Kala Academy Goa has announced the results of the much-awaited 44th State Art Exhibition (Artist Category). Winners in the Painting and Graphic Print Section include Hitesh Pankar, Veenita S Chendvankar & Damodar Madgaonkar. In Applied and Graphic design section, Sunil H. Naik, Kalidas K. Satardekar & Sandesh Gaundalkar have been selected, whereas in Sculpture section Sagar Suresh Naik Mule, Kailash Sadashiv Parab & Navso K. Parwar have been selected for the award of Rs. 20,000 /- each.
Pramod Kamble (Ahmednagar), Gopinath Kukde (Mumbai) and Rajan Fulari (New Delhi) were on the panel of jury for this exhibition of competitive nature.
Kala Academy has been holding the State Art Exhibition for the last 43 years. This year, a total of 144 pieces of work were received in all three sections, out of which, 64 works were selected for display in the exhibition. The exhibition will be inaugurated at the hands of, minister for art and culture, and chairman of Kala Academy, Govind Gaude, on October 31 in the Art Gallery of Kala Academy. Opening of the exhibition will be followed by prize distribution function at the Black Box. On this occasion, a lecture on the topic ‘The phrase and the text-some linguistic problems in Modern Indian and Contemporary Art’ along with slide show presentation will be delivered by professor Dr. Deepak Kannal, an art historian from Baroda.
The exhibition will be open to public from November 1 to November 4 between 10.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.
