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Saturday, May 20, 2006

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"Back to Nature" on canvas

Madhur Tankha

NEW DELHI: The Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre here on Janpath is organising an exhibition of paintings on environmental concerns by the seasoned Indian artist D. P. Sibal from this coming Tuesday.

Titled "Back to Nature", the fortnight-long exhibition will feature 35 works of art in oil on canvas as well as acrylic on canvas. The artist says that even though people claim to be living in the space age, the fact is that open spaces are increasingly shrinking around us. Deeply disturbed by this stark fact and also due to general lack of interest shown by people towards nature and the greenery around them, the artist felt the need to make a series of paintings on this significant theme.

"The paintings are a nostalgic journey into the past where single-storey dwellings sometimes had peacocks dancing on the rooftops," says the artist, whose painting based on his childhood vision of life intertwined with nature won him a coveted place at the `Osaka Triennale' held in Japan through a worldwide competition.

With this upcoming exhibition, which will be on view till June 5, Sibal has made an attempt to revive the hidden fear within all of us about the consequence of our actions on the ecology. He has also sought to highlight the need to maintain ecological relationship for humanity's present and future survival.

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