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TRAVERSING TERRAINS A SUITE OF 8 CANVASES ACRYLIC, OILS AND SERIGRAPHY ON CANVAS DIMENSIONS: VARIABLE COLLECTION OF THE ESSL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AUSTRIA 2010 |
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| Installation view from 'India Awakens: Under The Banyan Tree' curated by Dr Alka Pande at Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria, 2010. | |
| The suite of works examines the human condition through the metaphor of the body in all its strengths and frailties. Stripped of its outer casing, contemporary life in urban India is marked by an intense psychological isolation, where images of comfort, intimacy and rest have been displaced by a sense of detachment, anxiety and apprehension. 'Traversing Terrains reflects the claustrophobic decadent existence and trauma of movement of the 'urban hybrid' and his aspirations. The work essentially plays around the notion of the 'injured self' and the self 'armored against hurt'.
'The Pregnant Seahorse' is a personal meditation on the passage of natures's cycle and the temporal flow of birth and regeneration. The human body is vulnerable, ephemeral. The work portrays the artists' body as a site of history, memory and transformation. The images are at once, generative and sensuous, macabre and degenerative, opulent and awe-inspiring, carrying within them the vitality of the living and the vulnerability of decay. The image of the sea horse is depicted in the works as a metaphor of sexual role reversal, where the male carries the offspring through gestation. Excerpts from 'India Awakens: Under The Banyan Tree' published by Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria, 2010. | |
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| Installation view from 'India Awakens: Under The Banyan Tree' curated by Dr Alka Pande at Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria, 2010. | |
| CURATORIAL THOUGHTS BEHIND 'INDIA AWAKENS: UNDER THE BANYAN TREE' ALKA PANDE 2010 Published by Kunst Der Gegenwart Essl Museum, Austria on the occasion of the comprehensive exhibition 'India Awakens: Under The Banyan Tree' on Contemporary art practices in India.
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| INDIA AWAKENS: UNDER THE BANYAN TREE PUBLISHED BY ESSL MUSEUM ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION PROJECT 'INDIA AWAKENS: UNDER THE BANYAN TREE', AT KUNST DER GEGENWART ESSL MUSEUM, KLOSTERNEUBERG, AUSTRIA. PUBLICATION INCLUDES ESSAYS BY PROF. KARLHEINZ ESSL, DR.ALKA PANDE, ANNA SZOKE, MRIDULA KOSHY AND JYOTI PANDE LAVAKARE. PRINTED IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA. 2010 |
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