ARTE MACHINA

In the Beginning, There was Ice – Custodianship, Lineage and the Modern Automobile

Text by Dr Ken Wach

There are three things to remember: creation needs no permission. The ingenious human mind is inherently free to conceive and create. Art opens out and throws light upon the seemingly mundane.  This is exactly the case with Sankar Nadeson’s most recent artistic project. Its larger aim is clear: to uncover and meditate upon the forms, uses, attributes and psychosocial features of the ubiquitous automobile. In his project titled “In the Beginning there was Ice – Custodianship, Lineage and the Modern Automobile” Nadeson traces an ancestry of form that threads its continuity from the biomorphic constraints of the past to the technocratic plenitude of the present.  For Sankar Nadeson, it’s a long self-driven journey through the genealogy of a specific shape that is fuelled by eclectic thought. What results is a semi-shamanistic Postmodernist panoply of evolving forms based upon his aesthetic associations of movement, carriage, and the deeper realities of the automobile.