Arjun Sawhney and Tavleen Akoi Gill played the perfect host for the private preview of Ink, Reels and The Graphics Gang.
While internationally graphic design is a fast emerging art form, in India the trend is yet to be explored. Curator Arjun Sawhney wanted to create a first of it kind platform, where digital art would collide with Pop Art and a new form of art would emerge. For the show Arjun asked each of the artists to create a piece of art, one for a book and one for a movie in art or poster form.
The show broght together a stellar line up of graphic design talents—Chetana Vij of I Me Am Design, Thukral & Tagra, Design Temple’s Divya Thakur, Gopika Chowfla, Gulab Saggu, Himanshu Dogra of Play Clan, Kapil Sharma, Manav Sachdev, Mickey Bardava, Namrata Lenka, Pushkar Thakur of The Grafiosi, Rabia Gupta of RDG, fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh and Vivek Mathur of Indika Design.
Renowned fashion designer, Rajesh Pratap Singh has created 2 of the artworks displayed at the show, titled ‘Every Breath You Take’ as a symbol of protest against the current environmental situation and the air we breathe.
The who’s who of the art and fashion industry congratulated the hosts for their work. To name a few, Suhel Seth, Payal Sen, Subodh Gupta, Savitri Singh, Amit Vadehra and Nainika Karan, Rohit Bal, Varun Bahl, Charu Sachdev, JJ Valaya, Raghuvendra Rathore, Ashish Soni, Gopika Chowfla, Sumir Tagra, Pushkar Thakur,Abhinav and Pallavi Khandelwal graced the occasion with their presence.