Capturing Being: Indian artist depicts nature through organic mediums
Manisha Parekh’s works portray the forces of nature.
LAHORE:
‘Nesting’ is a series of 50 drawings of houses, urban landscapes, nests, and containers which makes use of paper made of recycled pulp, Chinese ink and gouache (opaque water colour).
“It is easy on the eye, yet shows the artist’s creativity,” said Sarah, an NCA fine arts student visiting the exhibition at the Rohtas Gallery on Wednesday.
The piece is part of an exhibition Being the One by New Dehli-based artist Manisha Parekh at the gallery.
Parekh is visiting Pakistan for the first time. Her pieces will remain on display till October 16.
“A single thought can translate into endless possibilities. Painting has a beginning and concludes at an imaginative ending,” says Parekh.
She often uses organic mediums to create collages.
In a Walnut Shell is a collage of 21 water colour pieces.
“Nature inspires me…it is connected to our daily lives,” she says. Parekh typically uses charcoal, opaque water colours and Chinese ink. Her work has an organic feel to it. “Natural mediums have…a vocabulary of their own,” says Parekh.
“Organic textures have a natural place in our lives. They inspires me to incorporate them in my work.”
There is also a 32-piece laser cut collage titled Cloud.
The organic paper, although cut using laser technology has a plywood-like feel to it. Each piece accommodates a small cellular drawing. Her Waking Up series has five charcoal on paper pieces.
Asad Hayee, the Rohtas gallery curator, said Parekh was one of gallery owner Saleema Hashmi’s favourite artists. “She had been looking forward to Parekh displaying her work in Pakistan for a while,” he said.
Parekh will be in Pakistan for two and a half weeks. She will also speak on art at the National College of Arts and at the Beaconhouse National University.
She will also visit Islamabad and Karachi.
Parekh has been showcasing her works in India since 1988. She has held several fellowships in France, the United Kingdom and Germany and also exhibited her works at Bienniales in Havana and Istanbul.
Peter Nage, director of the Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi, said, “One can read the larger forces of nature in her work: gravity, weather patterns, magnetism, astral nebulae and also the shape of galaxies.
“All her work is an attempt to capture the essence of being and the essence of the Being that flows through multiple forms infinitely.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 5th, 2012.
‘Nesting’ is a series of 50 drawings of houses, urban landscapes, nests, and containers which makes use of paper made of recycled pulp, Chinese ink and gouache (opaque water colour).
“It is easy on the eye, yet shows the artist’s creativity,” said Sarah, an NCA fine arts student visiting the exhibition at the Rohtas Gallery on Wednesday.
The piece is part of an exhibition Being the One by New Dehli-based artist Manisha Parekh at the gallery.
Parekh is visiting Pakistan for the first time. Her pieces will remain on display till October 16.
“A single thought can translate into endless possibilities. Painting has a beginning and concludes at an imaginative ending,” says Parekh.
She often uses organic mediums to create collages.
In a Walnut Shell is a collage of 21 water colour pieces.
“Nature inspires me…it is connected to our daily lives,” she says. Parekh typically uses charcoal, opaque water colours and Chinese ink. Her work has an organic feel to it. “Natural mediums have…a vocabulary of their own,” says Parekh.
“Organic textures have a natural place in our lives. They inspires me to incorporate them in my work.”
There is also a 32-piece laser cut collage titled Cloud.
The organic paper, although cut using laser technology has a plywood-like feel to it. Each piece accommodates a small cellular drawing. Her Waking Up series has five charcoal on paper pieces.
Asad Hayee, the Rohtas gallery curator, said Parekh was one of gallery owner Saleema Hashmi’s favourite artists. “She had been looking forward to Parekh displaying her work in Pakistan for a while,” he said.
Parekh will be in Pakistan for two and a half weeks. She will also speak on art at the National College of Arts and at the Beaconhouse National University.
She will also visit Islamabad and Karachi.
Parekh has been showcasing her works in India since 1988. She has held several fellowships in France, the United Kingdom and Germany and also exhibited her works at Bienniales in Havana and Istanbul.
Peter Nage, director of the Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi, said, “One can read the larger forces of nature in her work: gravity, weather patterns, magnetism, astral nebulae and also the shape of galaxies.
“All her work is an attempt to capture the essence of being and the essence of the Being that flows through multiple forms infinitely.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 5th, 2012.