New Delhi, December 14, 2008 : .The third section of the sculpture exhibition titled “iSculpt for Delhi” featuring 20 works from artists has opened in Delhi recently.
It transforms the Gandhi King Plaza at IIC to a sculpture court.Many artists have made works inspired by the ecological echo through their engagement with the natural world.
Neeraj Gupta has created ‘Heaven & Earth’ as a tribute to the endangered elephant.It is a massive elephant with pots.
Gupta celebrates the majestic nature of this gentle giant as well as its role in the environment with the magnificent sculpture.This show is presented by Delhi Art Society and runs until December 18.
Satish Gupta’s “Conference of the Birds”, a tribute to the environment, is Satish’s poem.It’s an elegy for the Sufi poem of 5,000 years that talked about finding truth in the difficulties of the conversations between two birds.Dhannanjay Sing’s “Man and the Tree” and Keshari Nandan, a National Award winner and ceramic artist, are two ways to link the ecology system and tell us the crucial role of trees worldwide.
Rahul Modak’s “Monumenta1” takes us out of the natural context and places us in the world beyond man.It holds terracotta leaf with a holistic structure that reflects the intensity of the leaves of death, decay and time.
National award winner Arun Pandit’s ‘Head’ is an amalgam of pathos and pain.
Pandit has merged man’s role in the world of technological advances with his work that makes us think of Errors and multiplicity.Yet another head of a different dimension is the marble head of Parmod K Mann entitled ‘Nymph’ which is a beauty to behold for its prismatic brilliance.
In fibreglass and quaint is the head of Rakesh Kumar Gupta’s made of fibreglass.Bhola Kumar creates another large head done in stone which has a primitive aura in expression and compositional contours.
Hexagram Origami artist Ankon Mitra shares ‘Fountain of Folds’ for this show.Mitra shares a unique vision of a universe forming and dissolving from acts of folding.
To him, the ancient art of Origami is not only a child’s craft but a cutting edge cross-disciplinary technique that is being deployed by robotic engineers, space scientists, biotech researchers, mathematicians, computation experts, botanists, architects and artists to create solutions for the real world in the 21st Century.
Biman Bihari Das has Lord Buddha created in bronze which brings in an aura of deep spirituality and tranquillity.
Rita Datta’s ‘Madhav’ is a veneration of Lord Krishna in bronze.The cape with the alphabet Om is every bit a work of deep contemplative idioms.Seema Kohli’s sculpture ‘Riding the Waves of Wind and Water’ is yet another meditative work.Kohli’s work will connect with the master Atul Sinha’s rosewood masterpiece Aradhak (Worshipper ) which reflects a universal aesthetic.
“At the Gandhi King Plaza, the configuration between sculpture and the space it inhabits and shares with the viewer will contribute to this sensation.Sculpture should always be understood as having been placed and should be read in relation to the area it occupies.
An exhibition is always a testing ground, an integral space for both the viewer and the artwork,” said curator Uma Nair.
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