TARIK CURRIMBHOY
Akara Contemporary
1954
Tarik Currimbhoy, the accomplished sculptor and artist, was
born in Mumbai, India. He currently resides and works in New York City. His
artistic journey is a fascinating blend of classical training in the arts,
industrial design, and architecture. After graduating from Cornell University
with a Master of Arts and the Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and
Master of Architecture, Tarik went on to teach drawing at Cornell and design at
Pratt.
In his practice, Tarik searches for tranquility, simplicity,
and tactility, expressed in purity of both form and material. Inspired by
ancient architecture of building blocks resting on each other in tension and
compression, Tarik uses handcrafting and ancient casting techniques to create
distilled forms driven by these forces of nature. His sculptures are “stories
of structure and gravity”, held together under compression in stone and metal.
The essential issues that are explored in Tarik’s sculptures
are those of gravity, balance, movement, stasis and all addressed with formal
beauty and fineness that belays the underlying exactitude of the mathematical
calculations.
Tarik has mastered the juxtaposition of the old and the new
creating sculptures that are modern and minimal in form. His design work has
been published internationally and his sculptures may be found across the world
in public spaces, and corporate and private collections.
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