Atul Dodiya
(1959)
Fallen Leaves - A Stroll #2
Highly versatile and conceptual in nature, Atul Dodiya's art is a constant experimentation of genre and style. Dodiya's carefully built images and installations are layered with symbol and metaphor, defying regular nomenclature. Their narratives are complex, simultaneously offering sweeping views of history, politics and art, as well as intimate autobiographical glimpses into his personal life and creative process. The artist's constant drive to...
Highly versatile and conceptual in nature, Atul Dodiya's art is a constant experimentation of genre and style. Dodiya's carefully built images and installations are layered with symbol and metaphor, defying regular nomenclature. Their narratives are complex, simultaneously offering sweeping views of history, politics and art, as well as intimate autobiographical glimpses into his personal life and creative process. The artist's constant drive to dislocate and reinvent his idiom, his command over various mediums, his deep collection of source material and his visionary body of work have rendered him a pioneer amongst the contemporary generation of postmodern, global artists from India.peepal tree leaves. Interspersing each set of portraits with similarly rendered images of flora and fauna, and concluding it with an abstract geometric panel and a red-tipped walking stick, Dodiya offers his viewers an enigmatic work that resists straightforward narratives. Like most of his other works, the present lot involves and prompts the viewer to their own unique, personal interpretations. As the title suggests, the installation recalls a walk, perhaps down memory lane, where discrete episodes like fallen leaves are chanced upon at random, one after the other.
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Atul Dodiya Fallen Leaves - A Stroll #2
2006
This work comprises of six parts with five measuring 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) approximately and the work including the cane measures 48 x 16.25 in (122.5 x 41.7 cm) approximately
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EXHIBITEDHungry God: Indian Contemporary Art , Beijing: Arario Gallery, 3 September - 15 October 2006; Busan: Busan Museum of Modern Art, 12 January - 22 February, 2007; Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 23 June - 7 October 2007Hungry God: Indian Contemporary Art , Beijing: Arario Gallery, 2006, p. 72 (illustrated)
Category: Installation