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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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