nagpur an exhibitioncumsale of visual art opened at the neelkamal hall of south central cultural zone on monday organized by sczcc it features 93 paintings selected from a lot of 290 works done by artists from across the countrythe cultural centre organizes art workshops and holds painting contests every year in the last one year we did six workshops of contemporary traditional folk and tribal art these initiatives are undertaken to create awareness about different forms of visual art in india and also to provide a platform to artist from rural and tribal areas programme officer gopal baitawar told toithe exhibition has art work done at camps organized by sczcc during the two kumbh melas held in 2016 in ujjain and in 2019 at allahabad besides this there are also paintings which were made by artists during the two national painting camps held at bhopal and hyderabad last year usually we see only one form of art at an exhibition but sczcc provides a platform to artists of all styles from across the country so paintings here give a glimpse of various styles baitawar saidthe exhibition features paintings by awardwinning artists like mallesh prashala from warangal whose style is warangal scroll there is also one by sudeepta dutta from delhi who paints in contemporary style the art work by naveenraj ts from karnataka is unique as he paints in surpur style there is also the work of mangala maravi the gond tribal artist from mp who uses natural colours drawn from a tree bark the kalamkaari cloth painting by sudhir t from srikalahasti in andhra pradesh is unique too baitawar informsthe valuation of the paintings has been done by a committee comprising three city artists vinod indurkar dean of government college of art pramodbabu ramteke and chandrakant channe nagpur metro has shown interest in the art work as it requires it for the 33 stations that are being built across the city said baitawar about the sale starting from as low at rs1000 to rs40000 the entire lot of 93 paintings on show is valued at over rs10 lakhsover the last 30 years sczcc has built a huge inventory of art work created during workshops and contests we have some 5000 paintings lying with us over the last two years we have started the practice of returning the work to the artists baitawar says