Giving colours to various mudras!

Delhi-based artist Naval Kishore has come up with a month-long painting exhibition titled Rang Bhangima. The Lucknowite, has organized 25 solo shows in India and abroad and his work finds place at the President House too. He has displayed 16 paintings which are inspired by femininity.

The exhibition was inaugurated by renowned kathak exponent Kumkum Dhar and curated by renowned artist Vandana Sehgal.

“Rang Bhangima means various mudras dipped in colours. My present work on the ‘life series’ portrays various aspects of human life, its living, thinking, surviving, making progress, planning for their goals in life. It reminds us to focus on each precious moment of journey of our life. Every painting has its own life, its own world like an individual. Each painting has a very personal, spiritual experience for the viewer, which I hope will lead you to your universal understanding of human nature,” he says.

“I have always been influenced and inspired by a woman and her life. Through my mother, sister and now wife and daughter I have always respected women. When I was in school, I read that Swami Vivekanand once said ‘whichever house does not respect a woman, will not prosper.’ Hence you can see this reflected in my works,” he adds.

Art lovers present on the occasion included Anita Bhatnagar Jain, Anil Rastogi, Anil Risal Singh, Akhilesh Nigam, Sushil Kannujia, Umesh Saxena, Ambrish Tandon, Puneet Katyaan and Bhupesh Asthana. The exhibits are on display at the Saraca Art Gallery till May 15.