The 1st Ever Multimedia Art Exhibition Of Its Kind - Here's What We Loved About The Drifting Canvas @ Select Citywalk

At one time, Van Gogh was tagged as a controversial artist, his art did not bother about any obstacles but instead, he concentrated on creating wonderful creations that made him infamous and popular among all age gaps. There were plenty of them who took ages to exhibit art in their own way, in their own form of caterpillars who later on, converted their cocoons of ideas into butterflies of aesthetics. Those cornered frames showed art in limited view when we sat for long hours, staring at “The Kiss” and cherishing Gustav’s existence, once upon a time.

And so this event too exhibited art like never before, when our eyes widened voluntarily to intake every inch of art, one at one time, and witnessed the big screens representing generations and ages of art’s evolution.

It was a delight to watch the efforts of those artists, who did not just create installations and pieces of art but also gave us reasons to preserve them, for a long time to come.

But the theme of this exhibition was not regular, it had more meaning to the initiative, a stronger base for its existence. From Impressionism to the Post-Impressionism Era, from Abstract to Nudity and Portraits, Neo-Impressionism, Suprematism and many other movements that changed the way of expression and turned the curves of the brush strokes, these are usually not the talk of any exhibition and hence “Drifting Canvas”: The movement of ideas and how the artists changed their back-end thought process and also, tried new ways to show the world, how beautiful strokes and spots can flourish the plain white canvases was beautiful!

At the entry gate, we were provided with a guide and catalogue to the exhibition which was divided into 3 zones. The first division was there to educate visitors about the various movements and the artists involved. Text heavy, this zone offered widespread knowledge with big columns, 11 in number, dedicated to different artists whose efforts made a huge impact on society. The black wall in front of the entry gate, on the end of the straight path was dedicated to the movements. Each one of them was explained briefly and was specified with their reasons of existence.

Taking a right from this wall, there were two big LCDs put to use. That was just the start to the Multimedia Hall, where we could already feel the perfect combination of Art and Technology culminating together in an installation.

The screens showed us pictures, which initially looked blurry but made sense when we got our 3D glasses on. It was another tactic by the team to increase the engagement at the exhibition and it worked beautifully; people had big smiles on their faces while using the hardware and were talking to the curators and technicians while taking a look at the mesmerising digital art.

The hallway led us to our most favourite part of the exhibition which was more like a movie hall but the screens surrounded us with mellow music on speakers handled by the technicians in the centre of the hall.

It was one dark room with big screen panels and the artists and their art were put on display and we were delighted to listen to the jazz music whilst enjoying the portraits and art being screened, stretching from the ground to the ceiling.

They had projection lights attached to the roof for the presentation and stools near the screens at the centre of the halls to witness all the unique art!

Next, the ‘Fun Zone’ awaited us in the third division of the exhibition. The initial part of the third division held collections by different artists like Kanchan Chander, Kali Charan Gupta, Jagdish Dey, etc.

The horizontal and parallel walls at the entrance of this division were enhanced with paintings by famous artists. The Curator, Mr. Akshat Sinha was at our service and guided us further. His theme was “Desi Canvas”, and provided artists an opportunity to showcase contemporary art, suited best for the theme.

(Few Artworks by Kanchan Chander; “Bollywood”)

(Artworks by Kali Charan Gupta)

And at the end of it all we sat back and enjoyed some delicious food from Pita Pit right at the end of the exhibition whilst we soaked all the art in!

Overall, an amazing event, the theme of the exhibition holds an important relevance: to spread awareness about the major art movements that happen to be the building blocks and bridges of what art stands for and by, today!