Many of India’s leading artists like Arunkumar HG, Balaji Ponna, Chandran Ahuja, and Deepak John Mathew envision the three basic desires of human beings, to portray them in their artworks. Veteran Rameshwar Broota's photographic work 'Roti' captures scenes from Tihar Jail, whereas Vicky Roy has portrayed a struggle for fulfilling very basic necessities in life.
Indeed, ‘Roti, Kapda aur Makan’ (Food, Cloth and Shelter) are the three factors that fundamentally decide the ‘desire quotient’ of an average person. Though this has probably been a pre-globalized phenomenon, these basic desires exist even today at different levels as migration has become a part of the global urbanization process.
A curatorial note explains, “This phrase encapsulates the average desire quotient in three words that gained a special status after the success of a movie by the same name in 1974. Yet another Bollywood phrase! In this project I would like to see how the artists envision this very basic desire and portray it. Each constituting entity of this phrase has become a new subject of discourse in our times. With the changing values of life and physical contexts of existence, these play an inclusive role than definitively exclusive roles as witnessed during the pre-global times. Today, they have become contesting factors and also pointers of socio-cultural and politic-economic existence.”
The exhibit is the inaugural group exhibition for Ojas Art’s permanent gallery. Anubhav Nath, the director of Ojas Art, is also the co-founder of the Ramchander Nath Foundation. He completed his graduation from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and later studied Marketing of the Visual Arts at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Incidentally, the foundation is dedicated to restoring/ promoting the arts and providing unique platforms to artists. An acute observer, he covers contemporary Indian art for several Indian and international publications.
He has also curated Ojas Art’s Expressions of Tihar, a first-of-its-kind show based on experiential curation. Various artists visited Tihar Jail, one of the largest prison systems in south Asia and created artworks based on this unique experience. Previously, he had curated ‘Choas in Order’, a joint show organized by the governments of India and Vietnam hosted in Hanoi (2008) and ‘Maybach: Celebrating a Legend’ in conjunction with the US and Germany’s Maybach Foundation (2006).
Indeed, ‘Roti, Kapda aur Makan’ (Food, Cloth and Shelter) are the three factors that fundamentally decide the ‘desire quotient’ of an average person. Though this has probably been a pre-globalized phenomenon, these basic desires exist even today at different levels as migration has become a part of the global urbanization process.
A curatorial note explains, “This phrase encapsulates the average desire quotient in three words that gained a special status after the success of a movie by the same name in 1974. Yet another Bollywood phrase! In this project I would like to see how the artists envision this very basic desire and portray it. Each constituting entity of this phrase has become a new subject of discourse in our times. With the changing values of life and physical contexts of existence, these play an inclusive role than definitively exclusive roles as witnessed during the pre-global times. Today, they have become contesting factors and also pointers of socio-cultural and politic-economic existence.”
The exhibit is the inaugural group exhibition for Ojas Art’s permanent gallery. Anubhav Nath, the director of Ojas Art, is also the co-founder of the Ramchander Nath Foundation. He completed his graduation from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and later studied Marketing of the Visual Arts at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Incidentally, the foundation is dedicated to restoring/ promoting the arts and providing unique platforms to artists. An acute observer, he covers contemporary Indian art for several Indian and international publications.
He has also curated Ojas Art’s Expressions of Tihar, a first-of-its-kind show based on experiential curation. Various artists visited Tihar Jail, one of the largest prison systems in south Asia and created artworks based on this unique experience. Previously, he had curated ‘Choas in Order’, a joint show organized by the governments of India and Vietnam hosted in Hanoi (2008) and ‘Maybach: Celebrating a Legend’ in conjunction with the US and Germany’s Maybach Foundation (2006).
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