NGMA celebrates its 66 years with a visual tour that showcases the hidden treasures of its repositories. By Team Viva

The National Gallery of Modern Art celebrates 66 years amid the COVID-19 lockdown with a virtual tour that reflects its archives as dynamic and progressive. The tour has plenty to explore and ponder over.

Director General Adwaita Gadanayak, who completed three years and got a three-year extension of his tenure at the gallery, feels that it is important to have exhibitions that showcase the strength of the gallery.

If we go by the exhibitions in these three years, these are indeed an insight into a vision that wants to keep an eye on the past as well as bring forward the importance of India’s sculptural sensibilities.

Gadanayak, who recently designed the National Police Memorial, has a significant place in sculptural traditions and contemporary movements.

“The sculptures, paintings and prints in the visual tour showcase the hidden treasures of the collection. It all began with the exhibition titled, Itihaas, which was NGMA’s celebration of 63 years. It’s the first exhibition that was held after I took charge as the DG. This creative and wonderful journey of representing the treasures has continued with several such exhibitions. And this virtual tour is one such exhibition which I believe will take this journey to greater heights. I present it as a tribute to our modern masters and firmly believe that this would generate greater interest among people towards the legacy of sculptures, paintings and prints as a creative medium,” says Gadanayak.