Freedom to March takes place after curators Anubhav Nath and Johny ML took an unprecedented journey with prominent Indian artists on the same route of Gandhi’s Salt March.
On March 12th, 1930 Gandhi left his home in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmadabad and announced that he would not go back until he gained complete freedom for India from British Rule. Gandhi and his entourage walked through 40 villages along the western coast of the state of Gujarat and reached Dandi on April 5th, 1930. The next day, Gandhi refuted the British Salt Law by making/picking up salt himself. This simple act turned out to be one of the biggest symbolic acts in Indian political history, which shook the cornerstone of the British Empire.
Today, we speak of resistance and alternative life styles and alternative aesthetic practices. In the realm of visual arts too, Gandhi has been an alluring subject and image.
Ojas Art approached this entire project with an open mind. This project is not about endorsing Gandhi within contemporary art practice. It is not about seeing Gandhi uncritically. It is about looking at India and its reality from a contemporary aesthetic perspective, in which Gandhi may be the best ‘route’ to understanding India.
Participating artists: A Ramachandran, Alok Bal, Arunkumar HG, Atul Dodiya, Gigi Scaria, Hindol Brahmbhatt, Jagannath Panda, KG Subramanyan, KM Madhusudhanan, KS Radhakrishnan, Manjunath Kamath, Murali Cheeroth, Prasad Raghavan, Probir Gupta, Rameshwar Broota, Shiv Verma, Shreyas Karle, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sumedh Rajendran, Sukesan Kanka, TV Santhosh, V Viswanadhan, Vicky Roy and Vivek Vilasini.
Curated by: Anubhav Nath and Johny ML
The show will run from the 12th-18th November, 2010.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lalit Kala Akademi
Copernicus Marg
New Delhi
