Accents of Indian & Dutch Culture

 
 

Bhaskar Hande was born in 1957 in Umbraj, district Pune, India.
He lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands since 1983. He is a versatile artist.
His ambitions to be busy with verious disciplines of art, identifies him as the poet, painter,
sculptor and graphic designer. He published three books of collection of poems in 1990,
1995 and 2001. The project 'Your form is my creation' is his visual tribute to seventeen
century Bhakti poet 'Tukaram' has become first in it's kind of Indian history. Hande's
Indianness is not ethnicity worn on the sleeve; it is the very substance of his cultural
identity in multicultural global community of artists. Hande has been living many years
in Europe,


his cultural signature has remained the same. Apart from his development Hande thinks
day to day life, living and working in another country and culture than where he grew up.
This process gives him creative impulses; every year he lives a couple of months in India,
vice versa in Europe. He exhibits in India and in Europe. The change in surrounding keeps
his thoughts constant in process. His works represent meditative fall of his merging
colours and changing environments. The colours become brighter , forms are clear than
ever and words are more mysteries.

 

 

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The concept developed in my mind while travelling through Europe and India with the project “Show Your Hope”. What would I do with thousands and thousands of images taken during the journey? As I pondered over this idea of ‘A Black Substance’ I read some Western philosophy. My curiosity and interest grew in a wide range of subjects. Since I’ve been writing poems, painting, drawing and sculpting, I realized that I’ve been a very meditative person all my life. Actually, I lived my life ignoring some of the facts and practices involved in modern-day meditation. But I focused on various subjects that have occupied me over the years and imaginatively pursued their development. I found some way of working with images and produced the visuals that reflect the philosophies I’m concerned with here.