May 5, 2019 — January 5, 2020
On view through January 5, 2020, Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) in Hamilton NJ presents the work of multinational conceptual artist, Tallur L.N., in his first survey exhibition in the United States. Filling two multi-level galleries, Interference Fringe | Tallur L.N. brings together a survey of over 25 sculptures created during the past 13 years in a range of media including found objects, appropriated industrial machines, carved stone and wood, cast bronze, and works embedded in concrete and studded with coins.
With pointed humor and incisive visual commentary, Tallur confronts our belief systems, questioning the value we assign to money, icons, and artifacts. Building on the rich sculptural traditions of India, he references ancient iconography, religious and patriotic symbology, and mythology. There are several interactive works in the exhibition. In Enlightenment Machine (beta version 3.0) (2019), the artist invites viewers to pump the pedal of a grinding wheel while holding a Statue of Liberty souvenir to its gritted surface. However innocent or oblivious, our participation makes us collectively complicit in the erosion of an American symbol which has come to represent freedom, opportunity, and emancipation.
His conceptual metaphors can be provocative. In Chromatophobia (Buddha) (2012), a large granite installation of the Budai with a giant log atop its head prompts visitors to make a wish and hammer a coin into the crevices of the wood that crushes it. The artist insists that if money is “the root of all evil,” this awkwardly therapeutic ritual will cure of us of our “abnormal and persistent fear” of it.
His massive installation, Scaffold (2019), is stacked with the sculptures for which Tallur is most recognized. Several of these works incorporate or reference iconography which is almost inseparable from the idea of India (or stereotypes of India) in the popular imagination. The three-story indu ...More...
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
") are described as follows: