Leading international artist Sudarshan Shetty, loves untold personal stories and uses mundane objects like recycled wood and broken ceramic to piece together a poetic art show which looks back in time while looking forward.
Shetty, whose work has been exhibited all over the world including the Tate Modern in London and New York's Guggenheim Museum among others is showing in Delhi after a gap of 10 years.
Created especially for GallerySke, the Bangalore-based gallery which opened a new space in the city very recently, Shetty displays wooden sculptures, several mixed-media pieces and one video, placed at the entrance of the show titled "Every broken Moment, Piece by Piece."
"The approximately 10 minute video depicting sarangi player Vasanthi Phulkande in a way establishes the theme of the show, which talks about untold histories," the 52-year-old artist told PTI in an interview.
The video, is the first that the artist says he shot live. It is a triptych of the same image shot in three sequences in three spaces. When the musician plays tea cups placed on a table vibrate and eventually fall down and break.
"It has been shot in a chawl in Mumbai which is soon going to be razed down. It is similar to the one in which i grew up and it represents personal connections. It represents to me old Bombay which is fast changing," says the artist who lives and works out of Mumbai.
Trained as a painter, Shetty has seemed to have forged a name creating awe-inspiring monumental sculptures and installations. His commissioned Flying Bus sculpture positioned in the suburbs of Mumbai depicts a red painted bus with huge steel wings and with its front wheels raised, giving an impression that it is poised to take flight.
His recent show features works that are smaller in scale but according to him is no less spectacular. "I like to use things which one may be familiar with yet kind of find a way to make them spectacular," says Shetty.
