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50 objects spanning 5,000 years are on display at this new exhibition in Mumbai
Updated On: 21 August, 2016 07:16 AM IST | | Benita Fernando
<p>An upcoming exhibition of ancient and modern artefacts and works of art spanning over 5,000 years, celebrates age and the lines that come with it</p>
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Everything you see in this room here," says Anupam Sah, "is trying to return to the earth." We are surrounded by clay, metal and cloth objects — some at least a few millennia old. "Be it an electronic computer part or a piece of synthetic cloth —everything is trying to return to a stable, elemental form. And our job is to stop that," says Sah, Head of Art Conservation, Research and Training at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS).
At the museum's conversation workshop, there is a strong recall of an operation theatre or a chemistry lab — there are conservators in white coats at each table and studio lights glaring down at them. Sah, who has been an art conservator for the last 25 years, splits his time across each section. He calls his job "an amalgam of science and art, tempered with informed human decisions".
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