Public Art and Art in Public:
Performative attitude makes a spectacle of Permanence

Those who wanted to watch his works had to do so only
in front of the willful artist, in his studio at Malleswaram,
from then on. The artist would use a lamp to show the relief
sculptures literally in varying lights. There was a specific case
wherein one of the spectators stepped upon one of the relief
by K.V and broke it into more than two pieces, while watching
another of his paintings! K.V was an artist who had been
witness to all those audience who had seen his works during
his lifetime! The art product was proposed to a selected public
gaze while that public itself was under the surveillance-view of
the artist!