Atul Dodiya
'Police Crackdown, Bombay, July 9, 1930’, 2015
Oil On Canvas & Acrylic, Oil & Polyester Putty on Galvanized Steel
Canvas: 72 x 96 in I 183 x 244 cm
Shutter: 84 x 54 in | 213 x 137 cm
(Diptych)
Shutter: 84 x 54 in | 213 x 137 cm
(Diptych)
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Atul Dodiya addresses the complexity of various simultaneous happenings in history - politics, art and culture - through powerful interjections in his works. ‘Police Crackdown, Bombay, July 9, 1930’ references...
Atul Dodiya addresses the complexity of various simultaneous happenings in history - politics, art and culture - through powerful interjections in his works. ‘Police Crackdown, Bombay, July 9, 1930’ references a historical photograph of an event from the freedom struggle. The realism depicted in the photograph is interrupted through abstractions from the works of Rabindranath Tagore - poet and painter, working in Bengal at the very time that Gandhi was making his mark in the western provinces.