Work by Riyas Komu on the stamp artwork exhibition
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As a race, we delight ourselves to find loopholes within the system or going one up on the institution. With this exhibition of stamp-sized artistic endeavors, curator Nilesh Kinkale has tried to convey how creativity has the final phrase in nearly each scenario.
Known as, ‘Thook Lagana Mana Hai’ (or No Spitting Right here), the title is a tongue-in-cheek jab at how spit can affix our stamps and journey the world even when we can not expectorate in public.
Over 200 artists from world wide have participated on this travelling exhibition which opened in Mumbai; it strikes to Kolkata and Assam after its stint in Bengaluru. Mumbai-based Nilesh Kinkale who curated this exhibition says the thought for this present sprung from the situations of partially accomplished jobs or tasks throughout him. “Persons are continuously making an attempt to do much less for extra, and to a big extent, we now have come to simply accept it because the norm on this nation — from employers and workers, to our society and the federal government,” says Nilesh.
Work by Nilesh Kinkale on the stamp artwork exhibition
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“We reside in a rustic the place we aren’t purported to spit in public, but we use spit on our stamps with the arrogance that we now have paid the mandatory quantity for the load of our letter and that the postal division will guarantee it reaches the meant recipient.”
Nilesh, a multi-media artist himself, provides that there was one more reason why this idea materialised. Although the gallery he’s connected to in Mumbai is kind of small, “It might not be unfaithful to name it stamp-sized too,” that they had lengthy needed a exhibiting with worldwide artists. The area constraint made the thought of a stamp-sized canvas much more enticing and Nilesh says he was in a position to ship with this concept.
Artists from over 12 nations comparable to Japan, Korea, Belgium, Bulgaria and France have participated on this exhibition and Nilesh provides they’re residents and never NRIs. “They discovered the thought uncommon and enthusiastically agreed to affix up. We despatched them clean sheets of perforated paper that might be painted on and so they mailed them again to us,” he says, including every section measured 2.5 x 3.5 inches.
Work by Gurudas Shenoy on the stamp artwork exhibition
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Properly-known Indian artists comparable to SG Vasudev, Jogen Chowdhury, VG Venugopal, Gurudas Shenoy, Manish Chavda and Riyas Komu are among the many 277 artists from India and world wide who’ve introduced their artwork at this exhibition, which took the higher a part of a 12 months to organise.
Curated by Nilesh Kinkale, who lives and works in Mumbai, and hosted by Amita Shenoy, Thook Lagana Mana Hai can be on show on the Shenoy Design Studio, Binny Structure 2nd stage, Vijaynagar, until November 2, 2023
Work by Manish Chavda on the stamp artwork exhibition
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Work by VG Venugopal on the stamp artwork exhibition
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