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The Close Observer

PACHPUTE, Prabhakar

© Courtesy of the artist and Experimenter, Kolkata/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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The Close Observer and Rattling Knot are two banner paintings that can be displayed together on a painted mural background connecting and extending the compositions. They represent post-industrial landscapes, devoid of plants and trees and populated with strange figures and surrealist imagery. The artist Prabhakar Pachpute grew up in Chandrapur, central India where three generations of his family worked in the region’s coal mines. His work often explores the traces of the global mining industry, creating other-worldly environments that are powerful and imaginative evocations of the exploitation of the worker and the destruction of nature.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 25070

Creation/Production

PACHPUTE, Prabhakar
Date: 2020

Measurements

Height (cm): 214
Width (cm): 488

Techniques

acrylic on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

acrylic
charcoal pencil
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Tags

  • Art And Design Movements
  • Communities And Society
  • Fine Art
  • Industrial Landscape
  • Industry And Work
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Features
  • Mining And Quarrying
  • Pachpute, Prabhakar
  • Painting
  • Pollution
  • Surrealism

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