FONSECA. An Indic Lexicon
Friday, 29 November 2024 | 6 pm
EXHIBITION
FONSECA
An Indic Lexicon
Curator
Savia Viegas
OPENING
Friday, 29 November 2024 | 6 pm
Xavier Centre of Historical Research, PorvorimSubodh Kerkar, Guest of honour
EXHIBITION
December 2024 – February 2025
Monday–Friday | 10 am – 5 pm
Please join us for the Opening of the Exhibition, Fonseca. An Indic Lexicon, curated by Dr. Savia Viegas, and in the presence of Dr. Subodh Kerkar, on Friday, 29 November 2024 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim.
Please join us for refreshments at 5:30 pm.
FONSECA
An Indic Lexicon
In the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century amid two world wars and a sense of selfhood growing in the colonies of Asia and Africa, Angelo da Fonseca, a young Goan artist set about painting Christian icons in new settings and colours. This artistic journey opened up vistas of a “swadeshi” and united India in spite of cultural diversities and political differences. A sizeable number of Fonseca’s works reveal the artist’s reference to unique historical moments, memorable personalities and events in India. At the same time, the artist strove to find through his icons a home for Christian art in postcolonial India. The exhibition seeks to display these unique works and familiarise Goan as well as foreign art lovers with the Fonseca legacy.
Savia Viegas
Savia Viegas is an academic, writer, artist and curator. As a senior fellow of the Fulbright Fellowship programme and the Ministry of Culture (India), she has researched extensively on museums, photography and the arts with several books and papers published in India and abroad. Her art and embroideries have been exhibited in India and Portugal. Savia is also a novelist and painter, having published Tales from the Attic (2007, self-published), Let me tell you about Quinta (Penguin 2011), The Bicycle Diaries (2021, self-published), among others. In 2010 she received an India Foundation for the Arts grant to research on Angelo da Fonseca. She has curated a number of exhibitions on Fonseca at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, and is set to shortly publish her monograph on the artist: Angelo da Fonseca: An Artist of His Time (2025, forthcoming).
Image
Fonseca, 1967, John the Baptist, Watercolour on paper, 60x45 cm
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