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ATUL DODIYA
(b. 1959)
Five Drips from Vesuvius
Signed 'Atul' and dated and
inscribed 'ATUL DODIYA / "FIVE
DRIPS FROM VESUVIUS" / 1998'
(on the reverse)
1998
Enamel paint on laminate board
71.75 x 47.5 in (182 x 120.5 cm)
$ 25,000 ‒ 35,000
Rs 16,00,000 ‒ 22,40,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Gallery Chemould,
Mumbai
PUBLISHED:
Ranjit Hoskote,
Atul Dodiya:
Antler Anthology
, Mumbai: Gallery
Chemould, 2003, p. 6 (illustrated)
Ranjit Hoskote ed.,
Atul Dodiya,
Munich: Prestel Verlag
; New Delhi:
Vadehra Art Gallery, 2013, p. 96
(illustrated)
Five Drips from Vesuvius
is the
first of a seminal series of works
Dodiya embarked on in 1998
incorporating text in a conceptual
form. It is a tribute to the young
Bombay artist Girish Dahiwale who
committed suicide that same year.
Two columns of medical conditions
combined with an image of
Dahiwale with his ear against a
sculptural form comprised of
circles form a memento mori, with
the bunches of grapes and drips
emblematicof afleetingburst of life.
The dispassionate listing of words
– ominous in their connotation –
becomes the artistic framework.
“Dreams, health, culture, politics,
humour, life itself in fact, nurtures
the creative act and the formal
strategies underpinning it.” (E
Juncosa, “Painted Words,” Ranjit
Hoskote ed.,
Atul Dodiya
, New
Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery and
Prestel Publishing, 2013, p. 95)
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ATUL DODIYA
(b. 1959)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'Atul '05' (lower left)
2005
Kaza paper, carbon toner, vine charcoal, gold
leaf, cotton shirt, paper pulp, screenprinting ink,
pigment on handmade STPI cotton and linen paper
67 x 55.25 in (170 x 140.4 cm)
$ 10,000 ‒ 12,000
Rs 6,40,000 ‒ 7,68,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Bodhi Art Gallery
Private Collection, UK
EXHIBITED:
Atul Dodiya: The Wet Sleeves of My Paper Robe (Sabari in Her
Youth: After Nandalal Bose)
, Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print
Institute (STPI), 7‒21 January 2006
PUBLISHED:
N Adajania and R Hoskote,
Atul Dodiya: The Wet Sleeves of My
Paper Robe (Sabari in Her Youth: After Nandalal Bose)
, Singapore:
Singapore Tyler Institute (STPI), 2006, p. 32 (illustrated)