Commemorating its 25 years of inception Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) is hosting an historic art exhibition - “Aparanta”- here in the Old Goa Medical College building on the waterfront of the capital city of Panaji.Around 20 artists of national and International repute have participated in this exhibition with totaling about 250 exhibits of oil and water color paintings and graphics. Artists of different generations and different artistic practices living inside and outside Goa, those settled permanently in Goa, have come together. The exhibition Inaugurated today by the chief minister Pratap Sing Rane in presence of Dy. Chief Minister Dr. Wilfred D’souza will remain open for public till April 24. This exhibition is also hosting art related cultural events.
“This is a multidimensional effort of GTDC to promote tourism through yet another facet in the field of art and culture. We want to show art as vibrant culture of Goa. Its not just sun, sand and sea in Goa, but lot more than that, this is the message we want to convey to the tourists visiting Goa,” says the Chairman of GTDC Fatima D’sa.
“Goan art is so rich and abundant. This Exhibition is Goa’s massive presence with major History”, says Ranjit Hoskote, a leading critic and theorist, the curator of this exhibition. “Goa, far from being a cultural backwater remote from the centers of Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore, is a seed-bed of Artistic excellence”, he further says.
“Goans have been amongst great pioneers in the phenomenal development of modern Indian art. We have received enquiries from various art galleries in India”, said Managing Director of GTDC Sanjit Rodrigues.
This “concert of soloists” will be placed in historical and cultural context, as the curator plans to create prominent “Shrines” distributed through the exhibition, containing rare paintings and biological details of great artists from previous generations- Francis Newton Souza, Vasudeo Gaitonde, Angelo Fonseca, Laxman Pai and Xavier Trindade. In addition there will be e selected work from important Goa trained artists, including Baiju Parthan and vidya Kamat. And a major photographs by India’s leading photographer, Dayanita Singh of images taken near her house in a Goan Village.
Courtesy: mangalorean.com
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