Monday 26 September 2016

Laxman Shreshtha: The Infinite Project, on the 14th of October, 2016 at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS.

We are delighted to welcome you to the 2nd phase of the exhibition Laxman Shreshtha: The Infinite Project, on the 14th of October, 2016 at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS.

The Curator, Ranjit Hoskote will walk us through the exhibition that celebrates work by the artist from the 90's and after. This second phase of the retrospective on one of India's most accomplished abstractionists, draws on the substantial range of of Shreshthas in the JNAF collection and features work that the Foundation has recently acquired.     

Please join us on the 14th of October at 6pm. Tea will be served at 5.30 pm.

Thursday 1 September 2016

The Men Who Knew Infinity, a talk by Dillip D’Souza on the 15th of September 2016,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to The Men Who Knew Infinity, a talk by Dillip D’Souza on the 15th of September 2016, at the Visitor’s Centre, CSMVSThe first event conceived around the exhibition Laxman Shreshtha: The Infinite Project, looks at individuals outside the world of art who, like Shreshtha have resisted finite boundaries “casting their nets as wide as infinity” to explore their metier. D’Souza turns to the world of Mathematics to tell the story of the The Men Who Knew Infinity.

Trained as an engineer and a computer scientist, Dillip D’Souza is a writer and journalist with a popular column on Mathematics. He has won several awards for his work, including The Daily Beast Award, the Statesman Rural Reporting Award, and the Outlook/ Picador Non-fiction Prize.

Do join us on the 15th of September at 6 pm, at the Visitor’s Centre, CSMVS
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