Mariya Chedathi and her Cow, a small sculpture in mixed media with a glazed ceramic finish, of an elderly woman attired in the traditional chatta and mundu sits on the shelf of Bronze Age, a recently-opened sculpture foundry at Girinagar in Kochi. On another rack, a herd of impalas have been captured midflight in a stylised bronze sculpture.
Sculptures of varying sizes, materials and moods fill up the space; with each piece carrying a little descriptive note. While one finds the gallery’s original hand-crafted sculptures, it also has a range of artifacts (replicas of famous sculptures, such as ‘The Thinker’ by French sculptor by Auguste Rodin in Paris to name one). An entire section has been dedicated to bronzes of Gods and Goddesses, miniature gold-plated bronze idols and abstracts in mixed media.
