PUNE, INDIA, November 13, 2002: Portraying Lord Ganesha using a digital printing medium, Pune-based artist Subhash Awchat has a showing for ten days at the Y. B. Chavan Center, starting November 22. Subhash says, “Lord Ganesha has been a part of me since childhood and has always intrigued me. I chose the Lord as a subject to allow the common man to identify himself with my theme — since Ganapati is one of the most popular and revered Deities amongst the masses.” In his exhibition, featuring four sizes of images on canvas, 34 different paintings reveal Ganesha in various modes, from a librarian, to a common man, to an innocent child. Mr. Awchat has been working on the Ganesha theme for two years and says, “By way of personifying Ganesha through paintings, I want to prove that the Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings and not in temples alone.” On November 14, Subhash is also participating in a workshop with children. The canvasses produced at the workshop will be auctioned to raise funds for disadvantaged children.
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