Overview
Ladi’s works exhibit his penchant for the eccentric and strange. They are often condensed narratives in which larger than life mechanical devices assume a central position, surround by limp human figures in postures of obeisance. Ladi infuses his sculptures with a queer humor that enables the viewer to access them, moving effortlessly from the familiar to the fantastic, or from the apparent to the suggested.
Ladi makes sculptures that are restlessly rooted in a pervasive multitude of life’s transforming manifestations. Through a tinge of the autobiographical that grows into a larger picture, through an indication of a story or an almost actual situation, he makes them yield a not so much surreal as a contradictory and phantasmagorical, strangely powerful poetry. Prithpal Singh Ladi,s elaborate stone monuments, complete with steel dragonflies and hindless frogs, are artistic sketches of a personal loss.
This was first Solo show after almost a decade.
Works
Prithpal S. Ladi, And look who walks the ramp, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Beckon, 2008
18 x 25 x 25 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Congress of lesser beings, 2008
35 x 58 x 90 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Family, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Godspeed, 2008
12 x 14 x 6 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Judicious, 2008
58 x 44 x 29 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Replotted, 2008
96 x 36 x 24 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Stalemate, 2008
22 x 22 x 31 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, The peers gallery, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Left Alone, 2008
13 x 10 x 7 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Type Muskaan, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Type Muskaan, 2008
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Type Muskaan, 2006
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Type Muskaan, 2006
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Type Muskaan, 2006
Variable SizePrithpal S. Ladi, Untitled, 2008
24 x 16 x 10 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Untitled, 2008
37 x 12 x 14 inchesPrithpal S. Ladi, Our friends, 2008
Variable Size