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From: Raju Sutar (Curator-Waves Art Gallery) <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 8:42:39 AM
Subject: 'The Unquenchable Road' An Art Installation by Raju Sutar
Riding a motorcycle is conversation with the road; painting is a conversation
with canvas, says Yash Moghe- Director of Waves Art Gallery. From 7th -15th
January 2011 the gallery opens the year with their calendar show; a unique art
installation comprising art works of Raju Sutar and Anji Mehra will come
together to create an experience for both art and bike lovers.
The installation will consist of Vintage bikes from Anji Mehraâs collection (one
of them will be his BSA Super rocket 650 twin cylinder on which he did the 18000
kms journey from England to India in 1965, the same year the India-Pakistan war
started). Alongside, photographs from Anjiâs road trips, 13 large Ganjifa-style
artworks and a canvas will narrate the aesthetics of biking.
Calendar shows for the gallery over the last couple of years have been a
recapitulation of the past; this year the curator chose a fresh start which
looks ahead and leaves the past behind. MORE......
About the artists
Anji Mehra
Anji âs passionate engagement with bike restoration, collection and the road
makes him an artist in the wider sense of the word. He loves restoring as well
as collecting old bikes and runs a tour company called Venture on Wheels with
his son, to support those who are eager to take the Indian back routes.
His first long journey was to North Africa with a friend who later accompanied
him to India from England in 1965. When Anji reached the Indian border the after
a three-month long 18000 kms journey, he was denied entry due to the outbreak of
the India- Pakistan War. He then went back through Afghanistan and Iran, and
finally took a streamliner from a little port called Khorram Shahar to (former)
Bombay.
Raju Sutar
âI used to draw bikes before I learnt to speak,â says Sutar, âI would mock the
number plate of my fathersâ Jawa 250 cc. On looking at these impressions my
father enrolled me into an English school because he thought I would be good at
studies!â
If one doesnât find Sutar working in a studio or a gallery, he is on the road
with his Enfield Machismo 500. His love for bikes often translates through his
works and his installations; in fact Sutar has been in the process of designing
a bike over the last year. Risks and obstacles of being on the road do not stop
Sutar, he simply bounces back when his doctors and dear ones calm down and hits
the road again!
- Tanushree Biswas
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