Lot 71: Unconditional

RIYAS KOMU (B. 1972)
Unconditional
charred wood, metal and automative paint
33 (h) x 97 (w) x 24 (d) in. (83.8 x 246.4 x 61 cm.)
Executed in 2002
Please note this work comprises seven wood pots interconnected by powder coated iron pipes, and is wall mounted.

Mumbai, Sakshi Gallery, Unconditional , 2002.

Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2002

"The concerns that give Komu's paintings energy are also manifest in his sculpture, which are composed from charred wooden pots and automobile exhaust-silencer pipes: found materials, respectively, from rural and urban settings, which he aligns with torsos carved in wood these assemblages speak of the resilience of the recycling economy, in an undertone: but, more overtly, they announce that ambivalent linkages between self, machine and ecology, which produce fresh private and social realities even as they destroy older ones."


(Ranjit Hoskote, 'The Menace of Framing, the Persistence of Hope: Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Riyas Komu,' Unconditional, exh. cat., Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2002, illustrated, (unpaginated).