Manohar Chiluveru’s work addresses questions connected with individual and collective identities, global connectivity and relational aesthetic. His Collective Paintings and performances have been recently presented in: Pune Biennial (India, 2017); MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2017); MAAM Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove (Rome, 2017); “Art & Connectography”, Arts & Globalization Platform’s program for Manifesta12 Biennial (Palermo, 2018). The next chapter of the project Odyssey will be showcased in the second edition of Something Else – Off Biennale Cairo (Egypt, 2018).
Previously, his work has been exhibited in one-artist and group shows as: “Under One Sky” group show of Luciano Benetton Collection, Dianxi Science and Technology Normal University (China, 2016-2017); “Possible Effect” solo show, collateral event of Kochi-Muziris Biennial (India, 2015); “Personal Structure. Crossing Borders” Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo, group show during the 56th Venice Biennial (2015); “Amour”, solo show, Alliance Française (Hyderabad, 2014); “Imagine Heart”, solo show at IAF Indian Art Fair (New Delhi, 2014); “Meta-Matters” solo show at Salar Jung Museum (Hyderabad, 2013); “Imago Mundi”, group show at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, as a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennial (2013).
Odyssey is a series of art works by Manohar Chiluveru, envisioned as a project that will travel to 24 art capital cities around the globe. It is planned as a long term project that will result in the production of 24 public sculptures and large canvases envisaged as a metaphorical suggestion of 360 degrees of separation or continuity. The artist has begun on the first of these canvas works, sized 12 x 30 feet, in Hyderabad. The other canvases will be developed in the next 23 cities in collaboration with local artists. Realized during a structured travel plan, the artist will interact and create the canvases that are also a referral to 24 frames; which is a narrative and metaphor for motion and moving. The extended project also includes the public performative and collaborative event “The Balance & Race” involving participation of diverse sections of people in general and creative people in particular.
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