Int’l art exhibition, Workshop opens at IRMT Jammu artists’ works displayed

Jammu: An International Art Exhibition of Black & White Drawings and Prints was inaugurated jointly by Simone Noseda, senior artist from Italy and Sushma Sharma, President, Gram Panchyat, Naggar, Kullu in the presence of Larisa Surgina, Rushian Curator, Ramaesh Sharma, Indian Curator, Damitry Surgin, Senior Artists Prabhinder Lall (Chandigarh) and Jang S. Verman (Jammu), Mintu Dekka (Guwahati) and others at the Modern Art Gallery of International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT), Naggar (Kullu) on 5th July, 2019. An International Art Workshop was also inaugurated by Larisa, Russian Curator, IRMT in the presence of Ramesh Sharma, Indian Curator and Damitry Surgin on 4th July, 2019 at Green House Open Air Theatre of IRMT.
The exhibition and workshop are being organized by Art Fort India, Chandigarh, Verman Cultural Celebrations, Jammu, SMD Art Foundation, Guwahati and Society for Prabal Pramanik Academy of Arts, Bhamlada (Pathankot) in collaboration with International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT), Naggar (Kullu).
The participating artists in the exhibition are Simone Noseda (Italy), Keziban Rtugrul Yildirim (Turkey), Monisha Saha (Bangla Desh), Jaspal Singh and Shivani Singla (Punjab), Prabhinder Lall, Manmadha Rao, Parminder Kaur and Neeti Joshi (Chandigarh), Sankari Mitra (West Bengal), Mintu Dekka, Meenakshi Bargohain and Bandana Nath (Assam), Shyam Sharma and Roma Bahl (Uttar Pradesh), Neelu Kanwaria (Rajsthan), Nishi Nitya (New Delhi), Amita Khare (Madhya Pradesh), Riya Abrol (Himachal Pradesh), Raghu Newere, Vandana Prihagya, Vaishali Pakhale (Maharashtra) and Nijeena Neelambaran (Kerala) and Jang S. Verman, Shivali Jamwal and Mehak Sharma (Jammu & Kashmir).
The participating artists in the International Art Workshop of Paintings (B&W) are Simone Noseda (Italy), Prabhinder Lall (Chandigarh), Mintu Dekka, Meenakshi Bargohain and Bandana Nath (Assam), Shyam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh), Raghu Newere (Maharashtra), Shivani Singla (Punjab) and Jang S. Verman and Mehak Sharma (Jammu & Kashmir).
The International Art Workshop has been organized by Art Fort India, Chandigarh, Verman Cultural Celebrations, Jammu, SMD Art Foundation, Guwahati and Society for Prabal Pramanik Academy of Arts, Bhamlada (Pathankot) in collaboration with International Reorich Memorial Trust, Naggar (Kullu).
The present exhibition is the 3rd B&W show in its series. The purpose of organizing such shows and workshop dedicated to black & white art works is to revive the mediums used by our ancestors in long tested visual expressions to express and share their views and emotions. The Drawing & Print art works by different artists to be put on display in the exhibition have been executed in various art techniques and mediums like Pen- n- Ink, water colour, pencil, charcoal and crayon drawings, NoPaint Images (an innovative technique) etc. 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 organizers of both the events have already organized many national and international level art events at many places in the country in the past also.