Koshal Hamal, Suresh K. Nair, Filipe Garcia and JOH - Jorge Humberto

TRIMÚRTI

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9.11.2019 - 25.1.2020

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TRIMÚRTI presents a dialogue between the works of two Portuguese artists, a Nepalese and an Indian and is integrated in the Project OVNI (UFO in Portuguese), that means Visual Objects of Nepal and India and refers to the Great Triad of Gods of the Hindu Pantheon: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

The artist Koshal Hamal arrives from Nepal – an emerging value of contemporary art focused on the issues of appropriation. From India comes Suresh K. Nair, the dancing painter, based in Varanasi, recognized for its large murals. Portuguese artists Filipe Garcia and Joh - Jorge Humberto participate in the exhibition, having in common the fact that they visited the cities of Kathmandu and Varanasi, saving from these trips a striking memory and a feeling of gratitude.

OVNI is an international aesthetic dialogue project with the East, with epicenter at the José Malhoa Museum in Caldas da Rainha. Initiative of the School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. The event, of pedagogical scope, brings together classes of the 3rd year of the Bachelor's Degree in Graphic and Multimedia Design and Programming and Cultural Production and is held with the support of the Municipality of Caldas da Rainha, the Parish Council of Caldas da Rainha – Our Lady of Pópulo, Coto and São Gregory –, of the Silos Contentor Criativo, the Renovar a Mouraria Association, the Library of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon and the Orient Foundation, relying on diverse partnerships, such as the Ato Abstrato, Art Gallery, according to the various moments of programming.

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Curated by Mário Caeiro