TENDER FORCES: TARIK CURRIMBHOY
October 10 - November 16 , 2024
Objects and
buildings are static beings and entities, but these apparent static beings are
in actuality a bolus of forces; forces in continuous action. The solids and
spaces of objects and buildings are compositions of material values, values
shaped by the dynamics of their lines of forces in constant motion – motions of
pull and push, centering and decentering. Forces draw from the gravity of the
earth or the cosmic family of energies, and through material forms and
geometries, structure and balance, transfer these forces of solidity and
stability into the air, into ether, as lines of motion and movement, swinging
or whirling, moving spaces and eyes. Tarik Currimbhoy, captures this dance and
dynamism of nature, into mobile solids and geometric subtleties. The Indian
architect and sculptor, now largely based out of the United States, expresses
the inner-most workings of built objects in sculptural indexes. His sculptures
may fool you by their simplicity, they may appear as primary obligations of
geometries and forms, but in their dynamism or in their textures and colour,
they draw out the complex and hidden world of strengths, energies, and
potencies. The smooth materiality of his sculptures, or forms melting in their
reflective surfaces, jostling between materiality and immaterialities, is the
‘task of the translator’… the artist, the sculptor, as the translator of the
invisible to the visible, and the visible is about the imperceptible!
Drawing from his knowledge of classical and stolid architecture, between the groundedness of Roman arches to the agility of flying buttresses, to exploring contemporary techniques of measure and casting, he draws and draws, and draws his way through the ideas for his sculptures. Observing the jewelry worn by tribal men and women, in the Indian landscape, to imagining the vitality of an eclipse, Currimbhoy patterns time and space in his dynamic and kinetic sculptures. Heavy they maybe, in their form and geometric solidity, but in their kinesis, they lease forces to a moment of tenderness, as tender as the breeze makes the wind!
-Kaiwan Mehta
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