Nature has given all to us. everything embedded in us. A good human being can be a good artist. Like nature artist gives their all life and research to society .some artist made successful relation with society and some are not. To be a successful artist you have to understand yourself and the society. Artists have to make balance with their concepts and visualization with the society and Prabhakar Singh has a great balance in all aspects with his work and society. He maintained his style and commercial approach of day to day life.
When the Commercial works thought come in front of Art society then it became always part of gossip and discussions. Some people say we don’t do commercial work and some people do.
An artist’s imagination is often fuelled by his environment. Consciously or unconsciously, he takes scenes or objects from daily life and celebrates them through his work. Pune-based sculptor Prabhakar Singh was born and brought up in village, in family of farmers, where he observed many artisans and craftsmen who embell ished implements or other objects beyond functional requirements. In an intricately detailed series of mini-sculptures , he began with depicting the movements of people from his childhood, then expanded his scope to include the things he saw around him later in life, lending them the uniqueness of his perspective and aesthetic abilities.
An artist’s imagination is often fuelled by his environment. Consciously or unconsciously, he takes scenes or objects from daily life and celebrates them through his work. Pune-based sculptor Prabhakar Singh was born and brought up in village, in family of farmers, where he observed many artisans and craftsmen who embell ished implements or other objects beyond functional requirements. In an intricately detailed series of mini-sculptures , he began with depicting the movements of people from his childhood, then expanded his scope to include the things he saw around him later in life, lending them the uniqueness of his perspective and aesthetic abilities.
His latest series on Heads/faces, of almost twenty sculptures, is full of experimentations of textures and medium. Here too, he is trying to break the solidity of sculptural technique and maintaining the hollow structure. Exterior and interior form their own equations, where every object stuck in the sculpture has a story to tell. Variations in the sizes of the shining brass balls, adorning the inner structure of the head, confined in poet’s brain by spiral rods, is the depiction of numerous thoughts going on in poet’s mind. Housewife, three feet high, is a female head, made up of iron and stainless steel and has been a part of National Art Exhibition by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2018.
The artistic oeuvre of Prabhakar Singh coalesce myriad thought processes, contemplations and media into a combined ecstatic visual allegory. The artist is well versed in transforming found metal/scrap or pieces/patterns into strongly assembled visual dialogues .His larger than life sized works exemplify his strengths as a gifted sculptor and yet in the present series as he turns towards small, mini sculptures combined/mounted with canvass, he proves that versatility is one of his major strengths. The boldness required while executing and assembling large/huge structures gets transformed into a delicate sensitivity and finesse required while working in smaller format.
The artistic oeuvre of Prabhakar Singh coalesce myriad thought processes, contemplations and media into a combined ecstatic visual allegory. The artist is well versed in transforming found metal/scrap or pieces/patterns into strongly assembled visual dialogues .His larger than life sized works exemplify his strengths as a gifted sculptor and yet in the present series as he turns towards small, mini sculptures combined/mounted with canvass, he proves that versatility is one of his major strengths. The boldness required while executing and assembling large/huge structures gets transformed into a delicate sensitivity and finesse required while working in smaller format.
His latest series on Heads/faces, of almost twenty sculptures, is full of experimentations of textures and medium. Here too, he is trying to break the solidity of sculptural technique and maintaining the hollow structure. Exterior and interior form their own equations, where every object stuck in the sculpture has a story to tell. Variations in the sizes of the shining brass balls, adorning the inner structure of the head, confined in poet’s brain by spiral rods, is the depiction of numerous thoughts going on in poet’s mind. Housewife, three feet high, is a female head, made up of iron and stainless steel and has been a part of National Art Exhibition by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2018
Pune’s Prabhakar Singh is one remarkable sculptor. Sculpture is conventionally bound by weight and mass and defied by gravity. Singh rebelled and created translucent, airy sculpture which offers doors to perceive both the outside and the inside. We feel yes, this is the mysterious interior and these apples appear free of heavy mass. One whimsically peeled apple looks almost as if it is gravity free. His work is good and made with readily available material like metal triangles, circles, nuts and bolts. He makes natural shapes in clay, places welded metal pieces on them and painstakingly shapes the metal structure to match and meet his expectation of light, see-through sculpture. He designs manmade material into natural shapes and provides not mere novelty but pleasure.
Pune’s Prabhakar Singh is one remarkable sculptor. Sculpture is conventionally bound by weight and mass and defied by gravity. Singh rebelled and created translucent, airy sculpture which offers doors to perceive both the outside and the inside. We feel yes, this is the mysterious interior and these apples appear free of heavy mass. One whimsically peeled apple looks almost as if it is gravity free. His work is good and made with readily available material like metal triangles, circles, nuts and bolts. He makes natural shapes in clay, places welded metal pieces on them and painstakingly shapes the metal structure to match and meet his expectation of light, see-through sculpture. He designs manmade material into natural shapes and provides not mere novelty but pleasure.
मूर्तिकला की अगर हम बात करें तो हमारे यहां इसकी एक सुदीर्घ ऐतिहासिक परंपरा रही है. सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता से लेकर मौर्यकाल व उसके बाद की कला परंपरा के माध्यम से भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप के इतिहास को जानने समझने में मूर्तिकला की सबसे अहम भूमिका रही है. कतिपय इसका एक कारण यहां मूर्तिपूजक समाज का रहना भी रहा है. बहरहाल इन सबके बावजूद समकालीन मूर्तिकला में हमें ज्यादा अनुकरण का ही चलन दिखता है. यहां तक कि कई बार किसी कलाकार समूह की रचनाओं में यह फर्क समझना मुश्किल हो जाता है कि कौन सा मूर्तिशिल्प किस कलाकार का है. एक दौर था कि लगभग सभी मूर्तिशिल्प प्रदर्शनियों में टॉरसो व हेड सीरिज के मूर्तिशिल्प ही नजर आते थे. इनकी रचना शैली में इतनी साम्यता रहती थी कि बिना मूर्तिकार का नाम जाने किसी भी कलाप्रेमी के लिए यह जान पाना काफी मुश्किल था कि इस मूर्ति का रचनाकार कौन है. ऐसे दौर में जिन कुछ मूर्तिकारों ने अपने शैली आैर शिल्प के मौलिक प्रयोगों से अपनी पहचान बनाई उन्हीं में से एक हैं प्रभाकर सिंह. कला की आैपचारिक शिक्षा की बात करें तो प्रभाकर ने बीएचयू के कला संकाय से स्नातक आैर स्नातकोत्तर डिग्री ली है. जहां इनके प्राध्यापक थे ख्यातिलब्ध मूर्तिकार मदनलाल.
"Shaping emotions through the
scrap metal"