Time to look back... Re-Collections-Old is Bold

Hyderabad: Would you like to remind yourself how fast the time and technology is changing? Would you like to see some of the stuff you or probably your parents used once but cannot find them anywhere now? Then you must read on...

'Re-Collections - Old is Bold', an exhibition of modern antiques of Chilkuri 'Khandaan' is being organised at Maria Clara's Biblical Art Gallery in Hyderabad. The exhibition will take you in to the past.

The exhibition is at Plot no. 43, Road no. 6, Samathapuri colony, opposite New Nagole colony, Hyderabad - 500035. The exhibition began on December 20, 2013 (Friday) will continue up to December 31, 2013 (Tuesday) and it is open from 11 am to 5 pm every day.

'The motive of the exhibition is to underscore the importance of remembering our past. It is only the past that has brought us to the present. And the present is what takes us into the future. There is motivation both in the past and the present. Each of the exhibits reminds one of incidents that could spur us to think positively and inspire us,' says artist Maria Clara, the curator of the exhibition.

On show is a Made in Singapore telephone piece of the Nizam era, a table fan belonging to the Nizam era, the black telephone piece with a dialer that was in use until a few decades ago before electronic telephone exchanges pushed them into history, the good old Gramaphone (HMV), a mirror, cot, table, all of which are more than 60 years old, a Yashica still camera, the Eastman Kodak Company Zoom 8 automatic camera directly shipped from New York, Bell & Howell director's series film camera used in the 1940s (gifted by a freedom fighter couple), Indian-made Gevaert Gevabox camera, a 70-year-old stool and table, a wedding saree in Rani Pink with silver brocade and framed family photographs which are some decades old.

With changing times, families generally dispose the stuff which they think has become old but the Chilkuri family has preserved all that things that the family has owned over more than five decades. Another exhibit is a more than 100-year-old book which has been preserved well, an original Persian carpet shipped from Iran and a decades-old radio. The game of 'Pachees' with the cloth, coins and shells which the family has owned for several decades is also being exhibited. Some of the exhibits have also been acquired from collectors.

Contact Telephone Number for more information: 98480-25608.

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