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Do nudes by themselves posit vulgarity? No. But the provocatively titled show of sculptures by Kurnool-born S. D. Hari Prasad Uncensored asks this and many other questions. But hey according to the sculptor, the title of the show has nothing to do with the works on display but rather with the volume of work. "I have put on show all the works that I have done between 2002-06 without leaving out or editing out anything. So the good, the brilliant, the bad, everything is on display. The title has not been used in the cinematic sense but rather in the personal sense," says Hari Prasad.
Nevertheless, the connotation of the title and some of sculptures evoke the primal. In the land of Khajuraho and Kamasutra, the rough-hewn life size nudes sculpted out of single sandstone blocks just outside the Kalakriti Gallery have the shock value.
They are not the only clump of sculptures on display. Inside the gallery, there are some delicate pieces hewn out of marble and granite, smoothened to perfection and asking some abstract questions. By themselves they are nothing, place them in a context, as in a bunch or related pieces then the meaning might dawn on you. "My work is not aimed at garnering appeal or at tapping the market but it is for my aesthetic satisfaction," says Hari Prasad who works out of his studio in Visakhapatnam and who learnt the initial chiselling and drilling from his artisan father.
If some sculptures are corny as a hollowed out hole filled with cracked red polysterene resin surrounding a calm sculpted face titled `Cracks of love', there are others like bunch of squarish bottles worked out of marble and stone that speak about our civilisation.
There is an inherent conflict in sculptures when the block of stone or wood is not the easiest thing to lend form to. But Hari Prasad isn't fixated on the medium. "I have no favoured media. I have worked on slabstone, marble, sandstone, granite, fibreglass, glass, aluminium, polysterene resin and a host of other substances. It is the subject that chooses the medium and not the medium that chooses the subject," says Hari Prasad.
SERISH NANISETTI
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