Let's Paint the Sky Red
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?”
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