The art of Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast.

Raghunath Mohapatra was a famous sculptor whose some of the famous sculptures are part of Galleria VSB’s collection. Some of his creations adorning the Galleria VSB’s collections are ‘Rasila of Krishna’, ‘Lord Ganesha’, ‘Lord Ganesha on Vehicle (Mooshak)’, ‘Lord Venkateshwara’, ‘Untitled (Women)’ and ‘Mahaparinirvana’.

A pioneering figure in the world of sculpture and a Padma Vibhusan awardee – second highest civilian honour after the Bharat Ratna – the 78-year-old icon was born into a Biswakarma family in Puri’s Pathuria Sahi. The legendary craftsman went on to create several masterpieces like Buddha statues in white sandstone at Dhauligiri Shanti Stupa, Konark horses at the Barabati Stadium and Master Canteen, Mukteswar Gate at Surajkund and a gigantic lotus at Rajiv Gandhi’s samadhi at Vir Bhumi, both in New Delhi besides, Buddha statues in monasteries at Ladakh, Japan and Paris.