NAGUESH RAO SARDESSAI
Goa’s celebrated artist Dr. Subodh Kerkar had been invited to Lisbon, Portugal to participate in the exhibition of installation art titled “Le Dejeuner Sur L’herbe” that was held the previous month (June).
The exhibition was set in the midst of recently renovated 600 hundred years old historical garden of Tapada e Jardims do Palacio das Necessidades where the sailors prayed at the chapel before embarking on their voyage.
Internationally reputed curator and the current Director of Gulbanken Museum of Modern Art, Isabel Carlos, curated the exhibition involving ten internationally known installation artists.
The exhibition, called 'Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe' (Luncheon in the garden), was aptly titled after the French painter Edouard Manet’s painting of the same name that he completed after a visit to the garden on invitation by the Queen of Portugal in 1859.
Subodh’s symbolic installation re-created the sea route of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India using rice seeds from Goa. ‘Since the Portuguese were responsible for bringing many plants to India and introduced chillies, tomatoes, potatoes, cashew nuts and many varieties of mangoes and sweet potatoes, I’ll take the Goan rice to Portugal and retrace the route,’ says Subodh.
Subodh’s installation assumes a special significance when he states – ‘The rice seeds will not just sprout rice, it’ll sprout history.’
Apart from Subodh Kerkar, other invited artists include Gabriela Albergaria, Joana Bastos, Alberto Carneiro, Dalila Goncalves, Miguel Palma, Ana Vieira (all from Portuga), Mircea Cantor (France), Maider Lopes (Spain) and Nicholas Robbio (Brasil).
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