Spectacularly Small: Artist Sudarshan Shetty is Showing in Delhi

THE HINDU
By SHAILAJA TRIPATHI

INDIA---Artist Sudarshan Shetty is showing in Delhi after a decade and without his giant installations. He tells that monumentality lies in an idea, not in scale. Shetty is, after all, one of the biggest names around and has earned acclaim in the international arena too. With “Every Broken Moment Piece By Piece” Sudarshan returns to Delhi after a gap of 10 years. Broken crockery that has been rebuilt, commemorative statues affixed with a glass of water, old pieces of wooden doors used in a modern way in a shrine-like structure and other pieces hint at the times gone, by but the artist isn’t lamenting the loss. “There is an old saying that broken ceramic can never be mended. It’s futile trying to redo it, but I attempt this extreme situation of bringing something back to life. And when I do it, new forms emerge,” he explains adding there is a certain kind of continuity in the concerns he is occupied with. [link]