Viswanadhan

Viswanadhan (1940 -) is a Artiste and Indian Cinéaste , born with the Kerala. He was the pupil of K.C.S. Paniker to the Government School off Arts and Crafts , with Madras. Member-founder of Cholamandal Artists' Village, Madras. He lives and works in Paris since 1968.

Principal personal exposures

Principal public collections

  • Air France, Decorative panel in first class cabin Boeing 747
  • Bharat Kala Bhavan, Bhopal, India
  • Birla Art Academy, Calcutta, Jndia
  • Centro of Bleated Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela
  • Castle-Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
  • Council off Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India
  • Fonds National of Contemporary art, Paris, France
  • Hôtel Park Hyatt, Paris-Vendôme, Paris
  • Hôtel of the Department, Val of Oise, France
  • Ministry off external Affairs, Government off India, New Delhi
  • State-owned furniture, Manufactures of the Goblins, Paris
  • Musée of Art Modern of the Town of Paris, France
  • Mysore State Museum, Bangalore, India
  • National Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
  • National Gallery off Modern Art, New Delhi, India (catalogs)
  • Pfalz Galerie Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Punjab State University, Chandigarh, India
  • State Bank off India, Madras, India
  • State Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
  • State Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras, India
  • State Lalit Kala Akademi, Manipur, India

Principal exposures of group

  • 2002 : Five Indian painters in France, Exposure organized by the Town of Boulogne-Billancourt, Spaces Landowski, Musée of the Thirties (catalogs)
Of wire father, freehand with David Ryan, Maison Billaud, Fontenay-the-Count (catalogs)
Gobelins, Beauvais, Savonnerie: ten years of weaving, National Gallery of the Tapestry, Beauvais (catalogs)
  • 1998: Geometry and Symbols in Indian Contemporary Art, NGMA, New Delhi, India (catalogs)
  • 1997: Gallery Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
50 Years off Independence, National Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
  • 1996: Works one Paper, Gallery Spaces, New Delhi, India
Emotion Madras, Value Art Gallery, Madras, India
Six Artists, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Gallery Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 1994: Drawing “94 AIFACS, Gallery Spaces, New Delhi, India (catalogs)
Crayon, charcoal and feather, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
100 Years off Indian Contemporary Art, NGMA, New Delhi, India (catalogs)
  • 1994: Wounds, National Gallery off Modern Art, New Delhi, India
  • 1993: Memories of in France, New Delhi, India (catalogs)
Regards on the avant-garde Russian 1910-1925. Its influence in a collection of today, Center of Contemporary art, Castle of Tanlay, France (catalogs)
Trends and Images, CIMA, Calcutta, India (catalogs)
  • 1992: Ground with A future, Le Bourget, France
International Award for Contemporary Art off Monte Carlo
Year Exhibition for Satyajit Ray, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, the U.S.A.
Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Birla Academi off Arts and Culture, Calcutta, India (catalogs)
Confluence, Franco-lndian Association, Calcutta, India
  • 1988: Art for CRY, dolly exhibition in India
Art Olympiad, Seoul, South Korea (catalogs)
  • 1987: Masks of Artists, Malmaison, Cannes, France
India in Switzerland, Center of contemporary art, Geneva, Swiss
  • 1984: The 15th International Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (catalogs)
  • 1983, 1980,1968 (price), 1967
National Exhibition off Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
  • 1983: Tantra, Aspects off Contemporary Indian Art, Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen,
Stuttgart, Allemangne (catalogs)
Premio Internationale, Biella, Italy
  • 1981: Asian Art Show, Bangladesh
  • 1980: Contemporary Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (catalogs)
International Biennial off Engraving, Moderna Galeria, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
  • 1975: New Delhi Triennial, India
  • 1973: 5th International festival of painting, exposure of the prizes winner, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Biennial France 1972
of Chin, France
  • 1971: International festival of painting, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
  • 1968: Contemporary Indian Art, road show in Europe
  • 1967: Biennial of Paris, France
  • 1965: Edinburgh Festival, the United Kingdom

Catalog of films

  • 2001 : Of the hands of Calcutta
  • 2002: the other glance , the fifth of the series of films on the elements. Image: Viswanadhan and Vinad Striped. Assembly: Benedicte Mallet. Mixing: Jacques Guillot. Production: Viswanadhan and Center Georges Pompidou, with the participation of Alexander and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation, the USA and Herbert Banks Foundation, Rotterdam.
  • 1994 : Air/Vayu . Image Viswanadhan, Vinod Mankata. Assembly: Philippe Labruyère. Mixing; Jacques Guillot. Coproduction: The Day/the Night Productions, Septe/Arte, Center Georges Pompidou, with the participation of the National center of Cinematography, the FAVI, Procirep and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Paris.
  • 1989 : Agni/Fire . A film of Viswanadhan. India-France. 135 minutes. 16 mm, color. Realization; Viswanadhan. Images; Adoor Gopala Krishnan, Delighted Mankata Varma, Viswanadhan. Assembly: Nicole Oudinot. Its: Jacques Guillot. Production: Viswanadhan with the participation of the National museum of modern art, Centers Georges Pompidou, Paris.
  • 1985 : Water/Ganga . Conceived and realized by Viswanadhan. Image: Adoor Gopala Krishnan. Assistants: K.T. Madhu, X. Ricou. Assembly: Philippe Puicouyoul. Its: vedic anthems sung by Brahmanadan, ragas sung by Sowmiya. Sound effects: Pascal Garnon. Mixing: Jacques Gillot. Responsible for production: Martine Debard, Center Georges Pompidou. The project was carried out grace ad interim 'helps of received purses of the HACKNEY CARRIAGE, I' AFAA, the Festival off India Authority, the Department off Tourism India and the participation of the National museum of modern art, with the assistance of Charbonnages de France.
  • 1982 : Sand . Conceived and realized by Viswanadhan. Filmed by Adoor Gopala Krishnan. Assistants: Kadamanitta Ramakrishnan, Pazhavila Ramesan, Sivan. The whole of the project is carried out with I' helps of received purses of the lndian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, of the Service of Artistic creation, Ministère of the Culture, Paris and of the Gallery Darthea Speyer.

Participation in the cinema festivals

  • 2001 : Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
  • 1997: First Documentary Film Festival, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
  • 1995 : Air /Vayu, International forum off Young Cinema, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
International Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1994: Air /Vayu, the week of Criticism, International Film Festival, Locarno, Swiss
Seen on Docs, International festival of Documentary film, Marseilles
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
  • 1992: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, the USA
  • 1990: Festival of the Cinema of Reality, Centers Georges Pompidou, Paris
International Documentary Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
  • 1989: Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
  • 1988: Agni/Fire, Cinema festival of Reality, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 1987: Water/Ganga, Week off Directors' Movies, Malaga, Spain
Berlin Film Festival, International forum for Young Cinema, Germany
Viennale 1987, Vienna, Austria
Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
India 1987 in Switzerland, Center of Contemporary art, Geneva, Swiss
Sao Paulo Film Festival, Brazil
Troia Film Festival Man and Nature, Portugal
  • 1986: Festival of the Cinema of Reality, Centers Georges Pompidou, Paris (Grand Prix of the cinema of reality)
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy (Grand Prix for the best documentary one of the year)

Viswanadhan is exposed to the Gallery Darthea Speyer, 6 rue Jacques Callot, in the 6th district of Paris.

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