In a first, The Sacred Everyday celebrates a collaboration between the Serendipity

Arts Festival and the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa (MoCA). Since MoCA is

currently under renovation, The Sacred Everyday offers an opportunity for some

objects from its collection to be put on view, while inviting a new viewership to its

precincts.

At the Church of Santa Monica, Old Goa, The Sacred Everyday includes such

highlights as:

* The Issanama, an extraordinary series of paintings depicting the life and ministry

of Jesus, created by Manish Soni, grandson of the legendary Rajasthan-idiom artist

Badrilal Chitrakar, in collaboration with the collector and aesthete Paul Abraham

of the Sarmaya Arts Foundation. The Issanama is rendered in a contemporary style

inspired by the Mughal, Rajput, Pahari, and Safavid idioms.

* A set of four paintings by the stellar Goan-origin artist Angelo da Fonseca (1902-

1967), graciously loaned by Leonard and Naomi Menezes. Angelo, who studied

with Nandalal Bose at Santiniketan and was one of Rabindranath Tagore’s disciples,

pioneered the Indianization of Christian iconography well before the thesis of

inculturation evolved from the deliberations of Vatican II.

* The documentation of the legendary Goan-origin architect Charles Correa’s Church

of Nossa Senhora da Salvacao/ Portuguese Church project, developed in the Bombay

of the 1970s and 1980s.

* An 18th-century painting on wood of Our Lady of Sorrows, rendered in a vividly

demotic Baroque style, from the collection of the Museum of Christian Art.

As part of the exhibition, there will be a talk on the 16th of December 2018 at 11 a.m.

at the Church of Santa Monica on the Isanama series with Paul Abraham and Ranjit

Hoskote.

As part of the exhibition, there will be a talk on the 16th of December 2018 at 11 a.m. at the Church of Santa Monica on the Isanama series with Paul Abraham and Ranjit Hoskote.