Echoes of the Hand positions Gaurab Das as a compelling voice in contemporary sculpture, rooted in tradition yet unmistakably of the present.
Echoes of the Hand presents a significant body of new sculptures by Gaurab Das, a Santiniketan-based artist whose practice bridges material sensibility, personal memory and contemporary form-making.
Working in bronze, wood and stone, Das creates fluid, hybrid figures that shift between the human, the animal and the elemental. His works draw upon the tactile immediacy of clay, his first medium in childhood and extend it into mature sculptural languages where gesture, void and contour articulate meaning.
Themes of connection run through the exhibition: mother and child, human and nature, buffalo and land. These forms, never literal, reveal themselves slowly through abstraction, rhythm and surface.
Trained at Kala Bhavana, Das inherits Santiniketan’s legacy of contextual modernism, an approach that embraces materiality, craft and an empathetic understanding of the living world. In an Indian art landscape increasingly shaped by digital pace and conceptual expansion, Das’s practice offers a grounded, essential counterpoint. His sculptures invite viewers into a space of contemplation, where form becomes emotion and presence becomes relational. Echoes of the Hand positions Gaurab Das as a compelling voice in contemporary sculpture, rooted in tradition yet unmistakably of the present.
