Within a tenure of 60 years, Ram Sutar’s hands have immortalised countless realistic sculptors, including influential personalities like Mahatma Gandhi to Rabindra Nath Tagore, Chattrapati Shivaji and even the World’s Tallest Statue ‘Statue of Unity’.
A role model for artists, specially sculptors, the life of 93 year old Ram Vanji Sutar is a story of fathomless passion, dedication and inspiration. He chose to do realistic sculptures, which happens to be the most difficult streams of art, where one needs to move at a slow pace, perfecting each part relentlessly to achieve the resemblance, the character and most importantly, the personality. His love for clay has motivated him to work tirelessly in depict the true colours of legendary personalities. In fact he derives energy from work, says the maestro sculptor of the World’s Tallest Statue, The Statue of Unity, standing tall at 182 metres (597 feet).
An accomplished artist & sculptor par excellence, he has created more than fifty monumental sculptures with most notable ones being the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, the Chambal monument, the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, among others. In 1999, he received the Padma Shri and later in 2016 the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India. Recently in October 2018, Shri Suthar received the Tagore Award.
The team of SURFACES REPORTER met Ram Vanji Sutar and his architect son Anil Ram Sutar to visit their studio and to listen to the stories behind designing the world’s tallest statue.
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This story is from the January 2019 edition of Surfaces Reporter.
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