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Finding My Way A Gondwana Journey Venkat Raman Singh Shyam A third-field artist renders his life in art that is as rooted in Gond expression as it is animated by an experience of the contemporary. ‘Although I don’t consider myself famous or important, I think my life story is unusual and I want to tell it in a new way—using both pictures and words. In certain ways this will also be an illustrated story of my community. I will walk you through Gond creation myths; my dreams of riding a winged horse; the first toy-cart my father made for me; my first bicycle ride; stories about my grandfather, Prasadi Lal Uikey, who could stop tigers in their tracks and birds in their flight; my aversion to the straightjacket of school; my life in Delhi as a rickshaw puller, as a cook, as a painter of signs; my latter-day encounters with doors that open automatically and water that flows without our having to touch the tap; and my personal experience of two internationally momentous events: the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, and two years later the many days I spent marooned at the Frankfurt airport owing to volcanic ash.’ ‘Represents an emergent third field of artistic production in contemporary Indian culture that is neither metropolitan nor rural, neither (post) modernist nor traditional, neither derived from academic training nor inherited without change from tribal custom. Indeed, thirdfield artists draw their energies from the adroit, dynamic management of knotty paradoxes’—Ranjit Hoskote, curator, Indian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2011, on Venkat Shyam’s fellow-artists from Madhya Pradesh Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, nephew of the legengary Jangarh Singh Shyam, is one of the torchbearers of contemporary Gond art. Mentored by Jangarh and the late Jagdish Swaminathan, he has exhibited widely in India, the US and Europe. 24
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