ARTIST STATEMENT

I, Neelkanti Patekar, am a ceramic sculptor from Mumbai, India. A ‘Self Taught’ one. It came very naturally to me. I began working in Dec. 2012, & continued working till date…

I like to work on Concepts … Expressions …. Thoughts … what I believe in is my sculptures happen when clay & creativity combine….  

Touching clay connects me to my origin… my soil… gives me immense satisfaction…

My Imagination… my brainwaves… pass through my fingers…

I hear nobody… say nothing…

Tranquil moments… vibrating… never still… hours pass by like moments…

Once you touch clay… it touches you… deep within… it’s very ‘touching’…

Every living being has a journey… coming from clay… & returning to it…

 

With the initializing of my experience in the International Arena, I feel, Art cannot be just enclosed in Art Galleries – Museums – or exposed in Art Expos, it should have its expression out in open… in the gardens… corners of the roads… in the vast lounges & corridors of the endless buildings… in the complexes of the high rises…

Because it does not eat up the FSI…

It gives vision… an outlook towards life… a thought that is deep rooted & deep routed…

 & makes you more human…

 

BIOGRAPHY

Participated in

: Participated In India Art Fair 2014.

: ART EXPO NEW YORK 2015

: ASIAMANIA 2015, Seoul, Korea

: SELECT NYC Art fair 2015 during Frieze Art Week New York