Article: Arts: Hegel would have approved

Dhruva Mistry has always worn his Indian identity on his sleeve. His vision overflows with mythical beasts, voluptuous women and iconography. Even the eclecticism of his sculptural language, which fuses Indian and European elements, received and invented forms, is, in a way, rather Indian too. The survey of work from the last six years that opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) on Saturday draws together an array of styles and preoccupations, ranging from classical reclining deities to arcane stick- figure abstractions, and from fulsome forms sculpted "in the round" to pictorial modelled reliefs. But all these works bear the unmistakable stamp of their author. There is, to borrow a ...

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