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PROPERTY OF A LADY, MUMBAI
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JAGANNATH PANDA
(b. 1970)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'Jagannath Panda 04' (lower right);
inscribed 'JAGANNATH PANDA' (on the reverse)
2004
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 in (182.7 x 152.5 cm)
$ 18,750 ‒ 23,440
Rs 12,00,000 ‒ 15,00,000
PROVENANCE:
Saffronart, 16‒17 March 2011, lot 46
P
ainted in 2004, the present lot examines the
consequences of urbanisation on cultural and
social customs. Making a commentary on
the immersion of Ganesha after the festivities, Panda
shows a lone Ganesha idol floating to the bottom
of a dark sea. Flowers, ornaments and vestments
are scattered around. The image is set against the
backdrop of tower cranes, bullet trains and moving
traffic: all symbols of progress. The contrast between
tradition andmodernity is made with a single powerful
image in which Panda captures the poignancy of the
clash. Panda has “…steadily constructed a language
of alienation that is contained paradoxically within
images of settlement, in small or large format, he works
through the positioning of opposites, of the enforcing
of structures, and the evacuation of life forms, of
mythic cycles and contemporary time, of value and
its imminent loss.” (Gayatri Sinha,
Recent Works by
Jagannath Panda
, London: Saffronart and Berkeley
Square Gallery, 2006)