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Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art

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My Salute is 8 feet long, three and a half feet high sculpture created with over one hundred thousand safety pins, stainless steel, and acrylic sheets. The artwork is a tribute to the helicopters that navigated fog, rain, and treacherous Himalayan terrain to airlift about 23,892 people. The choppers
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The museum was inaugurated on 4 October 2017 by chief minister of Uttarakhand government. The museum has two sections, one for the museum and other for the art gallery. Both the museum and the gallery encompass an area of 408 square metres. The museum was built under the guidance of artist Surendra
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The museum features 50 multi-dimensional artworks of Surendra Pal Joshi constituting the artist’s reflections and responses to the devastation and rescue efforts he had witnessed during his visits to the ravaged mountains in the aftermath of the 2013 North India floods.
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air-dropped 650 tonnes of relief material but didn’t always escape the disaster themselves. One Mi-17 aircraft crashed in bad weather, killing 20 people on board who were all rescuers. The helicopter was a symbol of hope during the
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Paani is an installation created with thousands of safety pins that hang on the wall, imitating a cascade of water, in a reimagination of the disaster that killed at least 5,700 people.
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in Bangalore to research how helicopter is manufactured and understand the process to create safety pins of different sizes for their use in the helicopter.
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village that stands half-collapsed. Deodar wood has been used to make the house. The roof is of slate stones which were brought from the villages of
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tragedy. It speaks of human labour, struggle and continued existence. It took Surendra Pal Joshi about a year to create the helicopter in his
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and is housed in a specially constructed building to withstand high intensity earthquake and extreme weather conditions.
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encouraging younger generation of artists to exhibit modern and contemporary art. The museum is located in one of the
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Pal Joshi who played a major role in embodying the museum. The museum was developed at a cost of ₹1.92 crore by the
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for authenticity. A few corn cobs, ready for harvest, hang from the sides of the artwork.
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The Abode is an installation artwork depicting a double-storied house of
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Uttarakhand News - Latest Breaking Live Uttarakhand News 2017
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The Uttara Museum of Contemporary Art was established by the
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dedicating multi-dimensional artworks in the memory of the
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Oct 5, Yeshika Budhwar / TNN / Updated (5 October 2017).
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Dehradun
Coordinates
30°19′29″N 78°02′34″E / 30.32462°N 78.04277°E / 30.32462; 78.04277
Art museum
Art gallery
Dehradun
art museum
2013 North India floods
Uttarakhand
paintings
sculptures
Surendra Pal Joshi
art gallery
Earthquake zones of India
Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority
Paani, 2013
My Salute, 2016
The Abode, 2016
Ghilda 2016
Dhol and Damau 2016
Kedarnath
Jaipur
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Garhwali
Yamunotri
Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority
Government of Uttarakhand
Indian art

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