Revisiting Manjit Bawa through ‘The Storyteller’

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Vadehra Art Gallery’s Defence Colony space will be home to a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by the late modernist Manjit Bawa titled “The Storyteller” on view from January 28 till March 2. The works are drawn from the personal collection of his children, Bhavna and Ravi Bawa. “The Storyteller” traces how Bawa saw myth as a living narrative instead of a fixed scripture. Shashi Tharoor (Photo: Vadehra Art Gallery) Shashi Tharoor (Photo: Vadehra Art Gallery)What is equally striking is what Bawa refuses to do. Story continues below this adRunning beneath all these is a deeply personal history, articulated in Bhavna Bawa’s note for the exhibition.