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Journalism of Courage
Between two big solo shows, sculptor Arzan Khambatta finds time to teach Bollywood stars and act in a docu himself
He just begun riding a sports bicycle to his new home in Alibaug, a trendy suburb in Mumbai, and keeps himself going on spicy masala chai at his Sewri studio. For sculptor Arzan Khambatta staying fit is all the more important since wrestling with steel and coaxing shapes and textures from them requires coordinating brain and brawn.
Khambatta has chosen to revisit his love for scrap metal. In some of the works he has combined spare parts with the sculpted forms of mankind and his favorite animal, the horse. Nuts and bolts, serve as miniature high-rise buildings on the surface of an orb-shaped city and an old electric metre becomes the door through which the hand of God reaches out to humanity. A hybrid insect assembled in the shape of a motorbike perhaps indicates his inherent boyish side. His love for puns and playfulness surfaces through works like Tired that show a bunch of automobile tyres lying about, exhausted from the friction of life8217;s challenges. 8220;Sometimes one feels a bit like that, but I don8217;t mean to complain, which is why it8217;s better said in a playful way,8221; he smiles.
