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Yet another stunning comment by Manoj Brahmamangalam
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Stunning Manoj Brahmamangalam’s installation
The installations by Manoj Brahmamangalam remain etched in memory long after the show is done with. That’s why if you will recall his giant size fish at the Fort Kochi beach in an artist’s open, (1999) the work stood out. So does the long
, almost three kilometre stem that wound around the roads in Chottanikara, ending in a huge flower with a bloody pistil remains a telling subject. Now, Manoj is back with another individualist comment, ‘Shadow Remnants’ at Kashi Art Gallery, Bazaar Road, Mattancherry.
Three-dimensional
Here you step into the work, a dark room dimly lit by a 35 foot wired work that lies across. The viewer is caught in the mesh of light and shade reflected on the wall, the supine work ‘rising’ three dimensionally. The space turns surreal. Explaining the symbolism the artist says it is all about society distancing itself from its roots. T
he wires that criss cross the form and rise upwards carry coloured water, the red, blue and yellow suffusing the darkness in small glows.
A quiet hush of viewers walking silently around taking a close look, groping through the reality imparts a gravitas to the theme of modern displacement. It is about how man has uprooted his very being from the earth where he belongs.
The toy cars that eerily sit on the wires are about how toys are no longer made by kids as done before.
They are all off the shelf. Nothing is where it was and we have moved in one blind forward leap. That is in to a dark, wired mesh, confused and divorced in this new found reality.
Manoj took two months to complete the abstract work.
He was helped by students from RLV College and a few locals to craft this.
The installation is made from bamboo, clay, metal and plastic. The overall artisanal effect is simply stunning.
PRIYADERSHINI S
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