PRINT GALORE

 

 

NAGUESH  RAO  SARDESSAI

Rajendra Usapkar, noted artist, printmaker and mentor to several young artists along with Ryan Abreu has organized an exhibition titled ‘Mini Print Show 2014’ at and in association with ‘Art Resort’, Palolem, Canacona, Goa.

The exhibition showcases over 100 prints of over sixty celebrity and noted artists along with several emerging printmakers from Goa and across the country. The works of doyen of printmaking art such as Jyoti Bhatt, Laxma Goud, Yusuf, Walter Emilio Dsouza, P D Dhumal, Vijay Bagodi, K R Subbanna, Sushant Guha, Anand Moy Banerjee, Jayanti Rabadia and Savindra Savarkar will be on display.

Goan printmakers who have achieved a commendable level of success and admiration from the art connoisseurs includes Querozito Dsouza, Rajendra Usapkar, Rajan Shripad Fulari and Viraj Naik are also on exhibit. Besides this, Rajesh Chodankar, Aadhi Vishal, Sripad Gurav, Sachin Naik, Shilpa Naik, Pradeep Naik, Siddharth Gosavi, Kedar Dhondu, Ramdas Gadekar, Santosh Morajkar, Chaitali Morajkar, Swapnesh Vaigankar, Karishma D'souza, Prashant Nageshkar and Ryan Francis Abreu represent the state.

 The ‘Art Resort’ has been supportive of art and has been, for last four years, consistently providing space to local as well as artists from other places across the globe. The intention is to provide a platform to the exhibiting artist and exposing the local populace to the creative advancement prevalent outside.

The title of the show being self-explanatory, each work does not exceed 8x8 inches in size. It has on view, a rare collection of small sized prints produced of varied medium such as engraving, woodcut, lithography, etching, photography etc.  

Goa has rich history of printmaking. It has begun with the colonial masters. Goa was the first place in the entire Asia to possess a printing press. It was at the Jesuit Saint Paul's College in Old Goa in the year 1556.

The other artists from rest of the country are Nilotpal Dhwaj Sinha, Suguresh Sultanpur, Prasad Swain, L.Kiran Kumar, Dushyant Patel, Jagdish Tamineini, Praveen Hatwar, Chandrasekhar Waghmare, Soola Posi Prasad, Anamika Prakash, Murali Chinaswamy, Brinda Bhatt, Utkarsh Makwana, Amshu MS, Neha Pathak, Neha Kasar, Kedar Namdas, Ajay Dhapa, Sudeep Kumar Bashyal, Ritesh Umate, Chirag Panchal, Malabika Burman, Vinayak Pandya, Kalpak Kulkarni, L Raja, Shikha Gala, Vaibhav Kitlekar, Varsha Pednekar, Shalmali Shetty, Bharat Dodiya, Mughda Joshi, Sunil Darji, Debraj Goswami, Satyanand Mohan and Sajal Sarkar.

The show will be on till January 21.