Subodh Kerkar

B-1959

1 Artworks

Born in 1959, Subodh gave up his medical profession to pursue his passion, Visual Art. For the past 20 years he has experimented with different media creating a niche for himself, especially in the field of land art and installations. He has had major shows from 1992 to 2008 in various cities of India, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Goa, Pondicherry, Cochin, Trivandrum and abroad in Zurich, award winning installation for Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival, South Korea; Norway, Macao. In 2000 he won the first prize in Kaka Academy, Goa. He lives and works in Goa. Subodh Kerkar's work, while acknowledging the artistic debt to earlier artistic practices that brought art out of the museum to public spaces, adds to it the poetic evocation of specific sites and material genealogies with locally sourced as well as used media. If palm leaves, rice saplings, bamboo and used boats bring together lived life and art, mussel shells and sand evoke the sea that is definitive of Kerkar's work. The sea becomes internal as well as external, material as well as metaphor in a dramatic encounter between the mythical and modern. This deep indigenous element in his work can be said to be the signature of his art.