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Audio visual presentation by Jagannath Panda

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Jagannath Panda was born in Bhubaneswar in 1970 and received his BFA in sculpture from the BK College of Arts & Crafts, Bhubaneswar in 1991   and MFA in sculpture from the MS University, Baroda in 1994. Subsequent studies took him to the Fukuoka University of Japan and the Royal College of Art in London, where he received an MA degree in sculpture in 2002. His art  appeared at Nature Morte in New Delhi and Berlin, Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai, and Alexia Goethe Gallery in London. Group exhibitions include Indian Highway IV at the Lyons Museum of Contemporary Art,Coach Outlet  France, Indian Highway V  at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Transformation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Chalo! Replica Mulberry handbags India at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Where in the World at the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, Midnight's Children at Studio la Citta in Verona, Italy, Re Writing Landscape CHINA/INDIA, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul. No-Mad-Ness in No Man's Land, Eslite Gallery, Taiwan and DAIRY Island, Dairy Art Centre, London,replica Louis Vuitton handbags   among many others. His art can be found in the collections of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; the Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; and the Devi Foundation, New Delhi.

Panda is known for creating images that are deceptively simple. Often, his works consist of light, linear drawings and melting of liquid shapes placed on the surface. At the same time, the works also reflect conflicts between ecology and development, nature and technology.

Panda's works are often inspired by his immediate surroundings: Orissa, his native state, and his current home in chaotically urban New Delhi. For example, he mixes the traditional palm leaf drawings of Orissa with architectural motifs showing multinational enterprises and call-centres from New Delhi, illustrating the paradoxical co-existence of different worlds while also highlighting how the success of the business community is creating palpable change within Indian society.

Through his art, Panda brings together many binary opposites, juxtaposing nature and culture, the urban and the rural, tradition and innovation, and the figurative and the abstract. In his works he brings together these opposing scenarios to form a coherent whole through deft colour treatment and a personal aesthetic sensibility.

Animal life also plays an important part in the artist's circle of motifs. Animals represent people, gods, or the cycle of life. The work God and Goat from 2007 casts a goat as the main protagonist. The goat is a symbol for sacrifices to the gods, but in some cases it can also be an avatar of the god Prakriti. In Hinduism, Prakriti represents Mother Nature, and it may be in order to accentuate this symbolism that Panda has an umbilical cord, terminating in a red cloth ball, emanating from the goat's belly. The goat is also decked out in a range of patterns reminiscent of embroidery and painted in red, black and white colours. These colours can represent the three spiritual qualities: 'Sattva', goodness and happiness; 'Rajaher', passion and movement; and finally 'Tamas': darkness and ignorance.

Panda's staging of the goat reclining on a pewter box is a testament to an enchanted universe where modern-day rationality locks horns with religion and fantasy. India's contrasts between past and present are powerfully expressed in the artist's work.

He lives and works in Gurgaon, Haryana, India

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