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Akbar Padamsee's bronze sculptures, "…mainly masks and heads, shown at Art Heritage, Delhi and Pundole Gallery, Mumbai from the mid-1980s to the '90s, were all cast in a foundry at Hanuman Galli, in a suburb of Mumbai in 11984-86…Even in his sculptures the figure is isolated, as Padamsee often explains, avoiding any illustrative or narrative character…Padamsee foregrounds devices, techniques, to celebrate the surface - illuminating, tending the... Akbar Padamsee's bronze sculptures, "…mainly masks and heads, shown at Art Heritage, Delhi and Pundole Gallery, Mumbai from the mid-1980s to the '90s, were all cast in a foundry at Hanuman Galli, in a suburb of Mumbai in 11984-86…Even in his sculptures the figure is isolated, as Padamsee often explains, avoiding any illustrative or narrative character…Padamsee foregrounds devices, techniques, to celebrate the surface - illuminating, tending the surface, and bringing it to life…He evades the danger of sinking into a particularity, just another art-school image of a model. In his work, the element which was once provided by iconography now springs largely out of the expressive handling of material…Enigmatic as they are, each viewing results not in familiarity but in fresh discoveries" (Nanak Ganguly, "Akbar Padamsee's Sculptures", Akbar Padamsee - Work in Language, Marg Publications in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2010, p. 167, 171).

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