<b>Kishore Singh:</b> The colour of motivation

Atul Dodiya focusses our attention on techniques that have been part of world's visual inheritance

Atul Dodiya is an intensely visual person who wades into extremely personal territory with his current show in New Delhi (parts of which he has exhibited earlier) with “girlfriends” such as Olga and Gertrude and various others unnamed from such diverse places as France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, and, in India, Santiniketan and, closer home, Ghatkopar, a Mumbai locality where he has his studio. Is Dodiya making a fetish of his past? You could be forgiven for thinking so, and the exhibition might appear like a private memoir until you realise that the cheeky girlfriends he alludes to are artists who