Atul Dodiya

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Atul Dodiya
Black Moon
2002
Enamel paint on metal roller shutters and acrylic and marble dust on canvas
Total external dimensions: 108 x 72 x 14 in

"The roller shutter has served Atul Dodiya well as a surface for his paintings, alongside canvas and paper, for little over a decade now...Calibrated at various levels, half open, three-quarters shut or fully lowered, these shutters presented the viewer with a varying ratio of concealment to disclosure; but in every case, the metal shutter receded from sight beneath the weight and power of the image it carried...These images of roller shutters are neither austere conceptualist devices, nor abstract depictions of hardware pared down to its mechanical logic. Rather, they are themselves Dodiya paintings: images shaped from images, hand-crafted from surprising collocations of pictorial and textual data drawn from diverse sources, surfaces annotated with extracts from the artist's copious private archive of references." (Ranjit Hoskote, "Dodiya Standard Time: Reflections on Malevich Matters & Other Shutters", Vadehra Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, New Delhi, 2010, pg. 51)
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