LALIT KALA AKADEMI HOSTS 58TH NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART
Lalit Kala Akademi hosted a press meet to announce the 58th National Exhibition of Art, which was being held at National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru from Friday, 24th February 2017 and will continue for a month.
The current exhibition has 111 exhibits chosen from 6000 works through a competitive process, of these 15 have been conferred the Academy’s National Award. The award is much coveted among artists as it earmarks the future potential of the individual artist in the art community and many of the earlier awardees, such as M F Husain and SH Raza, are today’s icons of Indian art.
Aisharjya Paramita Konar, Akhil Mohan, Ananya Dalal, Anil Kumar Bodwal, D.Saravana Deivasegamani, Gukanraj Kothandaraman, Harish Kumar Ojha, Kavita Mehrotra, Lakshman Prasad, Madan Lal, Nilmoni Raha, Sajeesh PA, Satish Hanumanthappa, Suresh K and Vijay Bhagat are the 15 artists who were conferred with the Academy awards.