Amol Patil
dal 21/10/2013 al 14/12/2013
Segnalato da
21/10/2013
Amol Patil
Clark House Initiative, Bombay
"Social Theatre" is set as a dialogue between a father and a son. The son, who is an artist today, revisits his father's work as an actor and playwright. Patil's practice is performance based.
Social Theatre is set as a dialogue between a father and a son. The son, who is an artist today, revisits his father's work as an actor and playwright. Though it is a personal narrative, the artist also conveys to his lost father, of his own situation today. He remarks and exclaims with his father’s personal remains. Though it is a one-side conversation he imagines his father to be a part of it. He talks about the dead objects, which remain, in his village and his home. He sets them in motion, like a jerk, in an attempt to wake something or someone up. The whole show in each step is a series of conversations, which trigger many situations that Amol analyses from the vantage of his own battles today.
Amol Patil is an artist based in Bombay whose practice is performance based. He comes from a family of traditional folk performers. His grandfather Gunaji Patil, was a 'Povada Shahir' or a 'Poet Performer' who travelled across villages in Maharashtra narrating ballads of heroic deeds. Amol's father Kisan Gunaji Patil migrated to Bombay to work at the municipal corporation, but he was also an avant-garde playwright who formed a theatre group scripting absurdist experimental plays with absurdist situations that discussed the ravages of immigration on the personal lives of the people, describing madness, and discussing the trauma of migration to the city, families torn apart by the jobs the cotton mills of the city offered. He graduated from Rachna Sansad Bombay in 2009.
Select exhibitions include: 'Many I', Clark House Bombay, August 2013; 'Decolonising Imaginaries', Kadist Art Foundation Paris, June 2013; 'Transnational Pavillion', 55th Venice Biennale, June 2013; 'L'exigence de la Saudade', Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, May 2013; 'ICU Jest', Kochi Muziris Biennale, December 2012; 'World Event Young Artists', (WEYA) Arts Festival, Nottingham, September 2012, 'Visas Revisited', Clark House Bombay, September 2012; 'Visa Rejects', New Zero Arts Space, Yangon, September 2012; 'Gulab: A Non-Aligned Elephant', Prague Zoo, June 2012; 'Shunya', Clark House Bombay, May 2012.
- Text by Poonam Jain
Image: Amol Patil, still from 'Asylum for dead objects', video, 2013.
Exhibition opens: Tuesday, 22 October, 2013
Clark House Initiative is a curatorial collaborative and a union of artists based in Bombay.
Address: c/o RBT Group, Ground Floor, Clark House, 8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road),
Bombay 400039. Opposite Sahakari Bhandar and Regal Cinema, next to Woodside Inn.