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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: F.N. Souza?s Grandson Solomon Has His Debut Art Show in
      Mumbai (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Schedule for Thursday 5th February 2026 (CCR TV)


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:25:06 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Goanet] Read: F.N. Souza?s Grandson Solomon Has His Debut
	Art Show in Mumbai
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By: John Elliott
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: February 4, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/the-arts/f-n-souzas-grandson-solomon-has-his-debut-art-show-in-mumbai
A rebel, like his grandfather, he started with graffiti then murals.
Solomon Souza paints fast. He had to he says when he began doing graffiti
around the age of 12. ?In the street you have to be fast, or you finish up
in jail?.  When he moved on to painting more acceptable wall murals, it was
expensive hiring cranes, so speed was again important.

But there?s more to it than that. ?Painting should be a burst of energy
when you have an idea. It has to be done there and then,? Soloman told me
while he was painting ? in just three or four hours ? a 12 feet x 8feet
mural (below) that is now hanging outside an exhibition of his work at the
Cymroza Gallery in Mumbai.

?I love tackling large space and I rarely go back to change a work,? he
said. ?Your energy changes and you yourself change?.

Age 32, energetic and an enthusiast who speaks quickly, Solomon is the
grandson of F.N. Souza, one of India?s most famous masters and a leading
member of the Mumbai-based Progressives group that included names such as
Tyeb Mehta, M.F.Husain, and S.H.Raza.

Souza?s 100th birth anniversary in 2024 is still being celebrated with
exhibitions of his works including tortured and evocative canvases and line
drawings of figures, often nude, and of townscapes, many with religious
overtones.

Solomon says he always wanted to draw, or doodle, but he is known for huge
murals that he has done from Israel to Goa. Cymroza?s is his first solo
show for conventional paintings and is open till February 14. There are
about 15 larger works with a variety of materials including oil, acrylic
and poster paint on canvas and wood, and 50 smaller works on paper using
oil bars, pastels and wax markers.

In some, he clearly has his grandfathers? iconic works in mind, notably
urban roof and cityscapes like the 12ft x 8ft mural, but the title of the
exhibition is Hard Labour ? ?the working man and the labour of birth,
building a family?, he says.

The focal point on entering the exhibition is a dramatically coloured work
with that title (left), which combines the double theme with a naked woman
who is pregnant and is labouring with a heavy mallet.

In an introduction to the exhibition, Solomon writes ?Hard labour is all
around us in myriad forms from the raising of a family to the building and
maintenance of our cities and societies. Both are foundational in the
fabric of existence?My first solo exhibition is about that hidden
uncelebrated effort?.

The largest work is Fruits of Labour, a 69in x 48in oil on canvas that he
describes as a ?tip of the hat? to his grandfather?s famous and visually
similar Birth.  Fruits of Labour (below) commemorates the birth of
Solomon?s mother Keren, the daughter of F.N. Souza and his influential
partner and muse Lisolette, a Czech-Jewish actress who fled from Prague to
London in 1939.

Birth, painted in 1955 (below), portrays Lisolette pregnant with Keren, the
first of their three daughters. It has set records twice for modern India
art at Christie?s auctions ? the sterling equivalent of$2.5m (including
buyer?s premium) in London in June 2008 and $4.01m in New York in 2015. It
is now in Delhi?s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

Next to Fruits of Labour is Life (below) that I felt had Buddhist
overtones. It celebrates Solomon?s son?s birth and depicts him turning in
the womb. Unlike all the other works, it is not, his wife has insisted, for
sale.

?Solomon?s work has a unique freshness, showcasing a remarkable artistic
talent for drawing,? says Pheroza Godrej who owns the gallery. ?While
portraying the themes of human birth and manual labour can be challenging,
he has successfully accomplished this?.

Tough manual labouring features in many paintings, some seeming to echo the
work of Krishen Khanna, 100, a close friend of F.N.Souza, and the only
prominent surviving member of the Progressives.

Solomon says he didn?t realise the full impact of his lineage till he went
with his mother in 2010 to a Christie?s auction in London. The squabbling
family was selling many of his grandfather?s works in a massive auction of
152 lots. Almost all the lots sold, many doubling estimates with a total
hammer price of ?4.4m. (I was there and reported it here).

?I went in my school uniform. I didn?t really realise it was a sale of the
estate, but the seriousness of the event was a big slap of reality, that
all these fancily dressed people had come to see and buy my grandfather?s
works,? says Solomon.

Keren took him when he was nine on what he describes as her ?spiritual
journey? to live in Israel where he grew up in her art studio. Graffiti
with a spray can started when he was about 12 on his school walls in a town
near Jerusalem. That was ?in revenge for detention?. Sometimes he painted
marijuana leaf, having ?never touched it?.

In his teens, he was sent back to the UK for schooling. Living in Hackney
in east London which was ?saturated in graffiti?, he knew it was illegal
but was rebellious like his grandfather so continued with ?naming and
tagging? what he painted.

?As I grew, my sense of adventure grew, and I found myself more and more
frequently in trouble with the law, spending many nights in cells, with the
burn of the handcuffs still sizzling upon my wrists,? he told Victor
Menezes, an art curator and festival organiser in Goa, who knew his
grandfather in New York.

He returned to Jerusalem age 18 having failed his ?O levels? in art because
?I hadn?t done my homework. He wanted to go to art school in London, but
Keren ?begged him not to?, saying she could teach him art. ?You don?t need
to be told what you are,? she said.

Back in Jerusalem, his views on graffiti changed. ?I felt it was a
beautiful holy place, and I shouldn?t do graffiti?. He turned to murals and
street art, ?trying to add value?.

He became famous for spray painting some 300 works over two years on the
shutters of stalls in the Mahane Yehuda (Camp of Judah) market. ?The souk
had seen a lot of violence and hadn?t recovered; there was a sadness and
people avoided the area. So, we painted portraits of people who worked
there on the shutters, then bars opened and it became a bustling centre?
Smaller works, on paper.

Menezes persuaded Solomon to move to Goa in 2019 and paint what has become
a total of 20 murals including the side of a five-storey building (above)
that was done in one day. In 2020 he even went stadium-scale in London for
the Chelsea Football Club.

He feels at home in Goa with his wife and children though, he says, ?I
regard myself as Jewish and my heart is in Jerusalem?. He painted most of
the exhibition?s works in India where he says he ?found a new spark?.

I watched his energy for two hours or so at the Cymroza in the Breach Candy
area of Mumbai when he was painting the large 12ft x 8ft board with poster
paint using rollers and small spray guns. ?His work has been highly
acclaimed for its daring style, technical proficiency, and influence on
culture, especially in wall art ? mural painting, such as the piece he
created at the entrance of Cymroza Art Gallery,? says Pheroza Godrej.

When I arrived, he had completed the basic buildings of the Mumbai urban
roofscape on a black background. ?I like painting on black and enjoy how
the colours jump out. You lose that vibrancy with a white background,? he
said as he filled the black sky with short strokes creating a blueish
whitish stream.

Next, he he strengthened the outline of the buildings and roofs with
sprayed black lines, then blue spaces for windows, images of trees on
prepared background and finally yellow for lights and more splashes of
colour till finally the city scape was complete.

There was a lot of his grandfather in the concept and the detail, but it
was clearly Solomon?s inspiration, all completed in three to four hours.
And he enjoyed it, which he said was important, and that sounded different
and happier than his grandfather?s compulsions.

*This article **first appeared*
<https://riding-the-elephant.com/2026/02/03/f-n-souzas-grandson-solomon-has-his-debut-art-show-in-mumbai/>*
on
the writer?s blog *Riding the Elephant*. All photos courtesy John Elliott.*


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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0530
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Subject: [Goanet] Schedule for Thursday 5th February 2026
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CCR TV GOA

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Schedule for Thursday 5th February 2026

12:00 AM

Rosary - Luminous Mysteries


12:27 AM

Abundant Life -Trust God in Times of Trial - Prof Nicholas D'Souza


1:00 AM

Mass in Konkani


1:45 AM

Be a Prophet of Hope - Talk by Sr Saral


1:58 AM

Radiating Christ A Prayer Attributed to John Henry Cardinal Newman Read by
Prof Nicholas D? Souza


2:00 AM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister


2:26 AM

ABLAZE 2K25 - Rooted in Christ - A Talk by Br. James Kurian


3:17 AM

Falling in Love - Chastity - Hosted by Judie D'Cunha


3:50 AM

Laity and the World - Fr Subhash Anand


4:27 AM

Maka Bitorli Pekovnni Zai Mhunn Koxi Kollta - Talk by Orlando D'Souza


4:57 AM

Jezu-Onnbhov ghetlolo xis tacho urbevont govai zata - Fr. Aaron Magalhaes


5:27 AM

Live Like St Paul - A Family Witness - Eps 5


5:54 AM

Concert - Mil Mel Nel Solo Singing Competition - Adlim Cantaram - 3


6:24 AM

Music Uncovered : Alfin Fernandes talks to Alfwold Silveira


6:51 AM

Tell Me a Story - Eps 98 - David's army defeats the raiders


7:00 AM

Praise and Worship - SJVSRC Magno Menezes


7:36 AM

Music - Stuthi 2 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem


8:06 AM

Devachem Utor - Lokgonnti - Avesvor 17 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


8:10 AM

Bible Project - What is the Bible?


8:15 AM

Call to Priesthood - an interview with Deacons and their Parents


9:15 AM

Museums of Goa - Paulino Art Gallery - Varca


10:00 AM

Smart Money Talks - Episode - 02 - Alirio Botelho, CFP Interviewed by Clyde
Almeida


10:30 AM

Charisms - Mary Healy


11:07 AM

Skit - Reach out the World Needs You - St Thomas Parish Catechetical
Apostolate, Aldona


11:16 AM

Song - He stood in the way - Song by Alfwold Silveira


11:22 AM

Angelus - English


11:24 AM

Intercessions


11:30 AM

Mass in English


12:15 PM

Daily Flash / Jivitacho Prokas


12:18 PM

Vocation Commission for Diocesan Clergy - Vocation Promotion


12:28 PM

Goyche Tarvotti - Joston D'Silva interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza


1:16 PM

Amchi Bhas Amche Borovpi - Marcos Gonsalves interviewed by Daniel F. de
Souza


1:50 PM

Nokhetram - Lenoy Gomendes interviewed by Daniel F. de Souza


2:35 PM

Documemtary - Our Lady of the Rosary, Caranzalem


2:57 PM

Poem - Ghorabo - Tancia Pires


3:00 PM

Divine Mercy Chaplet - English


3:09 PM

Vocation - I need you - VCDC


3:57 PM

Prayer : Benedictus


4:00 PM

Rosary - Luminous Mysteries


4:27 PM

Prayer - Memorare - Read by Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


4:30 PM

Senior Citizens Exercises - 2


5:07 PM

Goal Post Ep 3 - Maria Rebello interviewed by Jovito Lopes


5:53 PM

Sustainable Ripples - Eps 3 Toddy Tapping


6:00 PM

Mass in Konkani


6:45 PM

Tumchi Bolaiki Tumchea Hatant - Episode 22 - Tuberculosis - Dr. Wiseman
Pinto, Dr. Savio Rodrigues


7:30 PM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister


7:56 PM

Prayer - Ugdas Kor (Memorare) - Read by Prof. Nicholas D'Souza


7:58 PM

Bhurgeanchem magnnem aplea avoi-bapaik


8:00 PM

Obedience, Submission and Accountability - Talk by Savio Mascarenhas


8:37 PM

Devachem Utor - Lokgonnti - Avesvor 19 - Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


8:45 PM

Ratchem Magnem


8:55 PM

Our Father - Kannada


9:00 PM

Adoration Led by Fr. Bobby


10:15 PM

53rd Mando Festival - Don Bosco College, Panjim - Traditional


10:26 PM

Faith Sustains - Talk by Maria Ana da Costa


10:54 PM

Inner Healing - Talk by Sr Elsis Mathew MSMI


11:20 PM

Pornography - Sr Joeyanna D'Souza fsp


11:45 PM

Life is Worth Living - Talk by Sr Sirisha Kota


11:55 PM

Hymns - O.L. of Perpetual Succour - Cortalim


Donations may be made to:

Beneficiary name : CCR GOA MEDIA.

Name of Bank : ICICI Bank

Branch Name: Panaji Branch

RTGS/NEFT Code : ICIC0000015

Savings Bank Account No : 262401000183


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