This exhibition promises to present various aspects of Indian Art and Textile at a world class venue ”Musee De La Toile de Jouy” via an exhibition of international standards.

This exhibition and seminar aim to develop an international platform for dialogue on Indian Art and Textile and increase the understanding of Indian Art and Textile in a global context. It can also create new frameworks by which we intend to promote and facilitate cross-cultural exchange between countries.

We have artists with immense experience and expertise in visual arts such as, Aditya Basak (b. 1953), Anju Dodiya (b. 1964), Archana Hande (b. 1970), G.R Iranna (b. 1970), Jayashree Chakravarty (b. 1956), Paula Sengupta (b. 1970), Shrabani Roy (b. 1979), Surajit Sarkar (b. 1961) and Sabyasachi Mukherjee (b. 1974) who have promised to come forward with their unique art creations. 
Indian textiles have always had its own richness, but in absence of archeological evidence, the idea about Indian textiles have been drawn from ancient sculptured representations of Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The designs and motifs on the bodies of divinities as also the paintings of early Indian times provide for the evidence, from which we can gather what we know of traditional Indian textile heritage.

Throughout Indian history, this textile industry has passed many stages. From Gandhian and Nehruvian eras there have been efforts of revival of the textile industry which had been long neglected in India itself, throughout the nineteenth century. Coincidentally with the stagnation of the textile crafts, but not as cause and effect, the drapery was losing its value as image in the visual arts. The situation, however, has been changing through the last quarter of this century, again coincidentally with new interest in textile crafts.”

Pranabranjan Ray