1969 Krishna Reddy "The Vision" Abstract Figures Sculpture

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A 1969 Cast in "Factory Stone" (resin) with bronze patination by Krishna Reddy and signed on the back. Titled “The … Read more A 1969 Cast in "Factory Stone" (resin) with bronze patination by Krishna Reddy and signed on the back. Titled “The Vision”, a line of abstract emotionally charged figures united together with their hands clasped and outstretched. This outcry and spiritual unification could not be more relevant or timely. If you focus on the individuals with their outstretched arms to the heavens above, you realize how charged with meaning this sculpture is and how apropos. This is truly the work of an accomplished artist.

Printmaker and sculptor Krishna Reddy belonged to a generation of artists who transformed Indian art in the years following the country’s independence. Best known for his intaglio prints, Reddy featured in exhibitions at the Rubin Museum of Art in 2011 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016. He attended the experimental Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal and later apprenticed with Henry Moore while studying at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. He also studied with Marino Marini at the Brera Academy in Milan. In the early 1950s Reddy joined the Parisian printmaking workshop Atelier 17 and co-developed viscosity printing, an intaglio technique in which color inks of varying thicknesses are layered onto incised, bas-relief-like metal plates. With this method he produced abstract, surrealistic images that often suggest organic matter or cellular structures, as well as posters in support of protest movements in India and France.

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