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A walk down memory lane

Smriti Kak Ramachandran

A date with the country's past

BACK IN TIME: A visual history

NEW DELHI: A new art gallery will be inaugurated at Indian Women's Press Corps here on Thursday with an exhibition of paintings based on the theme "1857-1947".

As the nation gets together to commemorate the 150 years of the 1857 uprising, the IWPC art gallery will display a collage of works by well-known artists.

The exhibition, organised by Sahmat, will include works by Indian masters including Arpita Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Shamshad, Vivan Sundaram, Ram Rahman, Ghulam Sheikh and Nilima Sheikh.

The works of art, each of which has its own story to tell, are together aimed at presenting a weave that traces the history of the country.

Personal history

"The exhibition encourages artists to tell their personal history. We are calling the project `making history our own'," says Ram Rahman, who is putting up a family photograph taken by his father that captures noted artists like M. F. Husain and Satish Gujral alongside a young Rahman in his mother's arms.

The exhibition, he says, is coinciding with the 60th year of Independence, the 150th year of the 1857 uprising, the birth centenary of Bhagat Singh, P.C. Joshi, Ramkinkar and the launch of the Satyagraha movement by Gandhiji in South Africa.

These art works, which were first put up at the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society gallery here on January 30, will travel across galleries in the country through the year.

"As we move from one city to another, we will keep adding more works to the collection. The exhibition will finally return to Delhi in 2008," says Rahman.

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