------------------------------------------------------- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at: http://www.goacom.org/casa-de-goa/noticias.html -------------------------------------------------------
It should come as no misguided bombshell that Sotheby's gavel for Gaitonde's work at the forthcoming auction is significantly larger than any of the ones set aside for the other artists. While Gaitonde and Souza were both ahead of their times, their specific distance in relation to each other was on a different tangent. Souza was a gun- toting maverick, shooting down customs and dogmas with his rhetorical brush and pen. At times, his gun would fire from both ends, leaving him financially incapacitated. He also was into Christian bashing at a time when it was still cataclysmic to challenge canon law with one's own canonry. Gaitonde was a metaphysicist, confining and committing his creativity towards the aura of contemplation, and refusing to venture out in the open to decipher to the public that which could only be realized in time (i.e, his work). Some six years after his death, that realization is now finally coming into being. In this context, the wisdom of the Russian painter and art theorist, Wassily Kandinsky, springs to mind: "I value only those artists who really are artists, that is, who consciously or unconsciously, in an entirely original form, embody the expression of their inner life; who work for this end and cannot work otherwise." _________ Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:56:46 +0530 From: "Goanet News" London, May 11 (IANS) Auction house Sotheby's London will offer for sale important works by V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza, Tyeb Mehta, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Krishen Khanna and Bikash Bhattacharjee in its annual sale of Indian art May 24. This will follow Sotheby's successful sale of Indian art in New York earlier this year that exceeded its pre-sale high estimate by more than $2 million and netted $15,007,880 - a record total for a sale of Indian Art by the auction house. ------------------------------------------------------- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand Goa. Distributed locally by Broadway, near Caculo Island, Panjim & internationally by OtherIndiaBookStore.Com. For trade enquiries contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------
