Art and soul

IT IS Soul Art, a show where contemporary artists will have their works on show for every art lover. Brought together by Ambience, a homestyle store and ArtLogin.com, an art portal with 1,500 works.

ArtLogin has monthly art events offline nationwide and in Chennai, this is the second, after its launch in October.

The aim of the show between December 16 and 23 is to cater to people in the country and abroad, taking contemporary Indian art to a global audience. A quick look shows that Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai in that order form the art scene for contemporary works.

The U.K. has a market, and the U.S. is growing says Mr. Sanjay Tulsyan, Director of ArtLogin.com. Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong also feature as good centres for Indian art.

The venue of the current expo is Ambience on 37, Bheemanna Garden Road, Abhiramapuram. This is a homestyle store which specialises in decoration products like colour co-ordinated fabrics, upholstery material, linen, curios and tableware.

To set the mood for the show, an evening of music by Martin Visser (Saxophone) and Keith Peters (Bass Guitar) and a live caricature session, was held on Friday.

The artists featured in the expo, Soul Art, M. V. Dhurandhar and Prabhakar Kolte from Mumbai, Suhas Roy and Shekar Roy, Mrinal Kanti Das and Alok Bhattacharya from Calcutta, Yuriko Lochan and Sudeep Roy from Delhi, V. Solanki and Avinash Thakkar from Ahmedabad, D. L. N. Reddy and T. Vaikuntam from Hyderabad, Yousuf Arakkal from Bangalore and Chennai's Douglas, Adimoolam, K. S. Rao, and Sailash. Sculptures by Nandagopal are also on show.

The organisers say the expo will offer ``affordable art'' in the form of original signed prints from renowned artists, Bikash Bhattacharya, Aripita Singh, Manjit Bawa, Bhupen Kakkar, Akbar Padamsee, K. K. Hebbar, Krishan Khanna, Amitabh Banerjee and others.

By Saptarshi Bhattacharya

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