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Spatial study by artists and experiments with space has been an element essential to art since modernism. The spectacle is enhanced by kinetics. Architecture and Art have followed mirroring aesthetic philosophies and movements since the time of the renaissance. Concrete and forms of steel created kinetic imaginaries that sculptors such as Bhushan Bhombale and Shaikh Azgar Ali are seen here experimenting with. Rathin Barman inverts our homes as a psychological maquette with stairs going nowhere and the grisaille painting is crowned by brass lines to metaphor our pretensions of perhaps beauty? Atul Dodiya lends his hands’ fluidity to a bird in flight engraved in marble as Reyaz Badaruddin casts everyday objects in terracotta. Samarth Mistry makes murals of triangles, spheres and cones to present a history of cast surfaces we have seen in interior spaces. Tanya Goel and Atul Dodiya were invited to collaborate in a project making circular marble mosaics and Tanya used the space in a manner that makes the sphere take many circles towards its centre. Richa Arya’s cutouts in metal abstract light as the Sun moves and throws shadows through them marking time.
