VIZOOKA

 

    This is a special exhibition that brings together a cohort of artists who completed their master’s degrees at Kala Bhavana. The batch of 1983-85, almost all of them, is exhibiting together four decades after leaving Santiniketan. Many of them are established artists today; some have an international presence, and several have made their mark as teachers, shaping the next generation of artists in institutions across the country. The rich diversity of their work will undoubtedly catch the viewers’ attention, but it is their alma mater that brings them together in this exhibition. Even their evident diversity owes something to being trained in Santiniketan. Rabindranath did not want Santiniketan to be just another teaching institution; he wanted learning to be liberating, enabling one to live and be creative in joyful freedom. So did Kala Bhavana’s early teachers, and they passed that legacy on to all those who came later in some measure. Thus, there is both a perceptible a...