Bhubaneshwar hosts rock concert to preserve heritage art

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), in association with the Odisha State Museum (OSM), organised the rock art exhibition in Bhubaneshwar on the occasion of the International Museum Day.

The renowned museum showcased around 250 photographs of rock arts and six to eight replicas of the preserved art.

Project director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, BL Malla said that the aim of the exhibition was to create awareness among the students and locals about the prehistoric art.

"From this exhibition we are trying to gulp the gap between those things, it is not the history we are trying to create the history. Based on the prehistory we are trying to connect, make the history based on the depictions which the prehistoric man made because at that point there was no script or there was no language that is why we call these pictures the pictorial language," said Malla.

The six-day exhibition was inaugurated by provincial agriculture fisheries and animal resources development minister Debi Prasad Mishra.

Workshop and lectures on rock art were also organised as a part of the six day event, where students from various schools participated.

Special lectures and seminars also enthralled the visitors.

"Earlier I did not have knowledge about rock art, but after visiting the rock art museum I got to learn a lot of new things an felt very nice. I got to know about the techniques they used to make the paintings what all items did they use in the old age," said a participant, Abhipsa Singh.

Rock art is form of prehistoric art. From time immemorial the early man started to record his world around him.

As in the prehistoric world, sign language was used to depict or convey any emotions or expression. Human endeavour to translate aesthetic activity into reality is the most the fascinating saga of the early times.

The early man used to decorate the rocks in which they used to live.

Therefore, the exhibition was an effort to spread the knowledge about the early times.