Bring Home a Divine Experience
Each AZIMVTH Gift on offer is a divine experience. At a minimum, it is a beautiful piece of performance-art and visual-art made with collaborations of artists from India and abroad. As a popular devotional song in India goes – ‘Mano to mein Ganga Ma hoon, na maano to bahata pani‘ that is, ‘I am (Divine) Mother Ganges if you have faith, else I am just flowing water’.
International professional artists visit and stay for a typical period of 4 weeks at AZIMVTH in Haridwar, India. Some of the recent artists hailed from the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Thailand, and New Zealand. Artists work on projects that have clear spiritual themes. About 100 local persons in Haridwar have participated in supporting or co-creating these arts.
Each of the art-piece being made available for gifting is one-of-its-kind.
PANCH-VATI: FUNF BLATTER (5 SACRED LEAVES)
This is a set of twelve picture post cards depicting artistically leaves of 5 trees of Panch-Vati of Ramayana and Ram-Lila, which is listed as an intangible cultural asset of humanity by UNESCO of the United Nations. These were created by Madlaina Fontana, an artist from Switzerland, when she stayed at AZIMVTH. Read more here.
RAM LILA – POST CARDS
This is a set of eleven post cards. The cards are hand made papers made in Haridwar using Ganga water. Each card has at the centre an unused postage stamp issued by India Post. The set of eleven stamps depict eleven scenes from Ramayana telling the story progressively. Each card has a unique art work made of water colours of nine different shades of blues. Ganga water was used for the water colours.
RAM LILA – GREETINGS CARDS
This is also a set of eleven art-works like the post cards but available in the shape of greetings cards.
RAM LILA – ARTS
This is a set of eleven arts as described in RAM LILA – POST CARDS. Each of the art-work is A4 sized. It contains a relevant choupai from Ramcharitmanas written in calligraphy. And a unique art of Madhubani on the periphery.
AYURVEDA & DHANTERAS DAY
This is a single piece spiritual art post card.
CHHOTI DIWALI
This is a single piece spiritual art post card.
GOVARDHAN PUJA
BHAIYA DOOJ
This is a set of six picture post cards inspired with the divine animals mentioned in the scriptures of India and Thailand and created with help of poo r children in Haridwar. The art-works were created by the artist illustrator Napatt Piyawongwatthana of Thailand when she stayed at AZIMVTH. Read more here.
Walking Monk
This is a set of three picture post cards depicting monks in Haridwar. These are prints of oil paintings on board created by the famous French painter Corine Lucas when she stayed at AZIMVTH. Read more here.
WATERCOLOURS of Five Elements
This is a set of five picture post cards. These are prints of water colours on paper made by Barbara Silverman while she was staying at AZIMVTH. Read more here.
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