55th Edition of National Exhibition of Art
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National
Exhibition of Art promises to be a treat for the city’s art connoisseurs
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10
National Awards announced carrying Prize Money of Rs 1 Lakh, Plaque &
Certificate
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Exhibition
to display works of art of 168 participating artists, 9 invited artists
& 4 LKA produced
films
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Admission
Free
New Delhi,
18th March, 2014: The intoxication of colors is yet
to subside, the exaltation of love and expression is yet to pass, with Holi and
it’s time again to paint our soul with colors of the art of 168 artists at the Lalit Kala Akademi’s 55th edition of
National Exhibition of Art.
Theodore Dreiser said, “Art is the stored honey of
the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” While our life runs
aground in the grooves of cement, bricks, stone and steel, Lalit Kala Akademi (India’s
premier Art Institution), after a gap of 20 years, brings the 55th National Exhibition
of Art back to Delhi, to let it revel in the colours, tones and hues of human
yearnings.
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas, Stone, Bronze, Charcoal, Etchings,
Ceramic artwork are on display at the National Exhibition of Art. After a
double screening by eminent Juries, artists from the entire country will
display their work at the National Art Exhibition in Delhi from 20th
March to 10th April, 2014 at the, Rabindra Bhawan Gallery (Mandi
House). Works of 9 invited artists and four films will also form part of this exhibition.
The National award carries Prize Money of Rs 1 Lakh, a
Plaque and a Certificate each. (The list
of awardees is attached.) The
Akademi congratulated those chosen by the Jury and wished that they too, like
earlier awardees including MF Hussain, NS Bendre, Gulam
Mohammed Sheikh and many others will bring name to the country and add lustre
to the Academy.
Dr K. K
Chakravarty, Chairperson, Lalit Kala Akademi says “The 55th National Exhibition
of Art looks at the world made by human beings in the eye and creates a
spectrally heightened and distorted actuality, autonomous self-evolving
structures, in tune with the transformative, leavening power of nature. The
exhibition lends extraordinary meaning to ordinary objects by associating them
in unforeseen permutations and combinations, in simultaneity and fusion.”
“It builds bridges
between the corporeal and incorporeal, figurative and non-figurative, to
express the inexpressible, and to communicate a sense of urgency for diagnosing
and curing the radically fractured human condition. It reminds us that ‘hidden
worlds connect to the things that hide them; within the red wood bark lies
moss, under which are toads and insects: Tide pools connect us with
unfathomable seas, which connect with our chromosomes’.
The works were chosen by a Screening Committee
consisting of eminent personalities including, Mr Sachida Nagdev, Dr. Asharfi
S. Bhagat, Mr Ajit Kumar Dubey, Mr Satish Sharma, Mr Aditya Arya , Mr H A Anil
Kumar. A second-tier Jury for choosing the ten National Awardees from this
selection has been done by another eminent jury comprising of Mr V Ramesh, Mr
Ajay Kumar, Mr Deepak Kanal, Mr Deepak Banerjee, Mrs Shobha Broota, Mr S. Paul,
Mr Suresh Jayaram and Mr Shrenik Jain.
Mr Ramakrishna
Vedala, Secretary, Lalit Kala Akademi elucidates the methodology involved in choosing
the works for the National Exhibition of Art “The works in the current
exhibition merit attention on account of their challenging content, epitomizing
creative features, individual commitment, discriminating quality of methods,
materials used and more, so that the exhibition becomes a true representation
of the dimensions of contemporary art thinking nationally.”
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