MadanLal effuses his canvases with a selection of iridescent colours of India from forest greens to Rajasthani pinks and the ever blues of sky and mood. Amidst MadanLal’s carefully crafted imagery, we see the paraphernalia of modernity. We notice symbolic arrows and alphabetic texts. We espy the manufactured fusing with nature, and perkily prominent elements of haunting home domesticity.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2013 Exhibition of paintings at Shridharni gallery Triveni kala sangam New Delhi
2013 Exhibition of paintings and drawings at Art Indus Gallery New Delhi
2013 Exhibition of paintings at Jehangir art gallery mumbai
2013 Exhibition of paintings & drawings at Art Folio Chandigarh
2011 Exhibition of Paintings at Shridharni Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2008 Exhibition of Painting Jahangir Art Gallery, Chandigarh
2007 Exhibition of Drawing & Paintings at Art Indus, New Delhi
2006 Exhibition of Painting at Art Folio, Chandigarh
2005 Exhibition of Paintings at Art Folio, Chandigarh
2005 Exhibition of Paintings at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2004 Exhibition of Paintings at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2004 Exhibition of Paintings at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2001 Exhibition of Drawings at Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh
1999 Exhibition of Paintings at Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhawan New Delhi
1998 Exhibition of Drawings & Paintings at Museum of Fine Arts,panjab Uni. Chd
1996 Exhibition of Paintings at Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh
1995 Exhibition of Drawings at Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh
GROUP EXHIBITION
2014 Triveni Exhibition of paintings by Gallery The Art Place Gurgano (HR)
2013 Asian art gallery Chelmsford , ma 01824 USA
2012 United art fair New Delhi
2011 Group show Curetted by Art File art promoter & services at Govt. Museum Art Gallery Chandigarh.
2011 Group “UNTITLEDâ€show at Punjab Lalit Kala Academy Art Gallery, Chandigarh.
2011 Group “UNTITLED†show at Ravindra Bhawan, Lalit Kala Academy Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2010 Exhibition of paintings & Drawings at Chandigarh & Ludhiana By City Bank Chandigarh.
2010 Exhibition of Untitled Paintings Punjab Lalit Kala, Chandigarh
2009 Exhibition of Painting at Stokholm, Sweden
2008 Exhibition of Painting Habitit Centre, New Delhi
2008 Exhibition of paintings at Nehru Centre London
2007 Exhibition of Paintings at Lalit Kala Academy, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
2007 Exhibition by Nvya Art gallery, New Delhi
2006 Exhibition of Paintings by Art Indus at Habitat Center New Delhi
2006 Exhibition by Indian Art form at Habitat Center, New Delhi
2005 Polka Vision by Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 Harmony show Mumbai
2000 Exhibition of Paintings at Nehru Center, Worli Mumbai
1997 Exhibition of Paintings at AIFACS, New Delhi
1997 Exhibition of Paintings at Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh
1997 Exhibition of Paintings at Punjab Lajpat Rai Bhawan, Chandigarh
1995 Exhibition of Paintings at Fine Art Deptt., Punjab University, Chandigarh
AWARDS & Honour
2001 Gold medal All India Exhibition by Avantika, New Delhi
2000 All India Millennium Drawings by PLKA & Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2000 AIFACS Millennium Exhibition Chandigarh.
Secretary Punjab lalit kala academi 1999-2003
Secretary Chandigarh lalit kala Akademi 2003-2006
Vice Chairman Chandigarh lalit kala akademi-since 2012
PARTICIPATION
2013 55 national Exhibition by lalit kala akademi New Delhi
2010 52nd National Exhibition, by Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi
2005 Camlin Art Foundation, New Delhi
2004 Annual Art Exhibition, PLKA, Chandigarh
2003 Exhibition of art our Roots are our wings by Indian Artist network at Jakarta Indonesia
2002 45th National Exhibition, by Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi
2001 44th National Exhibition, by Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi
2001 Contemporary Indian Painting “Tradition to Modernity at Kleinessen Art gallery Fulda†Germany
Participation at state Level & National Level since 1995
Camp
2013 national artist camp at Kargil by J& K akademi Jammu
2011 Artist camp at Goa by puna art foundation
2010 Artist camp at Bheem Tall by Rai Foundation New Delhi
2009 International Artist Camp at Hega Park , Stokholm Sweden
2009 National Artist Camp at Rajore Jammu
2009 National Artist camp by Central Lalit Kala Academy at Gantaok
2008 Artist Camp by Advance Study ,Vice Roy loge Shimla
2007 Artist Camp at Mysore by Art Indus & ITDC
2007 National Artist camp by Artistic Creation at Broag (HP)
2007 Artist Camp by Art Mall at Dehradoon
2006 National Artist camp by Art Mall at Broag (HP)
2005 Artist camp by AIFACS, New Delhi
2005 National Camp by Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
2004 Artist Camp by Amrit Kala Kumbh at Amritsar
2003 Painting Workshop by PLKA at APJ College, Jalandhar
2003 Painting Workshop by Govt. College, Mohali
2002 Artist workshop at Chandigarh Press Club
2002 Artist Workshop by CLKA & Distt Administration Panchkula
2002 Painting Workshop at Chandigarh Carnival
2002 Drawing Workshop by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy
2001 Painting Workshop at BCS, Shimla
2001 Artist Camp at Jalandhar by PLKA
2001 Young Artist camp by AIFACS, New Delhi
1999 Artist Camp by Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy
1999 Painting Workshop by Art & Film Society, Chandigarh
1999 Homage to Kargil Hero's Artist Workshop by Punjab Lalit Kala Academy
COLLECTIONS
Govt. Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh
Museum of Fine Art, Punjab University, Chandigarh
Fine Art Deptt., Kurukshetra
ITDC, Rai Foundation
Aura Art Foundation
AIFACS, New Delhi
Indian Academy of Fine Art, Amritsar
Chandigarh Lalit Kala Academy
Punjab Lalit Kala Academy
Bank of Punjab Gallery 54, Paris, Art Folio, Chandigarh, The Art Mall New Delhi
Artistic Creation New Delhi, Art Indus New Delhi, Nvya New Delhi. Advance Study,
Private Collection in India & abroad
MadanLal brings to us questioning visages of pursed lipped women and quizzing, staring eyed, regal parrots. He effuses his canvases with a selection of iridescent colours of India from forest greens to Rajasthani pinks and the ever blues of sky and mood. Amidst MadanLal’s carefully crafted imagery, we see the paraphernalia of modernity. We notice symbolic arrows and alphabetic texts. We espy the manufactured fusing with nature, and perkily prominent elements of haunting home domesticity.
For our delight, there is a broad spectrum of kaleidoscope meaning in these essentially evocative paintings. MadanLal encourages our eyes to note images of Brahma’s bull, and slender conversational storks. As we gaze in awe, we wonder. Are we the giver or receiver of the maiden’s loving blissful gaze, the parrot questioner or the gently questioned? We are drawn in. We succumb to MadanLal’s bewitchment, to his remarkable reflections of Indian modernity. In our balmy revery we realise that MadanLal provides us with more conundrums than answers - blank speech balloons, muted phonograms. But then, why should we expect answers when life, chasing irrevocably through time, continually changes and we change with it. Painting captures moments, but revels a history. If we are lucky, paintings such as MadanLal’s can reflect us back to ourselves in new and exciting ways.
