“Managing Them, We Manage”

“Managing Them, We Manage” by Dr Gopal Nene, gouache-tempera on paper, 69 x 89 cms

Mumbai physician Gopal Nene is also a self-taught artist who uses his childlike art naïve style to highlight social issues. Here, he vividly depicts the goings on at a dilapidated housing complex, where developers get resident-tenants to move out and languish in transit camps. The seated man wearing white is a builder, who has come for the tenants’ signatures. Dr Nene has also provided some irony—by including the emblems of some political parties as well as the skull-and-bones, symbolizing the dangerous condition of the buildings