SELECTED WORKS BY Atul Dodiya
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Atul Dodiya
Woman from Kabul
2001
Acrylic and marble dust on fabric
183 x 122 cm |
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Atul Dodiya
Portrait Of Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918)
2005
Enamel paint on laminate board, cotton kurta and cotton pyjamas on iron hangers
183 x 122 cm |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
ARTICLES
PORTRAIT OF NON VIOLENCE
Atul Dodiya is one of the finest artists to emerge in modern times. His works have been exhibited all over the world, including Madrid and New York. Collections of his works are with the Anand Bazar Patrika Group, The Times of India group, RPG Enterprises and Gallery Chemould.
In 1999, Dodiya exhibited a series of exquisite watercolours on Mahatma Gandhi which met with tremendous critical approbation. In terms of both subject matter and medium, the series represented a shift for the largely apolitical Dodiya. Here he describes how the series evolved:
As a young boy whose family came from Saurashtra, Gandhi was an intimate part of my boyhood.
While in school, I read his autobiography in the original Gujarati and was awed by his passion for truth and nonviolence, his clarity and his patriotism. I used to draw Gandhi quite often as a kid. Every two years, I create an image of Gandhi. So you could say that Gandhi is a recurring theme for me.
The series evolved because during the celebration of our 50th year of Independence, I was asked to create a commemorative piece.
For me one of the most significant and disturbing images of the 50 years was the breaking of the Babri Masjid and the subsequent riots and bomb blasts in Bombay, where 22 boys from Ghatkopar had died.
I called my piece Lamentation. It was a large painting divided into two parts. The first showed an image of Gandhi with his back to us, walking along a railway station with his hand on a young boy's shoulder. I juxtaposed it with a Picasso painting with a little girl with wild Kali-like eyes.
All around were lamenting angels, in the manner of Giotto's painting lamenting the death of Christ. What I was trying to say was that with Gandhi gone, little girls like my own daughter had no option but to become avenging goddesses like Kali.
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Source: lifepositive.com
Surendran Nair, Atul Dodiya highlights of Saffronart auction
By Uma Nair
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) The Saffronart spring online auction of modern Indian art works will take place March 12-13 and feature 140 works by 55 artists. Paintings of Surendran Nair and Atul Dodiya will be the highlights. The auction includes works of the younger lot of artists who have tasted success much earlier than their elders.
Top of the sale is lot 72 - Nair's "Doctrine of the Forest: An Actor at Play"(Cuckoonebulopolis), an oil on canvas estimated at $144,740-171,060. This is the icon for the Saffronart sale that promises a host of great works and frenzied bidding.
In this work, the artist depicts a traditionally masked and lungi-clad Kathakali actor from Kerala, seemingly deep in meditation, perhaps getting into character for a performance. However, the gravity of the subject's elaborate make-up, vestments and yogic pose are compromised by Nair's placement of a bright yellow rubber-ducky peering up at him from his feet.
Nair, who lives in Ahmedabad, is an ardent observer and commentator on identity and socio-political change. He draws his images from the abundant global archive of historical, religious, mythological, literary, political and artistic facts, practices and traditions that he maintains. The artist's provocative canvases link previously unrelated elements from these annals to push the limits of his viewers' notions of identity, community and reality.
Equally enticing is Nair's "Darwaja Kholo"on paper - a watercolour of a sari-clad beauty with a deer sitting at her feet. It is estimated at $52,640-65,790.
Subodh Gupta's "Let Me Make My Damn Art"is estimated at $60,000-70,000. Marrying the worlds of high art and B-grade cinema, Gupta also uses this piece to comment on the violence inherent to his creative process. It seems that the cause of the armed dispute in the piece, unlike the movie it is based on, is an interruption of the artist's work.
His second work is the stainless steel sculpture "Feast for a Hundred God"estimated at $70,000-90,000. To reflect India's unique growth and to voice his concerns about the new and undefined interstitial spaces that have come to exist between modernity and tradition, city and country, Gupta has chosen one of India's most commonest commodities as his medium: the shiny stainless-steel kitchenware that is a familiar sight in homes and stores across the country.
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Source: thaindian.com
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