"I strive for something iconic and monumental that transcends the boundaries of culture, nature and geography." - RAVINDER REDDYDevi is a striking combination of tradition and kitsch, referencing the various iconic forms of the Goddess since antiquity. Taking from the canon of classical Indian sculpture, the gold and red tones are reminiscent of the painted wooden images seen in South Indian temples...."I strive for something iconic and monumental that transcends the boundaries of culture, nature and geography." - RAVINDER REDDYDevi is a striking combination of tradition and kitsch, referencing the various iconic forms of the Goddess since antiquity. Taking from the canon of classical Indian sculpture, the gold and red tones are reminiscent of the painted wooden images seen in South Indian temples. The scale and bright colours, which are according to the artist, typical of India, make the sculptures equally attuned to the pop art idiom of contemporary street art. Reddy began making monumental heads of women in the mid-1990s and they have come to epitomise his interest in blending the old with the new not just in form, but also in technique. According to Reddy, "Fibreglass has no colour or history behind it, it can take any shape and form. I am interested in concept and presenting it, not the material." (Akhila Ranganna, "Why Sculptor G Ravinder Reddy is obsessed with large, disembodied heads of women", 18 August 2017, Scroll. in, online) The present lot is monumental in its scale and impact.
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EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
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ARTWORK DETAILS
G Ravinder Reddy Devi
1998
EXHIBITEDPrivate Mythologies: Contemporary Art from India , Tokyo: The Japan Foundation Asia Center, 17 October - 29 November 1998Partage d'Exotismes , Lyon: 5th Biennale de Lyon, 27 June - 24 September 2000Popular Cultures , Pittsburg: The Andy Warhol Museum, 7 June - 2 September 2001Monumantal Sculptures , New York: Deitch Projects, 8 September - 27 September 2001Devi , Washington, DC: Sackler Museum, 4 November 2001- 17 March 2002New Delhi New Wave , Milan: Primo Marella Gallery, 22 November 2007 - 12 January 2008 New Delhi New Wave , Bologna: Damiani Editore, 2007, cover and pp. 34, 37, 41 (illustrated)
Category: Sculpture