Journalism of Courage
With an array of intricate sculpture bound to leave visitors mesmerised, Palette Art Gallery is currently presenting 'Carving Time' - an exhibition by artist Rajesh Ram that will conclude on March 11. (PR Handout)
Ram is an artist who contends with surpassing the limitations of the physical constraints of materiality while interrogating notions of perceived reality, power and strength within the history of politics, hybrid forms, and the existence of man. (PR Handout)
Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of nature, history and anatomy, he examines perceived material capabilities and how man and herbed forms appear in surprising ways in the haunts of history. (PR Handout)
The 40 pieces of stoneware sculptures represent imaginative, fascinating forms, suggesting mathematical perfection to the fusion of half man half animal. (PR Handout)
While the exterior surfaces reflect dusty ruin amorphousness, in the textures resembling — metaphors for the human experience and where real beauty in all of forms and humans including homo sapiens can be found. (PR Handout)
There is a seamless strain of poetics within the juxtaposition of fragility and strength in the stoneware forms that he works with. (PR Handout)
Within the structure of sculptural vignettes, there is a physical duality which unravels as a parallel to the very notions and paradoxes of the human condition. (PR Handout)
This exhibition is a natural evolution of Ram’s sculptural work exploring the physical nature of materials, the place of memory and the politics of human behaviour. (PR Handout)
Characters leap out of the pages of history. It's like a melange of memories that have frozen into stoneware sculptures that tell stories of the past woven into present day debacles in politics. (PR Handout)
In the imagination of his own universe, the artist steps into multiple orbits that transcend time and tide. (PR Handout)
