ARTIST PROFILE

neelkanti nana patekar

  • India (b. 1955 in Pune)
  • Currently in Mumbai, India.
  • a self taught sculptor... no formal training... started work in 2013 for the first time...

REPRESENTATION

let's be a family

let's be a family

  • 2014
  • clay (ceramic)
  • Terracotta clay gives a very earthen look to this earthly relationship. Fired in a gas kiln at 1050 degrees centigrade without any glaze applied.
  • 8 x 13 x 10 cm
  • child’s long hands caress both the parents but a disjointed feeling existing between the two… makes the child non existent …

  • With separated parents it’s only the child who wants them together but the parents give a deaf ear to the child's whisper… ‘let’s be a family..’
  • let's be a family - thumbnail Harappa : Out of Indus valley civilization - thumbnail Hands of God - thumbnail A pregnant pause - thumbnail

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    mother & child... | 2013 - 2014

A bond within....