Atul Dodiya, ‘The Route to Dandi’, Watercolour, marble dust and charcoal pencil on paper, 70 x 45 inches, 1998
Image © Atul Dodiya.
Born in Bombay to a family that had migrated to the west-coast metropolis from Kathiawar in Gujarat, Atul Dodiya is one of India’s most acclaimed postcolonial artist. Dodiya’s paintings, assemblages and sculpture-installations embody a passionate, sophisticated response to the sense of crisis he feels, as an artist and as a citizen, in a transitional society damaged by the continuing asymmetries of capital yet enthused by the transformative energies of globalisation.