vadodara in july this year artcore uk a gallery for artists by artists and of artists had its first exhibition in the city of derby united kingdom where paintings by 25 artists from baroda and 15 from the midlands area in the uk were on display the theme of the artworks was des pardes the challenge of the glocal now after four successful exhibitions in uk the exhibition has travelled back to the city with joint efforts of citybased sarjan art gallery and artcore uk we had gone there with the idea of one exhibition that was organised at deda a venue in derby city centre but since then the exhibition was organised at three other places including art in empty shops a project supported by derbys arts council at nottingham where the indian cultural association wanted it to be part of independence day celebrations and lastly at butterfly house managed by artcore uk which has been started by two alumni of m s universitys faculty of fine arts zahir and ruchita shaikh says sandhya bordewekar who curated the indian part of the show the exhibition that opened on saturday evening and will continue till december 24 displays paintings of young artists making an interesting take on the theme des pardes a compound hindi word of opposites meaning motherlandforeign landwhile the word encompasses within itself the idea of conflict that the opposition suggests glocal is a popular amalgamation of the words global and local having almost the same meaning as despardes but because it has internalized the conflict into a single word its connotations are much more positive adds bordewekar