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A chance to showcase artistic talent

Staff Correspondent

Dharwad Utsav, which will kick off on Friday, is being held after seven years

DHARWAD: Equal importance to art forms such as drawing, painting, sculpture and others has been given at the Dharwad Utsav, Deputy Commissioner M.S. Srikar has said.

Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, he said the attempt of the district administration was to encourage all artists. And through the utsav, which was being held after seven years, both young and upcoming artists and senior artists were being given equal opportunity to showcase their talent, he added.

The Deputy Commissioner also released brochures containing the paintings of young and senior artists that would be put on display at various art galleries in the twin cities during the three-day district-level festival starting on Friday.

To create awareness about the festival, 30-second clippings about Ministers and artists speaking about the utsav had been prepared.

Giving details about the painting exhibitions, senior artist and chairman of the Sub Committee on Painting, Sculpture and Puppetry, P.R. Arya Acharya, said the committee received 200 paintings from 150 young artists.

Of these, 81 paintings had been selected for the exhibition to be held at the new Art Gallery at Vidyanagar in Hubli during the utsav.

While the committee would give five prizes for the best paintings among these, another five prizes would be given by various organisations, he said.

He said the exhibition of the prize-winning paintings would be held at the Government Art Gallery in Dharwad and the paintings of senior artists would be held at Srujana Rangamandir in Dharwad.

Winners

Irappa Shivarudrappa Kaladagi, B.N. Kandappagoudar, Vishnu S. Mogera, Shivakumar V. Nayak, Subhas P. Terdal, Ashok B. Satappanavar, Anand M. Hiremath, Shamim J. Attar, Mounesh Y. Badiger and Rahima A. Tigadolli would be given prizes.

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