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EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH - III Fonseca with Vivek third edition Thursday, 30 January 2025 | 5 pm Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim REGISTRATION REQUIRED [ https://substack.com/redirect/f40fe0c5-479c-49a1-bb3a-4165697e4c3a?j=eyJ1IjoiNGV5MGV6In0.0csY8RXEuOjn2igHnDNwDp-ipnCOJv5IEwUvVB1W7Xk ] Limited Seats CALL 9834083592 (during office hours) Please join us for a third edition of a Walkthrough of the Exhibition, Fonseca. An Indic Lexicon, with Vivek Menezes, on Thursday, 30 January 2025 at 3 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim. Registration Fee: Rs. 200 CALL 9834083592 (during office hours) Vivek Menezes is a widely published writer and photographer, the co-founder and co-curator of the acclaimed Goa Arts + Literature Festival, founding editor of The Peacock daily newspaper at the International Film Festival of India, columnist for Dhaka Tribune and Scroll.in, and a frequent contributor to other leading periodicals. He was born in Bombay, attended high school in New York, and holds degrees from Wesleyan University and the London School of Economics. As three-time curator at the Serendipity Arts Festival, he was responsible for the large-scale group exhibitions Konkani Surrealism (2017), Panjim 175 (2018) and Mundo Goa (2019). He lives in Panjim with his wife and three sons, very close to where the Mandovi river merges with the Arabian Sea at Miramar beach. Vivek is currently working on the definitive cultural history of Goa. FONSECA An Indic Lexicon Curator Savia Viegas December 2024 – February 2025 Monday–Friday | 10 am – 5 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 Copyright: The Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa Xavier Centre of Historical Research B B Borkar Road, Porvorim, Goa 403521, India xchr.in [ https://substack.com/redirect/fe4fed79-b42e-4960-84e3-3b363fe707d6?j=eyJ1IjoiNGV5MGV6In0.0csY8RXEuOjn2igHnDNwDp-ipnCOJv5IEwUvVB1W7Xk ] | [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] SUPPORT XCHR The Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR) constantly relies on the support of its friends and benefactors. If you would like to donate to the XCHR, please get in touch with us. Thank you very much. EMAIL [ mailto:[email protected] ] Unsubscribe https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly94Y2hyLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9hY3Rpb24vZGlzYWJsZV9lbWFpbD90b2tlbj1leUoxYzJWeVgybGtJam95TmpZNU5qWXhOekVzSW5CdmMzUmZhV1FpT2pFMU5UazROemcwTnl3aWFXRjBJam94TnpNNE1USTJOakEzTENKbGVIQWlPakUzTmprMk5qSTJNRGNzSW1semN5STZJbkIxWWkweU5qazNNREV3SWl3aWMzVmlJam9pWkdsellXSnNaVjlsYldGcGJDSjkuZTV2MklUUGpwdnExVy1iMVBPWXpzMlZLdWk5NjdNWkxkSXRfSkNVTEJfOCIsInAiOjE1NTk4Nzg0NywicyI6MjY5NzAxMCwiZiI6dHJ1ZSwidSI6MjY2OTY2MTcxLCJpYXQiOjE3MzgxMjY2MDcsImV4cCI6MTc0MDcxODYwNywiaXNzIjoicHViLTAiLCJzdWIiOiJsaW5rLXJlZGlyZWN0In0.lDrzmunhtpN_oiZGtv9F3eSllm9cuvS3iAWbhPMaYrk? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/20250129045643.3.b949444632c9051b%40mg-d0.substack.com.
