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G Ravinder Reddy
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Ravinder Reddy's sculpture is heraldic. Many of his sculptures are larger than life heads. Invariably, they look frontally through wide-open eyes, the characteristic attitude of one who proclaims. None of the sculptures looks sideways, or over the shoulder. The one who predicts may draw material from the past, but he has only the future to address. And the message, or prediction, that is about to be announced can be read from sculpture to...
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Ravinder Reddy's sculpture is heraldic. Many of his sculptures are larger than life heads. Invariably, they look frontally through wide-open eyes, the characteristic attitude of one who proclaims. None of the sculptures looks sideways, or over the shoulder. The one who predicts may draw material from the past, but he has only the future to address. And the message, or prediction, that is about to be announced can be read from sculpture to sculpture in the gold emblazoning, or the searing red which covers the head, or in the complex hair-dos on the female heads, all of which are emblematic designs.
In his search for forms that could satisfy his sculptor's instincts, Reddy goes back to earlier periods of civilization - the Egyptian, and the early Greek - where conventions of extreme simplification and frontality prevailed. This bold backward step is to me a kind of confirmation of the authenticity of the herald role.
A convention is a given, a predictable way of doing something. When it becomes an end in itself it is arid. When married to deeper needs, like the projection of a shared philosophy, it can enable a work of art. The conventionalizing impulse in Reddy is vigorous, though for other needs. I will hazard a wild interpretation. It is the silenced voice of Indian sculpture, which was one of the greatest the world has seen, trying to address a possible, future renewal.
However, there is a further element in Reddy's sculpture that keeps the convention from becoming arid. It is the repeated outbreak of sensuality. Even where the subject may not be overtly sexual, the sensuality colours and modifies the convention, infusing it with irregularity, mischief, and all such-like good things. The sensuality is serene, in most instances the sexual impulse does not speak of excitement, but of fulfillment.
Sculpture is a welling upward of a world of images from the flat and even surface in which they were earlier concealed. The sculptor merely unveils them, or so it would seem. This sense of apparent effortlessness goes hand in hand with the emotional and structural informality of Reddy's latest works.
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Born
1956
Suryapet Andhra Pradesh
Education
1990 Teaching at the Department of Fine Arts, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
1984 Short Course Certificate (Ceramics), Royal College of Art, London
1983 Diploma (Art and Design),Goldsmith College of Arts, University of London
1982 Master of Fine Arts (Creative Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Grosvenor Vadehra, London
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2007 'Ravinder Reddy: Select Sculpture', Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
2007 ‘Incridible India’, Le Jardin d’Acclimation, Paris, France
2003 Sculptures at Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2001 Monumental Sculptures, Media Gallery, Apeejay Techno Park, New Delhi
2001 ‘Popular Cultures’, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA
2001 Monumental Sculptures, Deitch Projects, New York
2001 Laskhmi Devi, Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C
2001 ‘Devi’, Sackler Gallery, Washington Dc. USA
1997 Sculpture, Art Today Gallery, New Delhi
1991 ‘Painted Sculpture and Relief’s 1989-91’, Sakshi Gallery, Chennai and Bangalore
1990 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1989 Hutheesingh Visual Arts Center, Ahmedabad
1989 Max Mueller Bhavan, Hyderabad
1982 Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1982 Sculpture in Fiberglass, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1981 Sculpture in Fiberglass, Art Heritage, New Delhi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art', aicon Gallery, New York
2014 'In-Between', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2012 'Diva', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'Gallery Collection', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2012 'Mapmakers: The Evolution of Contemporary Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2012 'Sightings', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Adbhutam: Rasa in Indian Art', Centre of International Modern Art(CIMA), Kolkata
2011 'In Beauty', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2011 'Go Figure', Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010-11 'Monumental', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2010 'Indian (Sub)Way', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2010 'Third Dimension', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2010 'Modern Folk: The Folk Art Roots of the Modernist Avant-Garde', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Indian Summer', Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin
2009 'Inaugural Show', Sakshi Gallery, Taipei
2008-09 'Body Chatter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art', Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2008 ‘Freedom 2008 : Sixty Years After Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2007-08 ‘India Art Now: Between Continuity and Transformation’, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy
2007-08 Indian Art at Swarovski ‘Crystal World’ Show, 2nd Exhibition, Tirol – Österreich, Austria
2007-08 ‘Polyphonies’, Gallery Hosp, Tirol – Österreich, Austria
2007 ‘20th Century Sculpture: from Archipenko to Reddy’, Grosvenor Gallery, London in association with Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 ‘Indian Art III, HERE AND NOW’, Young Voices from India, Grosvenor Gallery, London in association with Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 Private/Corporate IV, A Dialogue of the collection Lekha and Anupam Poddar, New Delhi and Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart/Berlin at Daimler Ghrysler Contemporary Potsdamer Platz Berlin
2007 ‘Post Object’, at Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
2006 ‘New Space’, Art Space 1X1 , Dubai
2006 ‘The Third Eye’, Lille, France
2006 ‘Art on the Beach- Made by Indians’, at St. Tropez, arranged by Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris
2006 ‘The Garden Party’, Deitch Projects, New York
2005 ‘Endless Terrain’, presented by Interiors Espania at Lalit Kala Galleries, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
2005 ‘Body Perfect’, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2005 ‘About Beauty’, House of World Cultures, Berlin
2005 ‘Are we like this only?’, Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Galleries, New Delhi
2004 ‘Iconography in Transient Times’, Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi, presented by Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore
2004 ‘The Androgyne’, organized by Apparao Galleries, Chennai at Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Margi & Desi Exhibition’, Lalit Kala Galleries, Delhi, conducted by Espace Gallery, New Delhi
2004 ‘Sacred Space’, organized by RPG Enterprise, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004 ‘New Paradigms-II’, organized by Threshold Gallery at Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Enchanting the Icon’, Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore
2003 ‘Roots En Route’, Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi
2003 ‘Traveling show’, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai
2002 ‘Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2002 ‘Human Park’, An exhibition of Global Creatures, La Virreinna Exposicions, Institute de Cultura, Barcelona
2002 ‘India: Contemporary Art from North Eastern Private Collections’, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, USA
2002 ‘Sheen of Metal’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2002 ‘New Paradigms’, conducted by Threshold Gallery at Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi
2002 ‘Creative Space’, Sakshi Gallery Anniversary Show, Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi
2001 ‘Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai’, Gallery Espace, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2001 ‘Expanding Traditions’, Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York
2001 ‘Finding the Centre at the Margin’, Apparao Galleries, Mathi Garh, New Delhi
2001 ‘The Human Factor’, Guild Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Embarkations’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Of, based on or obtained by [Tradition]’, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2000 ‘Global View: Indian Artists at Home in the World’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000 ‘Combine-Voices for the New Century’, Vis-à-Vis Art and Design Centre, New Delhi
1999 ‘Edge of the Century’, British Council Gallery, New Delhi
1999 ‘Volume and Form’, Singapore
1999 ‘Legacy’, Curiosity Gallery, Visakhapatnam
1999 ‘Contemporary Art from India’, Nature Morte Exhibition, Sydney
1999 ‘Sixth Anniversary Art Exhibition’, Surya Gallery, Hyderabad
1999 ‘Small Formats’, Art Today, New Delhi
1998 ‘Private Mythologies’, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo
1998 ‘The Presence of the past’, Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai
1998 ‘Multimedia Art of the 90's’, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1997-98 ‘Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora’, Queens Museum of Art, New York
1997 ‘Private Languages’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1997 ‘Directions, Emerging Trends of Contemporary Indian Art’, The Air Gallery, London
1997 ‘Rediscovering the Roots; Contemporary Indian Art’, Museo de la Nacion, Lima
1997 ‘Major Trends in Indian Arts’, Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi
1997 ‘Tryst with Destiny: Art from Modern India 1947–1997’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
1996-98 ‘Tradition/Tensions: Contemporary Art in Asia’, Asia Society, New York / traveling exhibition to Canada, Australia and Taiwan
1995 ‘Portraits’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Bangalore
1995 ‘Sculpture'95’, Espace Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, New Delhi
1994 ‘One Hundred Years: The National Gallery of Modern Art Collection’, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1993 ‘Head’, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1993 ‘A Critical Difference: Contemporary Art from India’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Camden Arts Centre, London, Bluecoat Gallery ,Liverpool, Huddersfield City Art Gallery
1993 ‘India Songs: Multiple Streams in Contemporary Art from India’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, traveling exhibition in Australia
1990 ‘Art Trends in South India’, Regional Centre, Lalit kala Academy, Chennai
1990 ‘Kanoria Centre for Arts Group Show’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1990 ‘Small Sculptures from India’, Accra, Ghana touring Lusaka, Zambia and Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi
1989 ‘Timeless Art’, Victoria Terminus, Mumbai
1989 ‘Artist Alert’, Rabindra Bhavan, Delhi, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, Hutheesingh Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad
1988 ‘Indian Sculpture Today’, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Joint Exhibitions
2005 ‘In Transit 3’, with Manjit Bawa at Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Participations
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011-12 'India: Lado a Lado / Arte Contemporânea Indiana (India: Side by Side / Indian Contemporary Art)', part of the Exhibition ÍNDIA! presented by Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Banco do Brasil at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília
2011 'Paris-Delhi-Bombay', Centre Pompidou, Paris
2011 'Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Art Stage Singapore', Singapore presented by 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai
2010 'Facing East: Recent Works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection', Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2009 'ARCOmadrid', Spain presented by curator Bose Krishnamachari for 'Panoroma: India'
2009 'Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History', Casa Asia, Madrid
2009 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2009 'Esposizione Universale', Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo
2008-09 ''Modern India', organized by Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) and Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture at Valencia, Spain
2008 'Art Asia Fair/ Scope Miami 2008', presented by Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2000 ‘Partage Exotismes’, 5th Biennale de Lyon, France
2000 ‘Kalam to Computer’, Organized by British Council, New Delhi at Crafts Museum, New Delhi
2000 ‘SideWinder’, workshop at Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata in association with British Council, Kolkata
1999 ‘Beyond the Future, Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1997 ‘International Artist Workshop, at Garhi Studio's, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1993 ‘Convener–Woodcarving Camp at Dept. of Fine Arts, Andhra University, arranged by Regional Centre, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
1993 ‘Ceramics Workshop’, Sanskruti Prathisthan, New Delhi
1992 ‘Ceramics Camp’, Regional Center, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai
1991 Sculptors Camp, India Habiart, Collaboration with Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad
1991 Sculptors Camp, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal
1990 ‘3rd Biennale’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1988 ‘2nd Biennale’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1999 ‘Beyond the Future, Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1990 ‘3rd Biennale’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1988 ‘2nd Biennale’, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
Honours and Awards
1998 Working Grant, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc., U.S.A
1998...
1998 Working Grant, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc., U.S.A
1998 Senior Fellowship, Department of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi
1991-93 Junior Fellowship, Department of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi
1991-93 Sanskriti Award, Sanskriti Prathisthan, New Delhi
1982-84 British Council Scholarship for higher studies, U.K
1980-82 Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship, Andhra Pradesh
1980-82 Award in Sculpture, Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad
1980-82 National Academy Award in Sculpture, National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
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Untitled
Painted polyester resin fibreglass
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$245,783
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Untitled (Head)
Bronze with gilded gold leaf and...
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Spring Online Auction
11-12 March 2021
Untitled
Acrylic on fibreglass
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25 Jan-15 Feb 2007
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Polyester, resin, fibreglass, painted and gilded
33.5 x 20 in
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Sculptures Show.
25 Jan-15 Feb 2007
Untitled
Polyester, resin, fibreglass, painted and gilded
18 x 13.5 in
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