Since their arrival in Santiniketan in December last year the German artist couple Sylvia Winkler and Stephan Köperl has witnessed the massive fencing activities going on in the area surrounding Rabindranath Tagore´s world famous university. A unique piece of land accentuated by a single palm tree became the site for one of their public interventions. Talking in the same material as the surrounding fence they choose concrete for writing the name of Tagore,substituting the 'R' with the currency symbol of the Indian Rupee.
Also in height and shape the heavy writing aligns with the adjacent pillars.
"We´re sure that the parcelling and fencing of the land around Santiniketan is not in line with Tagore´s vision and it seems that his ideas are becoming corrupted by their own success" the artists point out and express their hope "that the upcoming development will not be motivated by monetary returns but by the joy of inhabiting this beautiful land. "
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