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Artist Exhibitions:
ONE-MAN-EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1964 New Delhi AIFACS Gallery
1967 M�nchen, Galerie
Stenzel
1967 Augsburg, Ecke Galerie
1967 Mainz, Galerie Winfried
Gurlitt
1967 Z�rich, Galerie La
Fourmi�re
1970 Berlin, modern art
galerie
1970 Grenchen, Galerie Toni
Brechb�hl
1971 Heilbronn, Galerie Rota
1972 M�nchen, Kunstverein
1972 ...
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Artist Statement for Mahirwan Mamtani
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I was born in the Indus valley, and after the partition of India in 1947, I migrated to Delhi. Sickness and hunger were dominating experiences. After a long struggle, hard work and self-education, I ultimately started to paint, attending the Delhi School of Art (Delhi Polytechnic). My earliest works depicted all these experiences of suffering. But very soon I became free and open to other cultures. Through exposure to the Bauhaus exhibition and the Max Mueller Bhavan (Goethe-Institut) Library, I became interested in German art and culture (particularly such artists as Kandinsky and Klee).
Then after a period of intensive study, I received a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship in 1966 to study art at the Munich Academy of Visual Arts. Here I learned not only many painting and graphic techniques, but also found myself in the midst of various currents of creative expression. Kandinsky´s book The Spiritual in Art and Constructivism of the 60s influenced me, as I drew closer to my working conception. Ultimately, a geometrical construction of four circles and a square appeared before my inner eye – the circle symbolising the spiritual world and the square, the material. Since then, this form has become my own inner identity on different levels of consciousness. Later on, through a study of C. G. Jung, I became aware that this geometrical form was a mandala. I travelled throughout the world and found this form existed in almost every culture. I also found other artists who were working and searching in the same direction. The art historian and critic, Dr. Walter Schönenberger of Lugano and Milan, invited me to collaborate on several related projects in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The other artists I exhibited with were - Domenico Caneschi (Italy), Pietro Gentili (Italy), Guy Harloff (France), Joerg Anton Schulthess (Switzerland) and Nora Ullmann (Israel). Thus, I met some contemporary Indian artists (like Biren De, G.R. Santosh, K.C.S. Paniker, P.T. Reddy, Profulla Mohanti, Sohan Qadri, Haridasan, Om Prakash) who were engaged in Neo Tantra Art . It was Dr. L.P. Sihare of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, who invited me to participate in his programmes in India and other countries.
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