Shiva is dead, long live Shiva

wood and bronze
73" x 64" x 41" (185 x 162 x 104cms)
Courtesy Nature Morte, New Delhi
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Many contemporary Indian artists who show their work in a the West tend to stay away from using traditional elements in they art due to its “cliché stigma”, says a spokesman for the Nature Morte gallery from New Delhi (D9). The South Indian artist L.N. Tallur, on the other hand, creates sculptures that seem to find a balance between the fading of tradition and its perennial residue. I