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Seven Oceans and the Unnumbered Stars

September 20, 2007- October 27, 2007

Reception: September 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

N.N.Rimzon

Bodhi Art

535 W 24th St

Bodhi Art is proud to present an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by N N Rimzon. The exhibition features five sculptures and seven drawings. Deeply interested in the thoughts of Martin Heidegger, Rimzon is concerned with the question of “being” and the creation of new meaning through displacement of objects. Both these preoccupations are contained within this current series of sculptures and drawings, although they are conceptually distinct from each other.

Rimzon views the body as a container; a receptacle of violence and of generative possibilities, simultaneous holder of secrets and emptiness. Using mythic beliefs of Kabir and Buddha as a starting point, Rimzon has deliberately located his works in the present day, where every claim of faith and stated truth is subject to intense scrutiny. There are traces of such apparent opposites in all his sculptures. In the relief Mother at the Shrine, he presents a roundel with a navel in the center; a pregnant belly full of possibilities but also a metaphor for the perishable clay pot that Kabir considered symbolic of the vulnerability of human life.

A sense of secrecy and the unknown inhabits Rimzon’s drawings, emphasized by the omnipresence of enclosures and womb-like curved spaces. Although suggesting conventional “realism”, Rimzon however, has displaced the subjects from the space where they were originally observed; they are his “intentional objects of sight”. The absence of figures in his drawings communicates an oppressive silence expressing the human dichotomies of birth and death, life and destruction. The intonation of these drawings, as in the sculptures, is reflective of N N Rimzon’s distress with contemporary universal issues of violence and alienation.

N N Rimzon was born in Kerala, India. He earned an MA in sculpture with distinction at the Royal College of Arts, London in 1989 with an Inlaks scholarship. Internationally recognized, he has widely exhibited, including “Edge of Desire” at the Queens Museum of Art, NY in 2005. His works are part of the collections of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Chester Herwitz Trust, Worcester, Massachusetts; and Fukuoka Museum, Japan among others.

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