SACHIDA NAGDEV (1939 - 2017)

This painting was one of the 101 paintings selected out of 7,992 works that were submitted by a total of 2,979 artists from 81 countries in an international competition to remember the 10th anniversary of the earthquake in Kobe, Japan and was exhibited at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan between 17th January – 20th February 2005.

Sachida Nagdev on this work - “My painting shows the human spirit that rises after the destruction. It is a triptych painting. The left side is a depiction of an earthquake which is in grim, grey and black colours. The horror and grief. The middle eternal flute player. The third part shows reconstruction. I have particularly made this thinking of Japan. The rising sun, the blossom of trees and the rising pagoda. All show reconstruction and the undaunted human sprit. The resurrection”