Saturday 15 March 2014

Shanthamani.M


Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Shanthamani.M,
Hands,
2012
Wood charcoal with cotton rag pulp, polyurethane
184 x 113 x 73 cm
M Shanthamani explores the aftermath of transition and transformation through cultural impacts. As growing materialism creates a loss of values, the artist reminds us that happiness does not cost a thing. She shows us that life is removed from existence, the spiritual is forgotten, culture is lost, traditions are history, and everything is reduced to a label ‘made somewhere’. Shanthamani uses fragmentation in all mediums and symbolism in order to help Man recognize and understand what is changing, that we are at the last stage before ashes. Her use of charcoal represents the depletion of our natural resources and the destruction of industrial development. Shanthamani’s sculptures are rustic charcoal bricks combined as an allegory on the passage of existence in a sensual figure. Shanthamani’s works are introspections on the inner consciousness as it mutates with time and slowly becomes a pile of pieces burned by the combustion of life.
courtesy:artplural

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