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Artists > Nikhil Chopra

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2010 Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
2007 Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory drawing II, Chattterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
2005 Sir Raja III, The Fourth Floor, Kitab Mahal, Mumbai. Supported by Chatterjee & Lal
2003 Sir Raja II, Kinnear Warehouse, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 
 


Artist's Statement

Live performance is central to my practice. The script or score for my performances revolve around making a drawing. My characters thus far, Sir Raja and Yog Raj Chitrakar, are semi-autobiographical. Yog Raj Chitrakar is a turn of the century (forgotten) Victorian draughtsman or landscape painter, who goes on expeditions as an explorer making chronicles of the world we live in. He uses drawing to document what he sees. The character is loosely based on my grandfather, Yog Raj Chopra, a landscape painter whose later life was spent in Kashmir recording in paint the grandeur of the Valley.

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