India’s leading contemporary artist Padmashree Anjolie Ela Menon will inaugurate the exhibition on Sunday. Ms. Katherine Dhanani, US Consul General, US Consulate Hyderabad; Mr. Neerabh Kumar Prasad, IAS, Metropolitan Commissioner, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HDMA) and Chairman, Lake Protection Committee; Mr. P.R. Ramesh, Chairman, Deloitte; Actress and Activist Amala Akkineni are to grace the preview on 23rd June.
Supported by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) members firms in India (Deloitte India), Waterscapes brings to life the surreal beauty of water in its myriad avatars like lakes, ponds, waterfalls and the wide open sea with a lot of work included from award winning photographers who work for the temples of imagery like the BBC and National Geographic.
Waterscapes will be hosted at the Muse Art Gallery at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre, Hyderabad. 'The Marriott is proud to host Waterscapes, for four years in a row. The hotel, being located on the shores of the lovely Hussain Sagar lake, which is now polluted, we deeply identify with the cause and support the efforts to 'Save the Lake'. The exhibition this year is grander than ever before, and suited to the tastes of both the connoisseur as well as the uninitiated", informs Sharad Datta, General Manager.
‘Waterscapes’ is the brainchild of Suheim Sheikh who has "been sailing and racing boats for the last 35 years and has watched our lakes and rivers progressively turn to filth."
"I teach economically challenged kids to sail boats and have graduated 9 of them to the national level of the sport and they all sail at the polluted Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad. This proximity to polluted water has deeply motivated me to take up the cause ", says Suheim.
The exhibition addresses the concern of water dystrophy by evoking a sense of beauty and appreciation of water and contrasting it with the rabid ugliness of what mankind has done to its water situation. Proceeds from the exhibition are earmarked for the training and facilitation of young underprivileged children to learn sailing and take to water sports. Dignity Through Sports is the credo.
Deloitte India is aware of the seriousness of the challenges mankind faces with respect to Water and has partnered with The Yacht Club of Hyderabad to bring to the city for the first time the collected works of renowned conservationist photographer artists like Sudhir Shivaram, Kalyan Varma, Arati Rao, Ganesh H Shankar, Sandesh Kadur and Dhritiman Mukherjee.
The art and artists profiles are available at https://www.facebook.com/Waterscapes2013