Himmat Shah is one of the most iconic artists of this era. He has created rare artworks in different mediums like clay, metal, wood, plaster of Paris, etc. When life had come to a standstill in the dire times of the pandemic Kovid, he tirelessly created a new one. With a pencil, ink pen, and charcoal giving voice to his inner disquiet, he has then lived it as in 'under damask' drawings. QC Himmat Shah entered the age of ninety a few days back.
On his birthday, he had invited the author of these lines and the curator from Delhi, the art critic Rubina and a few people to his place. When he reached home, he took him to his newly built sculpture studio seven hundred square meters away from the city. Many future art plans were also carried by themselves on each floor of the new building being built.
He said enthusiastically. It was pleasant when Himmat Shah said, 'Still I am young. ' Himmat Shah has always been bringing alive the root in his sculptures pushing the ages. Sometime in the nineties, he started a series of subtle crafts in clay.
This unfinished art series is now being completed. How a city lives up to modernity in its ancient civilization, crafts, and architecture, Himmat Shah has brought to life in his subtle artworks Sirji in the soil. He has given the title 'Entire the City' to the new sculpture series. Remember, when he reached his house a few days ago, these sculptures of his life were made in clay.
He had shown fervently and told me that after casting in different metals, they would soon be displayed in some big city in the world. Regarding his artwork, he says, 'I left everyone. Everyone will have to leave to find themselves. Himmat Shah has a lot of plans. He wants to open an art college, in which children should be taught not to forget to remember.
Where artists are ready to leave everything old and create a new one. His relief work of Xavier's College in Ahmedabad, amazing clay sculptures made in Garhi in Delhi, Burn the paper, Abraham Alka ji's purchase to Rajasthan He talks a lot about his terracotta series 'Homage to Rajasthan', silver paint, etc., bringing alive his terracotta series, then time flies away like wings.
He says, 'My artworks are sold, it feels good. I want more money Not because I should develop amenities from it. Because I still have a lot to buy for my creativity. Books, art materials. There's still a lot to go around. In this saying of him, his rare experience of art can be deeply understood. What Himmat Shah has done has happened to us neither in painting nor in sculpture. Beyond the bound leaks. free from any particular genre. He is ninety years old but has not stayed anywhere at the age his age.
