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A RAMCHANDRAN |
GHULAM MOHAMMAD SHEIKH |
KRISHNA KHANNA |
NAGJI PATEL |
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ROOPANKAR is the only museum of its kind in India which houses contemporary folk and tribal art together with urban art. Its objectives is not just a historic collection of works of art, but also creative participation in the art scene emerging in the last decades of the century. Roopankar has two fully equipped workshops for print making and ceramics. Facilities for bronze casting and stone carving are also available. Camps and workshops are organized off and on to bring urban and folk artists face to face and to open new avenues of creativity through dialogue and confrontation.
Several solo and group exhibitions of Indian and foreign artists have been organized by Roopankar. Notable among Its events are the Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennial, started in 1989 and the Bharat Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, started in 1886. Roopankar has organized exhibitions in Japan and Moscow and in some parts of India with some major activities in Bhopal, like all- India Artists Camps for painting, sculpture, ceramics and graphics in which tribal, folk and urban artists have worked together and exhibitions of Mexican, Finnish, German and Russian Art have also been held. Solo exhibitions include those of J. Swaminathan, K.G. Subramaniam, N.S.Bendre, Henry Moore, Krishna Reddy, Maqbool Fida Husain, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, V.S.Gaitonde, Satish Gujaral, Manjit Bawa and Ramesh Pateria.
There are about 6,000 tribal and folk art objects and nearly 2,500 urban art works in the collection of Roopankar Museum.
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