"Ranjani Shettar : Present Continuous" an exhibition of new works by Ranjani Shettar at Talwar Gallery, C-84 Neeti Bagh > 11am-7pm on 20th January-30th September 2011

Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Talwar Gallery, C-84 Neeti Bagh, New Delhi - 110049

Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park'

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Event Details : 'Ranjani Shettar : Present Continuous' an exhibition of new works by Ranjani Shettar.

Ephemeral yet distinct, between shadows and form, Shettar’s works permeate elusiveness and a refusal to be contained by simple categorization. Her materials yield to unfamiliar realizations, as in Stretch in which wood seems to have been molded like clay, while on the main level Scent of a Sound traverses the gallery space like an unruly fragrance encompassing it like a lingering melody. The organic forms constructed with steel and muslin float in mid air confronting the viewer as they enter, daring them to step inside and imbibe. Further, in Aureole - a multi piece cast bronze silhouette of a threshold sweeps across the space gracefully defying materiality and weight while drawing from a millennium old tradition. Lagoon, laden with lush, rich and dense forms created from lacquered wood immersed in depths of blue, is indulgent and inviting.

Shettar's use of traditional and modern crafts to sculpt natural and industrial materials accentuates the tenuous relationship between industry and nature. She resolves this by uncovering the beauty within their co-existence and in the collaboration between man and nature. In creating environments with sculpture and installation, Shettar fuses the two realms together with dynamic yet graceful forms and textures, revealing the spectacle and magnanimity of natural phenomena. Seduced by their simplicity and openness, our experience of her works yields humility and a surrender to their splendor.

Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977 in Bangalore, India. Her work has been on view in numerous significant institutions and exhibitions worldwide.  It can currently be seen at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY in On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century.  Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / SFMOMA (2009), The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2008-9) and The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA (2008).  Other exhibitions include 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2010); 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2008), 9th Lyon Biennial, France (2007), 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2007), and 15th Sydney Biennale, Australia (2006).  In 2006 Shettar was an Artist-in-Residence at Artpace, San Antonio, TX.  In 2005, her works were on view at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio and Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX and in 2003 at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.  Later this year her solo exhibitions will be held at Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Singapore and at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

She received a Bachelors (1998) and a Masters (2000) in Sculpture from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. The artist lives and works in Karnataka, India.

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