Event
"SCAPES" A Group Show
Scapes refer
to a combined form of a view denoting a specified type of scene, the most early
and recognized being a landscape. Then there are Skyscapes, Moonscapes,
Seascapes, Riverscapes, Cityscapes, Hardscapes (are paved over areas like
streets and sidewalks, large business complexes, housing developments,
Industrial area) Aerial landscapes. Inscapes (usually surrealist or abstract,
which seek to convey a analytic view of the mind as a three dimensional space)
and probably some more.
Scapes is our
endeavour to showcase works from the classic Landscapes of the Bengal School
--- Ramkinkar Baij, Abnindranath Tagore, Gagnendranath Tagore, Sailoz
Mukherjee, followed by the contemporary approach from the 50's onwards --
F.N.Souza, C.D.Mistry, Laxman Shrestha, A.A.Raiba, Jogen Chowdhury,M.S.Joshi,
R.M.Deshmukh, Jasu Rawal, P.N.Choyal, to mention a few. Add to this the current
contemporaries... Rajnish Kaur, Preetha Kannan, Anjana Mehra, Rajan Krishnan and
others.