Born in 1973, Bhopal, India .The repeating sequences in the paintings are akin to rapidly chanted mantras recited while telling the beads of a rosary. The squares and the mesh like texture constitute the beads of Manish’s rosary. However, like every chant of the same mantra is different in its candence and its experience, every form in his paintings is differently enriched with colour and energy. Every movement of the hand that tells the rosary moves into the irrevocable past and every new movement remains in the present. Every viewing of his paintings is similarly varied.
In his works Manish has tried to capture the resonance of the chanting, japa, and to visualize the auditory experience. Interestingly, the chant of the mantras or naam is not a public performative exercise but a private, introverted process, very much like the artistic process, recoverable in fragments to the viewer through the experience of repeated seeing. Perhaps one may try and understand Manish’s work by drawing on abstract artistic genres in other mediums such as dhrupada in music where the essence lies in the alaap, the rest is vistara. The painted surface is the essence; the constituent rudiments are the preceptory responses. As in other abstraction in Manish paintings it is the very processes of creation that explain the created object itself and its subjective relation to the outside”. Seema Bawa
Manish Pushkale
