I used to sleep on my art.... after an exhibition I used to dump all my slides and publicity material in a tin box under the bed,” says Anjolie Ela Menon. She will be celebrating those works, almost her entire oeuvre, as she turns 70 on July 17—with a solo exhibition and a book. The exhibition, is hosted by Vadhera Art Gallery, Delhi, and it will complement a 380-page book authored by Isana Murti.
Titled Anjolie Ela Menon: Through the Patina, the book and the exhibition will showcase her works from the late 1950s to the 2000s. “The book has been three years in the making and it’s only because of the meticulous work of the Vadhera Art Gallery that I have been able to source many of my older works. Every thing is now digitised—this despite my being a technophobe,” says Menon, who is known for submitting hand-written articles and never typing a word on the computer.
For the book, Menon went through 1,000 slides and spent days touching up some of the older slides that capture her early style. She has also sourced some of her earlier works from collectors in Delhi for the exhibition. “I have a heightened awareness about where my works are and who my collectors are. This book documents the largest body of my work,” she says.
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