Where art transcends age

Artists Club, a new online forum for young and budding city artists presents a group show, ‘Around the Art’ that will be open to public till October 4 at Beyond Coffee.

With a wide range of painting collection of 35 artists from different age groups, Artists Club presented an art exhibition titled ‘Around the Art- group show’ at Beyond Coffee, Jubilee Hills. Artists Club is a newly launched platforms for budding and struggling contemporary artists of the city who are looking for an opportunity to showcase their work and and gain creative exposure.

“Many students are passing out from art colleges of our city, who are unable to get a platform to showcase their work. And in the process the art world is missing out on many talented artists as they do not know the process of approaching a gallery and making an entry into commercial market. We have taken the initiative to provide them an intellectual platform with art exhibitions, workshops, art camps, etc.”, said Srikanth Babu, the painter and event organiser.

The paintings on display depict various facets of human life with metaphoric subjects along with mythological characters on canvas. So when Arup Kutty’s painting is shows the togetherness of a relation, Anantula Srinivas shows the rituals that are celebrated by village women. Apart from oil, acrylic and water colours, the exhibition also showcases collage works. The art work of P Rajender Kumar is one such example. “Though I like acrylic painting, I enjoy exploring collage work as it is a different medium. In our city, only a few artists have explored this medium, hence, I am interested to work on this medium. I have been working as a collage artist from last six years,” shared the 62-year old artist who passed out from JNTU with a degree in applied art in 1980.

On the other hand, portrait artist M Niranjan Rao has showcased two very different works, a portrait of film actor Amitabh Bachchan and his rendition of an old master’s painting. “ I have received one of the best appreciation from Big B’s painting as he himself autographed the work and shared his kind word when I went to meet him to show the painting,” said the artist.” He worked on an old painting of S M Pandit that shows the Hindu Goddess of knowledge, Saraswati. “We often talk about Raja Ravi Varma but not about many old masters. As a painter I feel the responsibility to work on old masters like S M Pandit,” he concluded.