Event
UP TO THE NINES - Anniversary Show
A Group Show
celebrating our muses of the last nine years; our success stories of show
casing young artists, many for their first solo shows, that spring boarded them
to the national and Global Art World...... artists like Prajakta Palav,
K.K.Raghava, Minal Damani, Ratna Gupta, Puneet Kaushik, Preetha Kannan, Pritam
Bhatty, Manish Chavda to mention a few.
This coupled with
some memorable workshops, eight at The Oberoi, Mumbai, and as many at the
erstwhile Le Meridien, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi and Goa., enabled us to do
exactly what we had set out to do - to carve ourselves a niche for yound, new
art. The workshops comprising of 16 to 18 artists at a time (some as many as 32
artists) provided the much needed seeding ground for exchange and stimulation.
This show is also
an acknowledgement to the younger art fraternity without whom we could not have
survived the last some years the free fall from January2008.
The works in this
celebratory show comprise of earlier works from shows and workshops and some
new contributions.
Alongwith the fine
arts, we have made a conscious effort to pursue and connect other art forms;
films for the Kala Ghoda Festival for the last two years; Thespo X a
photgraphic exhibition, Alec Padamsee's Experimental Theatre Group, Raell
Padamsee Academy of Dance & Speech etc. Our most recent foray into Social
based issues was the multifaceted show Resist comprising of Art, fashion and
music.