Saturday, March 7, 2015

WASTE   WOOD  -ART  WORKS  OF  PHANI   BASU  FIRST    RECONIZED
             : 'SCULPTURE  ' OF   FINE   ART  STATUS.
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                    "A DIALOGUE   WITH  NATURE"
                  PANAROMA   PROGRAMME ::  DELHI  DOOR  DARSHAN  T,V  ; 31/ 07 / 1979.

INTERVIEWER  :  Mrs   Manju V. Pandey
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                                         INTRODUCTION
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From  time   immemorial  woo  has  been  used    as a  medium  of  Art.  To-day  , we   have  amongst  us   Dr. Phani Basu   who  has  selected  WASTE-  wood    as  his   medium  of  Expression in  this  field  of  Visual  Art . Phani Basu  is  unique  in  the  sense  that  he  comnines Science  and  Art in tha  way  that ,  he  is  a  medical  Specialist  and at the  same  time  a Poet, a  Play-wright, a  painter , , a  writer   and  now , -- a  Waste  wood -sculptor
To-day  we  have  quite  a  few  pieces  of  his   Waste- wood  with  Natural  bends   and  which  have  been  sculpted  with  creative  touch  by  Phani Basu .
(  QUESTIONS  and  ANSWERS  )
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Mrs. M. Pandey :; Dr. Phani Basu  , how  is  it  that  you  took  up  wood , specially  Waste -wood  as  media  of  your  artistic  expressions  ?
Ans : by Phani  Basu :    well   that  was  a  situation and a  coincidence,
About  20  Yrs. back  when  I  first  came  to  Delhi , I  was  fed    with  the  idea  that  Delhi  was  a  Cultural desert   nothing  subtle  really  grew  here. And  as  an  artist  and  a  Poet I  almost  experienced  it ,   hard and sharp . So  and  soon I  felt  frustrated and  lost. And  being a poet  - (inborn ) I even  started   suffering from  nostalgia  and was  planning to go  back  to  my  root i.e  Bengal.
Then one day ,while  visiting  some  tombs  and  monuments   in this  Desert-land  I  saw  a  thick  green  and  robust  CACTUS  rising  straight  defying  the   hostile summer  Sun   and trying  to  assert  itself . Almost  instantly  I regained  my  faith and   I  decided  to  stay  and  grow  here  like  that  CACTUS . I  went  on  searching   and  searching   to  know  how  other  trees / plants  reacted  to  this  DELHI-Climate '. Thus   and  this  led  me  to  my  new   Path  and discovery i.e  finding  Life  and  Expressions   in trees   even  among  dead trees  or  their  branches  and  roots , And   soon   it  was  like  a  Revelation !
(contd.)
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