Glimpses of India

Glimpses of India

Trained in the elite Ponts et Chaussées engineering school (Paris) with a subsequent MBA from INSEAD, Michel Testard spent many years instrategy consulting. Until
India cut across his path in 2000 and transformed him from a business advisor to a painter, a loving painter of India. 

India’s so powerful, diverse, mysterious world, inspired him to go beyondhis natural talent for drawing and expand his artistic quest through a twenty years journey. Hence India became his ‘Samadhi’ in Art. Michel has been painting for about twenty years on a series of Indian themes: cartoons and metaphors, forts and ruins, people of India, landscapes and streets, Indian music which heplays on the sitar, smart or mad cities and also awe-inspiring thakurs and rajas. 

Michel looks at the Indian Universe with an eye open, as an admiring friend, with the appetite and audacity of a child. To the people of India, Michel offers impressions, glimpses of Indian subjects that perhaps they do not see that way. To Europeans, Michel provides some insights on the fascination that India exerts on Western imagination. 

Even though he is essentially self-taught in painting, one can notice the multiple influences on his work. They range from the French cartoonists (Hergé, Uderzo,Wolinski) to the great names of XXth century Art (Braque, Chirico, Giacometti, Duffy and de Stael). He also loves the founders of Indian modern painting - Sher Gil and Tagore - and the Progressive Group Masters like Hussein, Raza, Souza, Ram Kumar or Sanyal.

Glimpses of India

Glimpses of India

Venue: Bikaner House, New Delhi

Date: Thursday, May 17th to Sunday, May 27th 2018

Timings: 10.30am to 6.30pm

Glimpses of India