17
Dec 2024
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Pixels and Play: Reimagining Gaming with Artificial Intelligence
IFBE, 10-12, Calicut Rd, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai
Bako
exists. Imagine’ is a text-based work which consists of twelve paintings and
an installation with nine wooden cabinets. These poetic episodes are based on
a fiction, written in Gujarati by a major contemporary Gujarati poet
Labhshanker Thaker.
Bako is a young boy who meets Bapu - Mahatma Gandhi, in his sleep. In fact,
they both meet each other in their sleep and talk.
In these twelve blackboard paintings, along with the cabinet installation,
autobiographical references gradually mingle into a larger creative journey.
The intention is – the viewer no more remains an outsider but subconsciously,
becomes an invisible character involved along with Bako and Bapu in this
hilarious fantasy.
Atul Dodiya was born in 1959 in Mumbai and received his diploma from the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1982. Apart from several solo shows in India, he has exhibited at Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam in 1993. He has participated in 'The Richness of the Spirit' Kuwait and Rome in 1986-89, 'India - Contemporary Art'', World Trade Center, Amsterdam 1989, 'Exposition Collective' Cite Intemationale Des Arts, Paris 1992. He has also exhibited at 'Reflections and Images', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Mumbai, 1993 and 'Trends and Images' CIMA, Calcutta, 1993. He was given the Sanskriti Award, New Delhi in 1995. Dodiya's strongly realistic works are subtly nuanced to provide a reflective medium to middle class homes, family life and his own biography. Thin layers of presenting deftly painted strokes, mirror suggestive situations. In his latest works, he freely quotes his artistic peers like Hockney and Bhupen Khakhar to reflect on the act of painting itself. Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai.
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