EXHIBITION ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders & the Community’ & ‘No Parsi is an Island’ at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jaipur House, India Gate > 20th March to 29th May 2016

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Time : 
20th March : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 20/03/2016 17:30 20/03/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata Opening of ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders & the Community’ & ‘No Parsi is an Island’ Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/exhibition-painted-encounters-parsi.html National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi - 110003 DD/MM/YYYY - inauguration by Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hon’ble Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs in the presence of Shri Narendra Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Shri Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs
21st March to 29th May : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (Closed Mondays and national holidays)  Add to Calendar 21/03/2016 10:30 29/05/2016 17:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders & the Community’ & ‘No Parsi is an Island’ Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/exhibition-painted-encounters-parsi.html National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi - 110003 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View

Entry : by tickets, Available at :

Indian: Rs: 20
Foreign National: Rs: 500
Student / Child (upto 18 years old): Free

Venue : National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jaipur House, India Gate, New Delhi - 110003
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Event Description : The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi & Ministry of Culture, Government of India present ‘Painted Encounters – Parsi Traders and the Community’ and ‘No Parsi is an Island’. 

Curators : Dr. Pheroza J. Godrej, Firoza Punthakey Mistree, Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania.

Painted Encounters : Parsi Traders and the Community, curated by Pheroza J. Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree, traces through the medium of paintings, engravings and photographs, the extraordinary evolution of Parsi traders who built ships and facilitated trade with Canton in the 19th century.  Parsi merchants hailing from hamlets in Gujarat and rich from the China Trade, commissioned Indian and European artists to paint portraits and were noteworthy patrons of these art forms. This exhibition examines the changing styles and influence of  the genre loosely termed as 'Parsi portraiture'  and explores  the interesting historiography and times of the leading Parsi traders whose activities  boosted capital accumulation and helped shape 19th century Bombay into an international, financial metropolis.

‘No Parsi is an Island’, curated by Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania with Pheroza J. Godrej, is a curatorial re-reading of the work of 14 Parsi artists across 150 years, from Pestonji Bomanji (1851-1938) to Gieve Patel (b. 1940). This exhibition not only showcases the works of these artists, but also displays for the first time their rich and varied contributions to the domains of film, poetry, theatre, classical dance, crafts activism and children’s literature.

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