Pune: In one-of-its-kind art exhibition, the professors and students of sUniversal Design Centre of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sanstha’s Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture for Women (BNCA) have made a creative attempt to come up with an art exhibition for the visually challenged.
The visitors will experience the art exhibition through touch, braille and sound. This exhibition will be held from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm at ILS Law College on Monday.
It has been organised as a part of the international conference of exploring Titanic Shifts in human rights paradigm after the United Nations (UN) convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
The conference will be convened by Law College professor Sanjay Jain, who has been visually impaired since birth. The exhibition will be inaugurated by internationally renowned practitioners in the field of disability Prof Anna Lawson and Elizabeth Andrews from the University of Leeds, England.
This art exhibition has been curated by universal design expert and disability inclusion specialist Prof Kavita Murugkar, along with her 44 first-year students and faculty team at BNCA. The exhibition will showcase 3-D version of 11 world-famous paintings with information enabled through text, Braille and sound, thus giving a multi-sensory experience to viewers, said Murugkar.
The artwork of 11 world-renowned artists includes Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Star Night’, Salvador Dali’s ‘Persistence in Time’, and ‘Piet Mondrian’s ‘Grey Tree’, Michelangelo’s ‘Hands of God Adam’, Manish Rangnekar’s ‘Boat Landscape’ and Indian art forms such as Warli and Bundi.
“This distinctive initiative is an effort to bring people with disabilities into the mainstream and extend their right to enjoy art and culture in a dignified and inclusive manner,” said Murugkar.
“We hope to initiate a new movement in the presentation and experience of art in the city through this exhibition so that it is curated for all kinds of forms of human diversity, thus leaving none behind. Innovative ideas have been applied to convey the meaning, content and composition of the paintings through touch perception,” Murugkar added.
BNCA Principal Anurag Kashyap said, “We are very proud that architecture and design is being used as a means to remove the barriers that come in the way of people with disabilities. This exhibition is a very important step in that direction. In the near future we are planning to organise this kind of exhibition on a larger scale.”
