Mar 29 2025 to Mar 29 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Two short films, Collages and The Line, made by artist SG Vasudev, will be screened at the event. This will be followed by a panel discussion involving artist-journalist Anupama Bijur and art & music historian Pramila Lochan, moderated by Indira Chandrasekhar, writer and publisher of the online literary magazine, Out of Print.

Collages has music by well-known veena musician Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh. It also demonstrates the artist’s unique technique of assembling collages along with drawings using roll pens and acrylic paint. Vasudev discovered this new medium of art as a means of artistic expression during the Covid lockdown period in 2020.

The Line showcases Vasudev’s line drawings from 1962 onwards, including his drawings in response to A.K. Ramanujan’s poetry. The music in this video is by acclaimed Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan.

Speakers

S G Vasudev
Artist & Filmmaker
S.G. Vasudev, born in 1941 in Mysuru and raised in Bengaluru, is an alumnus of the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai, and one of the founders of the unique Cholamandal Artists’ Village, on the outskirts of Chennai. He has been based in Bengaluru since 1988. He is one of the most prominent painters in Karnataka and has held art shows in many parts of the country and the world. His works are in the collections of many individuals, galleries and museums, both in India and overseas. He has received several prestigious awards in India and abroad.

Vasudev works in a number of mediums (drawings, paintings, reliefs in copper, tapestries in silk and now collages). He became well-known for his “Vriksha” (Tree of Life) series; he has explored several other themes over the years, including “Maithuna”, “Earthscapes” and “Theatre of Life”.

In Bangalore, Vasudev’s works have been exhibited at Gallery Sumukha, Crimson Art Gallery, Gallery Time and Space, Galerie De’ Arts and a number of other galleries, as well as in the Bangalore International Centre and the Indian Institute of World Culture. In September 2018 a retrospective exhibition of Vasudev’s works, spanning over 50 years of his artistic output, curated by Sadanand Menon, was hosted by the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru. The retrospective show later travelled to Chennai and the NGMA, Mumbai.

Anupama Bijur
Artist & Journalist

Pramila Lochan
Art & Music Historian
Dr. Pramila Lochan is an art historian, researcher, and writer with a deep engagement in Hindustani classical music for over four decades. Since 1992, she has worked extensively on ragamala painting, mural art, ganjifa, folk and contemporary art, and musicology. Her projects include the documentation of South Indian mural paintings (since 2002), digitisation of Kishor Gordhandas’ ganjifa collection for IGNCA, and co-curation of a ganjifa gallery at Heritage Village, Manipal.

Her publications include Mural Paintings of Kancipuram (IGNCA, 2019), Sarojini Devi – The Nightingale of India (2003), and contributions to Splendours of Ganjifa Art (2019). She has authored over 100 feature articles for leading publications and has presented talks, curated exhibitions, and conducted workshops.

Dr. Lochan holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Art History (Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath), and has taught at various institutions in Bengaluru. She is a former Principal of Roerich Institute of Fine Arts, was senior researcher at IGNCA SRC, and is currently a General Council Member of Lalit Kala Akademi.

Indira Chandrasekhar
Writer & Editor, Out of Print
Indira Chandrasekhar is a writer. She founded the literary short fiction journal Out of Print and is its main editor. An anthology marking ten years of the magazine was co-published with Context Books in 2020 and reissued in 2023.