Research and Documentation

Seagull is currently involved in researching and documenting the life and work of the late Nirode Mazumdar (1916-1982). Mazumdar was a highly original and well respected artist who stood at a significant juncture in the history of 'modern' art in India, as a leading practitioner of the post-Bengal School generation. He evolved a style which straddled several seemingly contradictory strands : 'Indian' and 'Western', 'traditional' and 'modern', 'symbolic' and 'abstract'. Seagull feels that his deeply philosophical explorations of the meaning, methods and language of 'modernity' in the Indian context remain extremely valuable today, when this vexed question of an 'Indian' identity expressed through an individually unique style remains as much a central issue in the arts as it was at his time.