The Wheel on display

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Jan. 23: A collective art exhibition titled ‘The Wheel,’ featuring artworks by renowned Nepali artists, kicked off at the Nepal Art Council on Monday.

 Organised by the Cycle Culture Community, the art exhibition showcased six dozen artworks aimed at promoting cycle culture in Nepal. 

The Cycle Culture Community concluded a workshop on ‘Cycle Culture in Painting’ at the Nepal Tourism Board in October last year.

Robin Koirala, the art coordinator of the workshop and exhibition, stated that the display of cycle culture-friendly artworks by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, generated through the workshop, sets a new example in the Nepali context. 

The exhibited paintings span abstract, tangible, semi-realistic, realistic, and surrealistic styles.

Notable artists such as Shashi Bikram Shah, Govind Dangol, Krishna Manandhar, Bijay Thapa, Jit Bahadur Rayamajhi, Ratankumar Rai, Mukesh Malla, Rakesh Shrestha, Sunita Rana, Chiten Sherpa, Sarita Dangol, along with past presidents of Lalitkala Pragya Pratishthan, Kiran Manandhar, Ragini Upadhyay and KK Karmacharya participated in the workshop.

 Koirala informed that 32 artists took part in creating a historic collection of 72 artworks.

In collaboration with the Cycle Culture Community, which has been spearheading various intellectual-artistic programmes for the establishment of cycle culture-friendly infrastructure and civilization in Nepal, the painting exhibition has begun.

 Tara Lal Shrestha, the programme coordinator of the painting workshop and exhibition, emphasised that without any special donors or foreign aid they are conducting a creative campaign through mutual support, cooperation, and financial contributions.

 He stated that the painting workshop and exhibition were organised in response to the realisation of the need for a creative campaign in connection with art, literature, and philosophy to foster the development and expansion of cycle culture.

The exhibition began from Monday will continue till January 28 at the Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal, Kathmandu.