Art district XIII together with Popular Prakashan is presenting Veer Munshi’s work titled Serenity of desolation, in the upcoming India Art Fair. Delhi-based Munshi has done a large installation based on the floods that ravaged the Valley. About 20/12/12 feet in size, it depicts a traditional Kashmiri house felled by flood waters. The house on view is made of wood with traditional intricate carvings. As you move in you come across 100 faces painted by the artist to remember the people of Kashmir during the recent floods and a video projection of 5 minutes in loop at the far end of the house shows different aspects of nature’s wrath.
Money generated from the sales of the work will be donated toward the rehabilitation of artists /poets/writers whose houses were washed away in the floods. With the work, the artist not only intends to draw attention to the plight of the people of Jammu and Kashmir but also provide some material help at a very micro level to the affected people.
Munshi’s roots lie in Kashmir. He has done his Bachelor of Arts from SP College Srinagar, Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) from MS University Baroda and holds a diploma from St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design Russia. The project is out of the 22 art projects being presented at the seventh edition of IAF to be held at NSIC Grounds from January 29th to February 1.
Munshi would also be speaking at the Speakers’ Forum.
