Ceramic Sculptures By Vinod Daroz

Event Details

Time: June 18, 2009 at 11am to July 10, 2009 at 7pm
Location: Kalakriti Art Gallery
Street: 468,Road No:10,Banjara Hills
City/Town: Hyderabad
Website or Map: http://www.kalakriti.in
Phone: 040 - 66564466
Event Type: art, exhibition
Organized By: Prshant Lahoti
Latest Activity: Jun. 15, 2009

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Event Description

Preview 17 June 2009 at 7p.m.

My previous works has had a distinctive ornamental veneer, which I attribute to my background as a jeweler. As a student of sculpture, I had a natural attraction for metallic glazes and matt surfaces. I believed it gave my work a sculptural quality. My passion for exploring the unexpected has made me experiment with several other media including cast metal, gold and silver leaf, mirrors, glass, and now, thread and light.

This series of work has been carried forward from some of my previous work in the temple series. The temple series was executed in stoneware. It was a series of three-dimensional as well as wall-mounted sculpture expressing the way I see 'God'. Fascinated by the monumental and dramatic quality of the gopurams, my work kept transforming over the years.

Simultaneously, I started working on a series called 'An Ode to Buddha - Peace and Harmony for the World'. With increasing man-made and natural calamities, this series became my offering, my prayers for peace.

As a student, when I used to see pictures of work in porcelain in books and magazines, I was always attracted to its qualities - its translucency and its pure white color. The first time I got to work in the medium was on a scholarship in the UK in the studio of Peter Illsley. While working with Peter my focus was on the glazed surface. I had not really explored the visual possibilities of the clay body. My first experience of handling porcelain reminds me of my roots as a jeweler where gold is given similar sensual and sensitive importance.

In this series, I have tried to the best of my abilities to open up, both, the visual and the conceptual possibilities of the medium. It has been an interesting challenge to incorporate the clay body successfully in my work, keeping the characteristics of the industrial slip-cast porcelain intact.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge Jyotsna Bhatt, Ray Meeker, Deborah Smith and P.R Daroz who are my mentors and gurus, without whose invaluable help, encouragement and support; this exhibition would not have been.

Vinod Daroz