Theirs was a “24/7 art house”.
Considering the legacy it proudly hosts — of seminal artist KCS Paniker, pioneer of the Madras Art Movement who founded Cholamandal Artists’ Village and his son S Nandagopal, one of the last custodians of the Movement —conversations about art were inevitable. And strewn on the dining table were spontaneous sketches and notes, sometimes hurriedly scribbled, on stray pieces of paper.
“The table was never clean!” Pallavi Nandagopal says, recalling her father stooped over the table, tracing the birth of an idea that would soon come to life in metal.
