Meena's 'Daughters unpluck' throws light of tender beauty
Source: Hueiyen News Service / MIC

New Delhi, May 07 2015 : Laishram Meena Devi's debut solo art exhibition entitled "Daughters Unpluck" organized by the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi opens to art lovers to go through the world of nostalgic charm and tender beauty of the North East India.

The eight day painting exhibition at the Art Gallery of IIC Annexe, Lodhi Estate here was inaugurated by the Dr.Thokchom Meinya, Lok Sabha MP from Manipur on Wednesday.

The exhibition will last upto May 13 .

Describing the exhibits as excellent, lovely and wonderful; Dr.Meinya expressed that Meena's paintings would talk about not only the hidden talents and creativities of the North East artists but also the identities and beauties of the region to the mainland India.

Dr Meinya appreciated Laishram Meena for her pain staking jobs to create her art pieces in a short period for the exhibition entitled �Daughters Unpluck.

Meena's 'Daughters unpluck' throws light of tender beauty

Curated by Anni Kumari, Assistant Professor, visiting faculty of College of Art, Delhi; altogether thirty paintings of the exhibition shows the various moods of the girl children of the Mongoloids living in the North East India.

Besides four or five pieces created in 2103 and 2014, majority of the art pieces were created during this year.

Medium of all paintings are of acrylic on canvas.

Anni Kumari described, "Her figurative vocabulary and preference of bright colours and design patterns echo an understanding and appreciation of Indian aesthetics in terms of "Shringara rasa" exuding a medley of "bhavas" or emotions.

Akin to a continuous narrative, each of her works leads from one to the other, unfolding a personal biography of a particular time and space".

"All her works doesn't seems to be from Indian thoughts and culture, but the fact is her works are the showpieces of Northeast Indian", she added.

The unique characteristic of exhibition is that the portraits have distinct Mongoloid features, and with the recent racist attacks in many places in India the artist wants to convey the message that no matter how different the people of northeast look, but they are very much Indian at heart.

Meena is a young visual artist from Manipur who passed the Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Jamia Millia Islamia with gold medal in 2011 and Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the College of Art, Delhi in 2013 .

He took part in about 20 Group show exhibitions held at Delhi, Mumbai and Barodara in India and in Korea from 2009 till date.

He attended the Artists Camp held at Bangalore organized by the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 2012 and at Srinagar in 2011 .

Art collectors from USA, Korea, New Delhi and Mumbai had purchased her art pieces for private collection.