National Gallery of Modern Art presents Claudia Hakim’s sculptures.

The show of the Columbian artist is being held to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Colombia and India.

Entitled ‘Signs of Skin’, the show at NGMA, Delhi includes metal sculptures. The Colombian sculptor’s work, according to NGMA director Prof Rajeev Lochan, marks a major milestone in the country’s artistic landscape.

He adds, “The constant factor in her various thematic investigations encompassing the different stages of creative process remains a deft sense of modular construction, purity and geometry. Her sculptures communicate a rich artistic language in a direct concrete manner.”

Beginning her career in the 1970s, Claudia Hakim has thus far explored many thematic interests. In her creative process, the sculptor applies skill and clarity to the apt definition of her sculptural language. Her ability to go beyond appearances through diverse formal creations is evident as she constructs forms by weaving, assembling and building the different elements that she later wraps/ unwraps in a rather playful definition of her very own sculptural aesthetics, albeit within an ‘essential modular format’.

Inspired by textiles, fabric weaving and jewelry, she manipulates basic elements into superlative sculptures with the usage of screws, nuts, rings, bolts, springs, steel mesh and metallic sheets to create geometric shapes, circles and triangles for her new exhibition. The new series of work proposes a wide variety of rigorous and orderly geometrical forms.