Bhaskar Hande's Blog – October 2009 Archive (4)

The sense of belonging

A personal view



In India I have very often been asked: how did you get interested in Tukaram? A question that is asked by common people, journalists, press reporters, critics and enthusiasts who know the background. They were simply puzzled by my passion.



My journey led me from Umbraj to Bombay, and then to The Hague in Holland. I was a 17-year-old teenager from Umbraj, who had spent nine years as a Mumbaikar and twenty-five years as a… Continue

Ousia/Being

A Black Substance / Substancia Nigro



In recent project Palkhisohala, I have been drawing, taking photographs, absorb minds of people, meeting to strangers too and documenting incidents in visual forms. Many photographs are taken as critical observation of objects and its artistic value in area of appreciation. Object or subject takes attention to view and chew. In visual documentation one need to know what is importance of images is. Monument is objet that explain… Continue

While talking of hope and its directions of horizon with participant artists make me think very much bolder and wider then ever. Either side of hope between person and legal authoritarian transformed transparent fields into fugitive. Artists make them again insider of fugitive caves that shows other side brighter light beams try to break through. Contemporary subject are out of many subjects asks more attention. Because war seem always been contemporary subject to any generation. More ever, one… Continue

Artists Residency



Give and Take in art between Holland and India started in 1997. My thoughts rolled over the process of learning and practising as an artist and poet in a foreign country. Being a painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet was diverse enough to roll out my thoughts to organise artistic activities between thw East and the West.



Basically I am the last corner of the square where I could meet and reflect myself. I complete the square me too. 23 years ago, after… Continue