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Manjunath Lakshman
Basically I from village so I inspiring the trees, fresh weather, pure love etc.......... in my works I using the subject in the same manner...
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Name : MANJUNATH H.LAKSHMAN
Date of Birth : 16-11-1980
Place : Dodda Hulikunte (Tumkur District)
Education : B.F.A. (Bachelor of fine arts) Painting,
M.M.K.College of Visual Art, Gulbarga.
: M.V.A. (Master of visual arts) Painting,
Bangalore University, Bangalore.
PARTICIPATION
2000-2002 : Mysore Dasara
2000 : All India Art Exhibition S.C.Z.C.C, Nagpur.
2001-2002 : 3rd A.B.V.P, State Level Art Exhibition, Bangalore.
2002 : Pollution Control Board at Gulbarga.
2002 : TODAY’S Art Exhibition at Tumkur.
2003-2004 : “Kala Mahothsava” In M.M.K. College of Visual Art at
Gulbarga.
2004 : The 6th Southern Region CAMLIN Art Exhibition at
Bangalore.
2006 : 36th Art exhibition at Karnataka Lalith kala academy
Bangalore.
2007 : IFACS All India Art Exhibition at New Delhi.
SOLO SHOWS
2007 : “KRUTHI” The art studio presents a solo Exhibition of
Paintings in Chithra Kala Parishath, Bangalore.
GROUP SHOWS
2001 : “VIBGYOR” Art Exhibition at M.M.K. College of.
Visual Art, Gulbarga
2002 : Painting Exhibition at Ravindra Kalanikethan, Tumkur.
2003 : “GENIUS” Group of Art Exhibition at Mangalore,
Sponsored by K.L.K.A. Bangalore.
2003 : “GENIUS” Group of Art Exhibition at Venkatappa Art
Gallery, Bangalore,
2003-2005 : “KALA JATHRE” Group of Art Exhibition at
Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore.
2003 : Mural Painting Exhibition at M.M.K. College of Visual
Art, Gulbarga
2005 : “ART DEW”. Group of Art Exhibition at Venkatappa Art
Gallery, Bangalore.
2006 : “ART HUNGER” Group of Art Exhibition at Nehru Art
Centre, Mumbai.
2006 : “ART HUNGER” Group of Art Exhibition at Ananya Art.
Gallery, Mukthi Centre, Pondychery.
2006 : “ART HUNGER” Group of Art Exhibition at Chithra Kala Parishat, Bangalore.
2006 : An Exhibition of paintings by Bangalore University, Visual
Arts Department 1st batch students, at Venkatappa Art
Gallery, Bangalore.

2006 : An Exhibition of paintings by Bangalore University Visual
Arts Department 1st batch students, at CAVA fine arts .
College, Mysore.
2006 : An Exhibition of paintings conducted by Lalith Kala
Academy, (Thingala chithra) Bangalore.
2007 : An exhibition of paintings conducted by “Canvas Art
Gallery”, New Delhi.
AWARDS.
2003 : Best Graphic Award at “AKRUTHI” Art Competition at
Balky. (Gulbarga)
2003 : “Manav Sanketh Academy” Merit Award at Ujjain. (M.P)
2004 : Best Graphic Award “Kala Mahothsava” In M.M.K.
College of Visual Art at Gulbarga.
SCHOLARSHIPS
2006 : Arnavaz Vasudev Charities
COLLECTIONS
Switzerland, Malaysia, USA, and Private Collections in India.
 
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Meandering the internal-Diaspora

Manjunath H.Lakshman paints as if the process is not painting but a sort of ‘construction’, on, forever. Strokes are rendered one above the other, to form a web, a net. The pun is intended. The web, the net and the pitfall of the infrastructure of ‘the’ city are interwoven into a labyrinth of no escape. Manjunath, a personality engrossed equally with the spell (maya-jaala) of words as well as imagery (he writes in poetry and other forms), is always conscious of ‘hailing’ from a rural surrounding to a city like Bangalore, which in turn is projected as a geography that has metaphorically ‘migrated’ from a farming/gardening city to the IT city. It is a city which is changing into something that in itself is unaware of. This is the similarity between the city and urban-migrants like the current artist*1*. This is also the point where the (a) artist (b) canvas and (c) the city meet: the construction happening in both of them seems to be an end in itself!

Manjunath ‘moves’ the brush stroke for two purposes. They obviously, form a colour patch and also pave a path for the eye to move. Always you realize that the same route (and roots) is already trodden earlier by other brush strokes. Together, the actual web and metamorphosing net formed by the colour area and/or the brush stroke create two imageries: one within and the other without.

A face-always-in-the-making emerge from each of his canvas. And it performs a subordinate job of reminding you of the folksy Indian visual revivalists of yesteryears in a tongue-in-cheek manner because all the rudiments of the act of portrayal are absent but the portrait is ‘felt’. The white geometric areas formed in between and betwixt the web-net nexus rather challenge a hard rendered perception of the eyes. They are there, formed without being touched, surrounded by contemplated strokes yet they draw one’s attention without being penciled (so to say). And the religiosity evoked by Manjunath’s rendering technique and effect, for it recalls an obvious tradition of stain-glass painting, is all in the ‘process’ of personifying the experience of a city. The portrayal of the city comes through its vacuous white spaces, what is rendered also turns out to be that which serves as a background to what is not, a constellation of (literal) relief textures treats the city as a constellation as pathless, map-less meandering, only to return back to where everything started in the beginning, through repeated layers.

Many artists have expressed their awe of internal-Diaspora, from the rural to urban but Manjunath brings in a net, a web and a geography interwoven with each other. Everything, including the rural experience—is to be felt and lived only through the process of meandering ‘within’ the urban.

NOTE:
*1*. Amitava Ghosh points out that the Diaspora for an Indian is unique, for, it is in a verbal form unlike, say, a British Diaspora (see: his essay on Indian Diaspora in “Body.City”). The geographic Diaspora is the chief preoccupation of Manjunath in the current series of works.///

-H.A. Anil Kumar

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