Last works of any artiste are precious, but those of someone as illustrious as Rabindranath Tagore carry a whole new meaning. As the year of the Nobel laureate’s 150th birth anniversary trudges along, the artiste’s community, along with the government, has taken up varied ways and means to commemorate the genius that was Tagore. In this then, to separate straw from hay is a tough task, and this is where Pritish Nandy and his collaborator Paresh Maity come to the rescue. In a unique partnership to bridge the gap between Tagore the poet and Tagore the painter, they create an exhibition of his last works, his final tryst with poems — the 15 poems that he wrote on his deathbed in 1941 over a span of 18 months — translated them to English, calligraphed by Nandy and in a beautiful twist, the poems translated as an image in watercolours by Maity.
To be held from September 11 to September 25 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in collaboration with the Union ministry of culture and supported by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, the exhibition is titled "Shesh Lekha", literally meaning the "last writings", of Tagore.
"The final poems by Tagore shed a whole new light on the man we know. He shows neither a fear of death nor of what would happen next. He doesn’t say ‘Oh God, spare me!’ Instead, he believes that life is a continuous journey. Death is inevitable, but it isn’t the end, life just moves into a new dimension.Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. He presents it to us as a vast landscape, a world beyond this world," says Nandy. He says when he conceptualised the idea and presented it to Union culture minister Kumari Selja, she took just a minute to give it the go ahead. "I brought in Maity to visualise the poems and give them a much-deserved visual representation. I firmly believed that oil on canvas wouldn’t have brought the realistic feel that I wanted, and so we decided to create watercolours,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile ," he adds.
Maity says he jumped at the opportunity, as Tagore can get anybody’s creative juices flowing and the challenge of creating massive watercolours,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies . a task rarely undertaken by an artist, was difficult to resist. "A massive watercolour is very difficult to complete, as the painting has to be trashed if there’s even one mistake. So, a 40x60 is rarely undertaken and it took me over six months to get the paintings in place. Alongside, to do justice to the lyrical and mellifluous words of a genius needed a much greater understanding. Nandy and I were choreographing an exhibition that needed to feed off each other and so we needed it to work like a jugalbandi between words and images. Rather than an ode to the ‘End’, these texts appear an eager invitation to a new subliminal beginning. In my works, I have attempted to capture this keenness, this sublimity," explains Maity.
What is of particular beauty about these poems, considered by many to be some of the poet’s finest works, is the sense of serene melancholy that shows Tagore’s deep and sensitive understanding of man’s relation with the universe. Both Nandy and Maity have their own versions of what they find fascinating about this collection. Says Nandy,where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. "While I am tempted to say that his last poem was possibly his best, his shorter poems too have questions of an inherent beauty. From the first day of existence to the final day of reckoning, nothing changes. Yet life is not about understanding philosophy or religion, it is about amassing experience, life experience."
On the other hand, Maity feels the takeaway from this whole experience is that life is about an eternity that goes beyond the horizon and vision. He says, "Tagore insisted all through that life is relevant because it is transient. It is a journey that continues ahead, you are a passing phase and that is what makes life worth treasuring. It is not a thought that suggests morbidity, but in fact is full of joy and expectation. All through the paintings, you will see the blue behind the horizon,he believes the fire started after the lift's RUBBER SHEET blew, symbolic of eternity and the mystery of what lies ahead."
"This dual artistic effort helps uncover a new Tagore, one hitherto unkn-own to readers, burdened by thoughts of impending cessation and yet unsurpassable in his calmness, in his eager admiration for and final willing submission in the hands of the unknown," concludes Nandy.
To be held from September 11 to September 25 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in collaboration with the Union ministry of culture and supported by Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, the exhibition is titled "Shesh Lekha", literally meaning the "last writings", of Tagore.
"The final poems by Tagore shed a whole new light on the man we know. He shows neither a fear of death nor of what would happen next. He doesn’t say ‘Oh God, spare me!’ Instead, he believes that life is a continuous journey. Death is inevitable, but it isn’t the end, life just moves into a new dimension.Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. He presents it to us as a vast landscape, a world beyond this world," says Nandy. He says when he conceptualised the idea and presented it to Union culture minister Kumari Selja, she took just a minute to give it the go ahead. "I brought in Maity to visualise the poems and give them a much-deserved visual representation. I firmly believed that oil on canvas wouldn’t have brought the realistic feel that I wanted, and so we decided to create watercolours,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile ," he adds.
Maity says he jumped at the opportunity, as Tagore can get anybody’s creative juices flowing and the challenge of creating massive watercolours,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their oil painting supplies . a task rarely undertaken by an artist, was difficult to resist. "A massive watercolour is very difficult to complete, as the painting has to be trashed if there’s even one mistake. So, a 40x60 is rarely undertaken and it took me over six months to get the paintings in place. Alongside, to do justice to the lyrical and mellifluous words of a genius needed a much greater understanding. Nandy and I were choreographing an exhibition that needed to feed off each other and so we needed it to work like a jugalbandi between words and images. Rather than an ode to the ‘End’, these texts appear an eager invitation to a new subliminal beginning. In my works, I have attempted to capture this keenness, this sublimity," explains Maity.
What is of particular beauty about these poems, considered by many to be some of the poet’s finest works, is the sense of serene melancholy that shows Tagore’s deep and sensitive understanding of man’s relation with the universe. Both Nandy and Maity have their own versions of what they find fascinating about this collection. Says Nandy,where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. "While I am tempted to say that his last poem was possibly his best, his shorter poems too have questions of an inherent beauty. From the first day of existence to the final day of reckoning, nothing changes. Yet life is not about understanding philosophy or religion, it is about amassing experience, life experience."
On the other hand, Maity feels the takeaway from this whole experience is that life is about an eternity that goes beyond the horizon and vision. He says, "Tagore insisted all through that life is relevant because it is transient. It is a journey that continues ahead, you are a passing phase and that is what makes life worth treasuring. It is not a thought that suggests morbidity, but in fact is full of joy and expectation. All through the paintings, you will see the blue behind the horizon,he believes the fire started after the lift's RUBBER SHEET blew, symbolic of eternity and the mystery of what lies ahead."
"This dual artistic effort helps uncover a new Tagore, one hitherto unkn-own to readers, burdened by thoughts of impending cessation and yet unsurpassable in his calmness, in his eager admiration for and final willing submission in the hands of the unknown," concludes Nandy.
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