Padma Shri Bhajju Shyam's Exhibition 'Van Katha' at Aakriti Art Gallery 30-07-2022 to 20-08-2022

India is celebrating its tribes. The week belonged to the new President of India the wonderful Draupodi Murmu and it ends with Padma Shri Bhajju Shyam, one of the greatest tribal artists in the nation. On Saturday 30th July 2022 at the upscale Hungerford Street in Kolkata, Aakriti Art Gallery will unveil a suite of paintings created by  Bhajju Shyam.

There are a lot of Gond rituals around trees, too. Once a year, we celebrate and offer our prayers to the Saja tree, which holds great importance in our culture. First, we anoint, propitiate and offer food to our gods and goddesses(mostly the food prepared from the new harvest), and then we have it as prasad. In addition, the knowledge of treatment through different parts of the trees, the use of different types of woods for different purposes like for instruments, plough, houses, etc… have been passed across generations, and hence, a reflection of the same is seen in our painting.