Lot 102: Jagannath Panda (b. 1970)

Jagannath Panda (b. 1970)
The Tarrace - II (sic)
signed and dated 'jagannath panda 06' (lower left); signed, inscribed, titled, and dated twice 'The Tarrace - II JAGANNATH PANDA Jagannath Panda 06 2006 size 6' x 4' ft Acrylic' (on the reverse)
acrylic and fabric on canvas
71½ x 47¾ in. (181.5 x 121.5 cm.)
Executed in 2006

Recent Works by Jagannath Panda, Berkley Square Gallery, London, June 2006

A resident of New Delhi's fast growing suburb Gurgaon, Jagannath Panda's paintings often deal with issues of migration and urbanization. Born to a family of priests, Panda's choice of imagery in this work reflect his concerns of hybridity, as we find two mythical gods clad in traditional fabric embracing on the roof a multi-storied apartment. Issues of tradition/modernity, privacy/publicity, movement/stillness, isolation/population all come to mind as we are reminded of Panda's own displacement in an ever-expanding city. "Panda has steadily constructed a language of alienation that is contained paradoxically within images of settlement. In small or large format, he works through the positioning of opposites, of the enforcing of structures and the evacuation of life forms, of mythic cycles and contemporary time, of value and its imminent loss." (G. Sinha, Recent works by Jagannath Panda, Exhibition Catalogue, Berkeley Square Gallery, London, June 2006)