Give and Take in Art

Give and Take in Art between Holland and India started in 1997. My thoughts rolled over the process of learning and practising as an artist and poet in a foreign country. My being a painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet was diverse enough to roll out my thoughts to organise artistic activities between the East and the West. Actually, I am at the last corner of the square where I could meet and reflect myself. I complete the square too. 23 years ago, after completing a 5 year academic education in Applied Arts from Mumbai, I landed in Holland to learn painting, where I learnt painting and pursued my artistic endeavours, by adhering to the Dutch way of looking and understanding European Art at a Dutch Academy.

Today, I have invited artists from India, most are 25 years younger than me, and a college mate from Mumbai days who witnessed my formative years as an artist. World around us has changed a lot drastically. It has been changing always, no matter what the circumstances are, but speed of change is today geared in a flying mood. In field of art, methods and medium have developed a new sky space called cyber space. Technology innovated solutions to problems of methods and systems. Innovators served the purpose of mankind to work in better environment. Moving offices adding dramatic theatre spaces to step in. Interiors of living spaces surfaced the elements that make persons feel more comfortable at home. Spiritual thirst began to seek silence in information space. Sound and visual brought together to create another planet of neighbours. Computer unit is your buddy, internet connection are the strings of your guitar or sitar and you google Aladdin's lamp to enter Alibaba's cave.