Embassy of India in Cairo to hold Tagore Festival

CAIRO – 2 April 2018: The Maulana Azad Center for Indian Culture, affiliated with the Indian embassy in Cairo, is organizing the Tagore Festival, scheduled to be held from May 3 to 7, to commemorate the 157th birth anniversary of the famous Indian poet, writer and painter, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

As a part of the festival, an exhibition entitled “Rabindranath Tagore: Rhythm in Colors”, during which the paintings of Tagore will be presented, will be held on May 5 at the Museum of Ahmed Shawky in Giza.

The 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Tagore, the first non-European to win the prize, for his great writings and poems that touch many sensitive subjects in Hindu society. He was the first Indian artist to exhibit his works across Europe, Russia and the United States.

Along with his great talent in writing, Tagore could merge the familiar with the unknown in his paintings, spurred by a spirit of inventiveness. Most of his paintings of landscapes showed a nature bathed in the evening light, skies and forms coagulating into ominous silhouettes, invoking a sense of silence at night.

Tagore did not name his paintings, as he sought to make his viewers read the paintings according to their own perspective and relate them to their past experiences, especially since his painted faces focus on the vast human experience and intrinsic human emotions, varying from fear and wonderment to melancholy.