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R. Rodwittiya
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Rekha Rodwittiya's work describes complex issues of life and living, of alienation and belonging, of discrimination and acceptance, of accord and discord. It is of paramount importance to this sensitive artist to react pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her. Her work reflects her sensitivity towards socio-political attitudes along with the reflections from her past.
She does not treat art, and life in isolation...
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Rekha Rodwittiya's work describes complex issues of life and living, of alienation and belonging, of discrimination and acceptance, of accord and discord. It is of paramount importance to this sensitive artist to react pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her. Her work reflects her sensitivity towards socio-political attitudes along with the reflections from her past.
She does not treat art, and life in isolation and deems it necessary to experience life to paint. Her fervent activity of painting is a struggle for her own rightful existence. The artist explains to say, "I go through all the terror and agony of stepping into an 'unknown'." Her images are a byproduct of her thoughts and emotions, her readings, observations, beliefs, values and vast compilation of past experiences.
The artist draws on a heritage of elemental imagery, tempered by psychological insights, portraying women through the prism of personal experience and day-to-day realities. As she has noted: "Caught within the intricacies of adult angst where the undercurrent of pain was recognized though not fully understood by me, the drawn or constructed image became very early a means of deciphering all that I accumulated from observing....My sense of empathy with the drawn image was that it offered a physicality, and established a concretizing of the otherwise intangible. It became a method, as I perceive it in retrospect, of creating a dialogue that gave meaning to a psychological realm."
Born in Bangalore in 1958, Rekha Rodwittiya completed her graduation from The Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1981. She then received the Inlaks scholarship for her M.A. in Painting from Royal College of Art, London in 1984. In 1988-89 she was invited as guest artist to the Konsthogskolan, Stockholm and was also invited to deliver series of lectures on Indian Art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Grenoble and Castello de Rivoli, Torino in 1991. She did a short stint at the Fullam Institute on Film and Video, and was conferred the Staff Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council to work in the U.S. in 1990.
Rodwittiya has always been concerned with the representation of the female figure in her quest to find the vocabulary to represent women without objectifying them, without allowing the viewer to play the role of voyeur. Rodwittiya represents large clothed Gauginesque women as the archetypal figure in their daily work rituals, dwarfing their tools and objects that surround them, in a celebration of the female protagonist.
Rekha Rodwittiya has represented India in several prestigious art shows internationally apart from a series of workshops and lectures on Indian art. She has held solo exhibitions at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, Art Heritage, New Delhi, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai, Seagull Foundation for Arts, Kolkata, the Gallery 678, New York. She has also participated in the 2nd Biennale, Havana and in "Six Young Contemporaries" in Geneva.
Among her other select exhibitions are 'Contemporary Indian Art from the Herwitz Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York (1985), VI International Triennale, New Delhi (1986), 'Dialogues of Peace', 50th Anniversary of U.N. Worked on site on a painted room 'Songs from the Blood of the Weary' (1995), 'Evocations', solo exhibition at Ludovica Barberri Gallery, Venice (1998), and a Project in Brazil with Labrotoria, curated by Phillipe Mullion (1998). She was one of the participating artists at a major exhibition of Indian contemporary art in Oslo's Henie-Onstad Art Centre as part of the celebrations of 50 years of Indo-Norwegian bilateral relations.
Her works titled -Bye Bye Baby- exhibited at the Sakshi Art Gallery in March 2003 refer to "loss of innocence'. This particular series is a reflection of the lost innocence and sensitivity that has led to the growing schism in the society. The body of work of about 15 paintings portrays the breaking down of the idealism in the political environment. In a tongue and cheek sort of way, or at the obvious levels, the series reflects the anarchical situation around us.
The paintings, in bright and bold colors, continue to have Rodwittiya's language in the form of feminine figures and decorative but, symbolic tapestry. Giving an insight into her usage of bright and bold colors, she states that the colors bring about an optical association that further forges you into an association with my work." Her basic philosophy is to visualize beauty even in the most trivial of things, and the same holds true for art; she believes you need to cultivate that fundamental appreciation within you.
Her works are in various private and public collections in India, U.K., U.S.A., Brazil, Italy, West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Rekha Rodwittiya currently lives and works in Baroda.
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Born
October 31, 1958
Bangalore
Education
1982-84 M.A.(Painting), Royal College of Art, London
1982-83 Studied Film and Video, Fulham Institute, London
1978-81 Studied and Practiced Photography under the Guidance of Prof. Jyoti Bhatt
1976-81 B.A.(Fine Arts), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016-17 'Love done right can change...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016-17 'Love done right can change the World', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2016 'Love Done Right Can Change the World', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2016 'The Rituals of Memory: Personal folklore and other tales", Aicon Gallery, New York
2014 'The Guarded Megalopolis of the Feminine Heart', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'Matters of Heart', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Intangible Interlocution: An Anthology of Belonging', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2008 'rekha@fifty', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Second Skin’, presented by Sakshi Gallery at The Air Gallery, London
2006 ‘Once Upon A Time….’, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
2005 ‘Encrypted Soliloquies’, Singapore
2003 'Bye Bye Baby!', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2001 'Subtexts', Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2000 Works presented at Art Amsterdam by Gallery FIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 'Time Zones: Home & Away', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1998 'Evocations', Studio Barbieri, Venice, Italy
1997 'Borders/Territories', Apparao Gallery at Gallery 678, New York
1997 'My Body-My Land', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1996 'In Shades of Red', Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1994 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1993 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993 Art heritage, New Delhi
1992 Seagull For Arts, Kolkata
1992 Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
1991 Sakshi Gallery, Chennai
1990 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1988 Gallery Sassi, Stockholm, Sweden
1987 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1986 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1986 Sarala Art Centre, Chennai
1985 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1982 Urja Art Gallery, Vadodara
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'In-Between', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2013-14 'Forgotten Figures', Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 'Diva', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Looking Back, Looking Forward', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Aqua', Gallery Beyond, Mumbai
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Pause: A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Dali's Elephant', Aicon Gallery, London
2010 'Singularities', RL Fine Arts, New York
2010 '1.2.3.4.5...In the Line of Fire', Lemongrasshopper, Ahmedabad
2009 'Long Gone & Living Now', Gallerie Mirchandani + Steinreucke, Mumbai
2009 'Zip Files', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Inaugural Show', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
2007-08 ‘Paisley - Exploding The Teardrop’, PM Gallery in collaboration with The Pattern Lab, Ealing
2006 ‘Making of Divinity’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘China Meets India in Berlin’, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin, Beijing
2003 'The Said and The Unsaid', Apparao Galleries, Mumbai
2002 'Cinema Stills' Apparao Galleries, New Delhi
2001 'Figures in My Mind', Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2000 'Celebration of the Human Image', Gallery 42, New Delhi
2000 'Timeless Visions: Contemporary Art of India', from the Herwitz Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2000 'Early Works', The Fine Art Company, Mumbai
2000 'Embarkations: The Millennium Show', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1999 'Imagined Spaces', a one year touring exhibition with Surendran Nair at major Art Centers in Australia, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Australia
1999 'Pacaembu', Sao Paulo, Brazil
1999 'The Tale of Six Cities', Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998-99 'Lines of desire', A Liverpool Art School & Oldham Art Gallery & Museum touring exhibition
1998 'Indian Spring', Apparao Galleries & Gallery Martini, USA
1997-98 'The Edge of Awareness', 50th anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Sao Paulo, New York, New Delhi
1997 'Epic Reality', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
1997 'Women Artists of India - A Celebration of independence', Mils College Art Gallery, California, USA
1997 'Nirguna/Saguna', Nature Morte, New Delhi
1996 'Acro da Lapa', Laboratoire, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1996 '12 Contemporary Painters from 1984 to 1996', The Fine Art Recourse, Mumbai
1996 'Of Women, icons/stars/feasts', Eicher Gallery, New Delhi
1995-96 'Inside Out: Women Artists of India', a touring exhibition in England, Middles-borough Art Gallery, UK
1995 'Indian Winter', Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London, UK
1995 'Contemporary Art, Deutche bank Bombay', The Fine Art Resource, Mumbai
1995 'Bombay', An RPG exhibition, Mumbai
1995 'Dialogues of peace', Geneva, Switzerland
1995 'Art for CRY', Mumbai & Delhi
1994 An Exhibition of Women's Art: Society for Promotion of Art, Hyderabad
1993 'In Small Format-Works on Paper', Sakshi gallery, Mumbai
1993 'Images & Words', A traveling exhibition for Communal Harmony, Sahmat India
1993 'Husain Ki Sarai', Vadhera Art gallery, New Delhi
1992 'A Nest for Sparrow', curated by C.S.Laxmi, Mumbai
1992 'Journeys with landscapes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1990 Exhibition for the ter-centenary of Calcutta & the support of the SICW, Kolkata
1989 'Artists Alert', In memory of Safdar Hashmi, New Delhi
1988 Exhibition to Celebrate the declaration of Human Right’s, UN, Geneva, Switzerland
1987 Print exhibition, Bristol, UK
1987 Print exhibition, Centre for Engraving, Geneva, Switzerland
1987 'Alekhya Darsan', Six Young Contemporaries, Geneva, Switzerland
1984 Young Contemporaries, Sheffield, UK
Participations
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2011 'The Intuitive: Logic Revisted', from the Osians Collection at The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2010 'Finding India: Art for the New century', presented by Sakshi Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Roots', 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai at The Park, Chennai
2005 ‘Shakti 2005’, Aicon Gallery, New York
1987 Second Biennial of Havana, Cuba
1986 Sixth International Triennial, New Delhi
1981 All India Graphic Exhibition, Ahmedabad
1980 All India Photography Exhibition, Mysore
Honours and Awards
2010 Montalvo Artist Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Sartoga,...
2010 Montalvo Artist Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Sartoga, CA
1994 Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Culture and Human Resources, Government of India
1990 Conferred The Staff Fellowship From The Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council to Work in the U.S.
1988-89 Invited Faculty and Artist –in- Residence, The Konsthogskolan Art College, by invitation from Svenska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 Unilever Painting Award, Royal College of Art, London
1982 Inlaks Scholarship for her M.A. in Painting from Royal College of Art, London
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