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Gopi Gajwani is a painter, photographer, designer and cartoonist from New Delhi, India.

Early life

He was born in Sind in 1938. He graduated in Graphic Designing from the Delhi School of Art in 1959.

Career

Gajwani was a designer at the American Centre for twenty nine years, creating posters for plays, films, dances and workshops, both home-grown and foreign.[1] He contributed cartoons and caricatures to the magazine Span and other publications, besides working as an illustrator.

He designed several coffee table books, some with his own photographs. He also worked as a filmmaker, making experimental short films in a period spanning from 1973 to 2014.[2] His short films such as Time(1973) and The End (1974) were shown in the Lalit Kala Akademi's 'Art in Cinema' programme[3]

As a painter, Gajwani had numerous one-man shows at the Shridharani Art Gallery in New Delhi. He also participated in over a hundred group shows in New Delhi and Mumbai, and countries outside India[4]

References

  1. ^ Artadoo
  2. ^ 'Colours of celluloid: Abstract perceptions of Gopi Gajwani', The Sunday Guardian
  3. ^ 'The Burden of Time & Endgame: Gopi Gajwani as Film-maker', Prayag Shukla, Lalit Kala Contemporary
  4. ^ Imago Mundi



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