CONFETTI

Gallery78 exhibits a compilation of artworks from paintings to modern sculptures by eminent artists from across India in a show titled confetti.

The story of Modern Indian Art has back and forth references to the British period in India. Hyderabad state had yet another reference because of Nizam’s ruling in the region. In a way, they were shielded from Victorian monarchy but Telugu identity was suffering at the same time. Since 1921 linguistic consciousness increased in the region and in 1944 Telangana Telugu people wanted to keep a different identity away from other Telugu-speaking locales because of their cultural and linguistic differences with them. Telangana sentiment had become a key phrase on the struggle for regional identity. Artists of Pan India brought in extrapolative Indian social and cultural references in the art themes as a slogan of assertions against the British. Such references continued in Independent India too in the regions like Hyderabad art practices to assert their regional identities. The art field of Hyderabad has to remember Late. Sri. Kapu Rajiah worked on folk art and the Culture of Telangana living styles as a modernist’ stylized idiom. He also trained many young souls in the visual art field. Late Sri. Kondapalli Seshagiri Rao adapted the indigenous style of Bengal school and created his niche of the art style in Hyderabad art school. British Art Schools in India influenced multiple international styles on Indian artists that reached Hyderabad artists’ practices also. Surrealistic styles of Late.Sri.Doraiswamy and Late Sri. Chandrasekhar’s artworks are such examples. The future generation of Hyderabad artists later have rooted themselves in their cultural soil and few more worked with universal concepts of Modern and contemporary art. Padmasri award recipient Sri. Laxma Gowda went to the Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda and Sri. Thota Vaikuntham explored new meanings of cultural roots. The future and the present generation of artists have outreached Art Schools of National and international repute in recent times and brought in various thoughts, styles, experimenting with new materials and mediums. Artists of this series have revisited their lived realities of changing society, relived their roots, Cultures, and natives.