PANJIM: The Mario Gallery on Friday served a legal notice to the event management agency that handled the G20 Summit in Goa, for allegedly using its artworks without permission.
Noted cartoonist Mario Miranda’s sons Rishaad and Raul had earlier said that they were shocked and surprised to see the artworks of their late father being used at the summit meetings “without any permission”.
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The Gallery on Friday served notice to event management agency and has given seven days time to recall and handover all the artwork that belong to the gallery.
“The legal notice states that if Sean Adevent does not comply within the time given, Mario Gallery will initiate appropriate legal proceedings,” Gerard da Cunha, the gallery’s curator, said in a statement.
He said that the notice is with respect to the installation of Mario Miranda’s famous caricature drawings in the form of life-sized figurines placed in Old Goa and Dona Paula for the G20 Summit.
“Till now we have taken note of the eight figurines in Old Goa, eight figurines in two clusters at the Goa University, four figurines at the NIO circle, while there were reports of many more figurines, which are being verified,” da Cunha added.
