Seize the Day-Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem is an Art and
Learning Centre equipped with an Art Gallery as well as creative workshop and
performance spaces located in an ancestral house in Majorda, South Goa, India.
A space, where you can explore the creative self that burns inside you recently
held an art exhibition by Gautam Benegal on 23rd January to 29th
January '13
His
paintings is about the soft corners and
spaces of Bombay and the people who inhabit them and in their own way complete
this great city. They complete us too because what we are today is the sum of
all our experiences, the good and the bad, the profound and the mundane. To
forget would be to divest ourselves of our shares in the collective memory of
our communities and spaces that make up the entities that are you and me. Those
paintings reflect the enduring and powerful images in the retina of our
collective psyche even as the soft corners of this city are shaved off and
Mumbai shrugs off the old to reinvent itself again in true survivalist fashion.
This
venue Carpe Diem in the past was ignored and now the house has been renovated
for various performances and exhibitions .For instance yoga classes and dance
classes were organized which helps us to rejuvenate and binds the people
together. India's leading Nutritionist Ryan Fernando tutored people
on how to maintain a healthier lifestyle with good Nutrition. A 2 hr personalised
Workshop on techniques and concepts directed at
eating nutritiously for fat loss, maintaining a healthier weight and
beating the bulge helped in a big way. Local artist Oscar de Sequeira Nazareth is
currently preparing his fourth picture exhibition, “Fachadas”, a photography exhibition
held at Carpe Diem.
Having grown up in
Portugal and spent the last 10 years in England,he was absolutely fascinated by
the beautiful and unique facades of Goan houses. They show a profound combination of Indian and
European influences, yet the resulting fusion is something authentically Goan.
As a result,his very first exhibition featured several Goan facades, and hislast
exhibition was totally dedicated to Goan houses.” Drawing, I think, is more about seeing and thinking than it is about
marks on the page. Sure, the mark-making part is important, but it all begins
in the eyes and the mind. You need to observe and consider your subject, decide
on a composition and make visual notes about it. When drawing, the medium
almost disappears, becoming an extension of your hand, enabling to you describe
your subject effortlessly. The
drawing is like a brainstorming session, an interactive dialogue where the
problem is laid out and solutions discussed. The painting, by contrast, is
often more like a complete poem or a finished novella: the plot or the theme
established, and followed through to its conclusion. Of course, many paintings
are exploratory in nature, but then one might say that the artist is drawing
with paint!
Music
,art and dance are performing arts where if one has the passion in them can
achieve great heights.Carpe –Diem is one such venue to bring out your talents.
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