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Article: Arts: Hegel would have approved
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 4, 1996
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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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Article: Harmony Art Show opens in Mumbai
The Hindustan Times;
March 28, 2008 ;
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... ... installations, photography and experimental art, in keeping with international trends." The main focus of this year's show is Dhruva Mistry, from Gujarat. Mistry brings rich imagery and narrative content to an astonishing body of work, diverse in style and scale ...
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