Artist: Jaba Chitrakar
Date: 2010
Size: 344 x 56 cm
Museum: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
Technique: Fabric
The The fight between Goddess Durga and Goddess Ganga scroll by Jaba Chitrakar (India b.1960s) depicts a battle between two of Shiva’s wives. Durga is the demon-fighting aspect of Parvati, the goddess of power, love and spiritual fulfilment. Ganga is the river goddess. The artist disassembles the traditional frames of the patachitra, presenting a loosely flowing chronology.Patachitra, or ‘pats’, are scroll paintings from West Bengal, intimately bound up with itinerant storytelling and songs. Historically, patachitra were cloth scrolls on which mythological or epic stories were painted as a sequence of frames. The artists (patua) would travel from village to village, slowly unrolling the scrolls and singing the stories. Patachitras have been compared to cinema frames or animation, and are said to be one of the oldest forms of audiovisual communication.Exhibited in
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