The Costa Rican Art Museum (MAC) pays homage to Rabindranath Tagore's life and artistic work with the exhibition Tagore: India Costa Rica, a show that commemorates the 150th of the birth of the Bengali artist.
The exhibition features 45 Tagore's paintings made in the mid 1920's, when the poet introduced himself into the art world,
Author of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature and promote the European avant-garde movement in India. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal
Date: until January.
Location: The Costa Rican Art Museum (MAC). 378-1009 San José, Costa Rica.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 2pm.