Artist: Madhu Chitrakar
Date: 2012
Size: 345 x 56 cm
Museum: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
Technique: Fabric
This scroll by Madhu Chitrakar (India b.1967) is a ‘Yama pat’, Yama referring to the Lord of Death. Yama pats are often bloodthirsty and graphic depictions of hell, illustrating scenes such as a liar’s tongue being removed with hot tongs, or crabs devouring the sexual organs of a sinner. 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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