Monday, March 29, 2010

Sakshi Gallery presents Sunil Gawde’s ‘Alliteration’

Sakshi Gallery presents Sunil Gawde’s magnificent installation, ‘Alliteration’, just showcased at the 53rd edition of the prestigious Venice Biennale.

‘Alliteration’, a complex meditation on the passage of time: is a contemplation of the rhythmic flow of waxing and waning, fullness and eclipse, which characterizes the life cycle of individuals, empires and universes. It directly alludes to a cosmos calibrated by the interlockingtrajectories of suns, moons and planets.

It hints, also, at the enigma of personality, whether of the individual or the planet. And perhaps most subtly, with understated eloquence, it reflects on a society that has made the transition from an industrial past to a future in which the machine is a splendid ruin rather than engine of profit, quiescent memorial to fortune rather than turbulent generator of change.

‘Alliteration’ is a 4.5 meters large dead-matte black metal kinetic piece. Its front side presents a screen-like surface to viewers, a wall on which discs representing 28 moons turn at variable speeds, dipping in and out of view. The reverse side is open, naked to the eye, without hood or baffle: a candid disclosure of the mechanism composed by seven belt-driven wheels, which are choreographing with their movements an elaborate dance of the moons.

Sunil Gawde received the British Council’s Charles Wallace Award for 1995-96, and spent a year as visiting artist at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. His work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions like ‘Radium Grass’ (Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, 1997), Bombay Maximum City’ (Lille, 2006), ‘Made by Indians’ (St Tropez, 2006) and ‘Art on the Corniche’ (Abu Dhabi, 2007), In 2009 he was invited by Pompidou Centre, Paris for a residency program where his work is slated for exhibition in 2011.

Later this year his work will also be shown at the Museum of Naples and the Museum of Athens next year.

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