Atul Bhalla: Contemporary Landscape and the Depths of the Historical Field
by Kathleen L Wyma Created in 2014, Atul Bhalla's Contestation I captures the topographical expanse of a South African savannah as it stretches towards a distant horizon. In catching the diffused daylight as it skips across the varied textures of the terrain, the carefully composed photograph attests to the artist's finely-honed
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by Parul Singh “You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
- Heraclitus
“You always step into the same river.” - Atul Bhalla
Atul Bhalla’s latest show at Vadhera Art Gallery titled Anhedonic Dehiscence brings together some of his old and new works
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by Meera Menezes As a marauding axe invades the innards of a tree, chipping away slowly but persistently in Atul Bhalla’s video installation “Sap”, the lines of Gieve Patel’s poem “On killing a tree” spring to mind.
“It takes much time to kill a tree
Not a simple jab of the knife
Will do it. It has grown
Slowly
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by Shukla Sawant To understand the dynamics of Atul Bhalla’s work, it is important to engage with the environmental concerns of a generation that came of age in the 1990s. A generation that inherited a post industrial landscape of debris, detritus of manufacturing waste and a fragile ecosystem tottering on the edge
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