The solo exhibition of tribal artist Sukhiram Maravi at Shalaka 6 Exhibition concluded on Tuesday, as Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum is closed till further notice.
Due to coronavirus outbreak, the museum is closed till further notice. All the galleries and the exhibitions are closed.
Sukhiram, a Gond artist presented the daily lives and traditions of Gond tribe in his paintings. The exhibition was scheduled to be on view till March 31 at the art gallery.
In his paintings, Sukhiram depicted figures appear to tell the story from a different perspective. Maravi fills the land of bright colours in his paintings with dots and ridges and gives them a three-dimensional experience. He displays the surroundings, forest flora and fauna and through shapes he create pictures filled with bright and black and white colours.
His paintings depicted the tree, reindeer, peacock, lion, elephant, cow, ox, birds. Sukhiram Maravi, has participated in a number of picture camps and group exhibitions organised in different cities of the country in the last eleven years. His paintings can be seen in many private collections and Government institutions in India and abroad.
He started painting along with his academic education. First Guru of Maravi is his sister Budhavariya, in whose guidance he learned painting.