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Exhibition to promote print-making

Mandira Nayar

LINEAR CONFIGURATIONS: Beyond the realm of painting

NEW DELHI: This is an exhibition with a "printing'' purpose. Nothing to do with the business of newspapers, it is purely for the love of the "art'' of printing. With some of the famous signatures in art world featuring in this exhibition titled "Linear Configurations", it is all about extending the vocabulary of visitors beyond the realm of painting.

"The idea of the exhibition is to promote print-making, which has been left behind as painting has grabbed the focus of people. There are senior artists as well as young ones who have come together to display about 90 works,'' says Art n Soul director Shefali Somani.

All original drawings and prints, the show has names like M.F. Husain, writer-cartoonist Manjula Padmanabhan, senior print maker Palaniappan, the "father" of printmaking in India Hemen M Haren Das and Somenath Hore. Some of the other eminent artists are Laxma Goud, Ganesh Haloi, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhary and Sunil Das.

"There are prints made by the artists themselves. Some artists do their own printing on copper-edged plates or with wood. This takes a lot of effort, but is as beautiful as painting. The show also has drawings," says Shefali.

From the humorous drawings of Manjula Padmanabhan to the colourful serigraph of M.F. Husain, the exhibition is not only about different styles, but also provides a complete spectrum of the medium.

The gallery, which is reopening at a new location in the Capital, hopes to be able to showcase two neglected forms of art -- printmaking and drawing. "The gallery plans to focus very strongly on these two mediums. The present show has a blend of serigraphs, etchings, lithographs, dry-point woodcuts and linocuts along with drawings in pen and ink, brush, pencil, charcoal, and conte crayon,'' says Shefali.

"You can always cover up with painting, even if your drawing is weak. This is such a beautiful form of art, but people hang it in their bathrooms. I hope people realise how visually appealing these are after they see the exhibition,'' she says.

The exhibition, which opens this Friday, will be on view up to April 29 at 7 Friends Colony West.

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