Vadehra Art Gallery presents "Let's Paint The Sky Red" an exhibition of paintings & drawings by late artist Manjit Bawa at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 20th-27th August 2011
Time : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
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Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present Let’s Paint the Sky Red, an exhibition of works by the late artist Manjit Bawa. The show will feature over fifty works, including several large canvases, paperworks, serigraphs and miniatures. All the works in the exhibition are from the collection of Bhavna and Ravi Bawa.
Let’s Paint the Sky Red is a celebration of the sheer bliss (ananda) that marked the art of Manjit Bawa. It is also, an exhibition and a catalogue of works from selected periods of his remarkably multi-faceted and eventful life that blazoned across the Indian art scene as modernism’s last comet. Delving deep into the Indian tradition though well informed of western modernism, Bawa’s allegorical works turn pure colour into voluminous spaces inhabited sparsely (often singly) by men, women, acrobats, animals, gods and goddesses in frozen moments of dramatic gesture imbued with a range of emotions – wit, humour, elation, pathos or parody. Yet, in his thought or his work Bawa did not specially privilege either man or modernism. As J. Swaminathan wrote, “What makes Manjit’s work contemporary is its remoteness from the everyday present. His concern is not so much like that of the modernists with the fate of man in time as with the enigma of his very presence.” Or, as Manjit was himself fond of quoting from the Punjabi Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (1680-1757): “They keep awake at nights and are called saints. Dogs too keep night-watch. How are you better, my friend?”
- S. Kalidas
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Entry : Free
Place : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present Let’s Paint the Sky Red, an exhibition of works by the late artist Manjit Bawa. The show will feature over fifty works, including several large canvases, paperworks, serigraphs and miniatures. All the works in the exhibition are from the collection of Bhavna and Ravi Bawa.
Let’s Paint the Sky Red is a celebration of the sheer bliss (ananda) that marked the art of Manjit Bawa. It is also, an exhibition and a catalogue of works from selected periods of his remarkably multi-faceted and eventful life that blazoned across the Indian art scene as modernism’s last comet. Delving deep into the Indian tradition though well informed of western modernism, Bawa’s allegorical works turn pure colour into voluminous spaces inhabited sparsely (often singly) by men, women, acrobats, animals, gods and goddesses in frozen moments of dramatic gesture imbued with a range of emotions – wit, humour, elation, pathos or parody. Yet, in his thought or his work Bawa did not specially privilege either man or modernism. As J. Swaminathan wrote, “What makes Manjit’s work contemporary is its remoteness from the everyday present. His concern is not so much like that of the modernists with the fate of man in time as with the enigma of his very presence.” Or, as Manjit was himself fond of quoting from the Punjabi Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (1680-1757): “They keep awake at nights and are called saints. Dogs too keep night-watch. How are you better, my friend?”
- S. Kalidas
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Vadehra Art Gallery presents "Let's Paint The Sky Red" an exhibition of paintings & drawings by late artist Manjit Bawa at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 10am-8pm on 20th-27th August 2011
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