usia
B h a s k a r H a n d e
A BLACK SUBSTANCE
1
Photography and its digital application in today’s media world
A Substance in Black
Bhaskar Hande
A BLACK SUBSTANCE Part One
Ousia Artimediair The Hague
Ousia A Black Substance
Š Bhaskar Hande 2009 Pretoriusstraat 131 2571VD The Hague email: bhaskarhande@yahoo.com
Acknowlagement: Stroom/ HCBK The Hague Vaishwik Art Environment Pune
*Text reference is taken from free encyclopedia www.wikipedia.org
Publisher Gallery Artimediair 2512 BN The Hague The Netherlands Email: vaishwikart@yahoo.com
Printined at Swaroop Mudran 687 Narayan peth Pune 411003
No part of this book would copied or reprinted without permission
4
A Black Substance
In a recent project, “Palkhisohala”, I have been drawing, taking photographs, reading people's minds, meeting strangers and documenting events in visual form. I took many photographs as a way of critically observing objects, noting their artistic value and appreciating them. An object or a subject draws one's attention; an object demands that it be looked at and a subject needs to be ruminated over. In visual documentation one needs to perceive the importance of the image. A monument is an object that symbolizes an era in history and a document shows textual or pictorial evidence of an agreement or treaty. Personal letters and sketches constitute subjective matter that can serve as both evidence of a crime or incident, as well as literature. The Dehu Palkhisohala (Palanquin Procession) has been going on for the past 325 years. Actually, I've long been interested in documenting this event in a unique way. The year 2008 was Sant Tukaram's 400th birth anniversary. I had the opportunity to be in India for this occasion. So I decided to follow the Palkhisohala by making on-the-spot drawings. It was a living experience in itself. I invited local artists and art schools that are along the Dehu Palkhisohala route. Some of them responded enthusiastically to my appeal. 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. In discussion with some of my friends in The Netherlands, who are lovers of Indian culture as well as critical writers, I discovered and accepted that the subject of Vithoba has 5
Ousia
parallels with the concept of substance in Western philosophy. Tukaram has described this in his abhangas. All his affectionate descriptions of Lord Vithoba are substantive in nature, and Jnandev's description of a cosmic Being incorporates the idea of 'substance'. Later, in Western philosophy, Spinoza's notion of stoicism held that there is only one substance.
For the past few years I've been reading more of Spinoza's philosophy in the context of his house, now a monument that stands in front of my studio in The Hague. He was a contemporary of Sant Tukaram. It is by sheer coincidence that I worked on translating Sant Tukaram's abhangas in visual terms and arrived at Spinoza's door. Every day I looked at Spinoza's statue and reflected on Tukaram's poetry. Some of my European writer friends made fun of this, and my Indian friends made similar remarks in their writings. Another aspect of this area is the lane that runs alongside my studio. It is where prostitutes ply their trade, in front of Spinoza's house and statue, and right by my studio and gallery. Because of this one can hear plenty of controversial remarks by tourists and visitors just around the corner. Photography is a subject which relates concrete evidence to substance theory. It contains light and dark (black) matter. With each increment of light the darker part changes the identity of the image. In terms of its surface the visual identity of the image changes. In three-dimensional terms its identity changes, but its properties remain the same. Each angle of approach to the frame of the image changes the property of that space and creates a separate image with its own special form. The negative or positive form of the image again transforms the identity of that image. Changes in hue, contrast and brightness bring about incremental changes that create more and more images from a single image. The image of Being (Ousia) is captured by light and represented on a flat two-dimensional surface. The quality of light is characterized by the intensity of light falling on an object or simply illuminating a space, and that's what identifies an image. (A substance, or ousia, is a permanent property of an object without which the object no longer remains itself, and therefore becomes some other object.*) * from Wikipedia
6
For this book I worked on photographic images to produce artistic images. Computer software has now made it easier to transform images as you please. It may help technically, but artistic judgments are based on one's own experience. Photography becomes just a routine technique in the practice of art. It has provided an enormous amount of visual data. These days making short art films and editing them makes me want to obtain black and white images just to stimulate my imagination. This process has been instrumental in producing the images in this book. I surprised myself as I created them. One always discovers something different in the subtle interplay of light and substance.
7
Being
8
Food 9
Construction of light 10
Growth 11
Content 12
Volume 13
House 14
Love matter 15
Sun rays 16
Shadow Transparency 17
A Thread Body 18
Reminder Theorem 19
Seeds and leaf 20
A fringe 21
Nature infirmity 22
Content 23
A Voyager 24
A Folk act 25
Beginning 26
Innocency 27
Awaiting 28
Entertainers 29
A Onlooker 30
A player 31
Against light 32
A Shadower 33
Reflection of Transparency 34
A heat Absorber 35
Inner 36
The nature of protection 37
Hills inn 38
Massive 39
A Reflectory Factor 40
A Reflectory Factor 41
Massive Body 42
Protective Growth 43
Numerica Naturel 44
Numbered Bush 45
Inner Search 46
Cruisifide 47
Blind 48
Scream 49
Husk 50
Face to face 51
Player 52
Actor 53
Looked at 54
Crossed 55
In Between 56
Bush 57
Invalid 58
Death of a Branch 59
Cover Up 60
A Surprise 61
A Witness 62
Witness 62
A Bite 63
Trauma 64
A face 65
It marked and crossed 66
Punished 67
Group 68
Massacre 69
Disease 70
Death by disease 70
Death by disease 71
Life Within 72
Second Dimension 73
Surprise 74
Hole 75
Cross or plus ? 76
Black magic 77
Mirror Image 78
Against all odd 79
Middle of light 80
Textural Material 81
Walk in 82
Illuminated aspects 83
Step in 84
A Tourist 85
An Art Act 86
Reflective Melody 87
Etalage 88
A Tourist in Town 89
Display of Goods 90
Legendary Suspect 91
Oval Commitment 92
Square Circled 93
Rural Instalation 94
Growth Empower 95
Fragile Particles 96
Wish fulfilling divine Space 97
Dramatic 98
Dramatic 99
Subtle Environment 100
Planetaries 101
A Construction 102
The Wall 103
Devotional Elements 104
Divine Place 105
The wall of moisture 106
Around me and myself 107
Substance theory, is an ontological theory about object hood, positing that a substance is distinct from its properties. This is part of essentialism in that ousia as a substance can also be a descriptor of an object's being (ontology) and/or nature. As substance or ousia is a permanent property of an object without which the object no longer remains itself and therefore becomes some other object. Substance is a core concept of ontology and metaphysics. Indeed, philosophies may be divided into monist philosophies, and dualist or pluralist philosophies. Monistic views, often associated with immanence, hold that there is only one substance, sometimes called God or Being. Dualist and pluralist views hold that two or more types of substances do exist, and that these can be placed in an ontological hierarchy. Platonism or Aristotelianism considers that there are various substances, while stoicism and Spinoza hold that there is only one substance. The concept of substance in Western philosophy In the millennia-old Aristotelian tradition, as well as early modern traditions that follow it, substances or ousia are treated as having attributes and modes or things. This concept helps to explain, for instance, state transitions. Let us take a quantity of water and freeze it into ice. Substance theory maintains that there is a "substance" which is unchanged through this transition, which is both the liquid water and also the frozen ice. It maintains that the water is not replaced by the ice it is the same "stuff," or substance. If this is true, then it must be the case that the wetness of water, the hardness of ice, are not essential to the underlying substance. (Essentially, matter does not disappear, it only changes form.) The Aristotelian view of God considered God as both ontologically and causally prior to all other substance; others, including Spinoza, argued that God is the only substance. Substance, according to Spinoza, is one and indivisible, but has multiple modes; what we ordinarily call the natural world, together with all the individuals in it, is immanent in God: hence the famous phrase Deus sive Natura ("God, or Nature"). Aristotle was creating his theory of substance in response and counter to Plato's theory of framework or structures called the theory of forms. The Roman Catholic Church has adopted substance theory as part of its theology of transsubstantiation. Criticisms of the concept of substance Friedrich Nietzsche and, after him, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze rejected the notion of "substance", and in the same movement the concept of subject contained with the framework of Platonic idealism. For this reason, Althusser's "anti-humanism" and Foucault's statements were criticized, by J端rgen Habermas and others, for misunderstanding that this led to a fatalist conception of social determinism. For Habermas, only a subjective form of liberty could be conceived, to the contrary of Deleuze who talks about "a life", as an impersonal and immanent form of liberty.
which is in such a way that it need no other entity in order to be." Therefore, only God is a substance as ens perfectissimus (most perfect being). Heidegger showed the inextricable relationship between the concept of substance and of subject, which explains why, instead of talking about "man" or "humankind", he speaks about the Dasein, which is not a simple subject, nor a substance. Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, as part of his critique of transsubstantiation, rejected substance theory and instead proposed the doctrine of transfinalization, which he felt was more attuned to modern philosophy. However, this doctrine was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Mysterium Fidei. Primitive concepts of substance theory Two primitive concepts (i.e., genuine notions that cannot be explained in terms of something else) in substance theory are the bare particular and the inherence relation. Bare particular In substance theory, a bare particular of an object is the element without which the object would not exist, that is, its substance, which exists independent from its properties, even if it is physically impossible for it to lack properties entirely. It is "bare" because it is considered without its properties and "particular" because it is not abstract. The properties that the substance has are said to inhere in the substance. In substance theory of the mind, the objects are minds. Inherence relation Another primitive concept in substance theory is the inherence relation between a substance and its properties. For example, in the sentence, "The apple is red," substance theory says that red inheres in the apple. Substance theory considers to be clear the meaning of the apple having the property of redness or the property of being juicy, and that a property's inherence in a substance is similar to, but not identical with, being part of the substance. Thus, Aristotle wrote: "By being 'present in a subject' I do not mean present as parts are present in a whole, but being incapable of existence apart from the said subject." (The Categories 1a 24-26) The inverse relation is participation. Thus in the example above, just as red inheres in the apple, so the apple participates in red. Arguments supporting the theory Two common arguments supporting substance theory are the argument from grammar and the argument from conception.
Argument from grammar The argument from grammar uses traditional grammar to support substance theory. For example, the sentence, "Snow is white," contains a subject, "snow", and the assertion that the subject is white. The argument holds that it makes no grammatical sense to speak of "whiteness" disembodied, without snow or some other subject that is white. That is, the only way to make a meaningful claim is to speak of a subject and to For Heidegger, Descartes means by "substance" that by predicate various properties of it. Substance theory which "we can understand nothing else than an entity 108calls this subject of predication a substance. Thus, in
order to make claims about physical objects, one must refer to substances, which must exist in order for those claims to be meaningful.
Indiscernibility
inability to think of isolated properties. The bundle theorist, for example, says that properties need only be associated with a bundle of other properties, which bundle is called an object. The critic maintains that the inability for an individual property to exist in isolation does not imply that substances exist. Instead, he argues, bodies may be bundles of properties, and an individual property may simply be unable to exist separately from such a bundle.
Identity of indiscernibles Necessarily, for any concrete objects,a and b, if for any attribute, Ă–, Ă– is an attribute of a if and only if Ă– is an attribute of b, then a is numerically identical with b.
The indiscernibility argument from the substance theorist targets those bundle theorists who are also metaphysical realists. Metaphysical realism uses Many ontologies, including bundle theory, reject the repeatable entities known as universals exemplified by argument from grammar on the basis that a concrete particulars to explain the phenomenon of grammatical subject does not necessarily refer to a attribute agreement. Substance theorists then say that metaphysical subject. Bundle theory, for example, bundle theory and metaphysical realism can only maintains that the grammatical subject of statement refers to its properties. For example, a bundle theorist coexist by introducing an identity of indiscernibles creed, which substance theorists suggest is incoherent. understands the grammatical subject of the sentence, "Snow is white", as a referent to a bundle of properties, The identity of indiscernibles says that any concrete particular that is numerically different from another including perhaps the containing of ice crystals, being cold, and being a few feet deep. To the bundle theorist, must have its own qualitive properties, or attributes. the sentence then modifies that bundle of properties to Since bundle theory states that all concrete particulars are merely constructions or 'bundles' of attributes, or include the property of being white. The bundle theorist, then, maintains that one can make meaningful qualitive properties, the substance theorist's indiscernibility argument claims that the ability to statements about bodies without referring to recognize numerically different concrete particulars, substances that lack properties. such as concrete objects, requires those particulars to Argument from conception have discernible qualitative differences in their Another argument for the substance theory is the attributes and that the metaphysical realist who is also argument from conception. The argument claims that in a bundle theorist must therefore concede to the order to conceive of an object's properties, like the existence of 'discernible (numerically different) redness of an apple, one must conceive of the object concrete particulars', the 'identity of indiscernibles', that has those properties. According to the argument, and a 'principle of constituent identity'. one cannot conceive of redness, or any other property, distinct from the thing that has that property. The thing Discernible concrete particulars Necessarily, for any complex objects, a and b, that has the property, the argument maintains, is a if for any entity, c, c is a constituent of a if and substance. The argument from conception holds that only if c is a constituent of b, then a is properties (e.g. redness or being four inches wide) are numerically identical with b. inconceivable by themselves and therefore it is always The indiscernibility argument points out that if bundle a substance that has the properties. Thus, it asserts, theory and discernible concrete particulars theory substances exist. explain the relationship between attributes, then the A criticism of the argument from conception is that identity of indiscernibles theory must also be true: properties' being of substances does not follow from
Bundle theory In direct opposition to substance theory is bundle theory, whose most basic premise is that all concrete particulars are merely constructions or 'bundles' of attributes, or qualitive properties: Necessarily, for any concrete entity, a, if for any entity, b, b is a constituent of a, then b is an attribute. The bundle theorist's principal objections to substance theory concern the bare particulars of a substance, which substance theory considers independently of the substance's properties. The bundle theorist objects to the notion of a thing with no properties, claiming that one cannot conceive of such a thing and citing John Locke, who described a substance as "a something, I know not what." To the critic, as soon as one has any notion of a substance in mind, a property accompanies that notion. That is, to the critic it is not only physically impossible to encounter a bare particular without properties, but the very notion of a thing without properties is so strange that he cannot even form such a notion.
The indiscernibles argument then asserts that the identity of indiscernibles is false. For example, two different pieces of printer paper can be side by side, numerically different from each other. However, the argument says, all of their qualitive properties can be the same (e.g. both can be white, rectangular-shaped, 9 x 11 inches...). Thus, the argument claims, bundle theory and metaphysical realism cannot both be correct. However, bundle theory combined with trope theory (as opposed to metaphysical realism) is immune to the indiscernibles argument. The immunity stems from the fact that each trope (attribute) can only be held by one concrete particular, thus qualitive indiscernible objects can exist while being numerically identical and the identity of indiscernibles therefore does not hold. Stoicism The Stoics rejected the idea that incorporeal beings inhere in matter, as taught by Plato and Aristotle. They believed that all being is corporeal. Thus they developed a scheme of categories different from Aristotle's based on the ideas of Anaxagoras and Timaeus.
109
Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect bleachers, painted black to give hitters a decent light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all background for pitched balls. Ambiguity and secrecy such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes · A black box is any device whose internal described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in workings are unknown or inexplicable. In theatre, the practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions black box is a smaller, undecorated theater whose like "black cat" or "black paint". auditorium and stage relationship can be configured in Black can be defined as the visual impression various way. experienced when no visible light reaches the eye. · A black project is a secretive project, like (This makes a contrast with whiteness, the impression Enigma Decryption, other classified military programs of any combination of colors of light that equally or operations, Narcotics, or police sting operations. stimulates all three types of color-sensitive visual · Some organizations are called "black" when receptors.) they keep a low profile, like Sociétés Anonymes and Philosophy secret societies. · In arguments, things can be black-and-white, A polished black mirror is used for scrying, and meaning that the issue at hand is dichotomized (having · is thought to help see into the paranormal world two clear, opposing sides with no middle ground). · In ancient China, black was the symbol of North without interference or distraction. · Black frequently symbolizes ambiguity, secrecy, and Water, one of the main five colors. and the unknown. Politics · The List of black flags, although not exclusively Beliefs, religions and superstitions political, gives many political meanings. · Black is a symbol of mourning and bereavement · Black is used for anarchist symbolism, in Western societies, especially at funerals and sometimes split in diagonal with other colors to show memorial services. In some traditional societies, within alignment with another political philosophy. The plain black flag is explained in various ways, sometimes as an for example Greece and Italy, widows wear black for the rest of their lives. In contrast, across much of anti-flag or a non-flag. Wearing black clothing is also Africa and parts of Asia, white is a color of mourning sometimes an anarchist tactic during demonstrations, with a practical benefit of not attracting attention and and is worn during funerals. · In English heraldry, black means darkness, making later identification of a subject difficult. This doubt, ignorance, and uncertainty. [3] strategy is referred to as a black bloc. · In the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania, the · In Portuguese politics, black (and red) is the color black is associated with rain clouds, a symbol of party color of the Left Bloc. life and prosperity. · The blackshirts were Italian Fascist militias. · Native Americans associated black with the · The blackshirts was a nickname for the SS. life-giving soil. · The black triangle was used by the Nazis to · The Hindu deity Krishna means "the black one". designate "asocial" people (homeless and Roma, for · The medieval Christian sect known as the example); later the symbol was adopted by lesbian Cathars viewed black as a color of perfection. culture. · The Rastafari movement sees black as Science beautiful. · Black sky refers to the appearance of space as · In the Japanese culture, Black is associated one emerges from the Earth's atmosphere. with honor, not death with the white color being · The term "black hole" is applied to collapsed associated with death. stars. · Black body radiation refers to the radiation coming from a body at a given temperature where all incoming energy (light) is converted to heat. Sport The national rugby union team of New Zealand is called the All Blacks, in reference to their black outfits, and the color is also shared by other New Zealand national teams such as the Black Caps (cricket) and the Kiwis (rugby league). · Association football (soccer) referees traditionally wear all-black uniforms, however nowadays other uniform colors may also be worn. · A large number of teams have uniforms designed with black colors - many feeling the color sometimes imparts a psychological advantage in its wearers. Among the more famous (or infamous) include Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat of the NBA, and Inter Milan of the Serie A of the Italian soccer leagues. · In auto racing, a black flag signals a driver to go into the pits. · In baseball, "the black" refers to the batter's eye, a blacked out area around the center-field 110
Ousia
and the Emperors, those of an opposing view were suppressed. The adherents of the Homoiousios Ousia is the Ancient Greek noun formed on the eventually joined forces with the (mostly Western) feminine present participle of (to be); it is analogous to adherents of the Homoousios and accepted the the English participle being, and the Greek ontic. Ousia formulation of the Nicene creed. is often translated (sometimes incorrectly) to Latin as substantia and essentia, and to English as substance and essence; and (loosely) also as (contextually) the Matter is the substrate from which physical existence is Latin word accident [1] which conflicts with the derived, remaining more-or-less constant amid denotation of sumbebekos, given that Aristotle uses changes. The word, matter is derived from the Latin sumbebekos in showing that inhuman things (objects) word, m창teria, meaning wood. M창teria, itself, traces also are substantive back to the word, m창ter, meaning mother. Thus considered, matter is the mother substance. Philosophic and scientific use The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle used ousia in their ontologies; their denotations are the contemporary philosophic and theological usages. Aristotle used ousia in creating animal phyla in biology, and hypostasis denoting general existence (reality), and ousia denoting a specific substance, essence, being, person, or thing. Quite later, Martin Heidegger said that the original meaning of the word ousia was lost in its translation to the Latin, and, subsequently, in its translation to modern languages. For him, ousia means Being, not substance, that is, not some thing or some being that "stood"(-stance) "under"(sub-). Moreover, he also uses the bi-nomial parousia-apousia, denoting presenceabsence, and hypostasis denoting existence. Theologcial significance Origen, (d. 251) used ousia in defining God as one genus of ousia, while being three, distinct species of hypostasis: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Synods of Antioch condemned the word homoousios (same substance) because it originated in pagan Greek philosophy. The Paul of Samosata entry of the Catholic Encyclopedia says: It must be regarded as certain that the council, which condemned Paul, rejected the term homoousios; but, naturally, only in a false sense, used by Paul; not, it seems, because he meant by it a unity of Hypostasis in the Trinity (so St. Hilary), but because he intended, by it, a common substance, out of which both Father and Son proceeded, or which it divided between them so St. Basil and St. Athanasius; but the question is not clear. The objectors to the Nicene doctrine in the fourth century made copious use of this disapproval of the Nicene [3] word by a famous council. The general agreed upon meaning of ousia in Eastern Christianity is all that subsist by itself and which has not its being in another.[4] In contrast to hypostasis which is used to mean reality or existence.[5] In 325, the First Council of Nicaea condemned Arianism and formulated a creed, which stated that in the Godhead the Son was Homoousios (same in substance) of the Father. However, controversy did not stop and many Eastern clerics rejected the term because of its earlier condemnation in the usage of Paul of Samosata. Subsequent Emperors Constantius II and Valens supported Arianism and theologians came up with alternative wordings like Homoios (similar) homoiousios (similar in substance), or Ahomoios (unsimilar). While the Homoios achieved the support of several councils
Text reference is taken from www.wikipedia.org
111
Benedict de Spinoza
Sant Tukaram
Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Today, he is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, in which he opposed Descartes' mindbody dualism, Spinoza is considered to be one of Western philosophy's most important philosophers. Philosopher and historian Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said of all modern philosophers, "You [1] are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all." All of Spinoza's works were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Prohibited Books) by the Roman Catholic Church.
Tukaram (1608- 1950) was born in 1608 at Dehu dist.Pune India and vanished without a trace in 1650.What little we know of his life is a reconstruction from his own autobiographical poems, the contemporary poetess Bahinabai's memoirs in verse, and the latest biographer of Marathi poet-saints, Mahipati's account. The rest is all folklore , though it cannot be dismissed on those grounds alone. Modern scholars such as the late V.S.Bendre have made arduous efforts to collate evidence from disparate contemporary sources to establish a well-researched biography of Tukaram. But even this is largely conjectural.
Spinoza lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions, and gave his family inheritance to his sister. Spinoza's moral character and philosophical accomplishments prompted 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze to name him "the 'prince' of philosophers."[2] Spinoza died at the age of 44 of a lung illness, perhaps tuberculosis or silicosis exacerbated by fine glass dust inhaled while tending to his trade. Spinoza is buried in the churchyard of the Nieuwe Kerk on Spui in The Hague.
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
There is a similar mystery about Tukaram's manuscripts. The Vithoba-Rakhumai temple in Tukaram's native village, Dehu, has a manuscript on display that is claimed to be in Tukaram's own handwriting. What is more important is the claim that this manuscript is part of the collection Tukaram was forced to sink in the local river Indrayani and which was miraculously restored after he undertook a fast-unto-death. The present manuscript is in a somewhat precarious condition and contains only about 250 poems. At the beginning of this century the same manuscript was recorded as having about 700 poems and a copy of it is still found in Pandharpur.
Sant Tukaram (1608-1650)
112
A sculpture Of lord Vithoba 113
A square near Samadhi place of Sant Jnandev 114
Samadhi place of Sant Jnandev 115
Tree witnessed departure Of Sant Tukaram 116
Shelter 117
Day after Disaster 118
A Fruit 119
A Fruit 120
A Fruit 121
A Messenger 122
A Reflection Factor 123
A Door 124
Age,Time and Matter 125
Romantic Representative 126
Drawing of Samadhi 127
New Concept 128
Light Force 129
Stone Marks 130
Cultivation Theory 131
BIOGRAPHY 1957 Born in Umbraj,state Maharashtra,India. 1974 Came to Bombay as banner painter in film industry 1976-81 Studied at sir J.J.institute of applied arts Mumbai India obtained G.D.ARTS diploma.in applied art. 1979 Forth prize Maharashtra state competation 1981 Second prize Maharashtra state competation 1982 Went to the Netherlands for post graduation 1982-84 Studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts the Hague.NL. Obtained diploma in Monumental Painting and Design. 1985-87 Studied animation and video at the Free Academy of Visual Arts the Hague,NL. 1987 Since than is working as free-lance fine artist In The Nederlands (Holland) and India with his Art Environment studio.
BOOKS
Bhaskar Hande 1957
1989 1 Encounter/Ontmoeting Forum/GTP Amsterdam,NL English/Nederlands Catalogue and poetry Poet Adriaan Morrian 1990 2 DASHAK BAPU Nashik,IND Marathi poetry 1995 3 Your form is my creation Vaishwik Pune,IND Marathi/English Artbook/catalogue Text Dilip Chitre /Dr.Sadanand More 1995 4 Budala gaon gaon budala Bapu Nashik,IND Marathi poetry 1996 5 Merging colours Warre fine arts English catalogue Artimediar The Hague,NL 1996 6 Your form is my creation Century Union The Hague NL Hindi/English artbook/catalogue 1997 7 Holland-India Marathi/Nederlands artbook/catalogue 8 Prints by Bhaskar Hande Century union The Hague,NL English/Nederlands part one 1999 9 BHASKAR1999/2000 Gallery Blackheath London,UK English artbook/catalogue 2001 10 Holland-Europe Vaishwik Pune,IND Give and take in art 2 Marathi / Nederlands artbook/catalogue 11 Tirast Manera Vaishwik Pune, IND Marathi poetry 12 Encounter with International artist Stg. IHK The Hague NL Stg. Internationale Haagse Kunst 2004 13 Amber Amber international,Amsterdam NL International Dutch and Punjabi literature 2005 14 Amber Amber international, Amsterdam NL International Dutch and Punjabi literature 2006 15 Colour Saga Exhibition catalogue Fabs Warsaw Poland 16 Dehu Pandharpur palakhi sohala 2008
132
CURATION 1989 Musee Alternative. 20 Young artists in Rex Theater, The Hague. 1991 Colored festival. 8 Multicultural artists in The Hague. 1992 "The Two World Accents". 2 Different nationalities artists in The Hague, Iserlohn Hohen-limburg, Lubeck, Germany Colored festival The Hague The Netherlands. 1993 October 6 Multicultural artists in The Hague. Forum Gallery Amsterdam. 1996 January Where Cultures Meet/Merging Colors The Hague The Netherlands 1997 April Give and Take in Art Holland India 6 young Dutch artist in Pune India. 1998 June Give and Take in Art1 India-Holland 6 Indian artist in the Hague Holland 1999 May Give and Take in Art India-Holland 6 Indian artist in the Hague NEDERLAND 2001 June Give and Take in Art2 Holland-Europe 3 young Dutch artist in Pune INDIA. 2004 April Give and Take in Art3 Holland-Europe 6 Dutch Artist in Mumbai INDIA 2006 April Give and Take in Art3 Holland-Europe 8 Indian and 8 Dutch artist in the ISS Nederland 2007 -08 Show Your Hope World Tour part one Nederland To India Via Turkey, Gorgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan and India. Project Your Form is My Creation at Dehu India. 2009 Dehu-Pandharpur Palkhisohala 2008 Pune
Wooden Collage2007
133
Baruch Spinoza’s house in The Hague
134
Dublet Street apposite Spinoza house
Part One
Artimediair The Hague