Big Baroda Show II
Year
2011
Artists
Abir Karmarkar, Sunil Mamdapur, Tarun Gajjar, Hrushikesh Biswal, Bhavin Mistry, Dushyant Patel, Mitali, Neha Thakar, Heena Mistry, Mukesha Ganji, PRagati Kumar, Malleshi H.v., Sudip Dutta, Nikita Parikh, Raju Patel, Arunanshu C., Anusuya M., Heeral Trivedi, Nikhileshwar B., Ajay Kanval, Nityanand, Vinod Patel, Wangdi Sherpa, Kiran Varia, Swapnesh V., Ravein Godani, Alok Bal, Debraj Goswami, Apurba Nandi, Shiv Verma, Shefalee Jain, Deepjyoti Kalita, Shatrugan Thakur, Chirag PAtel, Anil Majumdar, Lokesh Khodke,Ronak Sopariwala, Ketan, Ushmita Sahu, Jolly Pramanik, Riya Chatterjee, Deepak Khatri, Rahul Mukherjee, Anuj Poddar, Siddhath K., Manali Mehta, Sumedh Kumar, Meetali Singh, Rachana Badrakiya, Kanika Shah, Rajesh Kumar Prasad, Jagannath Mohapatra, Ashutosh Bharadwaj, Prabhakar Pachpute, Dimple Panchal, Debashish Dutta.
About the Exibition
“The Big Baroda show" exhibition is showcased every year for the past 3 years at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. Most artists are attached to galleries in cosmopolitan cities, thus the "Big Baroda Show" is an attempt to have a sneak preview of their works under one roof. It's a treat to see 55 young masters. The show was hosted for the third time by Priyasri Art Gallery in Baroda at M.S.U. Faculty of Fine Arts.
The show is an attempt to have a sneak preview of works by artists who have made Baroda their abode. M.S University has been churning out popular contemporary artists like T.V Santosh, Chintan Upadhyay and countless more. The city is home to many masters who have been attached to the university or have remained back to make it their home. Artists such as Surender Nair, G.M Sheikh, K. G. Subramanyan, Bhupen Khakhar and many others have studied, taught and made the city their own; and are exhibited in the show.
The city is like an Art Capital for the artists if not for the buyer though it boasts of patrons who have been exposed to masters like Raja Ravi Verma who was patronized by Maharaja of Baroda , the Gayekwads.
The exhibition through the works of these artists attempts to answer the questions: why is Baroda being made a home for so many artists? And which is the art capital of India? Do the artists decide the art capital or the buyer?
