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| Rebel With A Cause Seeks Refuge
In Canvas |
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There's Been A streak of rebellon in Sanjeev Khandekar ever since he can remember So, even as he takes charge as Sr. Vice President (Power) with Reliance he doubles up as an artist beyond his office con-and paints all that you cannot think of.
Khandekar's works, collected under the title Rumour of the Truth, are all arresting - not because they take you to a fantasy land where everything is beautiful because you're transported to an ugly, real world that shows you people masturbating, peeing in public and every such thing.
Rumour Of The Truth, Sanjeev Khandekar's first solo exhibition in Delhi is about all that you cannot think of |
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| Photo: Manoj Verma |
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Well, we, do have such people amidst us, but do you really want to see them on the canvas too, when you can probably hop on to the next dark alley?
"I was influenced a lot by the social movements during my college days. And my creativity found a vent in writing," says the artist who has been one of the youngest writers to win a Sahitya Kala Parishad award d for his first book published in 1980, called Ashant Parvo. Incidentally, he has also been the editor of Sri-San, the journal of a premier NGO, for five years. Beginning to wield the brush too was a natural move as he always took pleasure in painting since he was eight and growing up in Sangli, Maharashtra.
Khandekar says that his works reflect the general mood amongst the youth the world over, which is due to the absence of any ideology. '"The world has changed tremendously in the past few years. Now, it's easier for the people to take up new things and individuals are finding their own ways. We need to fill the gap between the world of the past and today's world by creating new myths," he says. So, he has devoted a few of his canvases to filling this gap, which he says, "all reinforce the fragility of truth."
The most striking thing about all of Khandekar's canvases is that faces are all quite ugly and traumatised. "I've deliberately tortured the faces because that is what the reality today is. We all have so many tensions and concerns occupying our minds all the time, and it all reflects on our faces," he explains.
Khandekar is all praise for Sharon Apparao of Apparao Galleries, Chennai, which is hosting this exhibition. "We met nine months back and she has encouraged me so much. I must really thank her for all that," he says. Beyond his life as
an artist, a writer and a professional, Khandekar is enjoying his stay in the city.
"Delhi is a very nice, laidback city even though there is so much happening here. Mumbai comes on to you; people seem to be on you all the time. Thankfully that is not the case in Delhi," he says. Hopefully, the world will change enough for handekar to keep interpreting it likewise. |
— Rumour Of The Truth is on at the Garden Theatre, Triveni Kala Sangam, Tansen Marg,
Till November |
| -Hindustan Times, 6th November 2003 |
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