Chitrakar Relief Sale

The Chitrakar Relief Sale is an SOS art relief sale that features the works of 10 artists from across the country, whose artworks have been put on sale as a joint effort by Baro Market and Peepul.

This initiative that started last week features artists who do not just support their families but also support students of the art form they practice. The list put together by Srila Chatterjee, founder, Baro Market, features artists from the length and breadth of the country, practising myriad forms of Indian art that they are also custodians of. While Ashish Malakar comes from Bonkapasi in Burdwan and hails from a family of National Award-winning sculptors of Sholapith, Anwar Chitrakar is a patachitra artist from Bengal who paints new Kalighat pictures. While Sanjay Chitara from the Vaghri tribe in Gujarat is making “Mata ni Pachedi” more interesting for the modern buyer, Kalyan Joshi from Bhilwara, Rajasthan, practises Phad, while experimenting with line-drawing and collages.

Proceeds from all the sales are set to directly go to these artists so that not only do they get a chance to sustain themselves but to also give them a fair shot at the sustenance of their art forms. The live sale can be accessed at https://baromarket.in/collections/chitrakar-relief-sale.

Forever Delhi

Delhi-based art connoisseur Shalini Passi has put together a fundraiser featuring black-and-white images photographed by her to support Goonj and Meherbaan India Foundation in aid of their Covid-19 relief efforts. Clicked by Shalini in and around Delhi last year, the collection of photographs is available on display on www.mashindia.com that is run and curated by her and whose Delhi launch t2 had attended in 2018.

The series is divided into two parts, based on the timeline of the city’s architecture that Shalini captures. “Having spent years in Delhi, I was always up for a walk around the city, capturing its current mood of the time. These images were shot in 2020. During the time when the pandemic was about to hit us in its coming days, of which one could smell the preparation in the air, I decided to take a walk in my city. Spectating the banality of the aftermath — of the apocalypse-like situation in Delhi, it was a call to capture such moments. Little did I know then that these moments were to later decide for our upcoming days,” said Shalini.

Pictures courtesy: Baro Market & Mash