Minister of Culture of the Arab Republic of Egypt H.E. Farouk Hosni opened the exhibition of Croatian artist Branka Ridicki entitled Viaggio at the Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum. The exhibition is hommage to Filip Vezdin, a Croatian scientist and missionary born in Austria; also known under his missionary name of Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo: the pioneer of Linguistics and Indology at the end of 18th century.
Minister of Culture of the Arab Republic of Egypt H.E. Farouk Hosni opened the exhibition of Croatian artist Branka Ridicki entitled Viaggio at the Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum. The exhibition is hommage to Filip Vezdin, a Croatian scientist and missionary born in Austria; also known under his missionary name of Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo: the pioneer of Linguistics and Indology at the end of 18th century. He was author of the first grammar of Sanskrit published in Europe, as well as number of Indology works and itineraries. He is generally considered as the pioneer of comparative Indo-European studies incepted at the begging of 19th century.
Branka Ridicki based the Viaggio exhibition on Vezdin's most popular book ‘Viaggio nelle Indie Orientali'. More then two centuries after Vezdin, she undertakes a visual journey by exhibiting old map-like canvases, sketches and notes, instalations containing painted cupboard doors and old suitcases containing photographs. Interpreting Vezdin's writings by the mean of visual art the author compares India of Vezdin's times and sensibility with contemporary India of the global world.
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