Old Forms, New Meaning: Nepalese Art Exhibition

HINDUSTAN TIMES
By Chetna Dua

"Devotion" by Seema Shankar Shah

NEPAL---If you thought that Nepalese art was only about Tankas and Taras, an ongoing exhibition in the city gives you a closer look at experiments in contemporary art, taking place across the border. "Titled Chanting Icons," the exhibit showcases 35 artworks by five Nepalese artists bound together by the guru-shishya parampara. “Both Nepal and India have a very similar religious culture, but what’s unique about Nepal is the Newari religion of Hindu Buddhists, which is found nowhere else in the world,” says Gautam. This unique quality comes forth in the printworks of Seema Shankar Shah, who has etched an amalgamation of Buddhist and Hindu deities set against a backdrop of bright Nepalese landscapes. [link]