Né en 1934 Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Vit et travaille à Vadodara.
Diplôme M.S. Université de Baroda (sous la direction de Subramanyan et Bendre)
Membre du ‘Group 1890’ forme par J. Swaminathan en 1962, avec Jeram Patel, Himmat Shah, Raghav Kanneria et G. Sheikh.
Artiste fertile, Jyoti Bhatt utilisent de nombreux modes d’expressions : gravure, sérigraphie, photographie et peinture. Le medium et le sujet varient toujours, mais le but reste constant. Pour Bhatt, l’art est un moyen de documenter et d’illustrer son environnement. La photographie l’a conduit à approcher de nombreuses formes d’arts rituels et éphémères encore si vivaces en Inde. Enseignant à la fameuse école d’art de Baroda, il est un des acteurs et témoins privilégiés de la scène artistique la plus novatrice. Dans sa démarche qui vise a perpétuer l’héritage Indien en une expérience contemporaine esthétique, il utilise les motifs stylisés aux couleurs vives des tissus et broderies, les rangoli (les motifs dessinés sur le sol à l’entrée des temples et des maisons) ainsi que la calligraphie de sa région de Saurashtra.
Jyoti Bhatt réinvente le visuel esthétique, son style éclectique est tantôt décoratif, figuratif ou narratif.
Il découle de ce mélange des genres un art surprenant qui transgresse toutes les frontières entre l’art populaire et les beaux-arts, le rural et l’Urbain, le symbolique et le décoratif.
Born in 1934, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Lives and works in Vadodara.
Degree from M.S. University of Baroda (supervised by Subramanyan and Bendre)
Member of ‘Group 1890’ founded by J. Swaminathan in 1962 with Jeram Patel, Himmat Shah, Raghav Kanneria, and G. Sheikh.
An artist of fertile imagination, Jyoti Bhatt uses many different techniques: engraving, silk-screen, photography, and painting. The medium and subject always vary, but the goal remains the same. For Bhatt, art is a means to document and illustrate his environment. Photography has led him to approach the many forms of ritual, ephemeral art still alive and well in India. A teacher at the famous Baroda art school, he is one of the actors and privileged witnesses of the most innovative artistic scene. In his approach, which seeks to perpetuate the Indian heritage in a contemporary esthetic experience, he uses stylized motifs in the bright colors of fabrics and embroidery, rangoli (motifs drawn on the ground at the entrance to temples and houses), as well as calligraphy from his region, Saurashtra.
Jyoti Bhatt reinvents the visual esthetic in his eclectic style that is sometimes decorative, sometimes figurative, sometimes narrative. From this mixture of genres emerges a surprising art that crosses all the frontiers between popular and fine arts, the rural and urban, and the symbolic and decorative.
Expositions :
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Bombay Art Society, Bombay
Kalidasa Art, Ujjain
Bienneale jeunes artistes, Paris 1959-61
Group 1890, New Delhi, 1963
Triennale SaoPaulo, Bresil, 1969
Painters with camera, Bombay, 1969
Through the Indian Eyes, Indian Photographers Show, Holland.
Six Indian Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1998 Multimedia- Art of the 90s, CIMA Art Gallery, Calcutta.
1998 Printed Image- An Overview Retrospective Exhb. of Graphic Prints
1999 Solo exhb., Centre for Photography, National Center for Policy Analysis and The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. Icons and Symbols, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata.
2004 Printed Image- An Overview Retrospective Exhb. of Graphic Prints, ABS Bayer Gallery, Baroda.
2005 Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Cente
Collection :
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.
Craft Museum, New Delhi.
Art Heritage, New Delhi.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Smith Sonnian Museum, Washington DC.
Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Düsseldorf Art Museum, Düsseldorf.
British Museum, London.
Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal.
Centre for Photography, National Center for Policy Analysis, Mumbai.
CIMA, Kolkata.
Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
Recompenses :
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1963
1e prix timbre postal 25e anniversaire de l’Indépendance
1e prix gravure 1967
Médaille d’or, Inter print Biennale, Italy
World photo contest, Fotonika, Allemagne, 1978
Hon. Doctorate, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, 2004
Jyoti Bhatt
