Moulding artists for more than five decades
The HinduAs you drive on East Coast Road, you will spot a signboard guiding you down a lane that opens up into a creative commune: Cholamandal artists village. The campus includes a centre for contemporary art which hosts a museum for artists involved in the Madras art movement and commercial art gallery, open air theatre, Indigo & Labernum gallery for guest showcases, international sculpture park, as well as guest artists’ studios and the residences of 30 artists, with their own creative space, all once thatched huts. Back in the day, many artists had to go door to door to sell their work; they eventually gave up art to find other jobs.” The village is immersed in painting, sculpture, and graphic printmaking. More than a landmark The next generation of artists grew up in the village, playing under the iconic banyan tree and watching their fathers’ works of art, eventually becoming a part of them. “Everywhere you look here, there is art, and the senior artists’ studios are institutions in themselves,” says G. Latha, resident artist and daughter of late artist K.S.
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