JAMMU: An International Art Exhibition of Drawings and Prints in Black & White was inaugurated today by Ms. Larisa Surgina, Russian Curator and Sh. Ramesh Chander, Indian Curator, International Centre for Roerich under International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT), in the Modern Art Galleries of the Centre at Naggar, Distt. Manali (HP). The Exhibition has been organized by Himachal Art Heritage, Sunder Nagar (HP) in collaboration with ArtFort India, Chandigarh and Verman Cultural Celebrations, Jammu. Sh. Naveen Dhiman (HP) and Prabhinder Lall (Chandigarh), senior artists and Sh. Alexender Terevereve, Assistant Russian Curator were present on this occasion. Sixty six worksby thirty three artists including six artists from abroad have been displayed in the galleries. The exhibition would culminate on 22nd April, 2017.
Art works of Jammu & Kashmir artists Jang S. Verman, a senior artist and Anuradha Devi and Shivali Jamwal, two young artists from Jammu, have been displayed in this International Art Exhibition. Other participating artists are Prof. (Dr.) Clemens Beungkun Sou (South Korea), Ashiar Naeem, Dubai, Liyu Wu, Taipe (Taiwan), Ruhsar Ozer, Istnabul (Turkey), Prof. (Dr.) Takis Alexiou, Athens (Greece) and Zumrur Ozmen, Izmir (Turkey) from abroad and Anand C Shende, Dalvinder Singh, Gunita Chadha , Neeti Joshi, Naresh Malhotra, Parminder Kaur, Prabhinder Lall, Prabhjot Saundh, Promod Arya and Ritika Dhiman from Chandigarh, Deepika Gautam, Bilaspur and Naveen Dhiman, Sunder Nagar (HP), Aradhana Tondon, Panchkula, Deepali Deshpande, Gurgaon, Mukesh Saini, Greater Noida, and Varun Baggi, Faridabad (Haryana), Huma Ulla Khan, Bhopal (MP), Neeru Dhiman, Gaziabad (UP), Roma Bahl, New Delhi, Indu Mishra and Nijeena Neelambaram (Kerala), Ar. Parl Bachu, Amritsar (Punjab), Ritu Singh, Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Sankari Mitra, Kolkatta (West Bengal).
ArtFort India and Himachal Art Heritage in collaboration with other organizations have already organized International Art Exhibitions at New Delhi, Kolkatta, Nagar and Jammu and Art Camp at Naggar during the recent past. The works reflect various trends of style as well as mediums used by the artists. Only Drawings and Prints in Black & White have been displayed in the show.
The purpose of organizing a show, entirely dedicated to black & white art works, is to revive the mediums in long tested visual expressions used by our ancestors to express and share their views. Further Black & White works are not involved in details which create diversions in the imagination of the viewers. The third view in this regard is that while viewing Black & White visuals the viewer merges his ‘imaginative fill ups’ to complete the visuals according to his wish.
The three artists from Jammu viz. Jang S. Verman, Anuradha Devi and Shivali Jamwal have already participated in many art exhibitions and camps in and outside the state at state, national and international levels.