23 to 29 August, 2004
11.00 am to 7.00 pm

at 
The Museum Gallery
K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda,
Mumbai 400 023

“Traversing historical and mythical spaces of paintings long admired and bringing these into my experiential arena has been an old habit. The routes through these trajectories open the terrain of discovery: of maps, charts, vignaptipatras and a host of paintings that invite negotiations, mediations and appropriations. Discovering a picture postcard of the Ebstorf Mappamundi (a map of the world, now lost, made in 13^th century Europe) a couple of years ago triggered a desire to make painted maps. Learning techniques of digital collaging at an interactive workshop organized by Artunderground (a digital art gallery in Baroda) facilitated the process of inventing new maps by implanting sites of my choice into the circuits laid out in the Ebstorf Mappamundi.  In order to overcome the limitations of cloning that digital technology imposes, I decided to paint over every inkjet print to play a jugalbandi of the hand, mind and machine”.  

Gulammohammed Sheikh  

Gulammohammed Sheikh (b.1937), has been painting for over four decades and taught art history and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda. He writes poetry and prose in Gujarati and has published essays on art in English. He has also lectured on Indian art in India and abroad. His paintings and prints have been shown in India and abroad including a solo at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1985. He has worked in various media, most of the time in oils and gouache on canvas, wood and paper besides etching and ceramics. He has been experimenting with digital collage since last three years. 

Catalogue essay by Kumkum Sangari 

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