Varanasi: The Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University will organize an online event “The Hinterland Conundrum” from Thursday.
According to the BHU spokesperson Rajesh Singh, the event will have four online exhibitions of paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, and ceramics that will showcase the artwork of 12 recently graduated MFA candidates from all the departments at Faculty of Visual Arts. The virtual exhibitions will provide these young artists exposure on various social media platforms. These exhibitions will facilitate the artists, art lovers, art connoisseurs and art students to see, interact and understand the contemporary expressions of the 12 young artists from BHU. This dialogue will lead to a heightened awareness about young contemporary artists of the university.
The proposed exhibitions intend to attract the attention of curators, galleries and art critics who promote young and emerging artists. The idea of showcasing the artworks by recent MFA graduates from the Faculty of Visuals Arts came from the various concerns and challenges faced by these young artists. Societal pressure coupled with inexperience of engaging themselves with the rapidly changing Indian art climate and professional practice are immense. Varanasi’s isolation from mainstream contemporary Indian art further proves to be detrimental despite the city's national and global prominence. Although this isolation has enabled the art students at the Faculty of Visuals Arts in creating a unique oeuvre, but has also led to their marginalization. The world-renowned city of Varanasi has unexpectedly become a hinterland.
This event is supported by Prof. Hiralal Prajapati, Dean – Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU and Binod Kumar Singh, Head of Department of Plastic Arts. Nitin Dutt of the department of Plastic Arts has been appointed as the coordinator to envision and organize this online event.