In his exhibition at the Jameel Arts Center in Dubai, Indian artist Prabhacker Pashabouta is monitoring the protest movements that his country has seen in recent years by farmers for their rights.

The exhibition, which opened yesterday, is part of the artist's series entitled 'Sea of ​​Fists', in which he combines charcoal, acrylic and sculpture, to reveal several facts about society within abstract forms of human bodies and tools used in agriculture, according to events and bleak climate.

The Indian artist recounts the story of the farmers and their defense of their rights, in his works on wooden planks, and then completed the painting on the walls of an eight-meter high room, which gave the scene a visual extension, and then broke this extension by placing a sculpture in the center of the room, carried out by Parisian plaster, metal, wood, coconut fibers and fabrics, giving carved different dimensions, combining the hands of human crowds with the animal body on which it relies for agricultural work.

Integrated project

Regarding the exhibition, which will run until February 15, Basbouta told Emirates Today: “The basic idea started almost three years ago, and it was an integrated project. The paintings on the walls were presented in an earlier exhibition last year, but the painting was completed with The paintings are presented for the first time at the Jamil Arts Center in Dubai. ” He pointed out that he always seeks to change the way the works and paintings are displayed according to the space presented to him, pointing out that he does not follow certain plastic schools when he starts drawing for an exhibition, despite the emergence of the expressionist or Cyrillic trend in the paintings, but he always seeks to present events according to Stories, farmers used their power to get their rights, which he sought to highlight first in the work. He added that as an artist he has worked a lot on the theme of the earth and human problems, and therefore was combined through this exhibition between these two elements, stressing that he believes that the artwork should carry a clear and explicit social message, even if it is the principle of transferring reality, because it undoubtedly, will leave The public has an impression of what is happening. On the implementation of the Jameel Center, he said: "I worked on the walls for two weeks, and completed the exhibition with two films, the first (Animation), the other documentary, and through the first I expressed the mountains that disappeared in Brazil, and the second about the customs in Indian society, and what disappeared." As for the exhibition in Dubai, he said that he was his first individual, while previously participated in «Art Dubai», expressing his happiness to show his creations at the Center for the Arts, especially in the work of assignments in the rooms of artists.

The cruelty of reality

Scenes portrayed by the Indian artist surreal-oriented, combining abstract and expressive, deliberately stripping the bodies, and monitor the movements of farmers across their bodies, to replace the faces and some members with their tools in the daily work, Vtaat human features, and show tools instead, which gives the work a special atmosphere, In it expressive enough to demonstrate the cruelty of reality monitored.

The tools provided by the artist increase the severity of the scene that is trying to convey, some of them sharp or heavy tools, and require great strength, which makes them essential in monitoring the idea.

The colors in this room are largely bleak, as the Indian artist used charcoal mainly, making the works based on a black base, and complement the dark atmosphere through the bodies and movements shown, it presents them in the forms of monitoring fatigue and work according to performance signals used by farmers during their protests and marches Silent that they organized.

Take the receiving artist from the outside world, to involve him in his own world, a world that does not carry human features, but human aches and life issues, to feel that you are part of this issue.

As the artist deliberately austerity colors used, increasing color will dispel the scenes and the idea that he is working on, it is looking at a controversial issue through the integrated color language, and therefore reflection on the differences of class, having worked a lot in the previous period on the ground, and highlights these few colors of his choice. Depends on highlighting details through the dark color gradations between black and gray, as well as by relying on the balance of light and shadows in the paintings.

Biography

Born in 1986, Prabhacker Pashpouth lives and works in Pune, India. The artist uses a variety of media and techniques, including painting, light, animation, sound and objects in his works. In his work, he creates a dramatic atmosphere, using portraiture and the ground area with a surrealist tinge to delve deeper into the issues he deals with.

Pashbot has a degree in fine arts and stereoscopic art from the University of IKS and a master's degree from the University of Baroda. He has exhibited a number of individual exhibitions between Bombay and Milan, and has participated in group exhibitions in several cities, including London, Barcelona and Istanbul.

Basbouta:

"I have worked a lot on the theme of the earth and humanitarian problems, and I believe that the artwork should carry a clear and explicit social message."

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Next February, the first solo exhibition for the Indian artist in Dubai.