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V. S. Gaitonde

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V.S.GAITONDE ( b. 1924) born in Nagpur, Maharashtra, he studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1948, Mumbai and was associated with the Progressive Artists Group in its last phase. In 1964 he travelled to America on a Rockefeller Fellowship and had a solo show in New York. He has participated in major international exhibitions, including Young Asian Artists, Tokyo (1957) and Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1982) The Indian Art Exhibition which toured East European countries in 1956 and other group exhibitions at Graham Gallery in New York in 1959 and Gallery 63 in New York in 1963. In 1971, the Government of India awarded him a Padma Shri. Gaitonde has won several awards and travel fellowships like the First Prize at the Young Asian Artist's Exhibition, Tokyo in 1957 and the Rockefeller Fellowship in 1964. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1971. His works are represented in several Indian and foreign collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He lives and works in Delhi. STATEMENT A painting always exists within you, even before you actually start to paint. You just have to make yourself the perfect machine to express what is already there. I express whatever there is in much more, and me but still my own paintings surprise me and I ask myself: Did I do that? As told to Meera Menezes in The Art Today, July - Sept 1998. I have stopped going to exhibitions. The younger generation is full of those who are too eager to start earning money, to start having shows. They have stopped learning. I'm still learning about painting, because I believe that the process is constant. As told to Meera Menezes in The Art Today, July - Sept 1998.