You are Invited to Join SACHI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Distinguished Scholar
Dr. Navina Haidar
Curator in Charge, Dept. of Islamic Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In a live, in-person sublime presentation
Jali:
Lattice of ‘divine light’ in Mughal architecture and its legacy
“Jali” is the Indian term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, an exquisitely carved feature of Mughal architecture. The ornamental patterns of Mughal jali screens draw onthe compositional rhythms of arabesques and geometry to create extraordinary visual effects with filtered light in interior and exterior spaces.
In this talk, based on his recent book, A Sacred Journey (co-authored with his wife, Karuna Goswamy), Professor BN Goswamy will decode a series of hitherto un-identified Pahari paintings from the Kedara Kalpa manuscript, a relatively unknown Shaivite text. The paintings depict the journey of five pilgrims through uncharted territory to have a darshan of Shiva in Mt. Kailash. Through snow-capped peaks and golden stretches of land, the pilgrims keep travelling with uncommon resolve, traversing a range of geographical, emotional, and spiritual terrains in this illustrated lecture.
Free and open to the Public
Image Credit : Pilgrim devotees of Shiva pay homage to the Shiva Linga, installed in a temple of gold; attributed to the family workshop of the painter Purkhu of Kangra, 1815-1825; The Ashley Crawford Collection
You are Invited on a Journey to Discover Yogini Travels that Illuminate the Story of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum Goddess Brahmani, with Prof. Padma Kaimal
In a Continuing Series of Special Reflective Offerings SACHI Invites You to A Group Visit to Experience A Multi-disciplinary Dance, Storytelling, and Visual Arts Performance Broken Seeds Still Grow
Program Schedule 3 PM – 4.30 PM (90 min) Broken Seeds Still Grow Theater Performance
12.30 PM onwards Demitri’s Taverna Lunch 2235 First Street, Livermore, CA (3 min. walk from Bankhead Theater)
Tickets Lunch and Theater Performance (SACHI Benefit) $100 Per Person,
Special 50% discount, ages 21 and under. Early RSVP Recommended for Prime Reserved Seating
The conversation with Abhishek Poddar reflects on his innovative and pioneering spirit for our times. An industrialist of renown and a passionate collector of Indian art, Abhishek has over the last few years moved from personal enjoyment to a brilliantly conceived project to share his vast collection –the setting up of a new museum from the ground up in the dynamic city of Bengaluru, India. This soon to open museum, MAP –the Museum of Art and Photography will house the fruits of his tireless and decades-long collecting.
The focus of the Conversation will be on Abhishek and his collecting journey, and on his vision for a 21st century Museum, MAP, which is now close to realization in 2022. This will be an illustrated Conversation with works from the MAP collection.
Please Join us in Commemorating India’s 75th Independence Year
SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Proudly Present
A Reflection on the Rise of Modernity in South Asia, revolutionizing the Visual Arts of a newly Independent India In a Live and In-Person Illustrated Presentation with Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Siddhartha Shah, Curator of South Asian Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Image : The Diagonal, 1973. Tyeb Mehta, 1925 – 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 69 1/8 x 102 inches (175.5 x 259 cm. The Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, E301099
Please join us in this Intimate Portrayal of the Artist in an In Person Illustrated Presentation : Zarina and the Folding House
Zarina’s art practice offers a perspective radically different from the mainstream narrative of modernism, which has historically been shaped by a Euro-American and male-centric art world. The talk will highlight how the trauma of Partition and the pain of not belonging take on complex existential dimensions, through her mystically elevated minimalism and a sparse, bare abstraction that explores aspects of home, migration, distance and geographical separation.
SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India is Honored to Present Internationally Distinguished Author Dr. Amitav Ghosh. Dr. Ghosh will discuss his most recent and groundbreaking publication, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
In Conversation with Amitav Ghosh will be UC Santa Barbara, Associate Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor Dr. Kum Kum Bhavnani and Dr. Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley.
Image credit – Ivo van der Bent
Please Join an insightful discussion on how the ‘double-ikat’ tradition of the Patola has bound the cultures of India and Indonesia together for over 500 years!
Learn about the ‘power’ of intricate Patola-inspired Balinese textiles, journeying from fabrication to ritual use in native context, and further to curation/display in the West.
Image caption:
Patola-inspired ‘Cepuk’ cloth used as protection in a tooth-filing ceremony in Ubud, Bali; Photo by Dr. Urmila Mohan.
