Freedom to March: Rediscovering Gandhi through DandiOn March 12th, 1930 Gandhi left his home in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmadabad with a mission to gain complete
freedom for India from British Rule. Gandhi and his entourage walked through 40
villages along the western coast of the state of Gujarat and reached Dandi on
and Gandhi refuted the British Salt Law by making/picking up salt himself. This
simple act turned to be one of the biggest symbolic acts in Indian political
history. Over a period of one year in 2009, some of
India’s most well known contemporary artists travelled the same route that
Mahatma Gandhi took in 1930 to better understand Gandhi’s role in contemporary
Indian history and in the future of India’s cultural and social fabric. The
artworks presented have been specially created for this exhibition.The project is presented by Ojas Art, a Delhi
based art gallery and is curated by Anubhav Nath and Johny ML. The
participating artists are: A Ramachandran, Alok Bal, Arunkumar HG, Atul Dodiya,
Gigi Scaria, Gaman Palem, Hindol Brahmbhatt, Jagannath Panda, KG Subramanyan,
KM Madhusudhanan, KS Radhakrishnan, Manjunath Kamath, Murali Cheeroth, Mugdha
Joshi, Prasad Raghavan, Probir Gupta, Rameshwar Broota, Shiv Verma, Shreyas
Karle,Sudhir Patwardhan, Sumedh Rajendran, Sukesan Kanka,Sudhanshu Sutar TV
Santhosh,V Viswanadhan,Vicky Roy,Vivek Vilasini,V P Balakrishnan, Yashwant
Deshmukh.The show has been previously shown in Delhi
at Lalit Kala Akademi (2010) and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
(2011) and after the Nehru Centre, London shall be exhibited at The Gandhi
Memorial Center, Washington DC.
