tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51917047539504763162024-03-14T00:38:48.301+05:30Rekha RodwittiyaA space of deliberation on life as I live it.Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-34580556363988823922023-02-03T13:59:00.001+05:302023-02-03T13:59:28.927+05:30A friend to so many of us - Remembering B.V Doshi In remembering Balakrishna Vithaldas Doshi today, I think it is only fitting that we do so without the trappings of grief, because that would be the antithesis of what this iconic man would desire from us. Four decades ago I was introduced to B.V Doshi by common friends Chester & Davy Herwitz and M.F Husain - I was in my twenties and he was in his fifties. I cannot quite remember exactly whatRekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-82834701268769900112020-08-05T11:07:00.003+05:302020-08-05T11:07:39.900+05:30I lost a dear friend.....I lost a dear friend. We had been together the same evening that a fatal stroke brought Jyotsna Bhatt's life to an abrupt end, without the slightest warning to allow me time to be more emotionally prepared. She has been my teacher - attempting through her grace and patience to make the clumsy attempts of my enthusiasm as a young student, find coherent shape and form in the clay that she had Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-72714905633936041812020-06-20T13:57:00.001+05:302020-06-20T13:57:59.607+05:30Tick-tock, who listens to the clock....The pandemic brought with it something many people of privilege found difficult to cope with - isolation, and the investment of spending time with oneself. I remember growing up on airforce bases with little or no contact with children of my own age, and as I was home schooled till I was seven, I was thrown into the exploration of finding an imaginative world to engage with. This perhaps led me Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-52003637575050214972020-06-15T16:23:00.000+05:302020-06-15T16:23:31.045+05:30In-between spaces are not necessarily gaps....!My last blog post was a long while back - May 2017 to be precise, and since then so much has happened in my life. I didn't plan to take a hiatus from writing - it just happened that my studio work and other management areas took over my time, leaving me with very little spill over to fit in anything "extra". I was sleeping only between two to four hours every night during this time - Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-6812349183615346222017-05-29T16:24:00.000+05:302017-05-29T16:28:36.334+05:30My friend Divya….
I have been very fortunate to have friends in my life that make special seem an ordinary word. How these friendships grow are perhaps those areas of magic we hold in our lives that do not get explained by logical means because perhaps they defy norms. One such person whom I hold close to my heart is my friend Divya. Only twenty-eight years old and previously a student of mine, she could Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-73379045430970473172017-05-27T17:12:00.002+05:302017-05-27T17:20:01.809+05:30Who's that knocking on our door….?
The dining table in our home has always been the central place at which the most interesting discussions take place. Lunch and dinner are meals where everyone sits together and conversations flow. Sometimes from a simple comment or an observation, what unfolds becomes pertinent areas that require contemplation and self reflection - to be chewed upon or reassessed. All in all Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-10593732425064682182017-05-25T19:49:00.002+05:302017-05-27T17:21:51.332+05:30It's good to wear your heart on your sleeve….
I have chosen to always be open as a person. To understand the difference between privacy and secrecy, and to above all nurture relationships with friends and loved ones that encourage sharing without second-guessing what the out come maybe for me. Many people believe that cultivating an openness that allows others to share your life is easy. Be rest assured that is not true. It takes more Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-27393276495422023452017-04-23T18:08:00.001+05:302017-04-23T18:08:10.485+05:30Keep real with yourself
Life is simple if you are able to identify what your priorities are and what you hold as a mission statement for your purpose in life. As a young mother I was not thrown off balance at the enormity of shouldering the responsibility of being a single parent and simultaneously studying to be an artist, because I had already found the anchor of purpose for my energies; and so to addressRekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-31506138727288240502017-04-14T20:42:00.000+05:302017-04-14T20:42:15.369+05:30No wolves down my chimney!
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Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-70910424276814896772017-04-10T17:36:00.004+05:302017-04-10T17:36:58.774+05:30From the sidelines...
As you grow older you gain a certain perspective that is wider and more comprehensive through experience and the accumulation of knowledge. Age allows you to often view situations from the sidelines and yet know what the crescendo will be before it actually occurs. This sharpness to perceive is because the mind has already been trained to recognise how to anticipate and Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-55154994389398258522017-04-08T11:53:00.003+05:302017-04-08T11:53:41.633+05:30To know oneself without fear...
With the pressures of academic achievements being underlined as imperative and peer group pressure to be uber cool, children find themselves lost in the labyrinth of self-doubt and go astray more easily than we imagine. Its easy to blame parents for everything related to children especially when the child shows signs of dysfunctionality, but perhaps we need to look closer at Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-33780799732168591792017-04-05T13:58:00.001+05:302017-04-05T13:58:34.963+05:30Turn off the bitch-switch please!
I am always a little startled at bitchiness and since Im not a wide-eyed babe-in-the-woods it isn't that I'm unaware of this manifestation of human behaviour as largely practiced by many - yet whenever I encounter it or hear about incidents that are underlined by this factor I am always rather appalled and saddened by it. I still find the 24 hours in a day not enough to do theRekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-7149538214230414332017-01-08T20:52:00.003+05:302017-01-08T20:52:44.719+05:30When the bubble bursts...
I cannot shake off the image of the molestation shown on TV recently where two men on a scooter in Bangalore were seen catching hold of a women who was walking home at night and violating her whilst onlookers stood and watched this brutal attack passively. How soon the the bubble of innocence bursts as perversity and criminality packaged in the most horrific acts of Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-58976395454518620482016-12-15T17:27:00.001+05:302016-12-15T17:29:50.898+05:30Why we write : artists & art writing (seminar paper for Critical Writing Ensemble 1 - 2015)
I started my career in 1984 at the age of 26.
I understood early on the importance for art practices and theoretical
enquiries to find their interconnection within discourses. However as a young
artist I began to observe how many art schools were beginning to debunk the rigours of their aesthetics and art history programs, thereby creating a
situation of even greater paucity for Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-59380610753853348562016-12-15T17:00:00.001+05:302016-12-15T17:00:18.885+05:30Lettered, literate or finger-tapping happy…?
Whenever I have to be interviewed regarding my work I
go through withdrawal symptoms….and wish I could be the proverbial turtle that
can pull back my head into my shell and let the world not see me. The reason is because I can close my eyes and know (on most occasions, the questions
that will come my way. Feminism as a politics of choice isn't always understood and so
besides the more Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-89914156295606937592016-12-14T17:18:00.001+05:302016-12-14T17:31:12.843+05:30At Sakshi Mumbai - Love done right can change the WorldRekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-60912188307034814842016-12-14T16:53:00.000+05:302016-12-14T16:53:10.072+05:30Love done right can change the World - 8th December 2016 to 7th January 2017
Do visit the exhibition at Sakshi Gallery Mumbai - 8th December 2016 to 7th January 2017Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-68520587694406685022016-12-03T20:31:00.000+05:302016-12-03T20:31:01.379+05:30Miss Lily….don't be silly!
Miss Lily is our newest member of the Sauparnika clan. Don't get me wrong, Begum our cat still rules supreme, however with a little segregation laws imposed! Well the story as always centres around me not being able to turn off the switch on my emotions and look the other way when anyone is the underdog (excuse the pun!). So as one thing led to another with me getting into spaying and Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-70751608605075374382016-11-27T19:44:00.000+05:302016-11-27T19:44:02.749+05:30Hello …I'm back.
It has been a long while since I have written my blog. When my mother passed away in January of 2014 I think I was so completely devastated by the suddenness of her death that I buried myself into my work so that I could cope with my loss. My studio hours grew longer and my sleep-time became even more reduced, leaving me vulnerable to falling ill and worn down by sheer exhaustion Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-11751741120458003672016-02-04T04:10:00.000+05:302016-02-04T04:10:09.530+05:30The Rituals of Memory-Personal folklores & other tales
The exhibition The Rituals of Memory : Personal folklore & other tales that opens at Aicon Gallery in New York has a selection of work from the last nine years which deals with my interest in creating personal mythologies as the stage for larger narratives to be explored.
The best part of a show is the day the works get displayed. The shift from having lived with the works in my Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-71540817547839955682016-02-04T01:33:00.001+05:302016-02-04T01:34:23.579+05:30
My solo show opens at Aicon Gallery in New York
4th February 2016
6 to 9 pm
If you are in New York
Please Do Come.
Aicon Gallery
35 great Jones Street
New York
Ny-10012
For enquires regarding the show
please contact newyork@aicongallery.com
Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-82100658804784491632015-10-13T19:13:00.000+05:302015-10-13T19:13:03.478+05:30Rekha Rodwittiya in conversation with Jyoti Bhatt episodes 4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14
I am delighted to share the remaining episodes of
Rekha Rodwittiya in conversation with Jyoti Bhatt
All 14 episodes are available on U Tube.
I have made them available to archival data-bases and art & cultural institutions on a pen drive, and am happy to extend this offer to any legitimate institution that desires this documentation for their students, research scholars orRekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-14975215411258014742015-06-30T13:44:00.001+05:302015-06-30T16:17:46.513+05:30A filmed interview ….
An interview recorded by the Lalit Kala Akademi Chandigarh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_10Q322eteo
Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-26497173094247575022015-06-15T15:41:00.003+05:302015-06-15T15:41:27.957+05:30Rekha Rodwittiya in conversation with Jyoti Bhatt
Watch Rekha Rodwittiya in conversation with Jyoti Bhatt
Episode 1 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/keaeVEHqF8o
Episode 2 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/H-lA1t0glUI
Episode 3 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/I4uQasISCok
The remaining episodes will be uploaded onto youtube within the next three months.
Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191704753950476316.post-81872333983995998042015-06-15T15:03:00.001+05:302015-06-15T15:04:05.952+05:30Conversing with…..
Author V. Sanjay Kumar in conversation with Sadanand Menon
A SITE art space & The Collective Studio Collaboration
21st February 2015
SITE art space & The Collective Studio Baroda have collaborated for a year to make a
series of exhibitions as a gift for the city of Baroda. As both share
a vision for art that focuses upon community and interaction as seminal
Rekha Rodwittiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00067780288718685169noreply@blogger.com0