Textile designer Gaurang Shah to unveil khadi saris with a woven replication of Raja Ravi Varma paintings at NGMA, Mumbai, to mark Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary
5 years, 6 months ago

Textile designer Gaurang Shah to unveil khadi saris with a woven replication of Raja Ravi Varma paintings at NGMA, Mumbai, to mark Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary

The Hindu  

On October 2, to coincide with the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, multidisciplinary artists will present their impressions of Gandhi in the exhibition ‘Santati’, at Mumbai’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Among them is Hyderabad-based textile designer Gaurang Shah who will unveil more than 30 saris in khadi, the pallu of each bearing a woven replication of a painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The genesis of this project harks back to eight years, when Gaurang had replicated some of Laxman Aelay’s paintings on Telangana women, through jamdani weaves. The design team enlarged the Ravi Varma paintings on paper to scale with the 42-inch sari pallu width, and outlined every colour to precision.

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