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Kolkata's Freedom and Awakening exhibition rolls out second phase

The exhibition at Alipore Museum, organised by KCC, will be open for the public from October 7

Freedom and Awakening, an exhibition organised by Kolkata Centre for Creativity in collaboration with the Government of West Bengal and HIDCO had an immensely successful run this year at The Alipore Museum, which is housed in the 116-year-old building of the Alipore Central Jail.  

The exhibition is now ready for its second phase, with artworks by contemporary Bengali artists like Chhatrapati Dutta, Smarak Roy and Debanjan Roy. The larger collection had abstract pieces based on the ideas of freedom and awakening can be seen in TV Santhosh and Jagannath Panda’s works, and artworks like Tom J. Vattakuzhy’s rendition of Abanindranath Tagore’s Bharat Mata as a tribal woman.

 The second phase, which builds on the earlier exhibition, will be inaugurated on Saturday, October 7 at 11am, in the presence of several celebrated artists, and will be open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday at the Museum’s Cell 5. Drop by to be enchanted by the power of art. 

— Vedant Karia

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