Atul Dodiya
(1959)
Sabari with her Birds
Atul Dodiya’s work is recognised by its dynamic references to a plethora of subjects, ranging from comic strips, religion, advertisements and cinema, to Indian and international “high art”. His oeuvre negotiates his research and encounters with popular culture, presenting the viewer with a layered idiom. This idiomatic development owes much to Dodiya’s growth as an artist in the 1980s and 1990s when India was rapidly undergoing a number of...
Atul Dodiya’s work is recognised by its dynamic references to a plethora of subjects, ranging from comic strips, religion, advertisements and cinema, to Indian and international “high art”. His oeuvre negotiates his research and encounters with popular culture, presenting the viewer with a layered idiom. This idiomatic development owes much to Dodiya’s growth as an artist in the 1980s and 1990s when India was rapidly undergoing a number of changes and opening up to the world.A Guide to 101 Indian Contemporary Artists , Mumbai: India Book House, 2005, p. 28)Sabari with her Birds , Dodiya draws on the story of the tribal woman Sabari from the epic Ramayana , following in the footsteps of Nandalal Bose, who explored the story in a series of paintings in 1941. As per the story, Sabari renounces marriage and lives as a hermit in the forest upon learning that her parents had killed numerous birds for her wedding feast. The birds in Dodiya’s composition reference this.
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Atul Dodiya Sabari with her Birds
Inscribed, signed and dated '1/20/ ATUL/ 05' (lower left)
First from a limited edition of twenty
EXHIBITEDAtul Dodiya: The Wet Sleeves of My Paper Robe (Sabari in Her Youth: After Nandalal Bose) , Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 7 - 21 September 2006Atul Dodiya: The Wet Sleeves of My Paper Robe (Sabari in Her Youth: After Nandalal Bose) , Singapore: Bodhi Art, 2005, pp. 82-83 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Category: Painting
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