Ravinder Reddy

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Ravinder Reddy
Gilded Head, 2006
Gold Gilded, Painted on Polyester Resin Fiberglass
53 x 35 x 60 in / 135 x 89 x 152 cm 

Ravinder reddy later' 80's he was doing free-standing, oversize heads and relief figures of nude women and lover couples in a gradually varied, steady development from the style which yet more inherently blended an archaic and classic rootedness with present day sensuous ways on the popular plane. His contemporary nymphs - from coy adolescent girls to sated middle-aged house wives, often gilded or painted in iconic colours like blues, are massive and monumental, but intimately exposed. They look at the viewer directly with their large, open eyes, almost hypnotically. Utterly tactile, fluid and powerfully synthesized, yet with a capacity for delicate, nuances detail or splashed under kitschy, oily pigments and garish ornament, they are also soft, enchanted, pleased and serene. Although presented with a dose of irony and witticism, the aggressive ribald, apparitions exude endurance, love, dreaming and sustenance, perhaps and indistinct sense of being set within social moulds.
courtesy: contemporary Indian art.