Bernadette Gomes' art exhibition 'Maadani - Under the Coconut Palms' Where: Institute Menezes Braganza, Panaji, Goa
When : October 29 - 31, 2009 - 9am - 7pm Bernadette describes her paintings thus: Each of them is a personal experience brought to life. It's the way in which Goa's folk life has touched mine, shaping me as I grew up. The paintings capture people's practices; a way of life that's fast disappearing. Like the gathering of dried leaves before the monsoon, to light kitchen fires. Like par-boiling paddy at night. Women bathing at the village stream... Others peep into little known aspects of Goa's varied peoples. Like the Meazghor of the pastoral Gouly tribe, a living room-cum-kitchen-cum-store room, made entirely of woven cane. The men dancing the Powo during Dussehra. Or just taking a break as they tend the goats. Fun, frolic and solemnity is portrayed in the Sotryo festival of Cuncolim; the fire walkers at the zatra of Goddess Lairayee at Sirgao; the village church feast... Frederick Noronha states: "The details are amazing and, sometimes, like a picture clicked by one of those modern, high-res digital cameras, almost better than life!" SOURCES: http://www.serigraphcanada.com/bon/?detectflash=false&; http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/tag/bernadette-gomes/ the Goanet archives @ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/
