Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Treviso: Casa dei Carraresi - The Magic of India Exhibition

 
photograph courtesy The Magic of India



Treviso: Casa dei Carraresi - The Magic of India Exhibition. At the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, The Magic of India: from the Temple to the Court, Masterpieces of Indian Art exhibition, until May 31st 2014, is curated by Adriano Madaro, Renzo Freschi and Marilia Albanese. For the first time in Italy an exhibition dedicated to India covers the period from the 2nd millennium BC to the time of the Maharajas. Architectural elements, miniatures, photographs, everyday and ritual objects, costumes, textiles, jewels, statues and reliefs from important museums and private collections are displayed in recreations of their original settings.
Above: The Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji, 1815/1820, miniature, hills of Punjab.

 
photograph by manfredi bellati

The Magic of India Exhibition - Press Conference. Curators, sponsors and dignitaries at the press conference. Holding a copy of her book Rosa Maria Cimino, Franco Ricca, director of the Museum of  the Arti Orientale in Turin, Anna Maria Quagliotti, co-curators Renzo Freschi and Adriano Madaro, sponsor and president of the Fondazione Cassamarca Dino De Poli, co-curator Marilia Albanese and Gianni Garatti president of the Treviso tourism consortium.

 

photograph by manfredi bellati

 Buddha with Two Bodhisattvas: Eastern India, Pala dynasty 10-11th C., Basalt.



Buddha Head: Northern India, Mathura Kushana dynasty, 3rd C., sandstone.

 
Renzo Freschi and Franco Ricca visit the exhibition, they are looking at Stupa Votive Reliquary, Gandhara region, 2-3rd C., rock crystal.

 
Co-curator Marilia Albanese.

 
Dakshina Kali: Kali, the “Black”, terrible form of Goddess, is standing on Shiva’s body, Northern India, 19th C., tempera on paper.

 
Krishna and The Shepardesses (Gopi): Northern India, Rajasthan, 18th C., pigment and gold leaf on cotton.  This work is also the cover of beautiful catalogue, The Magic of India: from the Temple to the Court, Masterpieces of Indian Art published by Edizioni Sigillvm.

 

The Magic of India: The architects of the Milanese studio AL14 Marco Sala, Giovanna Colombo and Gloria Zanardo, who curated the display. The exhibition is divided into two sections: “The Art of Classical India” and “The India of the Maharajas”. In Indian culture the two poles of the Temple and the Court are in no sense contradictory, and are not be seen in the typically Western dualistic terms of the sacred and the profane.

photograph courtesy The Magic of India

The Maharaja of Amar Singh II and a Concubine:           Northern India, southern Rajasthan, Mewar School, 1698-1710, tempera on paper. 

 
Female Torso: Central India, 10-11th C., sandstone.

 photograph by manfredi bellati

 The Maharaja Jaswant Singh with the Maharani: Northern India, Rajasthan, C.1880, oil on canvas.
 

 
 Magnificent Weaves: with Jain Procession Altar in the foreground.
 

  Detail of Lehenga, Ceremonial Skirt with Peacocks, Northern India, Rajasthan, silk and gold decoration.

 
Magnificent Weaves: Sushama Swarup curator of the Magnificent Weaves section, she is an expert in Indian culture, textiles and antique costumes from the Awadh region.


 
Images of a Bygone Age: Prints made from late 19th C. photographic glass plates.



Images of a Bygone Age: Prints made from late 19th C. photographic glass plates.


Phad, Painted Backdrop of the Wandering Minstrels, with the story of Pubuji: Northern India, Rajasthan, 19th C., painted cotton.
 
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