Anju Dodiya
(1964)
Hauberk
The self is at the center of Anju Dodiya's works. Though not solipsistic, the
majority of her works give the viewer access to private moments, lifted from
"the private discourse that goes on within oneself when one is alone". Dodiya
initially resisted the lure of self-portraiture: Her early works were extremely
abstract, and following her first show ("a fictional autobiography"), she tried
to refocus her gaze on railway...
The self is at the center of Anju Dodiya's works. Though not solipsistic, the
majority of her works give the viewer access to private moments, lifted from
"the private discourse that goes on within oneself when one is alone". Dodiya
initially resisted the lure of self-portraiture: Her early works were extremely
abstract, and following her first show ("a fictional autobiography"), she tried
to refocus her gaze on railway stations, roadside scenes, and so forth. Yet
ultimately she found her original impulse of a painterly introspection was the
strongest, and rechanneled her vision into describing situations from her life.
Dodiya describes her relationship with contemporary Western art as ambivalent.
Her own art remains rooted in the figurative, and her debts to the West are mostly
to Giotto, Massacio, and other painters of the Italian Renaissance. As with those
painters, all elements within her paintings are charged with an emotional value.
"Often," she says, "I use furniture or, say, a curtain or a door to speak".
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Anju Dodiya
Hauberk
Signed indistinctly, inscribed and dated 'ANJU DODIYA/ 2007/ "HAUBERK"' (on the reverse of the work on paper)
2007
Watercolour and charcoal on paper; embroidery on mattress
95.25 x 45 in (242 x 114 cm)
The work is a double-panelled painting
PROVENANCE Private Collection, New Delhi
EXHIBITEDThrone of Frost: Anju Dodiya , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 7 April - 31 May 2007; Vadodara: Laxmi Vilas Palace, March 2007 PUBLISHED Nancy Adajania, Sharada Dwivedi, Throne of Frost: Anju Dodiya , Singapore: Bodhi Art, 2007, pp. 130-133 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Abstract