VASUDEO SANTU GAITONDE: SONATA OF SOLITUDE

ANW I NEW DELHI I APRIL 14, 2016 I 1st Published 2300 H

How many dimensions of one the most eminent Indian painter Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde’s  art is yet to be discovered, is a matter of great research. A new book is going to unveil the soul of Gaitonde's art and artistic journey.

Bodhana Art & Research Foundation in collaboration with Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and The Raza Foundation has announced the book launch of Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde: Sonata of Solitude authored by Meera Menezes and conceptualized by Jesal Thacker on 22 April 2016 at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.

Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde: Sonata of Solitude — The first book in the Sonata three part series includes a preface by Krishen Khanna, a contribution from New York based critic and cultural theorist G Roger Denson entitled From the Upanishads to the Modernist Painting: Vasudeo Gaitonde brings India to Global Agora and a biography of the modern master Gaitonde by eminent art scholar and author Meera Menezes. 

Through her biography, Meera erases the existing myths about the artist and successfully attempts to produce a factual document on his life and journey including stories known and unknown since his childhood through his formative years in the Sir J. J. School of Art, his struggles and eventually taking leave of the family to permanently settle in Delhi.

Meera says "The main reason for my writing this book has been to create a better understanding of the man, his artistic trajectory and his seminal contribution to the idiom of Indian contemporary art."