Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hi, I
Am the Navin Chahande I born in Nagpur and I studied
Painting at Sir JJ school of art and then printmaking in my masters from faculty of fine arts MSU, Baroda
This is my first solo exhibition at clark house Mumbai and
The title of this show is I am the one who drew the head on the lion pillar
title
..I am the one who drew the head on the lion pillar is taken from famous Marathi Poet called
Namdeo Dhasal's poem
in this poem, he wrote .I am the one who drew the head on the lion pillar and
next next line
to the poem is mohenjo daro is my property, so
when I was reading his poems, I
Find few similarities in his poem and few elements in my work
Like in some of my work. I made Ashoka pillar Ashoka stambhas, stupas
these kind of things so
This line interests me and I started thinking about it so result of that
few works came in the mind and I made a
Ashoka pillar and Iron
and used LED screen on that and the LED screen is showing I am the one who drew the head on the lion pillar
in this work there are few elements which are vertical and horizontal elements in vertical forms there is
Ashoka stambha next is Ashoka tree and
...similarity between these two element is both
by name is begin with Ashoka, Ashoka stamba and Ashoka tree
Second similarity is both forms are vertical and when I was in Bombay, I used to see various
Commercial chimneys from
factories and
during that time that factories used to demolish and
it is converted into the malls, but...
With decoration and some renovation
owners of that places they kept
this chimney as it is and
They demolish the mill and they converted into malls
so I
I just kept
vertical elements one top of the other and
Try to create a one more vertical form
In the same way
when I was doing this I was
Also thinking about some horizontal forms, which is again horizontal
With our information what information we have about it?
Like one sleeping buddha is always horizontal one limousine car
bridge from railway station
Train which is
very big in horizontal form
So my basic idea was to make a sculpture of these all elements and each elements. I wanted to make in 20 feet high
so I was trying to do that work for a long time and
it was very difficult because if I'm making these elements in large size and there's a problem of installation and
It is also too costly to create things
so
that was in mind and
what I wanted to make that somehow how so..
Once I was watching john millet's work and in one of his landscape, he painted a huge
landscape which has a lot of empty space so
I realized I felt
If someone gave us such a space like this to me, so I can install my work in that
So this was a came in mind and after few months
I just thought he why not I will take space from john millet and I will install my work in his space
So I painted his landscape and in his landscape. I started installing painting my
elements in this L shape
Vertical and horizontal I also paint a few
some of these various works
like this work is John millett"s
Separate work
This is another separate work of John millet, and I give space to that other
Works in in the landscape and various places.
I Wanted to see this sculpture from top view also, so I made up a bird view here
This bird this is the top view to see the sculpture
And we're not going to know about Round Table's concept
when people are sitting on one round table and it has no corners, so when
We're various parties sitting on one down table. There's no boss. No
less or more
Parties or people so both the parties of people are sitting on one equal platform
is the consciousness concept of round table, so
when I come to know about the this round table conference in my childhood, my teacher explained he this is related with the
freedom fight and
Indian and British azar sitting on one platform
equal platform to discuss
Indian India's freedom things so
my
Observation was when I saw Indians are sitting on and British as I'm sitting on
One round table conference in Indians. There are people who are from upper caste annual
like Gandhi and
few other politicians and there is a
politicians like
made cars from lower caste who is also sitting on one equal platform with high caste or
Indians and
British us on equal platform, so
my observation
After few years, I
understand
The roundtable conference was not exactly related with
freedom fight it is related with what kind of
Rights
From various communities in India will get after freedom like right a vote and right of preservation
All these kind of issues in the code. We'll all these kind of issues was discussed during
roundtable conference
so
Before making this work
I was making few sculptures which are geometrical shapes and round and which was big
To be a project
while making that I was observing keep
all these questions like round table conference is there which is round shape and
Another form is Indian Parliament House, which is also architectural around so
round round all these down shapes interest me and I
Was also being this
relation between two round forms