Talented contemporary Indian artist Ranjani Shettar is in spotlight thanks to her new series of works, entitled ‘Dewdrops and Sunshine’ at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The core concept of her new bewildering body of work, ‘Interplay’, which forms part of the show, refers to both the its poetic subtitle.
In fact, ‘Dewdrops and Sunshine’ was the artist’s suggestion. The work explores a general concern as well. In essence, she explores an ongoing investigation of the relationship of water and light to living things. Filtering Indian craft traditions through her own novel sensibility, Ranjani Shettar transforms natural phenomena into magical forms.
Her sculptures reveal the artist’s ability to work with a range of materials; her choice of media a disparate roster of the organic and human-made, including tamarind kernel paste, muslin, lacquer, wood, automotive paint, fishing line, beeswax, dyed thread, latex rubber and steel.
Born in 1977, Shettar lives and works in Bangalore, India. Internationally, her work is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York. The artist has also exhibited at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hermes Foundation, Singapore; and Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi. She has further been featured in international surveys such as the 2006 Sydney Biennale and 2008 Carnegie International.
‘Dewdrops and Sunshine’ incorporates a sampling of Ranjani Shettar’s sculptural practice; all of the selections in some way reflect upon formal ideas of volume, suspension/attachment, light and shadow, as well as materiality. But the artist is not simply a formal purist. It is her ongoing quest to present a synthesis of form and narrative through a vocabulary uniquely her own, which makes her vision singular within the terrain of contemporary sculpture and installation art.
In fact, ‘Dewdrops and Sunshine’ was the artist’s suggestion. The work explores a general concern as well. In essence, she explores an ongoing investigation of the relationship of water and light to living things. Filtering Indian craft traditions through her own novel sensibility, Ranjani Shettar transforms natural phenomena into magical forms.
Her sculptures reveal the artist’s ability to work with a range of materials; her choice of media a disparate roster of the organic and human-made, including tamarind kernel paste, muslin, lacquer, wood, automotive paint, fishing line, beeswax, dyed thread, latex rubber and steel.
Born in 1977, Shettar lives and works in Bangalore, India. Internationally, her work is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York. The artist has also exhibited at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hermes Foundation, Singapore; and Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi. She has further been featured in international surveys such as the 2006 Sydney Biennale and 2008 Carnegie International.
‘Dewdrops and Sunshine’ incorporates a sampling of Ranjani Shettar’s sculptural practice; all of the selections in some way reflect upon formal ideas of volume, suspension/attachment, light and shadow, as well as materiality. But the artist is not simply a formal purist. It is her ongoing quest to present a synthesis of form and narrative through a vocabulary uniquely her own, which makes her vision singular within the terrain of contemporary sculpture and installation art.
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