Veteran artist Krishen Khanna, artwork collector Kiran Nadar and ace designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee are the eminent personalities honored on the inaugural HELLO! India Art Awards right here on Monday.
The awards, aimed to precede the India Art Fair yearly, felicitated and appreciated the works of each established artists and upcoming expertise. It handpicked three ‘legends of artwork’, honoring them for his or her “inimitable body of work”.
While nonagenarian Khanna was conferred the Lifetime Achievement award, Nadar and Mukherjee obtained the ‘Art Patron of the Year’ and ‘Sustained Promotion of Arts and Culture’ awards on the event.
“India and its folks have inherited a really prolific artwork legacy which is stored alive each by gifted artists and the ecosystem that helps them. As an artwork delicate journal, we felt the necessity to acknowledge this realm of inventive expression,” mentioned Avarna Jain, chairperson editorial board of ‘HELLO! India’ journal.
The winners had been determined by a four-member jury, comprising Bengaluru-based artwork collector Abhishek Poddar, famous artwork historian Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, founding father of the Devi Art Foundation Lekha Poddar and artwork skilled Rahaab Allana.
It acknowledged 9 winners in classes handpicked by the jury: ‘Best Art-based Initiative through the Pandemic’ (ABR Circle), ‘Young Artist of the Year’ (Divya Singh), ‘Artist Book of the Year’ (‘Why can’) t bras have buttons’ by Indu Antony), ‘Collaboration of the Year’ (The Barbil Project), ‘Public Art Initiative’ (Mandeep Raikhy), ‘Curator of the Year’ (Bose Krishnamachari), ‘Breakthrough Artist of the Year’ (Sanjan Mani), ‘Exhibition of the Year’ (Lokame Tharavadu, which interprets to ‘The World is One Family’) and ‘Critical Voice of the Year’ Baaraan Ijlal).
“Going forward the HELLO! India Art Awards wants to make a positive impact in enriching the art, the artist and the industry through initiatives, grants, residencies and art camps,” mentioned the organizers in an announcement.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
