BENGALURU:
Art aficionados, take note. Chitra Santhe, the day-long event where you
can pick up art, sometimes for a song, is back on January 4. This time,
the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (CKP) has gone into overdrive to
ensure buyers are neither aesthetically short-changed nor run short of
moolah.
The street art mart, where thousands of works are displayed, sees heavy footfalls.
Groups of art students will patrol Kumara Krupa Road, the venue, and personally weed out fakes and duplicates from among the exhibits. Mobile ATMs will to be wheeled in to ensure buyers have enough cash in hand to purchase the artworks they covet.
DK Chowta, CKP general secretary, told TOI: "We had footfalls of 4 lakh last year. With response to the event growing every year, we'll be happy if the government allows us to extend the Santhe up to the CM's house. But there are security concerns." The CKP has sought permission to stretch the stalls till Crescent Road this time.
With all and sundry turning art appreciators, the CKP is taking steps to see the Santhe doesn't become a place for fakes to thrive. Parishath insiders admit there have been incidents of Raja Ravi Varma's artworks being duplicated.
"We want to ensure that only original paintings and sculptures are housed at the Santhe,'' said RH Kulakarni, principal, College of Fine Arts, CKP. The Parishath has received nearly 1,600 applications from artists across India, including Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. "We have already started the process of selecting around 1,200 artists for the event," Chowta said.
Six heads of departments at the college are screening the applications by taking into consideration the maturity of the artwork and whether it's an original or not.
The street art mart, where thousands of works are displayed, sees heavy footfalls.
Groups of art students will patrol Kumara Krupa Road, the venue, and personally weed out fakes and duplicates from among the exhibits. Mobile ATMs will to be wheeled in to ensure buyers have enough cash in hand to purchase the artworks they covet.
DK Chowta, CKP general secretary, told TOI: "We had footfalls of 4 lakh last year. With response to the event growing every year, we'll be happy if the government allows us to extend the Santhe up to the CM's house. But there are security concerns." The CKP has sought permission to stretch the stalls till Crescent Road this time.
With all and sundry turning art appreciators, the CKP is taking steps to see the Santhe doesn't become a place for fakes to thrive. Parishath insiders admit there have been incidents of Raja Ravi Varma's artworks being duplicated.
"We want to ensure that only original paintings and sculptures are housed at the Santhe,'' said RH Kulakarni, principal, College of Fine Arts, CKP. The Parishath has received nearly 1,600 applications from artists across India, including Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. "We have already started the process of selecting around 1,200 artists for the event," Chowta said.
Six heads of departments at the college are screening the applications by taking into consideration the maturity of the artwork and whether it's an original or not.
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