Ranjani shettar biography of albert einstein

New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Though Ranjani Shettar, who turned 40 last year, is a mid-career artist (at least by Western standards), her work remains youthfully lyrical, and close to nature in ways that evade her closest American counterpart Sarah Sze, whose work is busier and more mechanical. Shettar’s impulse feels conservationist and ecologically oriented, but it also responds to the works of Sze and Teresita Fernández. Shettar’s use of materials in Seven ponds and a few raindrops (), her recent Met installation, is deliberately earthy, as captured in the descriptive title. Seven earth- and copper-colored amoeba-like forms, made from stainless steel covered in tamarind-stained muslin, hung from the ceiling. Constructed in two layers—the top perforated with open circles underlain by a flat, ground-like terrain—the ponds cast shifting shadows around the space. Leaf- or raindrop-like extensions made their way slightly beyond these supports—lighter, more earth-colored att