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EXHIBITIONS
1980-Major retrospectives in Mumbai and New Delhi 1958-The exhibitions by Seven Indian Painters, Gallery One, London 1981-Intemational Biennales at Venice; Sao Paulo and Tokyo; Museum of Modem Art, Oxford 1982-Royal Academy of Arts, Festival of India, London 1985-Indian Artists in France, Paris 1967-Invited as Artist in Residence by the Stout State University, Wisconsin, USA. HONOURS
1969-The Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, with which he started an inter-arts workshop in Mumbai. To this day it is remembered for the creative stimulation it provided to artists and fiilmakers. Mani Kaul's film 'Duvidha', Padamsee's own films' Events in a Cloud Chamber'and Syzygy workshop and Kumar Shahani's short film were a result of the workshop. A student of Sanskrit he is well versed in texts like the Upanishads. Padamsee's forms bounded by the line and created from an assemblage of strokes on the surface are both real and transcendent. His experiments with the Chinese method of 'ku fu' have also lent his figures an agile grace. If the forms carry an expression of ineffable sadness, there are periods when he paints landscapes which express the grandeur of infinite time. In recent years he had painted Diptychs which are relative versions of the same landscape. |