This sculpture, in ovoid, packs a virtuoso punch and lives up to Prodosh Das Gupta’s genius of investing in a visual idiom that was inspired by the understanding of prana or breath and his belief that the ovoid shape could potentially be a symbol of creation, of birth. Suryamukhi, in fact, belongs to the phase when he was exploring this quest of finding a medium’s ‘genesis’, exploring the negative volume of the egg shape through concave surfaces and finding innate energy in it.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., The Naked and The Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art, Edition Two (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 147 Singh, Kishore, ed., India’s French Connection | Indian Artists in France (New Delhi: DAG, 2018), pp. 78-79
Prodosh Das Gupta
Suryamukhi
1978
Bronze on wooden pedestal
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Prodosh Das Gupta
Suryamukhi
1978
Bronze on wooden pedestal
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