Atul Dodiya 'Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022' opens tomorrow

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Atul Dodiya 'Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022' opens tomorrow
'Karuna', 2020-2022. Oil on canvas, 60 x 78 inches. Madhabi Mukherjee as Karuna in Kapurush 1965, Director Satyajit Ray.





MUMBAI.- The exhibition 'Dr Banerjee in Dr Kulkarni's Nursing Room & Other Paintings, 2000-2022' opens tomorrow at Gallery Chemould as a part of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend'23 and will run until the 25th of February 2023.

It is particularly significant because it is the 60th year of Chemould, and it was 34 years ago since Atul had his first solo exhibition at the first Gallery Chemould on the first floor of Jehangir Art Gallery. His exhibition took the art world by surprise, whether one was a fellow artist, a senior artist or a collector, the name Atul Dodiya was resounding in art circles! Truly a star was born!

Years later, the artist has continued to create his own distinct language and charm the world with his multiple interests, be it cinema, be it his intense relationship with art history, with Gandhi or with poetry.




Drawing from popular Indian cinema, Atul Dodiya creates paintings populated by iconic characters in his signature realistic style. This is not the first time Dodiya has painted from cinema, and in this latest series Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022, he returns to the theme in a reel of 24 paintings.

24 is a particular number in cinematography, with 24 frames in each second. In this show, we see 24 paintings mimicking a running storyboard, creating their own fiction.

Watching and rewatching movies during the lockdown year of the pandemic triggered the series. Films like Padosan, Kapurush, Kagaz ke Phool, Awaara, Ittefaq, that he watched often with his parents as a young man, and one like Anand (from which the title of the exhibition emerges), where then superstar Rajesh Khanna paved the way for Amitabh Bachchan, all find a way into the work. In 2021, Dodiya had returned to Khanna as a protagonist for a private commission. Earlier Rajesh Khanna had played a larger than life hero in Dodiya’s school years when he would charm his 5 sisters’ girl-friends with his deft drawings of the superstar. Now, as Dodiya returns to cinema in this series of paintings, he returns to painting his sisters’ heartthrob.

Dodiya’s references to cinema go back as early as 1995 when he used images from the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Ritwik Ghatak and Guru Dutt. Here, he looks closely at film sets from a range of popular and non-commercial cinema, from filmmakers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee to Satyajit Ray. The false character of sets – the fake staircase, a painted window, or a door that leads to nowhere; provide the vocabulary for this set of paintings. Dodiya looked at props – lamps, vases, telephones, photo frames, art deco furniture, faux antiques, or flooring that might have been laid over by paper to create a black and white grid.

While watching these films as closely as he did, Dodiya began to photograph his own decisive moment. Each of these “frozen moments”, carefully chosen, shot on his iPhone – sometimes depicting the back of the actor, at times walking from one room into another, or a bending woman reaching for something in a drawer, all became pictorial possibilities with the subjects imbued with a new mystery.

The false interiors are celebrated, recreated in the pastel hues of the hand painted photograph of the early 20th century. The pinks, turquoise, pale blues gather to build a tonal atmosphere where the unreal becomes a new story, another truth.










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