PRINT SHOW

NAGUESH  RAO  SARDESSAI

‘Sunaparanta - Goa Center For The Arts’ is hosting an exhibition of etching prints, by contemporary print makers of India, titled ‘Look At This Land.’

The show, curated by well-known young Goan artist Viraj Naik, features some of the veterans and master print-makers of India..

The works displayed here is the outcome of an Etching Camp and Seminar, titled ‘Celebration Of Expression Through Etching’ coordinated by Viraj Naik, in October this year, at this very center. Anupam Sud, Atin Basak, Dattatreya Apte, Jyoti Bhatt, K.R. Subanna, K. Laxma Goud, K.S. Vishwambara, Rajan Fulari, Rajendra Usapkar, Vijay Bagodi, Viraj Naik, Walter D'Souza were some of the seniors who made their presence felt and did produce some stunning works.

Loretti Pinto, Kedar Dhondu, Pradeep Naik, Ramdas Gadekar, Sachin Naik, Santosh Morajkar, Siddharth Gosavi, Shripad Gurav, Shilpa Naik Mayenkar, Swapnesh Vaiganker, Vitesh Naik and Vijay Bhandare represented the young Goans. 

‘Sunaparanta is a non-profit, process-based initiative to encourage creation, learning, understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts through education and dialogue in Goa,’ says the founder of this project, Dattaraj V. Salgaocar.

And it was indeed a learning experience for the young artists who had assisted these veterans. This camp was an initiative to facilitate a dialogue between the experts and the novice and it did serve the purpose. The fourteen-day camp saw some of the noted printmakers present their works and elucidate their conceptual churnings and the subsequent outpouring in the form of etching.

Atin Basak, Jyoti Bhatt reached out to the art enthusiast and encouraged the young practitioners. These talks and presentations enlivened the atmosphere.

Going by what the veteran printmaker and guest speaker at the inaugural, Ananda Moy Banerji, says, 'only the hoteliers used to take graphic prints because they wanted identical works in their hotel rooms', we have come a long way. People, now, are taking print collection very seriously and view it as an independent form of serious art.

 The exhibition was on till January 19, 2013