Past Events

NGMA is happy to screen, in partnership with Sarvodaya International Trust, six short films ‘A Force More Powerful’ on successful non-violent struggles against oppression and authoritarian rule in India, USA, South Africa, Denmark (under Nazi occupation), Poland and Chile. It is indeed fitting that these films are screened in October, the month of Gandhi Jayanthi.

You are cordially invited to view the screening of these films in the NGMA auditorium.

NGMA Bengaluru invites you to a number of exciting events in the month of October.

NGMA will collaborate with ART 21 to screen nine films on contemporary art
on Saturdays and Sundays from October 10, 2010.

A Spanish film festival of four films will be organised from 12th to 15th October
in collaboration with the Institute of Cervantes,  New Delhi; Honorary Consulate of Spain,
Bangalore; Indo-Spanisa Chamber of Technology and Club Espana.  All the films have English subtitles.

The guided gallery walks on Wednesday afternoons, 3 pm and Saturday mornings, 10.30 am will continue.
In addition, there will be a special guided walk on 9th and 21st October,
'Experiencing Landscapes', which promises to be great fun and enlightening too!

NGMA Bengaluru invites you to the lecture Art Like Science Knows no boundaries :
Homi Bhabha and the World of Art by Dr. Indira Chowdhury at the NGMA auditorium
on 28th September, 6 pm.

NGMA Bengaluru invites you to the screening of M.S. Sathyu’s film ‘IJJODU’
on 19th September at 11.30 am in the he NGMA Bengaluru auditorium.

NGMA Bengaluru invites you to a slide lecture by Vikramajit Ram on 28th August,6.00 pm at the NGMA auditorium.

Cinema Verite Redux
A slide lecture by Shaheen Merali
Curator and writer based in London and Berlin
5:30 pm on 16th June 2010

UKEFF Award winning films on Climate Change Special Preview in Bangaluru
on the World Environment day, Saturday 5 June, 5.30 p.m.
at Auditorium, National Gallery of Modern Art, Palace Road
For more information call us on 080 2248 9220

We have screenings in other cities too!
For details visit www.britishcouncil.org.in/LCF

Colours : a series of films on artists
6 June to 27 June 2010, Saturday 3 p.m. Sunday 11:30 a.m.

6th June, 2010 11.30am The Mystery of Picasso
Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene at will, until at last the work is complete.

12th June, 2010 3.00pm Miro: Theatre of Dreams
Written and narrated by Roland Penrose, this hour-long program on the Spanish artist Joan Miró was produced in 1978 by the BBC. Penrose, who interviews Miró in the artist's studio (Miró speaks in French; there are English subtitles), was his friend for 42 years. Miró's work belongs to the surrealist school and was largely influenced by the horrors of war, including the Spanish Civil War. Born in Barcelona, he deeply felt the oppression of his native Catalonia, and during Franco's regime he had his passport taken away from him. His paintings often began with a mark or a stain, which then led him to paint a person, or a bird, or a star. Titles were chosen for the works afterwards.

In Theatre of Dreams, Miró, at the age of 85, works with Spanish actors to produce a piece of experimental theater. An extraordinary aspect of this documentary is watching Miró put paint from a tube directly on his index finger and then onto the canvas. He then sits in a rocking chair and looks carefully at his completed work. Because the artist worked in silence, this documentary has no music. This truly remarkable program does a commendable job at capturing the artist during his lifetime.

13th June, 2010 11.30am F for Fake
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles’s free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career—the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes—not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.

19th June, 2010 3.30pm Dong
The film follows modern realist Chinese painter Liu Xiao-dong to locations in the Three Gorges Dam area where he paints a quintych (5 large connecting mural paintings) of 11 sturdy demolition workers and then to Bangkok, Thailand where the multitych painting is instead one of 11 beautiful young women.

20th June 2010 11.30am Palettes: From Duchamp to Pop Art
From the Palettes Collection, a series of films about great works in the history of painting. The secrets behind the works are revealed with the use of state-of-the-art video animation techniques. Andy Warhol : "Ten Lizes" Yves Klein : "Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue" Marcel Duchamps : "Nu descendant l’escalier"

26th June, 2010 3.00pm The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Robert Snyder's The Titan: Story of Michelangelo opened in 1951, and rightly earned that year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Adapted in part from Curt Oertel's Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, with a musical score by the noted German conductor Alois Melichar, Snyder's film was as powerful a tribute in its own time as was his Michelagniolo: Self Portrait of nearly four decades later. Again, we feel the swirl of violent events surrounding the artist's own struggles; the symbolic smashing of the great David sculpture becomes an allegory for its tragic times. The film bears the name, as sponsor, of the legendary documentarian Robert Flaherty; no greater tribute could be imagined...

27th June, 2010 11.30am Vincent & Theo
The eternal struggle between madness and genius takes its toll on the brothers Van Gogh in this "luminous" (LA Weekly) masterpiece from Academy Award®-nominated* director Robert Altman. Tim Roth and Paul Rhys give "stupendous performances" (Rolling Stone) in the roles of tortured artist Vincent and his brother Theo in this "beautiful, disturbing and powerful film" (Screen) that is "as rich and tactile as a Van Gogh painting" (New York Post).In life, hewas impoverished, his work largely ignored; yet today, paintings by Vincent Van Gogh fetch millionsof dollars at auction. This supreme irony is laid bare in the passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seemsunable to live with him or without him.

Artists trails
11th,18th, 25th April and 2nd, 9th,16th May 8am to 11am
A quick guided tour of the exhibition followed by exploring the places visited by some of the artists whose works are on display. Each trail will explore different sites. A Bangalore City Project Initiative along with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Bangalore Chapter.

Design Expression
17th April 6pm to 7 pm
A slide lecture on how design evolved from varied influences using images of the exhibition as a background. Prof. Sathya Prakash Varanashi, Architect & Urban Designer.

Restoration versus Repair - Different approaches to Heritage Conservation
24th April 6pm to 7 pm
Slide lecture on different approaches to heritage conservation. Conservation Architect Pankaj Modi.

Landscape Design in India - Current trends and past influences
8th May 6pm to 7 pm
Slide lecture on different aspects of Landscape Design. Prashanata Bhat - Principal landscape architect (The Landscape Company)

British Artist and the Indian Picturesque
15th May 6pm to 7 pm
We are sorry to inform you that the slide lecture by Michael Ludgrove on British Artist and the Indian Picturesque on 15th May is cancelled. The inconvenience is deeply regretted.

Gallery walks with Asst. Curator
Every Wed & Sat 2pm to 3pm

Workshops for adults
Monuments Alive, Monuments with a mind.
18th April and 9th May, 10:30am to 1:30pm, Mani Mekhala

A practical workshop on aspects of drawing for amateur artists.
27th & 28th April, 10:30am to 4:30pm, Raja Raman

A practical workshop on aspects of life study for amateur artists.
29th & 30th April, 10:30am to 4:30pm, J. Senthil Kumar

Workshops for children
Workshop on study of landscapes in different media (12 - 16yrs)
13th to 15th April, 10:30am to 1:30pm, J.M.S. Mani

Drawing Indian life (Drawings and Paintings) workshop (12 - 16yrs)
20th to 22nd April, 10:30am to 1:30pm, P.S. Kumar

Drawing workshop - Basics of Drawing (12 - 16yrs)
4th to 6th May, 10:30am to 1:30pm, V.G. Venugopal

Exploring a Monument (12 - 16yrs)
11th to 14th May, 10:30am to 1:30pm, Pooja Gokul

Instillation (12 - 16yrs)
18th, 19th & 20th May 10:30am to 1:30pm
'Celebrating expressions' Raghavendra Rao

Note - Prior registration is required for all workshops.
Please contact 080 - 22489220
bl.bangalore@in.britishcouncil.org

Tara Chand, the court painter at Udaipur William Carpenter Pencil & watercolour on paper June or July 1851 V&A Museum no: IS.139-1881	Lalita Ghat on the Ganges at Benares Charles D’Oyly (1781 - 1845) Oil on canvas About 1840 V&A Museum no: 70 - 1880. Given by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks