AR group art exhibition
28th August,2020 – 1st Septmeber,2020
We always speak about how Indian artists have an upper hand due to our rich culture and tradition. As the world suffers from Pandemic, the entire art market was puzzled and were thinking ways for a sustainable way for art. Though people thought of ways for a virtual exhibition, we planned to take it one step ahead. We introduced India’s first Group AR ( Augmented Reality) Art exhibition.
About AUGMENTED REALITY – The technology where you can see things virtually and place those virtual objects in your real environment is called Augmented reality or Mixed Reality. This technology sounds perfect for our community as anyone can place the actual painting in the real world and look for options and check it’s suitability. Now people are doing wonders using this amazing technology. Recently we have seen how jewellery shops are using this technology to practice untouched selling and it also promotes social distancing.
What excited us was its benefits. Artworks in high resolution 3d models can reach out to large number of people or crowd at the same time as anyone, anywhere in the world can see it, share the link and buy it online . Also costly objects can be displayed with zero percentage of mishandling. No travel or time management issues. One can just go on with the benefits of it.
With plethora of benefits, Our Founder Mittul Agarwal took the privilege to organise this exhibition on our very own website from 28th August – 30th August and ended up extending the exhibition till 1st September due to it’s unbelievable and exciting results.
The AR designing part was handled by Udit Nimal and our Web developer Ahwan Mishra helped us showcase this exhibition as planned.
The exhibition hosted 8 artists from India, including one artist from the US.
Participating artists from Mumbai were Tripti Seth ( known for her portraits made from thread on fabrics) , Saloni Jain ( working on conceptual arts using acrylic and oil) , Archana Gore (uses pencil colours to make portraits and nature inspired works) , Mitisha Vakil ( exploring new horizons while working on landscapes with acrylics) Aniket Kanade ( uses his life experiences in his works with various mediums). We also had Jeyusha Patel ( working on nature and religion driven paintings using Zentangles on large canvases) from Surat and Vaijayanthi. V ( with her splendid landscape works with acrylics) from Chennai. The last participating artist was
Ambica Manepalli ( known for her creative and experimental mandalas ) from USA.
The exhibition was inaugurated on 28th August online in a live session with internationally renowned artists Nfn Kalyan from USA. This live discussion was on our Instagram channel (@thearthub18) with the founder talking about how Indian artist can create their mark in the Global market.
This 4 days exhibition was a great success . We got nearly 1750+ unique visitors including 2,00,000 + clicks . The exhibition went international from national as it was viewed by art lovers and buyers from 6+ countries including USA, Germany, France, Canada, Ireland, Uk and our very own country.
We extend our gratitude to all those who believed in us. As far as the Indian audience and its competence with technology is considered, there’s still a lot to do in this field. The future is quite promising once we are able to mine the opportunities.
This article was published in the half monthly newsletter of India’s Art newspaper COLOUR CANVAS in its September edition.
AUTOMATED ART WORKSHOP
18TH October,2020
The uncertainty of the pandemic has taken a toll over us and so we decided to celebrate Mental Health Month in October. Shubhankar Suri, an artist from Hyderabad came to us with the concept of Automated art and we decided to host a workshop about it. The month was planned to educate audience about mental health and how one can improve it through Automated Art.
Automated art – It is the process of making art in a subconscious way. Many a times while making art we think about the desired output and sometimes we become restless if we aren’t able to achieve it. So it doesn’t make sense when we say it’s a therapy. But in Automated art we don’t think how the form will come or whether the desired output will be good or bad. We just keep on painting/sketching whatever comes to our mind. Its more free and more true to your thought. And ultimately you end up pouring your entire stress on paper/canvas and making yourself relaxed.
Selected 3 works from the Automated Art workshop to display in Splash 2021
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Debate
18th April, 2021
We all have seen a lot of Online live sessions and have listened to many artist’s journeys. So what’s next? We thought why not to plan a debate on the topics which are always discussed in all the live sessions in general. Isn’t it interesting??
Why Debate ?
In arts field we have seen upcoming artists lack research though it being an important aspect in creation. So by giving out topics and organising debate, we can create a need to research and spread awareness about its need. Limiting themselves up to creation of art, might miss out importance of having knowledge about the entire industry. This is one of our ideas to inculcate a research based approach in arts and so we came up with First ever Debate on arts.
Teams are as follows :
Team 0 – Amit kumar meena and Nfnkalyan
Peculiar Heads – Revathy Ramchandran and Harsh Dhoka
Brilliant Brushes – Nushrat Khan and Payal Moni
Asimit – Dhanashree Joshi and Gargi Deodhar
About the Judges:
Snehal Tambulwadikar Khedkar
“A Freelance art writer, an Art critic and Art historian, Snehal Tambulwadikar-Khedkar, is currently working as a Visiting Faculty of Art History and Aesthetics at J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai, and as a Program Coordinator at Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Mumbai. She is a TedX speaker, currently working on a project named Kalapravasi Heritage Tours with the objective to create awareness and respect for the heritage of arts and culture in different parts of the country.”
Chaitya Dhanvi Shah
“An art curator, author, photographer and a creative art entrepreneur, Chaitya Dhanvi Shah marked his journey by curating an art show at the raw age of 20 in Jehangir Art Gallery. He believes there’s a lot of artists unexplored and is a firm believer of combing art with various subjects rather than isolating it. To create a sense of human awareness and spiritual consciousness related to art he has started his weekly blogs and podcasts. Recently he made a debut as an author with his first book named ‘The Conductor’. “
TOPICS OF ROUND 1
Traditional Art or Digital Art
Introduction :
Over the period of time , as humans evolved we have seen the transition of medium to create art. In the stone age, they carved on the cave walls later came charcoal and other minerals. Discovery of new mediums added the list and then we can also see paintings using natural ingredients. Later on with the invention of artificial colours the industry took a different shape. Now, with the advancement in technology, the latest medium is digital tools which are capable to create art with more intricacy. If we can create same shades and textures using digital medium, then is there a need of doing it in traditional way? What value digital art holds in this everchanging times of the industry where Covid-19 has given a boost to the digital medium.
Brilliant Brushes –Traditional Art (affirmative team)
Asimit –Digital Art (opposition team)
Globalisation in arts : A boon or curse
Introduction :
Globalisation has helped the artists reach a wider audience. It has helped the art market boom in monetary aspects and has made art accessible to all. Anyone from anywhere can now bid for paintings present in any corner of the world. Prior to that, art was limited to the locals but now it has reached the masses. The power of globalisation is immense but at the same time is it killing the indigenous nature of art ? As art can be used to track history, to create geographical , social or cultural identity but due to accessibility of each art style has it limited artists to a bubble? Is it creating a hinderance in exploration and production of varied works?
Peculiar Heads – Globalisation is a boon (affirmative team)
Team 0 – Globalisation is a curse (opposition team)
FINAL DEBATE TOPIC
Modifications in old famous artworks
– To be considered as a new work or a copy
Introduction :
We often see artists recreating artworks of Old famous artists in the name of creativity. It definitely adds a different perspective to view the art but does it all degrades the value of original artwork. Some may point that it makes that artwork to be the “Talk of the town” But does it showcase the original creativity of the artist who recreated? In the times where we have numerous budding artists rising up, do we still need to recreate works or it’s time for some new works to help the future generation trace the history!
Winner of Debate 1 – Brilliant Brushes- (Affirmative side speaking about it’s a new work)
Winner of Debate 2 – Peculiar Heads (Opposition side defending that it’s a copy)
Winners of the debate were PECULIAR HEADS (Revathy Ramchandran and Harsh Dhoka)
The debate was successful filled with research and valid arguments. The judges were surprised to know that young artists too take interest in researching about the field and love to talk about it.