About Raviram​​

 

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Raviram​ may not be able to express his thoughts in words, but he brings them alive on welded copper sheet and brass sheet and wires have a classic touch about them and bring to life the various deities and animal and insect and fish and bird figures he sculpts.​ Special mention must be made of his recent foray into almost three dimensional sheet sculptures which have a very strong original quality about them.

 

Born in Chennai in 1973, Self-Taught Copper n Brass sheet Sculptor, Trained and worked under his uncle Late Sri P.V.Janakiraman who attained considerable eminence as Sculptor. Raviram has been working in this field for the past 18 years.

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He forgets the hours as he works on the sheets of copper, twisting and shaping the metal until it is transformed into the image he has been harboring in his mind.​ After all Raviram is the nephew of the late sculptor P.V.Janakiraman, better known for his works in contemporary Indian sculpture.

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​Combining a love of craft and mythological legacy sculptor Raviram brings religious allegories in his creations. Still in his 40’s, he is among intriguing and potentially significant artists who have emerged in the last decade from southern India.

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Raviram seeks to investigate and explicit and the relationship between his emotions and the medium of communication he employs. In the process, he may disfigure or mutilate the icons of Hindu mythology. But he replaces aspects of experience that are significant in themselves and relate to aesthetic sensibility.

 

His reposed and metal caste forms is very reminiscent of his uncle Janakiraman, but overall his meticulous craftsmanship. He is a perfectionist in media and his works do not set out to prove or state anything. They have nothing to do with intellectuality of any kind. They are only a means of receiving emotions.

 

These directional forms with their variety of relief textures seems to convey some essential fullness, a subtle musical feeling creating a meditative mood. These bold representations of anthropomorphic figuration that archives the character of icons. Their presentation bear the look of deities or incarnations with their details and specification. Through their elaborately crafted frontality Raviram lends an apparent indigenous character to his sculpture.

 

Self taught sculptor Raviram, had won Tamilnadu State Lalit Kala Akademi award, Chennai, 2000-01, Junior Fellowship of the HRD Ministry, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 2002-04 and Scholarship from Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, 1999. A five-time participant in the National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Bhopal & Kolkata 1998, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2006-07 & 2009-10  respectively, he has also been part of many important exhibitions and art auctions and solo exhibitions. His sculptures are in the collection of various public and private institutions in India and abroad.

 

One of the main concerns of the young artist in India today is to integrate his western experience gathered via the media, travel, life-style etc with his formidable and ancient fast. V.R.Raviram is one such young sculptor.

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Above all Raviram is a person who hears with his mind and speaks through his hands.