Mohan Samant Centenary Celebration
Date – 24 Sep 24
Time- 7.30pm onwards
Venue – KNMA Saket
Event Flow
Introduction by Roobina Karode, Director, Chief Curator KNMA
A lecture by Kishore Singh, Head of Exhibitions & Publications, DAG on Mohan Samant’s Life & Artistic Practice
Followed by A Sarangi Recital by Virtuso Murad Ali Khan
Magic in the Square – Mohan Samant, Centennial Exhibition, is a crisp exploration of Samant’s practice, which is also a tribute to the artist.
Mohan Samant excavates sedimented memory, fossil-like forms and totemic imagery from his sand, dust and gravel layers -raising cut-outs from the primary surface, thus giving his paintings a three-dimensional effect. They are neither relief nor flat, this in-betweenness, perhaps is an adroit extension of his skills as a Sarangi player. The abstract nuance of classical music is translated in a subtle daintiness on his canvases.
About Mohan Samant
Mohan Samant (1924-2004) was a pioneering modernist artist known for his…