Black & white solo show by Manju Narain at Hotel Taj Palace, 2, Sardar Patel Marg, Diplomatic Enclave > 17th-23rd December 2012

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Timings : Open 24 hours

Entry : Free

Place : Hotel Taj Palace, 2, Sardar Patel Marg, Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi-110021

Venue Info : Tajhotels.com | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Dhaula Kuan(Orange Line)' & 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : Black & white solo show by Manju Narain. 

Manju Narain trained under Rameshwar Broota at Triveni Kala Sangam. New Delhi. She has participated in the annual exhibitions of Sahitya Kala Parishad & AIFACS regularly. She received AIFACS award year 1999 & commendation letter from Sahitya Kala Parishad 
Reviewed by Mr. Shanto Dutta: Manju Narain is a sensitive and introspective artist with a penchant for the unusual and thought-provoking image. Within the apparent calm and stillness of her repertoire lie hidden, complex psychological elements of terror, awe, and fantasy. Such is the depth of her understanding, both of painting as well as music. Manju carves-out her private artistic temperament within the traditional Indian structure of a woman's familial responsibilities.
Manju's works on paper bear the soft touch of charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolours, depicting strange innocent beings and wistfully-illustrative fairytale creatures, trapped silently within claustrophobic gardens and troubling mazes, as if striving for some means of escape and true expression. 
Which, initially appears as an idyll in her images actually reveals genuine reactions and observations are her own personal path towards Catharsis. 
She has held exhibitions in 1998 at Jehangir Art Gallery , Mumbai and Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur,Display gallery Delhi 1992,1994 Triveni Kala Sangam 1996, 2002 as well as in many group shows.. 
Manju is a staunch supporter, admirer and friend of artists and intellectual pursuits. Her self-chosen absorption in this complex field is a heartfelt and genuine attempt at ‘Sadhana', or a quest for a self that strives higher and wider than the mundane, worldly pursuits of ‘Samsara'. 
Her efforts in such an idealistic direction are laudable, particularly when viewed as an alternative lifestyle and thought-process within the traditional Indian milieu.

Reviewed by Mr Keshav Malik “The exhibition consists of black and white drawings, though the artist is also a painter with some consummate work behind her. By turning her back on colour this time Manju Narain treats us to, shall we say, a more sattvic fare! No colour, but yet the very forms of nature- culled out in all their intricacy by the skill of the artist – speak all more eloquently. The understated quality, the fine shadings, the subtlety, all bespeak of good sense, good taste.  Her drawings have good lines, and these lines are not only pencil lines, but all sorts of others, such as the lines of direction or movement the vital lines of growth, of perspective, and the lines formed by the edges and silhouettes. When brought together into a picture these lines tend to be in sympathy, with the main rhythm of the design. It is thus the work gains its balance. So the artist’s adventure of looking is not merely concerned with the loveliness, or interest of things in themselves, but with the relationship between them’’.

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