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Bronze
2006 is an ode to sculpture and modern day practices
in the nation.Gallery Espace's, Curation by Madan LaI
is all attempt to bring into focus some of the best
as well as run-of--the mill sculptors in nronze in our
nation.
From the classic iconography of Prodosh Dasgupta, the
power of blending myth and memory into the Madras metaphor
of Nandgopal, to the playful open-ended symbolism by
Subodh Gupta, tIle show has something to ruminate other
than just Ram Kinkar Baij's l00th anniversary.
Rajinder Tikku's works symbolise this and a lot more,
but it is his boat in the work
Tikku
who belongs to Jammu and works there. He adds, "1
am inspired by wayside temples and shrines. This practice
of generating sculptural medium through the form anywhere
makes my work simple as it is designed to generate silence,
and announce- its presence."
Prodosh Dasgupta's work is an evocative. rendition of
making sculpture lucid and lithe. You can stand and
read through the sculpture and its silent rigour with
emotion. On the ground floor at the entrance largeand
imposing are three bronzes that embody a kinetic as
well as cohesive. virtuosity. This is Nandgopal, the
son of the famed K.C.S. Panniker who was an artist ahead
of his time.
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Voyage
that enchants Arched in the metaphor of rustic elegance
with bronzed small mass-like projec¬tions that has
a touch of blissful naivete this sculptonic virtuosity.
Handling of bronze becomes the answer to the success of
the sculptor.. "I translate my own thinking and understanding
of silence into a continuous idiom," says
"My work belongs to the philosophy of artistic representation
that moves away from the academic, hut is idealised through
the power of myth in memory," says Nandgopal who
lives and works in Chennai.Then there is the large work
that reflects the sensual
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duality of Radhakrishnan, this is ltheatrical and dramatic, Terra
Fly is more of an onlooker. Focusing on expression. he delineates
the world as a big arena in which to act, open-ended in tems of
materiaIs, processes, forms and references. Radhakrishnan's Terra
Fly" is more an oracle ot"modernism, the visage watches
froIn above as civilisations. and eras unfold over periods of
time. Perhaps'it is the angle of inclination that fascinates,
and rivets your upward gaze. As on the heritage coIumn that stands
tall like a sentinel there are. textural variations, and calligraphic
graffiti of scripts belonging to time, it is almost as if time
has swept over the smface and left, impressions.
Last. - but not least - is - India's Duchamp Subodh Gupta who
creates work of art out of ready-made material¬ and has the
capacity to stun the viewer into silence. Entitled Cheap Rice,
the vessels brought from his hometown in Bihar all assembled onto
the rickshaw speak of rustic as well as resonant sprinkling in
the dynamics of modernist modes of creation, "It a comment
on modern day practices, he says wryly.
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