Q Life Magazine Q Magazine December 2016 | Page 59

Qatari Lifestyle: Merging Tradition with Modernity | | Bird Tower, Doha Gandhi’s Three Monkeys Indian artist Subodh Gupta’s signature style uses objects of daily life, such as household kitchenware and bicycles, in his artwork. Visitors to Katara Cultural Village will find his stimulating triptych—an homage to Mahatma Ghandi’s three wise monkeys—hard to ignore. Gupta assembled steel and worn brass utensils to form the heads of a soldier, a terrorist, and a man wearing a gas mask. The halting sculpture embodies the Japanese proverbial principle, “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” | Subodh Gupta, Gandhi’s Three Monkeys 59