A file picture of artist NC Desai. , Picture Credit score: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
A portray exhibition of NC Desai, veteran artist, could be organized in Hubballi from November 1 to 4, 2025.
That is a part of the delivery centenary celebrations of the Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi awardee, recognized for his portraits of Swami Vivekananda and the World Ganesh collection, his members of the family mentioned in a launch. Sri Gurusidda Rajayogindra Swamiji, Moorusavira Math, will inaugurate the exhibition on the Vijaya Mahantesh Lalit Kala Mahavidyalaya close to HDMC workplace on Lamington Highway in Hubballi at 11 am.
Mr. Desai’s contributions
Born in Agadi village of Haveri district in 1924, Mr. Desai was a scholar of artwork educator GS Dandavatimath and a graduate of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy College of Artwork, Mumbai. His work of Swami Vivekananda and Vishvavyapi Ganesha, are exhibited all over the world. His analysis delivered to gentle the forgotten medieval period artist Solapur Shubaraya, and gave publicity to the artwork of tribal communities like Warli of Talasari, Chitari of Sawantwadi, and Patta of Odisha.
The Kangiten twin Ganesha, a portray by artist NC Desai. , Picture Credit score: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Whereas based mostly in Mumbai, he recurrently contributed to Kannada journalism from the Seventies by means of to the 90s. He designed entrance pages of magazines, wrote articles on artwork criticism and launched younger artists and singers. His pictures appeared in Marathi and most south Indian language papers and magazines. He contributed to Kannada magazines and papers like Kasturi, Tushara, Taranga, Sudha, Mayura, Prajavani, Kannada Prabha, Samyukta Karnataka and religious magazines like Sadbodha Chandrike and Viveka Sampada,
In the previous few many years of life, Mr. Desai ran an artwork studio in Hubballi. He beforehand served on the design and communication workforce of Premier Auto Restricted. He handed away in Hubli in 2003.
The portrait of Swami Vivekananda, painted by artist NC Desai. , Picture Credit score: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
10,000 pages of labor digitized
Servants of Data, a Bengaluru-based digital archive group has digitized round 10,000 pages of his work together with articles, work and pictures and uploaded them on archive.org. A QR Code might be launched throughout inauguration to entry the fabric.
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, artist and member of Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy Basavaraj Kalegar, seers of Anandavana in Agadi Shri Gurudatta Chakravarthy and Shri Vishwanath Chakravarthy, Honorary Govt President Aravind Kubasada and Honorary Director Shashidhar Sali of the Shri Jagadguru Moorasavir Math Vidyavardhaka Sangha, retired Well being Officer of HDMC VB Nithali, and others might be current.
The exhibition might be open to the general public from November 1s to 4th from 11 am to six pm.
Revealed – October 29, 2025 01:03 pm IST