Gallery to showcase work of more than 100 local artists
Reviving art scene
- Gallerie One is Valley’s first centre forcontemporary arts and research. It will provide an international platform to local artists
- The gallery is spread over 7,500 sq ft at Tourist Reception Centre. It houses a digital media lab, research centre, archiving and cataloguing centre, besides a library
M Aamir Khan
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, January 12 : Valley-based artists have a reason to cheer with the opening of “Gallerie One”, which happens to be Kashmir’s first-ever centre for contemporary arts and research.
The art gallery will provide an international platform to local artists so that they showcase their talent even as artistic activities have taken a major hit in the Valley after the eruption of militancy around 25 years ago.
“We needed this…entire creative scene was dead in Kashmir. There was no platform for artists and on top of that creative economy has never been explored,” said Syed Mujtaba Rizvi, CEO of Gallerie One.
The gallery is spread over 7,500 sq feet at the Tourist Reception Centre and also houses a digital media lab, research centre, archiving and cataloguing centre, besides a library.
Besides creating a space where artistic expressions will get a platform, Rizvi said they wanted to do business and present the works of the local artists before an international audience.
In this regard, he said they would invite artists from all over the world and hold interactive programmes.
Director, Tourism, Talat Parvez said the art gallery was currently being thrown open for the artists and that the Tourism Department would soon officially launch it for the tourists as well.
“We want to create a space where tourists can see the artistic expressions in different forms,” he said.
Besides regular tourists who visit Kashmir for sightseeing, Parvez said the gallery would attract art lovers from all over the world and thus boost a ‘new form’ of tourism in the state.
Parvez said besides encouraging the local talent, international artists would take with them a message that besides having scenic beauty, Kashmir also has got something for the art lovers and promoters.
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