Solitude was my constant companion, says sculptor Himmat Shah
5 years, 9 months ago

Solitude was my constant companion, says sculptor Himmat Shah

The Hindu  

The Bihar Museum, Patna celebrates Himmat Shah, the high priest of modern art in India, in a retrospective by Roobina Karode of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. When I look at my older bronzes, I remember the struggles and my passion for creating sculptures even though I was not trained as a sculptor. At a time when everyone was only looking at figurative works to define modernism, I was experimenting with abstraction and primitivism into sculpture for the first time, for me it was important to the development of modern art. For Henry Moore, truth to materials was seen as some of the most fundamental ideas of modern art, for Brancusi form was more important than subject.

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Poetic encounters with Himmat Shah
5 years, 8 months ago

Poetic encounters with Himmat Shah

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At the Bihar Museum in Patna, Himmat Shah’s works seem to be in dialogue with one another, thereby creating a new narrative for the viewer. The few surviving silver paintings—being shown for the first time since 1973—have been juxtaposed with the burnt paper collages he exhibited during the famous Group 1890 exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1964. Two …

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