Manish Rao Jwade’s suite of meticulous paintings promises its viewers a
phantasmagorical journey through imaginary lands populated by strange
architectural forms, metallic beings and dreamlike situations.

The artist here is a raconteur, spinning fables that reach into his own subconscious to createa palimpsest effect.

 

Rao cunningly hides objects within objects and tales within tales in his colorful works. His stories divined from diverse sources such as childhood narrations of kingly valour to contemporary social crisis clamor for attention from within the claustrophobic space of the drawings.
 

Although Rao confesses admiration for artists Bosch and Ganesh Pyne, one
can also trace influences of surrealists such as Escher and Dali and that of
indigenous metal crafts and sculptures of India, keeping the artists and his
works rooted within a modernist disposition. An alumnus of College of Art
Delhi, Rao is a recipient of several awards and has numerous exhibitions and
art projects to his credit. Born in 1972, Manish Rao Jwade, lives and works
from Delhi, India.