Artist: Madhu Chitrakar
Treffi: 2010
koko: 397 x 56 cm
museo: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
Tekniikka: Fabric
The French Revolution is a historical subject that reappears occasionally among Patua artists as a communal one, ever since the Alliance Française commissioned a group of pats on the subject. The subject resonates with the artists as the events have a similar epic structure to the tales from the Ramayana. Traditionally, the first frame of a scroll shows an enthroned god or goddess — the subject of the story. This scroll by Madhu Chitrakar (India b.1967) has a similar structure, depicting the king and queen in the first frame while, below them, an elaborate guillotine, more mythic creature than machine, delivers justice or retribution.Patachitra, or ‘pats’, are scroll paintings from West Bengal, intimately bound up with itinerant storytelling and songs. Historically, patachitra were cloth scrolls on which mythological or epic stories were painted as a sequence of frames. The artists (patua) would travel from village to village, slowly unrolling the scrolls and singing the stories. Patachitras have been compared to cinema frames or animation, and are said to be one of the oldest forms of audiovisual communication.Exhibited in
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