Wovenscapes: An exhibition not to be missed!

The Jahangir Art Gallery is currently hosting a stunningly beautiful exhibition. This is an exhibition of Dinesh Kurekar, a painter from Aurangabad. Dinesh Kurekar chose a different medium right from the beginning. He studied at the renowned J J School of Art in Mumbai. That too in textile designing the in Art and Craft department there. Naturally, it’s no wonder he likes the frame of the loom more than the frame of the canvas. After graduating from JJ, he underwent special training at the renowned Weavers’ Service Centre in Mumbai for some time. During that period, he had the company of painters such as Prabhakar Barwe, Gopal Adivarekar, Bhupendra Desai and many other great painters. His thoughts got streamlined. He realized that something different can be done in this field of art as well and from then on came a significant change in his approach to art.

Around that time, Department of Textile Designing started in Government Art College, Aurangabad and he got an opportunity to work in the art education sector. Having held the posts of Lecturer, Professor, and subsequently Head of Department, he retired a few years ago as per due age. We hear about the notoriety of teachers in Government Art Colleges, but Kurekar, throughout his teaching career, not only taught the students very honestly but also continued his independent work in art.

He became so passionate about his own work that in time he set up a studio in his own home and devoted himself to creating art day and night. Just as a painter’s studio has an easel, a canvas and paints, a Kurekar’s studio has handlooms or looms and different colored woolen skeins, and different types of dyes for dyeing white wool. His friends say that he is so attached and obsessed with different types of yarns that whenever he goes to visit national or international exhibitions in places like New Delhi, after seeing the exhibitions, he spends the rest of the time going to the different markets of Delhi and buying the different types of yarns available there. Any visitor who visits his studio in his house is literally amazed by the huge expanse of the studio.

Even though his life has been shadowed by age-related afflictions and the untimely death of his son in a sudden accident in the somewhere in the middle of the lockdown, he has not lost hope. Standing up with renewed vigor, he is busy matching new threads on the loom in his studio and creating or matching new shades of colors. His obsession of making art is truly astounding.

His exhibition which started yesterday in Jahangir surpasses all his previous exhibitions. There is no doubt that each of his works of art will literally leave the viewer speechless with the interlacing of threads, literally hundreds of shades of different colors and most importantly, the matchless play of light and shadow. While leaving Jehangir Art gallery, the audience is literally mesmerized. Every art lover has to make time to visit Jahangir Art Gallery to experience this!

If after reading this, you want to see this exhibition but in case you are not able to come to Mumbai till 11^th December then you can also see this exhibition for the next 15 days on Chinha’s “Online Art Gallery” by clicking on the following link.

Chinha Online Gallery

“Wovenscapes” – Dinesh Kurekar

https://chinha.in/online-art-gallery/wovenscapes/

Not only that, but you can also buy the artwork you like.

Contact him for your enquiries on:

Insta https://www.instagram.com/wovenscapes_weavings/

Email dinesh.kurekar@gmail.com

Website https://dinesh-kurekar.com/

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