Organised by Clark House Initiative, an arts practice based in a building of the same name in Colaba, Foundry is an exhibition of prints by students of print making from the JJ School of Art. Most of them are products of a workshop conducted by a visiting British artist, Liz Ballard. "We wanted to engage with educational art institutions and museums," says Zasha Colah, one of the founders of Clark House. "We felt that print making is more democratic as it's less expensive. And it's a dying art form in a way."
Inspired by her own research on the eighteenth century British landscape painter John Sell Cotman, who used a perforated tool to teach perspective, Ballard suggested the students use an etched plate drilled with holes and print on both sides of the plate. A set of 12 prints will be sold as a collection titled Peti in a folder that opens like an accordion. There's another set called Auguries, done by current and former students of JJ School as well a few major artists. The proceeds will go to the students as well to the JJ School, Colah says.
Examples to Follow! is a travelling exhibition spread across Galerie Max Mueller, Studio X, the Premchand Roychand Gallery and the lawns of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Project 88 and Gallery Maskara. Celebrating the sixtieth year of Indo-German friendship, art works related to climate change and sustainable living are showcased. One of the most arresting exhibits is Gudrun Widlock's Adopted, about an agency that finds African godparents for Europeans estranged from their families. Adopted began as a conceptual project and later, in a strangely futuristic turn of events, became a reality.
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