Krishna Manandhar
Krishna Manandhar creates music and rhythm within the images of nature exploiting abstractionist and abstract expressionist techniques. Rather than the content, form dominates his canvas. He does not use colours to represent objects and events but to create music and rhythm. He depicts the feelings and emotions associated with the objects rather than objects themselves. He presents a vibrant combination of colours and forms that is exciting, disturbing and filled with emotion.
Krishna Manandhar creates music and rhythm within the images of nature exploiting abstractionist and abstract expressionist techniques. Rather than the content, form dominates his canvas. He does not use colours to represent objects and events but to create music and rhythm. He depicts the feelings and emotions associated with the objects rather than objects themselves. He presents a vibrant combination of colours and forms that is exciting, disturbing and filled with emotion.
Within his abstract works the images of wood, green mountain, Himalaya, river and cool breeze appear and disappear continuously.
Rather than seeing, viewers feel about river and mountain. They are not the realistic representations of the images of nature but the expression of his feeling and imagination. His images have unearthly and romantic dimension. His mountains, hills and woods are not the almost photographic there we see in realistic works. These are the images ‘we think’ we see, we feel about in our imagination. The predominance of blue suggests the mystery, unearthliness and romantic feeling. It is one thing to see the majestic beauty of the Himalayan mountains from distance and quite other thing to be actually there and experience its biting cold and loneliness.
Krishna Mananandhar’s works recreate the images of nature in innovative and inventive way, that is, he does not capture the normal and natural mode of the things rather he adds something new from his own imagination, as Aristotle said, and provides new experience to the viewers. He transports viewer’s imagination to the new landscape in the inaccessible and the secluded part of the world or even beyond it.
Date of Birth : 1947, Bhotahity, Kathmandu
Father : Siddhai Bahadur Manandhar
Mother : Saraswati Manandhar
Art Education :
1965 : Kala Kushal, Juddha Kala Pathsala, Kathmandu
1970 : Special Course in Graphic Arts, Sir J.J School of Arts, Bombay
1971 : Govt. Diploma in Fine Arts, Sir J.J. School of Arts, Bombay
Participated Exhibition :
1968 & 70: Maharastra Kala Praidarshani, Bombay Art Society, Bombay
1971-89: SKIB-71, Exhibition, Kathmandu, Pokhara and Darjeeling
1971-2004 : National Art Exhibition, NAFA, Kathmandu
1973 : Nepalese Art Exhibition, Delhi
1973 & 76 : Trinalle Art Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi
1980 & 85 : Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1981-83 : Bienalle Art Exhibition, Silpa Kala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1984 : “The Art to the Himalayas” – The Painting Exhibition of Nepalese Artists, Manuka Gallery, Australia
1985 : Solo Painting Exhibition, Palpasa Art Gallery, Kathmandu
1986 : Participation in the Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea
1986 : “Sprins Leaves” – The Exhibition of Painting and Sculptures, Kathmandu
1986 : “Autumn Whispers”- The Exhibition of Paintings, Kathmandu
1987 : Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of Nepal, USIS, Kathmandu
1988 : A journey through form and colour, Retrospective Painting Exhibition
1993 : Group Exhibition in Calcutta, India
1995 : Exhibition in South Korea
1997 : Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany
1976 : Participation in the Seminar as a commentator organized by Tribhuwan University
1998-99 : Participation in the Seminar in Pokhara organized by Tribhuwan University
2000 : SKIB-71, Painting Exhibition in Japan
2002 : Group Painting Exhibition in Korea
2003 : One Man Show, J Art Gallery
2003 : Group Exhibition in USA
2004 : One Man Show, Buddha Gallery
Participated Workshops :
1990-91 : Sound of Music and Mandala, organized by Goethe Institute in Dhulikhel
1992 : Poet and Artist, organized by Sirjana Art Gallery
1996 : Organized by Siddhartha Art Gallery and Samukha Art Gallery, Bangalore, India and Hotel Summit, Lalitpur, Nepal
Awarded :
1978 : Bronze Medal, Sir J.J School of Arts, Bombay
1971 : Best Prize, National Art Exhibition, NAFA, Kathmandu
1987 & 90 : Shiksha Puruskar, Tribhuwan University
1999 : Rastriya Pratibha Puruskar
Member :
1980-84 : Member, Advisor Committee, NAFA
1981-84 : Executive Member, Artist’s Society of Nepal
Founder Member SKIB-71
2004 : Member, Sirjana Contemporary Art Gallery, Kathmandu
Collection :
Royal Palace, Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, International Conventional Hall, Birendra Art Gallery, Russian Cultural Center, Blue Star Hotel, Kathmandu and several private collection in Nepal and abroad.
Associated with :
Ex-Campus Chief, Fine Arts Campus, Tribhuwan University
Associate Professor, Fine Arts Campus, Tribhuwan University
