Richard Long and Jivya Soma Mashe
Photo courtesy of Padiglione d'Arte contemporanea
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Richard Long - Jivya Soma Mashe : A meeting in India
ITALY
MILAN • PAC - Padiglione d'Arte contemporanea • Ongoing
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This is the fourth show for the PAC under the artistic direction of Jean-Hubert Martin. The project originated when the celebrated land artist Richard Long met, in India, the master of the traditional art of the Warli tribe, Jivya Soma Mashe. It is curated by the writer and art critic Hervč Perdriolle who lived in India for many years and reaffirms Jean-Hubert Martin’s interest in non western art and dialogue between cultures.
In February 2003 Richard Long passed some time in the state of Maharashtra. He visited a number of villages and met Jivya Soma Mashe and the people of the Warli tribe. While he was there he created various works documented by a series of photographs on display in the exhibition. The two artists, highly appreciated in their respective cultures, were, however, unable to communicate with words, because Mashe only speaks the Warli language so they communicated above all through their art.
The artistic dialogue established between the works created in India by Richard Long, who used natural materials such as rice, ashes, water, or designed archetypical forms with earth, and the narrative paintings by Mashe performed with cow dung and acrylics continues in the exhibition mounted in the rooms of the PAC. Despite their differences, the works of the two artists reveal an affinity between their formal languages.
The exhibition contains a series of works by Jivya Soma Mashe on paper and painted on canvas dated from 1997 to 2003 and performed using white acrylic paint and dung. Large size works by Richard Long are displayed, created using mud and acrylic paint on wood panels dated 2003 together with a series of photographs that document the works created by the artist during his stay in India. Long has also created works especially for the exhibition. A documentary film is shown together with the works, entitled Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara, made in 1988 by the director Philippe Haas. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta with texts in Italian and French.
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