My First Exhibition

The first public exhibition of my art work – Anu Darpan was held at Gallery G in Bangalore from 21st to 27th of May 2008.

The Planning

We started planning for this exhibition since November/December 2007.

My sister and brother searched many galleries on internet and in December we showed my painting in different galleries, many of them liked my work. Everything finally worked out best with GalleryG. Me, my sister and brother got this arranged by showing my work in GalleryG. They also liked my paintings and then told us about their rules, conditions and gave us the perfect date. They also told us about all other things required to do for this exhibition.

The date of the exhibition was set from 21st of May to 27th of May 2008. As we were told by the gallery owners, we deigned and printed invitation cards for exhibition. They distributed the invitation cards to people they knew would be interested in such an exhibition. We also sent the e-invitation cards via e-mail to all the people we knew and to the gallery folks so that they could also send the cards where they wanted to send.

By the end of April 2008, everything was set for my first exhibition. For exhibition we decided to exhibit 35 paintings. we framed those paintings at home two days before the exhibition was going to begin. Exhibition was scheduled on 21st from 11:00am to 6:00pm and rest of the 6 days from 10:00am to 6:00pm.

Invitation

Media Coverage

“Dreams Unbound” – An article in The Times of India on 18th May 2008.

“In a whirl of colour” – An article in The Hindu on 3rd June 2008.

Experiences & Learnings

The First Day: Inauguration and Workshop

My exhibition was inaugurated by Shri Sudarshan K. Maini, the chairman of Maini Group of Industries. At the inauguration, I met many people from various social circles of Bangalore. It was an interesting experience.

After the inauguration, I conducted a workshop for children. We thought about 12 children would come, as we had set the registration limit to that, but then 25 children turned up, this was quite unexpected to me and was a lot of fun! I really enjoy spending time with children and teaching them.

All the people were excited to meet me and to see my work. It was a lot of fun!

Two days before the exhibition started I had an interview, photo session with Times Of India. Here’s the link to the article they published about me. The on the first day I had one interview and photo session with The Hindu Newspaper (here’s the article published in The Hindu) and another with a local TV of Bangalore (Kasthuri TV). Kasthuri TV aired their program about me on Kasthuri TV. The whole thing was an interesting experience. I was completely tired by the end of the day but very excited about everything.

The Weekdays vs Weekends

As expected the weekdays were a little slower than the weekends. But fun none the less. There was a cute aquarium in the gallery with a bunch of colorful fishes. I took some photos and videos.

Overall …

All the people were excited to meet me and to see my work. Many of them asked a lot of questions about my paintings and it was fun discussing and talking about that. I also got some very valuable feedback.

The most surprising thing which happened was that I exhibited 35 paintings and out of the 35, 21 were sold and most of the best ones were sold on the first day. So during my first exhibition, these strange things happened which made me feel very surprised and happy.

During and after this first exhibition, I had some very interesting, unique and different types of experiences. I found what people think about me and work. I also learnt how to communicate with different types of people and much more. It was a very fun and thoroughly learning experience all in all.

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Video

Video of GalleryG during my exhibition

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