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IIT Gandhinagar to Organise an Exhibition of Satyajit Ray’s Original Sketchbook at ‘Comics Conclave’
The exhibition has no entry fees and is open to all. Those interested can register on the official website till January 21— art.iitgn.ac.in/comicconclave2023. The two-day exhibition will be open from 4 pm to 8 pm on both days.

by Pragti Sharma / 22 Jan 2023 21:06 PM IST / 0 Comment(s) / 208

The Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar) will carry out a two-day ‘Comics Conclave’ from January 21 to 22, where a few pages from Satyajit Ray’s actual sketchbook will be displayed.



The exhibition has no entry fees and is open to all. Those interested can register on the official website till January 21— art.iitgn.ac.in/comicconclave2023. The two-day exhibition will be open from 4 pm to 8 pm on both days.



The exhibition is a part of the Comics exhibition of the event – “An Exhibition of Low Art” – and will provide a possibility to see the lesser-known artistic side of the legendary filmmaker and his strategy for the sequential graphic narrative.



IIT Gandhinagar will be displaying some selected and curated photographs from the original sketchbook of Satyajit Ray with support from the son of Satyajit Ray and filmmaker Sandeep Ray, and comics scholar, designer, and associate lecturer at the Department of English, Raja Peary Mohan College, University of Calcutta- Pinaki De.



These prints of the pages from Ray's original sketchbook reflect Ray’s strategy for the sequential graphic narrative and how it increased his cinematic language.



Satyajit Ray was known to be a comics fan and has a personal collection of comics currently archived at his residence. Despite his continuing interest in sequential graphic narratives recorded in many interviews across time, there is very slight to show in terms of his enthusiastic engagement with the form.



The only printed or published evidence comes in four comic strips that he did for the covers of Sandesh magazine. If we dig deeper into his notebooks & sketchbooks, we can catch him playing around with thoughts about this visual form. He presented Pather Panchali and Ravishankar- a movie that never appeared in a sequential visual script in the 1950s.



Apart from this, the Exhibition of Low Art will also display comics by Orijit Sen, Amruta Patil, Sarnath Banerjee, Nikhil Gulati, Longform Collective, and artworks & artifacts on Indian Traditional storytelling by students of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The two-day exhibition has been curated by Professor Argha Manna, Artist-in-Residence, IIT Gandhinagar.



The two-day exhibition is also lined up with a sequence of interactions with graphic novelists, filmmakers, artists, and academic scholars, including Orijit Sen, Sarnath Banerjee, Pinaki De, Amruta Patil, Nikhil Gulati, Debkumar Mitra, Gayatri Menon.


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