Each person sees the Mother Goddess in his or her own way and an interaction with the Almighty has a signature of its own. ‘Bonam’ means ‘Bhojanam’ in Telugu, an offering to the Goddess.
A five-member group comprising a painter and sculptor, filmmaker, photographer, poet and artist has come up with a multimedia offering titled ‘Bonalu’ to the Mother Goddess that will be thrown open by eminent filmmaker B. Narsing Rao at the State Gallery of Art in Madhapur on Tuesday.
The artistic feast on offer includes a 5-piece craft showpiece by painter and sculptor Chiluveru Manohar, a documentary on ‘Bonalu’ by young filmmaker Dulam Satyanarayana, a collection of pictures by photographer Rama Veeresh Babu, recitation of five poems by poet Srinivas Denchanala, who is also a known theatre personality and a set of 12 pen & pencil drawings/sketches by 75-year-old Lingamma Chiluveru, who is the mother of Mr. Manohar.
A three-minute synopsis of Mr. Dulam Satyanarayana’s documentary titled Bonam - The Celebration of Telangana will be screened at the inaugural of the exhibition on Tuesday. If pain and pleasure are like the black and white clouds, the various art forms and festivals in Telangana State are like the silver lining around them, he says.
Giving a peep at his five-piece creation at his studio in Srinagar Colony, Mr. Manohar points out to five frames in his showpiece and says metaphorically speaking, they could mean the five continents that make up the Earth or the ‘Pancha Bhootalu’, the five elements of Nature - Air, Earth, Fire, Space and Water. One of his pieces has the head of a cow and dried branches of a tree to represent drought, while another depicts a human head in the middle of web to mean life and the various situations, problems one has to face. The exhibition will be open to art lovers and the general public between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. everyday from July 22 to 29.
