Metro Plus
Chennai
Hyderabad
Playing to the galleries
|
The film buff in Hyderabad is also showing signs of becoming an art connoisseur. The opening of a new gallery,`Shrishti', has given a fillip to the art scene. B. PADMA REDDY reports.
|
Daira gallery. — Photos: K. Ramesh Babu
SHRISHTI IS the new art gallery in town, and the presence of the bigwigs from the art world during its inauguration reflects the thriving of art and the artists in the twin cities. There is a visible sense of participation even from the lay people when it comes to art and mushrooming of art galleries
The gallery culture is indeed catching up and the role of the gallery is now multifaceted action as a near essential and sometimes as an important platform for the artist, art connoisseurs and the art lovers. It is also true that the gallery saves the artist a good deal of `PR' work and in turn the artist helps the gallery to survive and grow. Thus the artist and the gallery to a larger extent and in many cases are directly important to one another.
The city of Hyderabad during the last six months saw the emergence of at least three galleries. The latest one in the series being `Shrishti' art gallery which opened with an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and collages of some local artists in addition to a few traditional paintings (from Kerala temples) done by a young artist in Kerala. Padma Shri Jagdish Mittal in the presence of over hundred people - artists and art lovers, inaugurated the exhibition a week ago. The gallery tucked away in the quiet environs of Jubilee Hills, surrounded by artistic plants and beautiful flowers, far from the hustle bustle of the city and its owner Remani Nambiar were praised by the chief guest and the audience present for the inaugural show.
The newly opened Shrishti art gallery.
Remani Nambiar, a person involved with Ikebana and flower arrangement is a hardcore aesthete who plans to exhibit `all kinds of art and crafts' in her gallery and specially promote young, upcoming and amateur artists including housewives. She also plans to have some workshops and encourage youngsters in the initial stages of their career. Very enthusiastic about her new venture, Remani invited a cross section of artists -- senior, well known, young established and young upcoming who accepted to exhibit in her inaugural show. As such, the impressive list of artists included artists Laxma Goud, T.Vaikuntam, C.Jagdish, Fawad Tamkanat, Stanley Suresh, B.Srinivasa Reddy, R.Subash Babu, Goka Balu, P.R.Raju, Lakshman Aley, Hanumanth Rao, L.N.V. Srinivas, Ananthiah, S.K. Sarkar, U.Vijay Kumar, M.Srinivas Reddy, K.Paramasivam, Venkatesh Bhadra, Nimitha, Pooja Kundu, V.Anuradha, Rohini Reddy, V.R.Palala and Sirajuddin.
Remani Nambiar believes that `Shrishti' will be a wonderful showcase for creators and their creations. And for art lovers an easy window that looks into a hitherto exclusive world of art.
She is hopeful that this will become a unique centre for exhibition of diversified artistic talent including sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints and other artisan products.
The city of Hyderabad has always been on the forefront of artistic activity and the number of artists -- practising seriously, has been increasing day by day. About eight years ago, ever since artist Surya Prakash floated the first ever professional art gallery in the city striving consistently to bring in good contemporary art from all over the country and present new and young artists from time to time, the trend caught up and within a few years, galleries like Minaaz and Lakshana came up which unlike a few galleries that shut down are regularly doing shows and keeping the activity alive.
Surya gallery.
More recently Daira centre for art and culture and Gallery Space opened in the same premises around Minaaz gallery with separate manifestos. While Atiya Amjad of Daira envisages her gallery as a platform for various creative arts like craft, poetry, literature, theatre, music and so on, Hanumanth Rao, owner of Gallery space speaks of doing away with the usual 33 per cent commission taken by the galleries.
The opening of Shrishti is indeed a positive indication concerning the arts in the city. And with things as they are now - exhibitions and camps round the year, common studios, individual studious, increase in the number of art students, involvement of corporate sectors and so on, there could well be more galleries in the offing.
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Chennai
Hyderabad
|
