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This book is the first to be devoted entirely to the pictorial work of Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018). This legendary figure of the Warli tribe, Maharashtra, India, opens our eyes to the richness and diversity of non-Western cultures.
About Jivya Soma Mashe
Abandoned by his family at a young age, Jivya Soma Mashe took refuge in drawing and embraced the pictorial traditions of his community. He developed a personal style that would earn him the admiration, first of his loved ones, and then regional, national and international critics.
He was given the National Award for Tribal Art by Indira Gandhi in 1976. Jivya Soma Mashe’s paintings were exhibited for the first time at Mumbai’s Chemould Gallery in 1975. Several featured in the Centre Pompidou’s Magiciens de la Terre exhibition in 1989; the Fondation Cartier’s thirtieth anniversary exhibition in 2014; and are currenty on view at the Fondation Cartier, Paris.
About Hervé Perdriolle
Perdriolle is an art critic and exhibition curator. He launched the first exhibitions in France of the Figuration Libre (translated as the Free Figuration) movement (Blanchard, Boisrond, Combas, Di Rosa, Viollet) and their American counterparts (Basquiat, Haring, Scharf). He lived in India from 1996 to 1999, and his passion for contemporary Indian art in all its diversity has been evident in the numerous exhibitions he has curated.