Alwar Balasubramaniam Exhibition
Talwar Gallery
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Talwar Gallery presents a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Alwar Balasubramaniam. This exhibition marks a decade since his US debut solo in the same space.
Expanding on the dialogue created by his past works, Bala’s new works push the boundaries of his practice conceptually and materially. Imperceptible folds and lines between the artist's closed hands are monumentalized in works carved from sandstone and granite, while in other works cast from the artist's body, the exterior is all that remains: a folded layer existing only as skin, cast off like clothing is a poignant remnant embodying absence. Another work, hovering in mid-air, entices the viewer to believe in the unseen. In an interplay of forms taken from the body, the works become increasingly abstract as they move from the outside to the spaces enclosed within—the familiar sources of their creation dissolving into unexpected and ethereal formations.
Seeing is not believing and believing is what is in the unseen. Bala works with the thresholds of the physical, the visible, the perceptible, allowing the viewer to transgress all boundaries. His works materialize the non-physical, show the invisible and permit the experience of the imperceptible.
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Schedule
from May 05, 2012 to July 27, 2012