Himmat Shah Indian, b. 1933
Untitled, 2005
Bronze
17" x 6" x 7"
This sculpture, like his other works, has a totemic feel to it - a cluster of forms that could represent life in an ancient settlement. Himmat Shah experimented with abstraction...
This sculpture, like his other works, has a totemic feel to it - a cluster of forms that could represent life in an ancient settlement. Himmat Shah experimented with abstraction and primitivism at a time when his contemporaries were focusing on figurative works to define modernism. This radically reductive and non-representational modernism that one finds in his sculptures is what he learnt from a wider perspective of cultures—both Indian and international, as he once acknowledged.