TUESDAY, MAY 07, 2024
Frazer Andrade
Camões-Centro de Lingua Portuguesa in collaboration with Quadro Art Gallery have organised an exhibition called ‘Cor Gimache (Colours of Summer)’, which is based on expressions of eight artists depicting the moods of summer, its beauty, its frolic and cruelty, at the heritage premises of Instituto Camões, situated along Rua de Ormuz, Panjim. The exhibition will go on till May 5. The eight artists participating in this exhibition are Ana M Esteves, Manuela Gomes, Viraj Naik, Clarice Vaz, Savia Viegas, Sybil Sequeira, Gillian D’Souza and Ankita Naik.
“I have previously been part of exhibitions which needed a lot of historical researching which in turn needed a lot of inputs. However, curating this exhibition has been a fun-filled experience where I just had to look around and think about a typical Goan Summer,” says Savia Viegas, the curator of the exhibition.
“Different artists interpreted the heat of summer, the plurality and diversity of the season, very differently and it was fun bringing all those voices together,” says Savia. “Some of the works were understated but had a point of view, others went into nature, landscape while few others looked into cities and heat, emphasizing on the cameos of summer,” she adds.
It has all comes together very beautifully, with Institute Camões creating weekend programmes focusing on dance, music and more which spoke volumes about Goan culture and the theme of the exhibition on a whole. Savia further mentions, Giovanni Fernandes, who has been working tirelessly to bring together all the energies involved in making the event a great success, in spite of the fact that he had emergencies in his family to attend to.
Delfim Correia da Silva, the director of CLP-Camões Goa, nurtured a desire to go beyond just promoting the Portuguese language and culture here in Goa, and to celebrate Goa’s diversity and multiculturalism through art, literature, music and dance. On May 5, snippets of books by artists, Clarice Vaz and Savia Viegas would be read in Portuguese. This session would be graced by the Portuguese Consular General. Clarice Vaz says, “This exhibition is a beautiful unique concept of an Indian summer in the multicultural Goa. I had never been inside this building except for the inauguration of this colourful art exhibition.” Further she mentioned that it was the floor tiles of the building that first caught her attention even before she could lift her head to view the artworks of her fellow artists.
After last weekend’s highly successful and well attended musical performance by group ‘Entre Nós,’ who entertained those gathered with songs in many languages, the evening today, April 27 at Instituto Camões shall be graced by a dance performance by Impana Kulkarni.
The evening of 27th April 2024 at Instituto Camões shall be graced by a dance performance by Impana Kulkarni based on the theme of the ongoing exhibition. Artist Sybil Sequeira says, ‘As part of this amazing exhibition, I am profoundly content, and exhibiting one of the things I am passionate about and love to do all the time, is indeed a dream come true. I thank Instituto Camões and the other organizers for this opportunity’.
