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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday (June 16, 2026) visited a unsocial accumulation astatine the Presidential Palace successful Bratislava inspired by Varanasi, his Parliamentary constituency. During the visit, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini accompanied Prime Minister Modi and warmly welcomed him astatine the Presidential Palace.
The accumulation is the effect of a unsocial planetary creation task organised successful practice with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The task aimed to foster taste dialog done ocular creation and connection Slovak artists an accidental to research and construe "Varanasi," 1 of the world's oldest surviving cities and a timeless awesome of India's spiritual heritage.
The accumulation presents a divers postulation of artworks reflecting the idiosyncratic perspectives, creator languages, and idiosyncratic responses of each participant. Some works absorption connected the city's architecture, riverfronts, rituals, and vibrant streets, portion others research its atmosphere, symbolism, and spiritual dimension.
Together, these artworks uncover the galore ways successful which a azygous spot tin beryllium perceived, interpreted, and transformed into ocular expression.
According to details displayed adjacent the exhibition, "Five Slovak artists, Agnesa Vavrinova, Luka Brase, Peter Zanony, Stefan Kocka, and Peter Pollag, participated successful an creator residency successful Varanasi from 2 to 9 June. During their stay, they immersed themselves successful the city's distinctive atmosphere, observed its regular life, visited important humanities and spiritual sites, and experienced the unsocial vigor that has made Varanasi a root of inspiration for centuries."
It besides says, "The task besides included Peter Uchnar and Stanislav Harangozo, who were incapable to question to India but embraced the aforesaid creator situation from Slovakia. Drawing connected research, ocular materials, and their ain originative imagination, they developed works inspired by the taxable of Varanasi. Their contributions connection an absorbing counterpart to those created done nonstop idiosyncratic acquisition of the city." Through their works, the artists invitation viewers to observe Varanasi not lone arsenic a carnal spot but besides arsenic a root of reflection, inspiration, and dialog betwixt antithetic worlds and traditions.
