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Artist's
Statement
My works can
be today appreciated all over the world directly and through
top art galleries and designers from all four metros of this
country. I spend hours interacting with top art galleries,
designers, Page 3 people giving and taking feedback, which has
helped me become a national artist who has now gained footage
in the international arena. My work was recently very much
appreciated by famous artist M. F. Hussain on his last visit
to Satguru’s and well known designer Jogi panghaal.
I, Sushil Sakhuja, a self made artist, working in Tribal area
with tribal people with Traditional arts. But for me “Art is
more of Passion than Business”. I have made bronze my medium.
Bastaar Art is gets its name from the tribal village of
Bastaar. Recently I received the top recognition in the world
sculptors workshop held in Kunming, China in 2005, where I
made my country proud by making headlines in the electronic
and print media of China.
Coming from a transport business family, it was not easy to
deviate in to this world of art, where financial security was
not guaranteed at that stage. For the family it was like
leaving home and going to the woods. Many a times, as in life,
“seeming mistakes” prove to be breakthroughs.
My inspiration came from the tribal and their activities
around me whom I made the subject matter. Today, I eat, drink,
sit and work with Tribal and Tribal sculptures. I just convey
what I see and feel and rest is of course is history.
My motivation and subject matter evolve intuitively as I
sculpt. The final art comes forth from the realms within which
I guess are responses to my myriad surroundings, past, present
and future. I prefer to leave a certain element of surprise or
mystery, not fill in all the blanks or complete the sculpture,
thereby engaging the viewer’s imagination and allowing them to
get involved in the process.
Emotions get involved into the work to such an extent that
sometimes it becomes difficult to part with my creations. But
one has to keep o growing creating better than the best.
Today when I work, I work more for my brethren and the people
of Bastar. My aim is to put Bastar art on the world map for
its sculpture pieces. Bastar has given me so much that
today it has become a moral as well as a social
responsibility to see that lot of the people are improved.
I am an artist with a difference, who moves from one tribal
house to another, giving the tribal art ideas, inputs and
their quota of work, creating out new master pieces from time
to time, thus becoming a medium of interaction between the
urban and tribal art community, thereby being successful in
creating a market for my art.
I have always expressed myself artistically. Whether
sculpting, singing, playing the tendor, designing artifacts,
doing up peoples interiors or just being crafty. It is a soul
ex-pression for me and am blessed that my work speaks to
others at their own level. I am grateful to be able to share
my offerings with the universe.
I want to be a futurist for Bastar to-day. Today, I
personally, feel “Thinking in the future tense is a mandatory
skill in today’s fast forward world. Today I have already
planned for Bastar for the next 3 years |
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