An Exhibition of Prints

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Kanoria Centre for Arts 26 August 2021

AN EXHIBITION OF PRINTS

The Printmakers

Abhimanyu VG Ajay Desai Ajit Desai Ajmal Maharaj Alpesh Patel Amit Prajapati Anamika Singh Anant Anil Majmudar Anila Vadgama Anju Chaudhary Anupam Chakraborty Aurogeeta Das Avijit Roy Manisha Doshi, Flying Carpet, 1988, Linocut, 12 x 18 inches Bharat Dodiya Bharat Panchal Bhaskar Borgohain Urmila Art Gallery Bhavin Vaishnav Bhupen Khakhar 10th Anniversary Birendra Pani Debnath Bose On the 10th Anniversary of the Urmila Art Gallery that Deepak John Matthew coincides with its architect BV Doshi’s 94th Birthday, the Deval Talati Kanoria Centre for Arts (KCA) is delighted to exhibit its Dipti Khuste Dishakha Yadav very large collection of graphics from 1985 to 2021. The G Ravindranath collection of prints are by 122 artists who worked at some Gayatri Mehta time or the other in the KCA studios. From well-known Haku Shah artists such as Manisha Parekh, Bhupen Khakhar, Avijit Harendranath Mahato Hindol Brahmbhatt Roy, Ajay Desai, Indrapromit Roy, Sushanta Guha, Jayshree Indrapromit Roy Chakraborty, Walter D’Souza to emerging award winning Ishwar Sagara artists such as Yogesh Ramkrishna Sandeep Suneriya, Anil Janak Patel Jagadeesh Tamineni Majmudar, Bhaskar Borgohain and many more. Jayshree Chakraborty Jeram Patel Jignesh Patel Jyoti Das KV K Laxma Goud Kajal Shah

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The works displayed on the walls and for browsing total 426 and including the additions KCA houses a collection of over 980 graphics. The exhibition covers the full spectrum of printmaking; etchings, aquatints, mezzotints, serigraphs, mono prints, lithographs, drypoint, woodcuts, collagraphs and linocuts.

Bhupen Khakhar working on his print The display comprises of a collection of prints for sale and a smaller collection of prints that are part of the KCA Katsutoshi Yuasa permanent collection that includes works by Ravinder Kaushik Mukhopadhyay Reddy, Haku Shah, Mahendra Kadia, Bhupen Khakhar, Kavita Shah Keta Patel Ishwar Sagara, Manisha Doshi, Vrundavan Solanki and Khanjan Maru other prominent artists. Koorma Lalitha Lajmi Printmaking Department Lwiwhr Musharaf Mahendra Kadia The printmaker and sculptor Walter D’Souza joined KCA Manisha Doshi in 1984, the year it was established and was instrumental Manisha Parekh Megan Shah in setting up the Printmaking Department. On 14th March Mehul Rathod 1984, the ﬁrst working group meeting took place in the Mita Biswas CEPT premises. Members present were BV Doshi, Urmila Mohandas Kanoria, Piraji Sagara, Haku Shah, Gulam Mohammed Murali CK Nagjibhai Chauhan Sheikh, Bhupen Khakhar, Jeram Patel, Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Yunus Khimani, Walter D’Souza and Anita Dube. Neema Vaghela Neha Lavingia Neha Suthar Nemiraj NG Venkatapathi Naik Nilesh Siddhpura Nivedita Dutta Pallani Appam Parthavi Patel Payal Rokade Piyush Thakkar Prasanta Prithpal Singh Ladi Priti Agarwal RG Gowd Radhika Dave Raghavendra Rao Raj Naik Raja Mohanty Rajashree Naik Rajesh PS Rajesh Sagara Rakesh Patel Ratna Gandhi KCA Studios under construction in 1984.

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Amongst other items on the agenda, setting up of the Graphics Department was deemed a priority. Over the years that followed and through monetary support and donation of equipment and lithography stones the department was fully set up and number of prominent artists such as Bhupen Khakhar, PD Dhumal, Jyoti Bhatt and Walter D’Souza began to conduct workshops and Printmaker and Sculptor Walter D’Souza in demonstrations. his studio at KCA in 1986

Ravi Dolasiya Ravi S Ravinder Reddy Rekha Roopashri Rudra Thakar S Tretheway Sambharan Das Sandeep Suneriya Sanghita Das Sarika Mehta Nagjibhai Chauhan working in the studio Satyajit Chandra Shachi Shah Some important printmaking camps that took place Shanta Rakshit Sharda Patel included a wood-block printing camp conducted by Walter Shatrugan Thakur D’Souza in 1985 where distinguished artists Mahendra Shivani Pandya, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Nagji Patel visited Shweta Parikh SM Dhansekaran KCA and the Bharat Diamond Bourse 15 day Camp in Sonal November 1993, that was launched for the speciﬁc purpose Sreedhar of fostering ﬁne arts. Amongst the painters Bhupen Sreeju Radhakrishnan Khakhar, Ajay Desai, Apurva Desai and Jayshree Srinivas Rao SS Bokur Chakraborty, sculptors Sudarshan Shetty, Alex Mathew Sudarshan Shetty and Sushan Ghosh, two printmakers Avijit Roy and Sudhakar C Sushanta Guha produced lithographs of size 22 x 30 inches. Sunil Darji Sunoj Sushan Ghosh Sushanta Guha Tanuja Terukaju Nio Valson Kolleri Vipul Rathod Vrndavan Solanki Walter D’Souza Yash Jani Yogesh Ramkrishna Yogesh Rawal Zaida Jacob BV Doshi and Walter D’Souza with Avijit Sushanta Guha talking about his work Roy

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This camp had far reaching effects on the local artists and institutions as a result of widespread media coverage in newspapers and on TV and gave visitors an insight into the artists creative objectives.

Printmaking Education Bhupen Khakhar at KCA’s ﬁrst meeting in September 1983 stated that “the artist in residence should work with other”. Nearly all the workshops conducted at KCA are by artists in

Bombay International School students residence and in printmaking mostly all of its techniques are learning the process of etching designed into 1-5 day workshops for all ages that take place at least ﬁve times a year. Spreading awareness about the art of printmaking is something KCA feels strongly about as nearly 70% of visitors to the Centre do not understand how a print is produced, are put off by print terminology and therefore its value is undermined. “Prints ought to get more respect that they are given” (ARTIndia article quote by Sandhya Bordewekar) is what KCA too believes in!

Katsutoshi Yuasa demonstrating Japanese Over the years demonstrations and lectures in printmaking woodcut techniques by foreign artists such as Gaby Moore, Meghan Shah, Katsutoshi Yuasa, Gaelle Pelachaud, Azyz Sharafy, Zahra Yazdaninia, Neda Tayallaee and others continues to help impart knowledge about printmaking and the skills and techniques used around the world. As part of study tours to Gujarat, many institutions and visitors from across India have made it a point to visit the Centre and participate in printmaking workshops.

Monoprint being taught to students of the KCA Three Year Children’s Course Exhibition & Workshop A special exhibit of a woodcut by Jignesh Patel measuring 82 x 44 inches in size will be displayed for the ﬁrst time inside the Gallery. Titled, ‘In the Bus -1’ this work was donated to KCA.

Also inside the Gallery a number of books on printmaking some donated by the British Council over 35 years ago will be on display for visitors to peruse. The exhibition will continue till 10th September from 3pm to 7pm.

On Saturday 28th August from 4:30pm to 7pm KCA has organised a free workshop in monoprint. Participants of ages 11+ can drop in and create their own monoprint which they can take home with them. For further information visit www.kanoriacentreforarts.org.