Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 19: Artist of international repute and son of the soil, Suman Gupta has been invited to attend the Bird Festival in Leh which is being organised by Dhara Shikoh Centre in collaboration with the Ladakh Arts and Media Organization (LAMO), Leh.
The Bird Festival intends to bring artists, speakers and performers to Ladakh from September 1-9.
A handout of the organisers informed that different dignitaries in the Fest will express their concerns regarding climate change as well as cultural changes and their effect on the life of the region.
Suman Gupta is an established artist whose sensitive work in magic realism evokes the mythic and mystical with birds and animals as integral part and creatively reinvents a visual vocabulary which further stimulates the viewer’s skills of imagination for positive action.
Gupta’s paintings successfully invokes art’s emotive nature, its capacity to make people feel the pathos and waste of conflict, and help instil a desire and commitment to end conflict and work for peace.