The Metropolitan Museum of Manila closes a dynamic year of international art shows with a November exhibition of Indian contemporary art, currently one of Asia’s most active. Entitled Kalpana, Sanskrit for imagination, the exhibit presents the figurative form in Indian art as seen in the last one hundred years through the works of fourteen of its best known painters, all prominent members of the art community in their country and abroad. These artists are the who’s who of Indian art: Jamini Roy, Amrita Shergil, MF Husain, KG Subramanyan, FN Souza, Krishen Khanna, Tyeb Mehta, Bhupen Khakhar, A. Ramachandran, Arpita Singh, Jogen Chowdhury, Anjolie Ela Menon, Manjit Bawa, and Arpana Caur.
The touring exhibit presents excellent quality digital reproductions of original artworks, each approved by the respective artist and/or collector and authorized to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations for presentation in different international venues.
Kalpana gives a glimpse of different influences that have shaped Indian contemporary art—from local painting traditions of rural and folk art, miniaturism, mural painting, to Hindu-inspired illustrations. The exhibit also presents artworks that resulted in the synergy of Indian artistic expressions with Western art that loudly emerged in the Indian art scene during the 1950s, spurred by the seminal Progressive Artists Group of Souza, Khana and Husain.
For the Philippine leg of the Kalpana tour, the Indian works are placed in conversation with works by an equally distinguished selection of Filipino painters such as National Artists Bencab, Cesar Legaspi, Vicente Manansala, J. Elizalde Navarro and Ang Kiukok, as well as Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Nena Saguil, Malang, Galo Ocampo, Prudencio Lamarroza, Antipas Delotavo and Onib Olmedo, to reveal confluences and divergences in the modern figurative painting tradition between the two cultures. The Philippine works in the exhibit have been loaned from the excellent painting collections of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
KALPANA: 14 Figurative Painters of India in Conversation with Filipino Artists will be on view to the public beginning November 6 until January 30 at the Upper Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. It is co-presented by the Embassy of India with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the
Arts and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Diplomatic Relations between the Philippines and India.
The Met Museum is located at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Manila.
Museum hours are from Monday to Saturday, 9am – 6pm.
For inquiries, call 523-7855 or email info@metmuseum.ph
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