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Press Release – Anjolie Ela Menon in San Francisco

The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is one of the great Museums of the world. Indian artist Anjolie Ela Menon has been honoured with a six month solo at the Museum featuring her large triptych entitled Yatra – the exhibition opens on the 20^th of May 2006.

This large work is inspired by the annual march of the Kavadiyas to the holy sites on the Ganga, where they gather in their millions each year during Shravan to collect water in pots to carry back to their village shrines for the worship of Shiva, sometimes walking barefoot 500 miles. A simultaneous exhibition of her work will be held at Gallery Artsindia, Palo Alto.

Menon who has been awarded the Padmashree is amongst the most important artists in the current scene in contemporary Indian art.

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Isana Murti writes in the portfolio published by Lalit Kala Akademi in 2006 ‘Anjolie Ela Menon, one of India’s best known artists’ had her first solo exhibition in 1958 where renowned critic Richard Barthlomew wrote, ‘I have no doubt that before long this gifted young woman will be joining the ranks of our very best painters’. These words have been truly prophetic and Menon’s trajectory over the last five decades is testimony to the evolution of an artist who has defied easy classification and who has broken fresh ground with confident panache.

Ranjit Hoskote writes ‘Menon has always prized what she terms the ‘aura’ of the paintings. This aura has been achieved in her finest works.’

Gayatri Sinha writes ‘Her panoply of figures, as they appear, signify non-space and non-time…Like a wanton fabulist, Menon brings accretion, division, conjunction to play upon the conventional image…. Menon insists on the location of the past in the present. Her painting argues against cultural amnesia.’

“If this exhibition brings some honour to India and creates an awareness about Indian Contemporary Art it will be an important milestone for me”-Menon.

For more details, contact: anjolieelamenon@indianartcircle.com

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***ATTENTION: Mrs Menon's request to her patrons in wake of the current scandal regarding fakes of her work:

"IN THE LIGHT OF THE CURRENT SCANDAL REGARDING THE PROLIFERATION OF FAKES IN THE ART MARKET I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST ALL BUYERS OF MY WORK TO REVERT TO THIS WEBSITE WITH AN IMAGE OF THE INTENDED PURCHASE AS ALSO THE SOURCE OF THE PAINTING SO THAT I CAN AUTHENTICATE IT PERSONALLY "

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