Art effectively takes on terrorism!

Terror is a reality of our times, whose echoes can be felt across country.

New Delhi, Mar 20: Terror is a reality of our times, whose echoes can be felt across the country. Now leading artists and top galleries from Kolkata have joined hands for a mega exhibition, "Art Against Terrorism".

The exhibition will begin March 23 at the Aakriti Art Gallery in Kolkata, said Vikram Bachhawat, director of the gallery. The exhibition is part of a series against terror, which, he said, had become a "crusade for the artists` fraternity in Kolkata". The artists include veterans like Kartick Chandra Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Rabin Mandal, Partha Pratim Deb, Sunil De and Habibur Rahman. "The act of terrorism is completely a representation of cowardice. Terrorism cannot be supported, be it from a fundamentalist groups or in any other type of act of violence that brings about a dissonance and dissolution to our basic existence," Bachhawat said in a media brief. This is why artists have come forward to lend their voice against forces of terrorism through their work of art, he added. The art works will include canvases, sculptures and installations. IANS