Valsan Koorma Kolleri came to Madras to study in 1971 at a time when the sculptor Dhanpal headed the College of Arts and Crafts. An Artists' Village, under the guidance of K.C.S. Panicker offered several possibilities for practicing artists to continue working without the anxiety of having to find other means of physical sustenance.

Working initially with the geometrical abstraction which originated from the study of the human body in its structural configuration and in movement, Kolleri would cast plaster and concrete in single and multiple modules, later assembling them into totemic formats which created a startling dialogue between the primitive and the urban.

Subsequently, in the late 80's and 90's, he cast t...