Abhinav Goswami (Artist Profile)
A Chaumasa in Vrindavan
Photographs printed on archival paper
24 variants (please indicate your choice of artwork/s along with your order)
Size Opt 1: 12 x 18” / 30 x 46 cms
Size Opt. 2: 16 x 24" / 41 x 61 cms
Year of execution variable
Edition of 15 each
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Curatorial Statement: “जोग, तप, बैराग, एकांत : Asceticism, penance, renunciation, solitude: ideas that are central to the four month period of the Chaumasa; but in Vrindavan, the land of Krishna : these ideas live eternally, in practice, as Bhakti dances unalloyed in its colours of संयोग and वियोग (union and separation).
This selection, culled from Abhinav Goswami’s extensive archives documenting the cultural life of Braj; portrays the natural elements, the landscape of Vrindavan, and human and ascetic experiences in the Monsoon.
The Yamuna, central to the Vaishanava experience fills up to the brim during the four monsoon months and life around it seems to come alive: young boys dive and play in the waters, ascetics meditate on the ghats, pilgrims take boat rides and offer obeisance to the mother-river… Clouds darken, intensifying the darkness of Viraha (a mood of longing): the Gopis were perennially longing for his lotus face; not just for four months!
We get a glimpse of the sacred geography of Vrindavan. The evocative skyline is enough for devotees as a soul stirring Darshan unto itself! The architecture of the Ghats comes alive in the Chaumasa with the gushing Yamuna; temple spires dot the landscape like luminescent lamps burning bright amidst a maze of built environments…
Ascetics of various denominations, young and old alike, living between renunciation and the world of sensory pleasures that Krishna embodies, dot the landscape of Vrindavan, presenting a story of love, restraint and inner light.
We may say that these images take us onto a journey of a Chaumasa in Vrindavan; but equally it is true that Vrindavan is nothing but a perennial Chaumasa: always radiating light…”
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The series features 24 works. The works can be hung together as a set. The price listed here is for a single artwork only (please indicate your choice of artwork with your order- the artworks are numbered).
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