YAMUNA TO BABBA MYTHS AND LEGENDS FROM INDIA AND HUNGARY PAINTINGS EXHIBITION AT HICC
Myths and Legends from India and Hungary – The paintings exhibition by Rozália Hummel (Smt. Radhika Priya), a traveller and artist from Hungary was inaugurated by Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri (Chairman, Sanskrit Commission, Govt. Of India) on November 11, Tuesday at 6 pm, at the Gallery of the Hungarian Centre.
About the Artist – “I was only interested in painting what my deepest inspiration told me to do. And the eternal quest vibrated in my soul about Eternity, Love and how to live these emotions in everyday life.”says Rozália Hummel.
Rozália’s ideology is to introduce the cosmic body of the Great River Yamuna, Goddess of North India, and Babba Mária (also named Magari Babba), the Mother Goddess of Central Europe. She started her artistic career in south of France, in 1979, guided by the most brilliant personalities of the French Riviera and visited India in 1981 for the first time. Later on, she shifted to Paris to live and exhibited her work in 1987 in Salon des Artists Francais and Salon d Automn. In 1989, the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre in collaboration with Alliance Francaise, New Delhi invited her to exhibit her Art-works namely, “Christ to Krishna…” and since then, she continued her association with India to discover Indian art and philosophy and spent a major part of her life, in India and South Asia. She is currently working with Sarasvati Academy to promote the Vedic Culture for harmony in the World and encourage the modern woman’s creativity.
Mrs. Rozália is not only a leading Indologist, but also an accomplished artist specialized in Indian Miniature and Nathadwara style of paintings. Her love of the Krishna legend and the Kavyas associated with it – Geeta Govinda, Madhurashtakam, and Yamunashtakam – have inspired a series of paintings by her. Her paintings are in permanent exhibition at the West Zone Cultural Centre in Udaipur. She brought out a hard-bound art book titled “Charming Krishna- Madhurashtakam” with English, Hindi, and Sanskrit calligraphy and 48 miniature paintings. In July 2009, with the support of ICCR, she organized a Ramayana Seminar in Szentendre, a satellite town of Budapest. In India, she got the formal training in Nathadwara at the Sacred painting school of the temple, and learned about the myths and symbolism of the Vedic life giver, river (goddess) Yamuna. In Bali, she followed the golden age visuals from the tropical beauty and after 2000, visited Hungary, Esztergom and Transylvania and painted the Great Mother Babba with her Matyó flowers.
Apart from Charming Krishna – Madhurashtakam (written in the name of Rozália Radhika Priya), the artist has authored the book The Golden Age legend of the Fairy Queen and Surya (The Hungarian legend of creation), wrote on Ramayana themes (a well known Assamese writer, Dr. Indira Goswami also wrote about her in her book, ‘Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra’) and worked on Chakra Mandalas visuals, techniques for basics of Vedic Culture. Her last book was ‘Magari Babba and the Gayatri mantra’.
About the Exhibition
Mr. Tibor Kovács, the Director of Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre welcomed the Artist, Rozália Hummel (Srimati Radhika Priya) and Chief Guest, Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri to the audience. Mrs. Rozália Radhika Priya said, “This exhibition, I see it as a wonderful play of my first and last paintings and share the Joy with you, so as to be able to understand some aspects of life. This show would allow you to see within yourself and be conscious about what you perceive from the outside world, giving a hope to get full harmony of the body, mind and soul.” Dr. Shastri congratulated Mrs. Rozália for the wonderful outcome of her Art-works and while introducing them to the viewers, he declared the exhibition as “Open”.
The opening was attended by people in large numbers; it will be on view till 28th November, on weekdays till 4 pm, and on Saturdays till 5 pm
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