Rhythm Of Man : Sashidharan

Uma Nair

Sashidharan the professor sculptor is a man of eclectic interests. He walks in to the Visual Arts Gallery in Delhi to savor Sudip Roy’s Odyssey and we get talking. As a critic and curator I am rather guilty of not having seen his installation at Ajmere Gate Metro. “My works are about people, people who belong to the urban drama of the corporate world, of the modern triumph of chasing time.” At Ajmere Gate his sculpture looks more like an installation that captures the rhythm of man in the state of transience.

Sashidharan states that he likes the work of Anthony Gromley. And his installation of people rankles of Gromley’s words: Sculpture’s central purpose in confronting the body with another materiality is to engage the imagination, to make links with all that lies beyond the palpable and the observable, deep in space or deep in the unconscious mind. The number of images forms a human trail, one that translates into the dignity of discipline and the variety of occupations in the modes of attire while all figures are created erect. The lithe lines of the linear structure (49-feet-long steel rod) runs on both high and low levels, with human figures that stand two feet tall.