Protest Husain’s paintings’ exhibition by Delhi Art Gallery & DLF Emporio

Delhi Art Gallery in collaboration with DLF Emporio is hosting seven-day exhibition of Anti-Hindu painter M F Husain’s paintings as a tribute to him. Perverted painter M F Husain has drawn nude and obscene paintings of Hindu Deities and Bharat Mata. Now it is duty of all Hindus and patriotic Indians to protest lawfully against Delhi Art Gallery and DLF Emporio so that they should stop glorifying Anti-Hindu M F Husain and stop the exhibition of his paintings.

New Delhi: Critics and fanatics may have denounced his work as sacrilege, but five years after he was exiled from his own country, and about two months after his death in London, Maqbool Fida Husain has got his redemption.

Forty-eight works by ‘India’s Picasso’ spanning six decades will now hang splendidly at the Atrium in DLF Emporio, Vasant Kunj, till August 15 in his first solo exhibition in India since his 2005 show in Mumbai.

“This is a very comprehensive selection and comprises works from each medium, and all his different themes including Mother Teresa, horses, and mythology,” said Ashish Anand, director of Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which organized and curated the exhibition in collaboration with DLF Emporio.

Husain’s relationship with the DLF group goes back to the 1960s when he was employed there as a painter, and then later promoted to the post of an art advisor. During his tenure there, he painted a mural, ‘The Enchanting Damsel of Delhi’, on the ceiling of the head office, aprint of which is now a part of the exhibition. And while the exhibition comes about a month short of his 96th birthday, Dinaz Madhukar, vice-president of DLF Emporio, says that was the whole idea. “Everybody will do something for his birthday, so we decided to pay a tribute to him now itself. We would have done it sooner but we didn’t want it to be too close to his death,” she said.

Through the exhibition, two films on Husain, and two by him, ‘Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities’ and ‘Through the Eyes of a Painter’, will be played continuously. Apart from a display of his paintings, sketches, toys, and prints, the exhibition also has vast archives of photographs and news clippings. Among them is a 1957 picture of a young Husain holding artist Ram Rahman in his arms. “I knew him very well, and I feel very emotional seeing all his work together like this. I’m happy the exhibition is in a public space because it proves that despite all the controversy, the people of India never had a problem with him,” said Rahman. And though Husain’s works had to be removed from the Indian Art Summit in January this year due to threats from various groups, this time around there was no protest and no controversy. “We didn’t know what to anticipate, but we also didn’t believe there would be a problem. After his death there was a sense of loss and people realized he was a national treasure,” said Kishore Singh, head of exhibitions and publications, DAG. He does add, however, that the exhibition doesn’t include any of his controversial works, be it the nude goddesses or the ‘Bharat Mata’ painting, which depicted anude woman as Mother India.

Two framed black-andwhite photographs of Husain, taken by artist Gopi Gajwani in the mid-1960s, are also on display. “There are paintings here that I haven’t seen before, and all is work is so refreshing and dynamic, just like he was. I cannot say anything politically, but as a man he was humble and friendly, without any city airs,” said Gajwani. There will never be another Husain, he added.

Source: IndianMuslims.com

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