Rural Faces
Artists JMS Mani & S Jayaraj
10th - 20th December 2012
Lakshana Art Gallery, Chennai

Lakshana Art Gallery, Chennai is organizing a group show of drawings and paintings titled - "Rural Faces" by JMS Mani and Myself. Please do visit the gallery between 10-20 December 2012 to witness some of the classic manifestations of our rural India...

Waterscapes
Group Exhibition of Contemporary Artists
Alphonso Arul Doss, Thota Tharrani, S Jayaraj, JMS Mani
23rd June - 6th July 2012
MUSE Art Gallery, Hotel Marriott,Hyderabad

Monsoon Regatta Waterscapes 2012 is organized by Yacht Club of Hyderabad in collaboration with Arghyam, a Bangalore based charitable foundation set up with a personal endowment from Ms. Rohini Nilekani that does focused work on water and sanitation. 

The Art exhibition and sale hosted by Muse Art Gallery of the Marriott Hotel is organized in aid of the Sailing Academy, Hyderabad to give the underprivileged children an equal opportunity to learn the sport of Sailing. The proceeds will help underprivileged children achieve a sense of dignity and livelihood through the sport of Sailing. The credo of the Yatch Club is dignity through sports. Waterscapes is also conceived to draw awareness to the deteriorating quality of our lovely water bodies.

Monsoon Regatta Waterscapes 2012 is supported by Arghyam, Deloitte, Transworld Group and LiquidHub. The exhibition will be open from 11 AM to 5 PM daily from 24th June and will conclude on 6th July 2012.

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Water – The Thread of Life

Group Exhibition of Contemporary Artists

Alphonso Arul Doss, Asma Menon, Jayakumar G, S Jayaraj, JMS Mani, Rekha Rao & Shailesh B.O.

21^st – 30^th March 2012

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore

This special Art Exhibition titled – “Water – The Thread of Life”, was organised by Arghyam to commemorate the World Water Day between 21st - 30th March 2012 at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. The show was inaugurated by Ms. Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson, Arghyam. Every year, 22^nd March is observed as World Water Day across the globe to remind the inhabitants of the earth of their responsibilities to protect, save and conserve this precious natural resource.

This exhibition was a special curated show and was relevant for the reason that seven contemporary Indian visual artists from Bangalore and Chennai  reacted to socio-political issue of water, its relevance and the risk inherent within the inevitability of nurturing cultivated water. The participating artists were Dr. Alphonso Arul Doss, Ms. Asma Menon, Mr. JMS Mani, Ms. Rekha Rao, Mr. S Jayaraj, Mr. Jayakumar G & Mr. Shailesh B.O. These artists are already known personalities in the field of visual arts not only for the art they have created but also due to the various sub-categories of art they have come to define—art pedagogy, art movements, criticism and the like. More than artists, they carry the mantle of being the eligible personalities for an art movement. This is exactly what they had done through this show. They  responded to the issue of water in a way that is specific to visual arts. They connected water to gender issues, separated the problems of water between urban and rural situation, made a visual-story of the omnipresence and inevitability of water, connected cultivated and cultured water to pictorial language and have differentiated it from the untamed water, among other aspects.

Please click here to see the press review in The Hindu newspaper.