SONABAI — Another Way of Seeing opens at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park on Sunday, July 26 and continues through September 5, 2010.
Self-taught artist Sonabai Rajawar lived in enforced isolation for 15 years in a remote village in central India, creating her own joyous sculptural environment. Through the necessity of expressing her own vision in the face of tremendous adversity, Sonabai developed her innovative art form, which she later taught to other artists. Today in the remote rural villages of her central Indian state, many other artists practice Sonabai’s art in painted clay.
Guest Curator Stephen Huyler has chosen for the exhibition 33 sculptures by Sonabai and her family as well as 38 works by four artists trained by Sonabai. To re-create Sonabai’s environment for the visitor, the innovative installation includes an introductory video, short videos of the artist at work and village scenes, projections of village dancers and photomurals of Sonabai’s studio — all produced by Dr. Huyler. One of the highlights of the exhibition will be a visit from Daroga Ram and Rajen Bai Rajawar, Sonabai’s son and daughter-in-law, to demonstrate Sonabai’s legacy of clay sculpture making.
Admission: Included with museum admission.
$7.00 - Adults
$5.00 - Seniors
$4.00 - Youth (6-17), students and active military with ID
$3.00 - Group Tour Rates (10 or more)
Free - Members and children under 6
Location: Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado - on the Plaza de Panama
San Diego CA 92101
For more information, please visit: mingei.org
or
Email:
or
Call: (619) 230-1190
Self-taught artist Sonabai Rajawar lived in enforced isolation for 15 years in a remote village in central India, creating her own joyous sculptural environment. Through the necessity of expressing her own vision in the face of tremendous adversity, Sonabai developed her innovative art form, which she later taught to other artists. Today in the remote rural villages of her central Indian state, many other artists practice Sonabai’s art in painted clay.
Guest Curator Stephen Huyler has chosen for the exhibition 33 sculptures by Sonabai and her family as well as 38 works by four artists trained by Sonabai. To re-create Sonabai’s environment for the visitor, the innovative installation includes an introductory video, short videos of the artist at work and village scenes, projections of village dancers and photomurals of Sonabai’s studio — all produced by Dr. Huyler. One of the highlights of the exhibition will be a visit from Daroga Ram and Rajen Bai Rajawar, Sonabai’s son and daughter-in-law, to demonstrate Sonabai’s legacy of clay sculpture making.
Admission: Included with museum admission.
$7.00 - Adults
$5.00 - Seniors
$4.00 - Youth (6-17), students and active military with ID
$3.00 - Group Tour Rates (10 or more)
Free - Members and children under 6
Location: Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado - on the Plaza de Panama
San Diego CA 92101
For more information, please visit: mingei.org
or
Email:
or
Call: (619) 230-1190
