5104 - Atul Dodiya

Atul Dodiya engages with art and political history which combines with memory and experience, whether that is global or personal. Through his paintings, the artist addresses private dilemmas that become metaphors for larger issues, and political and social problems can acquire very personal vibrations.

"B for Bapu" - 2001

Dodiya would filter various qualities of artists who inspired him such as Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Gerhard Richter, and Rene Magritte. The multi-layered conflations of the chosen images would create a humorous mix of the ironic, the utopian, the inimical, the vulnerable, the serious, and the absurd.

He would explore into fresh materials and modes, along with new aesthetic issues and strategies, his firm commitment to the iconographic and painterly traditions remains central to his concern. The particularly chosen paint would be oil, acrylic and enamel paint, emblazoned with blown-up appropriations of flashy film stars featured in Hindi film posters and of a gaudy pantheon of gods and goddesses from bazaar oleographs, these shutters can be rolled up and down as desired.



Source:
Bayrle, T. 2004, Vitamin P: new perspectives in painting, Phaidon, London.

Image Source:
http://chicagoweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Dodiya_BforBapu_closed.jpg