Rabindra Shakya
Rabindra Shakya
Surendra Pradhan
Erina Tamrakar
Binod Pradhan
An introduction to Antonio Nodar’s exhibition ...from portrait to self-portrait...
by Celia Washington KCAC co-Founder Director
In 1996 the photographer Antonio Nodar began work on a remarkable odyssey. His inspirational and unique concept ...from portrait to self-portrait... began with three artist friends and spread by word-of-mouth until it included the active participation of 97 artists in Spain. The diptychs of portraits and self-portraits were first presented at an exhibition in Barcelona in 1997, the exhibition won the art critics’ award for the best gallery exhibition that year. Elsa Peretti, through her Foundation, recognised the importance and power of the idea as a social documentary and as an encyclopedia of modern art and began funding it.
I first met Antonio at an artists’ lunch in Madrid in 1998. Our collaboration continued when he moved to London in 1999.
In 2006 I was invited to Nepal as artist-in-residence to Kathmandu University and as the idea for KCAC began and took root Antonio and I talked about our different ventures as they developed.
In 2011 Antonio launched Volume 1 of ...from portrait to self-portrait... in London and Barcelona with the diptychs of 242 artists.
In Autumn 2011 we realized that with the launch of his book and with KCAC’s move to the Patan Museum, the moment had arrived when the two projects could finally come together. One day I said to him “Why don’ t you come to Nepal to photograph the artists for our inaugural exhibition?” and he said “Why not”.
In the six weeks since his arrival on 10th January Antonio has photographed more than 200 Nepali artists. The exhibition seeks to expose the excellence and vitality of art in Nepal today with its fusion of contemporary and traditional. We are delighted to be showing ... portrait to self-portrait ... an inaugural exhibition at the Patan Museum.
Pramila Bajracharya
Dr Laya Mainali
Asha Dangol
Loren Beven
Kapil Mani Dixit
Shyam Sundar Yadav
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antonio nodar p2sp ...portrait to self-portrait...
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