Apparao Galleries
Exclusive mules that blend mind and body and larger-than-life head sculptures by Ravinder Reddy from India Art Fair
HOW TO STAND OUT AT THE India Art Fair? Put all of Ravinder Reddy’s distinctive heads together. Chennai-based Apparao Galleries decided to do exactly that at the fair’s recently-concluded 17th edition. Reddy’s gold and bronze-hued sculptures, with their penetrative gaze and intense sensuality, made heads turn. For all their ubiquity, these women remain a rare sight as most of them are tucked away in museums and private hands.
THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT shoe doesn’t begin at the sole. It begins in the brain. With the Nike Mind 001 and 002, the first releases from its Mind Science Department, Nike aims to restore a more instinctive relationship between body and movement, creating a sensory experience underfoot that encourages calm, focus and presence.
Nearly a decade of research led here, starting with the foot itself, where skin is dense with mechanoreceptors that constantly feed information to the brain. “It’s like a walking anti-fatigue mat built into the shoe,” we’re told. Or, quite literally, thinking on your feet.
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