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Visual Arts at Jaipur Festival

Ceramic installations by Tarshito (Italy) at Jaipur Festival
The Vase and the Fish
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Dwarka Dheesh Temple

Italian artist Tarshito is working with Jaipur’s famous blue pottery artisans to create installations of ceramic art, in one of the Walled City’s historic temples. Architect, designer and artist Tarshito is a native of Southern Italy, He has spent large amounts of time in India where he first came in 1979 in search of inspiration. He has exhibited at the Delhi Crafts Museum and has worked extensively with Indian craftsmen to produce handicrafts, furniture, jewellery and exhibition pieces for Italian and Indian markets.
Supported by Nature Morte

Paintings, sculpture and photographs (Italy) at Jaipur Festival
An Italian Season
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Chaturdic Gallery, JKK

Using a range of materials, contemporary artists from various regions of Italy have made paintings, sculpture and photographs… There will be a special focus on painting. Participating artists include Maria Elisabetta Catamo, Gianna Scoino, Alberto Ghinzani, Lino Mannocci, Elisabetta di Pisa, Barbara Pietrasanta, and Tarshito. Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Nature Morte

Paintings by Bajrang Lal Suthar at Jaipur Festival
Bajrang - Life through Paint and Poetry
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Diggi Palace

Bajrang Lal Suthar was permanently disabled in an accident ten years ago. Here he tells the story of his struggle to overcome his difficulties. Bajrang has found an outlet for his emotions through writing poetry, and translating them onto canvas. This is his debut exhibition, featuring work from a span of about seven years. With no other source of income, this former carpenter from the small village of Momasar in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, is now being encouraged by the Jaipur Virasat Foundation to look at art as a means of livelihood.

Paintings by various Jaipur Artists at Jaipur Festival
Jaipur Revisited
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, JKK Parijat 1 and 2

Specially curated for the Festival by National art critic and published scholar Dr Alka Pande, this exhibition looks at the emerging visual language of contemporary visual artists of Jaipur. It is a celebration of today’s Jaipur, a thriving ‘creative bowl’, set against the backdrop of the city’s past - the home of tradition and feudal kingship.

Paintings by Surendra Pal Joshi at Jaipur Festival
Resonance on Art
Throughout the festival, 18.00 to 20.00hrs, ta Blu, Hotel Clark’s Amer

A series of paintings that create the effect of textiles with the use of acrylic colours. Surendra Pal Joshi’s works exemplify figurative and non-figurative facets of life, and uses textures of fabrics and shades of colour. The focal emotion in the paintings is the satisfaction of being close to one’s roots. Joshi has done 20 solo and 80 group exhibitions, and is chiefly known for his “time textile” series.
Supported by ta Blu

Paintings by various National Artists at Jaipur Festival
The Juneja Collection
Throughout the festival, 10.00 to 20.00hrs, Juneja Art Gallery

An exhibition of works by artists from across India - Jatin Das, Surjit Akre and Prof. Niren Sen Gupta from Delhi, Manoj Mitra, Ashoke Mullick and Subrata Gangopadhyay from Kolkata, Anand Panchal from Mumbai, and Deepika Hazra, Sangeeta Juneja and Kiran Murdia from Rajasthan. There will also be a daily art demonstration.
Supported by the Juneja Gallery

Paintings and Sculpture by various National Artists at Jaipur Festival
The Samanvai Collection
Throughout the Festival, 10.00 to 20.00hrs, Samanvai Art Gallery

Paintings and sculptures by Nikhil Biswas, K.H. Ara, Rabin Mondal, Ganesh Haroi, Paritosh Sen, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Sanat Kar, Prokash Karmokar, Jogen Choudhary, Ramanand Bandhopadhyaya, Bijon Choudhary, Pradeep Mitra, Laxman Goud and other internationally acclaimed contemporary Indian artists.
Supported by the Samanvai Gallery

Photographs by Elizabeth Simpson (UK) at Jaipur Festival
Hands, Mind and Eye
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Hotel Rajputana Sheraton

The exhibition explores the relationship between people, their culture and their environment through the eyes of Elizabeth Simpson, who toured Jaipur, Kota, Kishangarh, Jodhpur and Kumbalgarh in 2004 and 2005. The families of the people photographed have lived for many years in the same area, and practise the same work as their forbearers. The land, the material, the skills are imbibed in their bodies and many of the prints are collages: two shots superimposed on one another, showing these inherent relationships.

Video Art curated by Pooja Sood at Jaipur Festival
Fri 20, Sat 21 and Sun 22

Apeejay Media Gallery, a premier forum for new media art in India, presents a selection of video art works on three evenings 20th - 22nd January 2006

The Gallery provides a forum for an exciting dialogue between film making, video, performance, installation art, digitally manipulated photography, virtual reality, acoustics, choreography and dance amongst the many other possibilities that the confluence of art and technology provide.
Supported by Apeejay Media Gallery

Workshop at Jaipur Festival
Comics as a contemporary graphic narrative form - Workshop by Etienne Schreder from Belgium
Mon 16 to Fri 20, Rajasthan School of Art

A five-day workshop conducted by respected Belgian comic strip artist Etienne Schreder, covering the global history of comic strips from the beginnings to present day techniques. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for artists to learn about the philosophies and techniques of comic strip art so they can develop their own creations. Participants will be encouraged to create their own works by the final day. Etienne Schreder is a respected Belgian comic strip artist and workshop trainer. He began his full time career in comics with the well-known publishers Casterman. Since 2003, he has been with the largest French comic strip publisher, Glénat. He has produced several albums, specially commissioned work and collaborated with other artists in the course of his career.
Supported by India’s Heritage, The Viveka Foundation and Rajasthan School of Art

Public Art Installation at Jaipur Festival
Universal Being - In the Path of the Sun and the Moon
Sat 21, 14.45 hrs, Central Park

This work represents an international collaboration of many partners. Installed at two sites, in the north of Jaipur on the island facing the Jal Mahal and towards the south in the Central Park, the public work of art is the masterpiece of the French artist Christian Lapie working with Tab India, the crafts people of Rajasthan and Jaipur designer Samiir Wheaton, in Bijolia, Bheslana and Karoli stone. The locations establish the work in harmony with its historical context and reflect Jaipur’s north-south axis. The sculptures are monumental figures without arms or faces. As universal human beings they question us and watch over us as though they were our guardians, placid and immutable. They include us in the landscape, its memory and its history. As the heavenly constellations inform all elements of Indian culture, so the fifteen pieces of which this two-site installation is made are inspired by the heavens. At Jal Mahal the sun and moon look together in the same direction representing day and night. The group of thirteen in the Central Park represent the Constellation of Capricorn and the winter solstice. The sculptures invite us to reflect upon the passage of time. The project will be inaugurated on January 21 and promotes Jaipur globally as an international centre of contemporary artistry and craft.
Principal Sponsor TabIndia

Jaipur Heritage International Festival, a project of Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF), is an effort to revitalize dying arts & crafts, create employment opportunities, conserve, restore & find new uses for historic sites promote sustainability, diversity & celebration.