lalit Kala Akademi (lKA), known for the promotion of art and culture in a culturally unique country like India is going to organise an International Kala Mela (Arts Festival) where in artists showcase their art works from February 4 to 18 at IGNCA. The festival is going to be one of its kind and scale.
The festival is coming at a time when there is a perceptible requirement in the art market for a wide-ranging, global platform for Indian art. The Mela is an attempt to be the first major event of international art in the country so far as the range and scale is concerned. The central objective of Kala Mela is to focus on direct interaction between the artist and the connoisseur, a source of education while raising awareness about art.
“It is going to prove a boon to especially those artists who can not afford to exhibit their works of art in the art galleries,” says CS Krishna Setty, the administrator lKA.
Setty is an artist of International repute who was recently honoured by the Russian Academy of Arts with its honorary membership claims that the Mela will not only showcase various art forms by the Indian artists but also endeavour to bring the best from around the world including some of the most prominent International galleries from the Europe, Asia and the United States.