Parag Tandel
1. Parag Tandel
(Installations 2022)
1. ‘The coast is clear: Underscapes & आमचं तं सगलंच गेलं?/ We have lost everything?’
2. Into the Bones’
3. ‘Estuaries of waning sounds-2’
A documentation of a forest within forest this is Tandel’s community's ancient sentiment, the way they discern the ocean as forest. The eviction of crab burrow space in dental plaster is an allegorical articulation of my community’s feelings driving through the trauma of displacement and loss.
‘Into the Bones’ sculptural installation is comparative research between land and ocean earthly culture, here material culture is very important in an image-making cycle, each material creates the image in mind as we recite them it creates mind maps of Anthropology, Technique utilized to formulate is known as Dokhra art craft, this is very ancient test Indian indigenous technology to cast metal objects, it is evidence of human cognitive evolution.
‘Estuaries of waning sounds-2’ socially engaged pop-up museum of indigenous fisherfolks tribes of Mumbai, a museum of linguistic heritage, Koli tribes have their distinct jargon which is connected to ocean life. ‘Language’ is an archeological site to unravel their past narratives which associate them to their intuition since Stone Age. In these climate crises, we crave for a language that informs us about long-term sustainability.
In each piece, body of material interrogates how the fields in the material can be transformed into a new tool, Excavation of language as locality investigates air as an element that is related to sound as an entity. Paper as a simple substance migrates beyond and alters itself into membranes of land and water, it serves as a fluid shapeshifter.
Location: Gallery MMB, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Location: Lawns of the Children’s Museum, CSMVS
© Parag Tandel
Parag Tandel (b. 1978), is a Mumbai-based artist with a post-Diploma in Creative Sculpture from M. S University, Baroda (2005) and Diploma in sculpture and modelling from Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai (2003). Tandel’s solo exhibitions include Pregnant Room 1 and Pregnant Room 2, both showcased at Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai,( 2008 & 2010) Chronicleat TARQ, Mumbai (2016) and Autopolisphilia curated by Noopur Desai at Sudarshan art gallery, Pune, India (2018). He has also been part of various group shows across India including Baroda March, Mumbai (2015); Small is Big, Durbar Hall, Kochi (2013); Earth Art Project Tansa, Arka Art Trust, Mumbai (2013); Upvan Art Festival, Thane (2013); Small is Beautiful , Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012); The Art of Drawing, The Guild, Mumbai (2011); TAKE 2, Aarushi Arts, Delhi (2011); Untitled 2010, Artkonsult, Delhi (2010); and AvaGard, Threshold Art Gallery, Delhi (2009) among others.
Some of his public art projects include Tandel Fund of Archives, pop-up museum of fisherfolk, Mumbai (2020 & 2019); (En)counters- Daily Rations Public art project, curated by Artoxygen, Breathing art works, Mumbai (2017); Geographies of consumptions, Mumbai (2015); Big Catch, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai (2012); and Sandarbh, Rajasthan (2011). Tandel has been a recipient of the Jhunjhunwala Scholarship Award (2003); Maharashtra State Art Award (2003); and All India Art and Craft Society State Award (2003). Additionally, he has participated in residencies at the Banboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan (2018) Piramal Art Residency (2017), Space 118 (2015), Mumbai and in Partapur, Rajasthan.
He currently lives and works in Thane, Mumbai.
(Installations 2022)
1. ‘The coast is clear: Underscapes & आमचं तं सगलंच गेलं?/ We have lost everything?’
2. Into the Bones’
3. ‘Estuaries of waning sounds-2’
A documentation of a forest within forest this is Tandel’s community's ancient sentiment, the way they discern the ocean as forest. The eviction of crab burrow space in dental plaster is an allegorical articulation of my community’s feelings driving through the trauma of displacement and loss.
‘Into the Bones’ sculptural installation is comparative research between land and ocean earthly culture, here material culture is very important in an image-making cycle, each material creates the image in mind as we recite them it creates mind maps of Anthropology, Technique utilized to formulate is known as Dokhra art craft, this is very ancient test Indian indigenous technology to cast metal objects, it is evidence of human cognitive evolution.
‘Estuaries of waning sounds-2’ socially engaged pop-up museum of indigenous fisherfolks tribes of Mumbai, a museum of linguistic heritage, Koli tribes have their distinct jargon which is connected to ocean life. ‘Language’ is an archeological site to unravel their past narratives which associate them to their intuition since Stone Age. In these climate crises, we crave for a language that informs us about long-term sustainability.
In each piece, body of material interrogates how the fields in the material can be transformed into a new tool, Excavation of language as locality investigates air as an element that is related to sound as an entity. Paper as a simple substance migrates beyond and alters itself into membranes of land and water, it serves as a fluid shapeshifter.
Location: Gallery MMB, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Location: Lawns of the Children’s Museum, CSMVS
About the artist
© Parag Tandel
Parag Tandel (b. 1978), is a Mumbai-based artist with a post-Diploma in Creative Sculpture from M. S University, Baroda (2005) and Diploma in sculpture and modelling from Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai (2003). Tandel’s solo exhibitions include Pregnant Room 1 and Pregnant Room 2, both showcased at Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai,( 2008 & 2010) Chronicleat TARQ, Mumbai (2016) and Autopolisphilia curated by Noopur Desai at Sudarshan art gallery, Pune, India (2018). He has also been part of various group shows across India including Baroda March, Mumbai (2015); Small is Big, Durbar Hall, Kochi (2013); Earth Art Project Tansa, Arka Art Trust, Mumbai (2013); Upvan Art Festival, Thane (2013); Small is Beautiful , Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012); The Art of Drawing, The Guild, Mumbai (2011); TAKE 2, Aarushi Arts, Delhi (2011); Untitled 2010, Artkonsult, Delhi (2010); and AvaGard, Threshold Art Gallery, Delhi (2009) among others. Some of his public art projects include Tandel Fund of Archives, pop-up museum of fisherfolk, Mumbai (2020 & 2019); (En)counters- Daily Rations Public art project, curated by Artoxygen, Breathing art works, Mumbai (2017); Geographies of consumptions, Mumbai (2015); Big Catch, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai (2012); and Sandarbh, Rajasthan (2011). Tandel has been a recipient of the Jhunjhunwala Scholarship Award (2003); Maharashtra State Art Award (2003); and All India Art and Craft Society State Award (2003). Additionally, he has participated in residencies at the Banboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan (2018) Piramal Art Residency (2017), Space 118 (2015), Mumbai and in Partapur, Rajasthan.
He currently lives and works in Thane, Mumbai.