My Sculptures: Last Two Decades

Artist: K.S. Radhakrishnan

June 22, 2007 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

K.S. Radhakrishnan is one of the most notable among the new generation of sculptors, who has successfully brought about a definitive resurgence in Indian sculpture. Like many of his contemporaries, he is a figurative sculptor, but his preference for modeling and bronze casting over new materials sets him apart from the rest of them.

The shifting of ideas that leads to one another, one form to the next and mixed iconographies of the works evolved into the series “Portal” – a performance in sculpture. Then the idea of lightness and lightness takes many forms and works from the mid-nineties deals with the lightness of the mind and body, and it happens through a series of sculptures in which “Musiui Maiya” become a fictional pair.

The sculptural method based on multiples, grafting and assemblage become an integral part of his work process in “Human Box” where the image consists of a host of figures attached to a box. “The Ramp” – a sculpture done in 2004 with hundreds of small figures, miniature images of Musui Maiya – form a stream of humanity, having life-sized figures rising from the middle of the crowded movement.

The presentation will conclude with the works from “Freehold” and an introduction to the present series of work to be exhibited in New York in November 2007.