Artifacts by Charanjit Singh

The three-day festival celebrating the living temples, heritage, architecture and fine art began at T-Wrots in Hyderabad on Friday. The program works by 30 artists across India to a multi -woller art exhibition. It also includes classical dance performances and workshops on Vedic symbols and Kerala mural painting.

The festival exposed the Indian temple architecture, iconography and cultural ecosystems by these ancient structures, the festival, curated by Annapurna Madde Dipadiga of Ekchitra and supported by Telangana tourism.

Art performance brings traditional and contemporary manifestations. At the entrance, paper sculptures by Vary Rastogi Sahni set tone for diverse artistic approaches. Temple motifs such as Yali, scroll, and decorative patterns are re -prepared in modern sculpture forms. To embrace light and internal alchemy, these tasks invite the audience to a spiritual and artistic journey.

A picture of a Yakshagana artist by Amar Ramesh. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Photograph by Amar Ramesh interacted with his vivid paintings by Yakshagana and Therukuthu artists. His lens catchs the complex carvings of ‘Mandapam’ near the Madurai Meenakshi temple, while the ornate also exposes ‘Mogappu’ – ​​Chestinad houses carved and painted entrances.

The installation of Anil Thumbai, composed of several panels, creates the illusion of a journey in the sanctum sanctorum, guiding the audience through a series of arches and routes.

Appam Raghav’s series of Hanuman Mask pays homage to the popular icography, while Arya Patil mixes praise for traditional craftsmanship with a comment on labor rights and social inequality. Their installation is characterized by a temple column, which is indefinitely tilt and supported by a working class figure, acting as a powerful visual metaphor.

Naikapodu Mask of Telangana | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Charanjit Singh’s art offers a layered comment on history, architecture and environmental concerns. He combines the imagination of historical stepfather with vivid depiction of organisms created by these water bodies.

Drdha Vrata Gorrick, an artist born and raised in the US, takes a more traditional approach. After spending years in doing research on classical arts in South India, he complicates the stories of Prahlada, Garuda and Yoga Narasimha through a wide pen and pencil line drawings.

Sculpture by Vary Rastogi Sahni

Images of classical dancers of photographer Rishi Raj reflect their praise for Indian art forms. A trained dancer himself, he has studied Kathak, Bharatanatyam and Bihari folk dances, which has an internal sutra to tell his visual story.

Himanshu Joshi’s mastery in printmaking in its mixed media work, living temples, which carefully holds the complex intersection of idols and murals on the gopuram.

While Jai Khanna takes a traditional view in portraying Krishna, Janardan Rao Havanje presented the deity through kavi mural art, which is taking his form on lime and mud. Multi-known artist N. Ramachandran juice the tanjor painting with black-and-white imagery of Tamil Nadu’s street life, making a striking contrast of color and texture.

A standout piece is a series of Nayakapodu mask, traditionally used in the folk theater of Telangana. Mild Poniki prepared from Wood, from the Bhadradri-Kothagudam region, these masks preserve a centuries-old artistic tradition.

The exhibition, which opens with the bold rebuilding of the temple icography, ends fully with Vinod Daroz statues and installations. Using forms such as elliptical, nuclei, the ceramic artist moves beyond traditional imagination, while provoking the calm essence of the sanctum sanctorum.

(Living Temple is seen in T-Wrots, Redarg, Hyderabad by 2 March)