Heaven in an exhibition: Rohini Devasher at Mudec
The artist, deservedly awarded 'Artist of the Year' by Deutsche Bank, is the subject of an exhibition entitled 'Borrowed Light', which runs until 2 November.
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It is surprising how for us Westerners, heirs to the culture of the Mediterranean navigators and "children of the Odyssey", the relationship with the sky and its stars has been lost in just a few generations, no longer guides and companions of the night and of travel, but kits of a contaminated horizon to which very few turn their gaze. Instead, the investigation of Rohini Devasher, an artist from India, deservedly awarded 'Artist of the Year' by Deutsche Bank as part of the prestigious global award dedicated to contemporary art, starts precisely from the observation of the sky.
Rohini Devasher
"This is work on the atmosphere that comes from what is done at the Bangalore Observatory, where I have done a lot of work. It is a model that traces the first image of the Earth taken from space, and I introduced my view of the sky with it, on what is the image of the sky taken from a radio telescope. So I dissected and trisected it, in three different models,' the artist explains.
Ipermanence, light and time are the compasses of the poetics of this artist who makes her point of observation of the sky the prism for a cultural, ideological and linguistic reflection, as well as a dreamlike one, in her delicate and at the same time sure gaze on the sensitive balances of planet Earth, put to the test by wild pollution and unusual exploitation.
Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture at Deutsche Bank
"Rohini Devasher is an Indian artist from Delhi. Her work is really special because we get a completely new look at the relationship between art, science and philosophy. And we really thought it was interesting to give her this award precisely because it gives us a new perspective,' comments Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture at Deutsche Bank. And again: 'Indian culture is very important and Rohini naturally works in India and finds her roots in India. But the approach we took in choosing her was to be as all-embracing as possible when examining her art. And then she deals with the sky. We all live under the same sky. In Rohini's work, there was also the description of the Indian Observatory. We have an analogy with the Brera Observatory here in Milan,' Färber adds.
