Manu Singh

Expos Solo (Listing)

‘THE SOUNDS OF RAGA AASA’

A call from a friend
“A boy from Amritsar wishes to meet you.
He is an artist, Manu is his name,
He has been nominated and awarded by some prestigious institutions,
his elder brother Sandeep will call you soon they are in Delhi these days”

“so you have come from ‘Guru ka Ghar’( Amritsar )
.. welcome Manu, Your work is really very good, imaginative, soulful, living, lots of colors, hues and variations.”
No, these paintings are not coming from age experience; they are coming from within and a bliss from some where unknown, unexplained existence
He is very young, he has not learnt techniques to paint.
He is working on a virtual surface of computer screen on a very high-tech software
with the help of sixteen million colors and unlimited hues.

All over the world, these days artists are using different mediums to express themselves. The role of Multimedia is very important in art expression.
Expressing ones ideas is a virtual reality. On internet blogs and web pages are becoming more important means of communication, faster and necessary.

Manu is expressing himself with this new medium
Working on the virtual space and get them printed on the real space of paper.
These wonderful graphic prints, could be enlarged up to any size, on the canvas media, to the vinyl and on the archival paper which could last for a century and more.

What images are appearing on his virtual space?
his own- the universal sounds from the deep rooted genes,
and I think these are letters to unknown
which have transferred in visual forums and colors.
He is singing a raga through his colorful virtual paintings.
While witnessing them
I could hear a morning prayer -
A raga aasa
The morning dev on the grass.
Like the jewels on the lotus.

Sidharth
New Delhi