By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: The Outreach Programme of Jamia Millia Islamia in association with SAHMAT (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust) is organizing a special event – For Husain at 94 – celebrating the 94th birthday of artist MF Husain, Saalgirah Mubarak – on September 17 at the M F Husain Gallery, Jamia Milia Islamia.
An exhibition of over 100 artworks which have been made as a gift for Husain by both eminent and emerging artists and art students will open that morning at 11 am. Through the day, his movies will be screened. They include Gajagamini, (2000), with Madhuri Dixit, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, (2004), with Tabu, and Through the Eyes of a Painter, (1966) – which won the Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The filmmaker and critic K Bikram Singh will deliver a lecture on the work of Husain based on his large new book on the painter. The Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Najeeb Jung, will release the book, For Husain at 94, which is the tribute gift to Husain from artists. The evening will end with an Iftar outside the gallery.
This exhibition and book is both a tribute and a celebration of the work and life of Husain from artists and a reminder to Husain that in spite of attempts to denigrate his art and his forced exile, the creative community holds him in the highest regard.
Hundreds of artists will be celebrating the event. They include Ajay Desai, Aji V.N., Akash Gaur, Alex Mathew, Alexis Kersey, Amitava Das, Anjolie Ela Menon, Anju Dodiya, Anjum Singh, Archana Hande, Arpana Caur, Arpita Singh, Arun Kumar H.G., Ashim Ghosh, Atul Dodiya, Aurogeeta Das, Bari Kumar, Bharati Kapadia, Bharati Kher, Birendra Pani, Durga Kainthola, Eleena Banik, Gargi Raina, Gauri Gill, Gazanfar Zaidi, Gigi Scaria, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Habib Rahman, Hafeez Ahmed, Haku Shah, Inder Salim, Jehangir Jani, Jitish Kallat, Joydip Sengupta, Kanchan Chander, Kanishka Prasad, Kaushal Sonkaria, Kaushik Sengupta, Kavita Nayyar, Kiyomi Talaulicar, M.S. Prakash Babu, Madhvi Parekh, Manisha Parekh, Manu Parekh, Meera Devidayal, Megha Joshi, Meher Pestonji, Mira Nayar, Mithila Maniketh, Mona Rai, Mukesh Sharma, Navjot Altaf, Neeta Mohindra, Nida Mahmood & Raoul Chandra, Nilima Sheikh, Nuzhat Kazmi, Pallav Chander, Paramjit Singh, Parthiv Shah, Prashant Panjiar & Itu Chaudhuri, Pravat Mishra, Prem Singh, Priyanka Dua, Pushpamala N., Raja Jaikrishan, Ram Rahman, Ranbir Kaleka, Rashmi Kaleka, Rekha Rao, Richard Bartholomew, Saba Hasan, Samit Das, Samjo Husain, Sandeep Biswas, Satish Panchal, Shamshad, Shobha Broota, Showket Kathjoo, Subodh Gupta, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gupta, Tabassum Zaidi, Tanmay Santra, Tanmaya Tyagi, Vijay Sekhon, Veer Munshi, Venktesh Desai, Vibha Galhotra, Vijay S.Jodha, Viswanadhan, Vivan Sundaram besides students of Delhi College of Art and Jamia Millia Islamia Art Department.