#ranjani shettar

[la-petite-marie]

"Amidst the towering glass and steel,

A secret garden, lush and real.

Tropical hues in urban gray,

Nature's breath in the city's sway.

Water trickles, whispers soft,

Leaves dance gently, branches loft.

In this cocoon of green and light,

Time pauses, day turns to night."

[itscolossal]

Ranjani Shettar’s Delicate Sculptures Entwine with the Lush Plant Life of the Barbican’s Conservatory

[mybeingthere]

Ranjani Shettar, Seven ponds and a few raindrops, 2017. Muslin, stainless steel, tamarind, natural dyes, 19 ft. 1 in. x 18 ft. 7 in. x 96 in. (581.7 x 566.4 x 243.8 cm). Courtesy Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi.

Photographs by Corrado Serra.

“Suspended from the ceiling, Seven ponds and a few raindrops is composed of stainless steel elements that have been molded into a series of sensual, curved, amoeba-like forms covered in tamarind-stained muslin—a technique derived from a craft tradition Shettar observed in the small village of Kinnala, India. The shadows cast by the suspended elements give the viewer a sense of having stumbled upon a hidden-away oasis.

Born in 1977, Shettar is based in the South India state of Karnataka. The inspiration for her large-scale installation comes from her observations of the now-threatened natural environs of rural India. She combines natural and industrial materials like beeswax, wood, organic dyes, vegetal pastes, lacquer, steel, and cloth in her work. All of the components in Shettar’s installations are carefully created and have a deliberately imperfect quality. The hued, rough patinas of the materials emphasize the artisanal nature of her practice, while also acknowledging the lives of the materials themselves. While Shettar’s abstract sculptures are resonant with familiar traditions of Western modernist and minimalist sculpture, it is the interplay of techniques and materials, mostly drawn from local sources, that make them distinctive.” — The Met

[shaddad]

as delicadas esculturas de ranjani shettar

[fagoagamx]

#esculturas orgánicas intrincadas de ranjani shettar se entrelazan en el exuberante invernadero de @barbicancentre 🌿

Llamada 'canciones de nubes en el horizonte', la exhibición de arte público consta de cinco esculturas #artesanales producidas por shettar en su estudio en la zona rural de #karnataka, #india. Las piezas, que presentan elementos florales y formas delicadas que evocan criaturas de otro mundo, están suspendidas en todo el espacio de 23,000 pies cuadrados, entretejiendo su vibrante variedad de plantas y árboles de todo el mundo.

#ranjanishettar #thebarbicancentre #thebarbican

#arquitectura #fiodemalha #architecture #crochet #arquitecturamx #handmade #archilovers #fiodemalhaecologico #design #couroecologico

[zarinamuhammad]

ranjani shettar @ barbican conservatory

[artistmichaelm]

Ranjani Shettar’s Delicate Sculptures Entwine with the Lush Plant Life of the Barbican’s Conservatory

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[abstracteddistractions]

Ranjani Shettar, Seven Ponds and a Few Raindrops, 2017, 

Muslin, stainless steel, tamarind, natural dyes. 

From the Indian art pages of Art =

[moma-prints]

Varsha, Ranjani Shettar, 2012, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art Size: page (each): 11 1/4 x 14 15/16" (28.5 x 38 cm); overall (closed): 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 1" (28.6 x 28.5 x 2.5 cm) Medium: Artist's book with sixteen prints of etching, screenprint, woodcut, digital print, and laser cut

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/172937

[myartville]

Artist of the day

Ranjani Shettar

Seven Ponds and a Few Raindrops

2017

Muslin, stainless steel, tamarind, natural dyes

581.7 × 566.4 × 243.8 cm

[mybeingthere]

Ranjani Shettar (Indian, born 1977). Seven ponds and a few raindrops (detail), 2017. Muslin, stainless steel, tamarind, natural dyes, 229 x 223 x 96 in. (581.7 x 566.4 x 243.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Tia Collection, 2018 (2018.61a–p). © Ranjani Shettar. Courtesy Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi.

The sixteen individual components of the artist's immersive installation were made over a period of nearly a year. As per her meticulous working method, Shettar handcrafted each element of the piece, first by welding and molding the stainless steel base, then by staining organic muslin cloth with three different dyes, and finally by binding the cloth to the steel armature with a paste made from tamarind trees. Such configurations of natural and manmade materials have always been a leitmotif of Shettar's work. 

As is evident with Seven ponds and a few raindrops, Shettar achieves a fine synthesis of unlikely materials, which is resonant with her worldview. As a result, the materials of her sculptures can be thought of as part of the artist's continuous search for a way to achieve a balance or some other sense of equilibrium. 

Read more https://www.metmuseum.org/.../ranjani-shettar-seven-ponds...

[shaddad]

do belo trabalho da escultora indiana ranjani shettar

[bridgetbfay2]

Ranjani Shettar - Vitamin 3-D

[tainaspatialobject-blog]

Ranjani Shettar

I am drawn to Ranjani’s work in terms of her ability to create contrasting textual planes within her work.

Honeysuckle and mercury in a thick midnight plot, 2016, Rosewood, teak and stainless steel, 90″ x 112″ x 21″

Smoke Rings, 2018 Teak wood and lacquered wood, 35.5” x 31.5″ x 9.5” & 18” x 26.5″ x 7.5” 

Remanence from last night’s dream, 2011-16, Carved rosewood, lacquered wood and pigments, 72″ x 50″ x 35″