen by scholars since their creation centuries ago.

“Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art” - Mori Art Museum, Japan Nov 2008 – March, 2009

The largest exhibition of Indian contemporary art ever to be held in Japan. The exhibition consisted of more than 100 works by 27 artists from all over India encompassing a broad range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography and installation. The Customs paper work involved both temporary and permanent export and multiple lenders.

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