Art to fund Bapu’s London statue

NEW DELHI: The works of 28 major artists, including M F Husain, Jogen Chowdhury, Manu Parekh, Jatin Das, Arpana Caur, Paresh Maity and Atul Dodiya, will be displayed together on December 13 at a charity exhibition and sale in the capital to raise money for a Mahatma Gandhi statue in London’s Parliament Square. The exhibition and sale will be held at the British High Commissioner’s residence.
Lord Meghnad Desai, who has set up the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust to raise money for the sculpture, said, “It is a wonderful gesture on the part of these renowned Indian artists, who are supporting not only the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Parliament Square, but also the work of a fellow artist and sculptor, Philip Jackson, who has created the statue.”
Other artists whose work will be displayed include Raghu Rai, Haku Shah, K S Radhakrishnan, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Jagannath Panda, G R Iranna, B Manjunath Kamath, Veer Munshi, Subba Ghosh, Seema Kohli, Parthiv Shah, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Dimpy Menon, Sudhanshu Sutar, Sudip Roy, Amit Pasricha, Apurva Desai, Anu Malhotra, Sharmi Chowdhury, Mainaz Bano and Suraj Kumar Kashi.
Many of these artists have taken the time out from their busy schedules to specially create a painting or a sculpture inspired by the Mahatma.
Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi is organizing the charity event for the Trust. The exhibition is being curated by Sunaina Anand, a respected art promoter.