THRISSUR: Even while doing his diploma in Fine Arts, Sunil Kandallur had no plans to become an ordinary artist struggling to make a living out of painting as many do. He wanted to do some thing special and innovative and so after completing the diploma, he concentrated in learning the art of making statues out of wax.
Talking to Express, the 38-year-old artist hailing from Kayamkulam said that as a student wax artist he had nothing to bank on. He said although the scanty published literature had been of help, he depended mainly on trial and error method in mastering the art. He said that it took nearly five years’ hard work before he was able to make near-perfect wax statues. Sunil said that in the past five years, he had made nearly 50 statues of various distinguished personalities, including Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Mohanlal, Mammutty, Hitler, Sri Sri Ravi Sankar, Mata Amrithananda Mayi and Sirdi Sai Baba. The latest statue Sunil made is of A R Rahman. Sunil does not sell his creations. He meets the expenses by charging entry fee to the wax exhibition organised by him all over the country. At the Pooram Exhibition grounds here, he had set up a wax museum where the statues of Hitler, Jawaharlal Nehru, Cartoonist Sankar, Rajiv Gandhi, Sri Sri Ravi Sankar, A R Rahman, Mamooty and Amir Khan are exhibited. He said that public response to his wax museum here is encouraging. Sunil aims at setting up a museum similar to the Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Mumbai within the next five years. He said that the London museum exhibits about 400 statues and he plans to create that much number of statues in the next five years for his dream project. http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Turning+wax+into+lively+statues&artid=Rq8DnPoqiZE=&SectionID=1ZkF/jmWuSA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=X7s7i|xOZ5Y=&SEO= -- regards.. Krish.. His Music ~ My Mother Tongue Own a website.Get an unlimited package.Pay next to nothing.*Go to http://in.business.yahoo.com/
