Studio · Art installations and replicas

Red Banana Studio

Artist: Vivek Sharma

01 The 300 Busts
02 Constitution Frame
03 Shuttle Garden

Art installations

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The 300 Busts

Rows of bronze busts on small shelves along a long red wall, each bust with its name plate.

Venue
the Constitution Museum at O. P. Jindal Global University
Credit
Red Banana Studio · Artist: Vivek Sharma · with Cultre
02 / 03

Constitution Frame

A black frame with a gold lotus engraving and a V-shaped opening, standing in the museum garden.

Venue
the Constitution Museum at O. P. Jindal Global University
Credit
Red Banana Studio · Artist: Vivek Sharma · with Cultre
Concept render

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Shuttle Garden

In development
Each shuttle is mounted vertically like a wheat ear, a bright wound bobbin glowing at its centre as the 'grain.'

Venue
Handloom Haat
Credit
Red Banana Studio · Artist: Vivek Sharma · with Cultre

Replicas

Available to buy, or made on request

What these are

Red Banana Replicas makes hand-finished interpretations of heritage objects, printed in our own studio for handling collections, retail and outreach. They are handling copies for education and retail editions for the museum shop. Six pieces are shown now: a bearded ruler bust, a young ballet dancer, a fasting figure, a dancing bronze figure, a temple dancer and Nataraja. Each is available to buy, or made on request.

How they are made

Design, printing and hand finishing happen in one studio, in New Delhi. The pieces are printed on two Bambu Lab P1S Combo FDM printers and one Phrozen Sonic Mega 8K resin printer. Each of the six also has a 3D model that runs in the browser as a turntable on the Studio page, so a visitor can inspect a piece before asking about it.

How to use this page

A visitor taps a piece to turn it, drags to spin it, and releases to let it keep turning on its own. A button, "Enquire about a replica", starts the conversation about buying a piece or asking for one to be made.

How we word them

We call these interpretations, and we do not use the words "museum-grade" or "scanned" for them. The wording on the page describes how a piece was made, not how grand it is.

Enquire about a replica