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Indo-French Glances
Alliance Francaise Chandigarh, India
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24 Oct 2007 -
4 Nov 2007
09:00:00 AM to
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Regards croisés is an exceptional project. It stems from the enriching encounter of two liberal photographers with rather different sensibilities - one of them being French, Michel Dieudonné, a brilliant portraitist and an architecture photographer, the other an Indian, Diwan Manna, navigating bet more...
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| Mr Pradip Mehra Advisor to the Administrator Chandigarh and Mrs Harjinder Kaur Mayor Chandigarh | |
| Mr Pawan Bansal, Union Minister of state for Finance Government of India | |
| Mr Philippe Martinet, Cultural councilor, French Embassy, India, Mr Vivek Attray, Director Tourism, Chandigarh, Mr Pradip Mehra, Mrs Harjinder Kaur, Diwan Manna | |
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| Prof B N Goswamy, eminent art Historian, Diwan and Mr. Raghu Rai |
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PORTRAITS DE VILLES: Brasilia-Chandigarh-Le Havre
Musee Malraux, 2 boulevard Clemenceau, 76600, Le Havre, France
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June 2, 2007 -
September 17, 2007
10:00:00 AM to
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This exhibition comprising photographs and films on three cities designed and planned fully or in part by world renowned architects, has been conceived and curated by Annette Haudiquette, chief conservator Musee Malraux, Le Havre.
Brasilia the capital of Brazil, was planned by Lucio Costa and Os more...
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| Inauguration Ceremony at the Museum | |
| Viewers on the opening day | |
| Viewers in front of a Diwan Manna photograph | |
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Le Corbusier a Chandigarh 1951-2006
Musee des Beaux-Arts Tourcoing, France
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11 octobre 2006 -
14 janvier 2007
13:30:00 PM to
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An exhibition by three photographers and one film maker on Chandigarh, a city designed by world famous architect Le Corbusier as the capital of northern state of Punjab in India. At present serving as the capital of two states of Punjab and Haryana.
Diwan Manna as an Indian perspective, Stephane Co more...
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| Diwan with Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, former minister of works, France | |
| Evelyne Allemand-Dorothee, Director of Museum addresses audience with Diwan Manna, Stephane Couturier and Martine Aubry | |
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Ages of Separation
Visual Arts Gallery-India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
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20 September 2006 -
26th September 2006
10:00:00 AM to
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I have known Diwan Manna for more than twenty years .Two decades in many cases are a significant time frame in a life time.
I have seen a quiet boy from the small town of Bareta evolve in to an assured and elegant young man. But the contrast has been his gentle demeanor. It is this elegant attitu more...
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| Diwan Manna, Raghu Rai, Dr. Alka Pande | |
| HE Dominique Girard Amabassador of France to India | |
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| Inauguration-Mr. Girard, Pavan Varma, Alka Pande | |
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After The Turmoil
International Art Centre-Paszkowka Palace, Krakow, Poland
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12 Oct 2003 -
11 Jan 2004
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war, terrorism, manhunt, murder, slaughter, rape, these are some of the most commonly used words in news broadcasts of the 21st century ...
we hear these words every day and they don’t impress us …
they bounce off the wall of denial created by the civilization of comfort and lies of our times …
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Window on Time
Gallerie Bateau lavoir-Paris
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15 Jan 2001 -
29 Jan 2001
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It is in Chandigarh that we met Diwan Manna for the first time.
We are very happy to welcome him here, in Bateau Lavoir, Paris, a place filled with history and art.
This photographer, young, keen on European culture, (he cites us Camus, Sartre, Brecht, Godard?) who has received in his country all more...
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| Vijay Singh and Vishwanathan | |
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| Mitchel Potier, Daljit Bais, Vishwanathan and Pammi Bais | |
| Diwan Manna, Vijay singh and Shakti Burman | |
| Bhawani Katoch with friends |
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Diwan Manna
Museum Fur Indische Kunst-Berlin
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5 Nov 2000 -
31 Dec 2001
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Shores of the Unknown- Photographic Art by Diwan Manna is the first exhibition in the recently opened Museum fur Indische Kunst, Berlin, and at the same time the beginning of a new understanding and estimation of contemporary Indian art in Germany. As one of the few museums outside India which colle more...
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Shores of the Unknown
Galerie Bellevue-Berlin
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28 Sep 2000 -
29 Oct 2000
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MINDSCAPES/BODYSCAPES
-DIWAN MANNA'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ART-
In his Photographic Installations Diwan Manna combines images with objects, moving thus within a consciously chosen space in order to create a hybrid art. Hailing from a painting background his work creates a fusion depicting thereby the p more...
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Waking the Dead
Rowleys Museum- UK
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7 June 1997 -
19 july 1997
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WAKING THE DEAD
Here are floating images of death, the fantasies we weave around it. At the center of these pictures is a figure of a woman in outline fleshed out and bare at times, an appearance, an illusion. In the last picture in the series she seems to be fading into a tunnel- which marks the more...
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Violence: Diwan Manna
Dewsbury Museum-UK
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10 Aug 1996 -
22 Sep 1996
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STATEMENT:
My starting point is the phenomenal upsurge of violence now seen in all walks of our emotional, social and political life. I try to come to terms with the insidious and unrecognized forms of our brutalisation, the degradation of the sense of life and honour within ourselves as well as more...
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Diwan Manna at AIFACS
Galleries AIFACS-New Delhi
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Feb 1997 -
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These pictures in black and white are about men and women in a hurry. In their craze for speed their faces go hazy. They become their footsteps. These pictures catch the footsteps on an escalator in an underground railway tube, as part of the hectic traffic of a busy London or Paris square or the fe more...
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Wheel of Time
Galleries Alliance Francaise- Chandigarh
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21 Dec 2000 -
6 Jan-2001
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Walking on it is what we associate with the road. The movement is all. We are moving all the time. We are alive to the extent we are moving. We come across cars, bicycles and moving feet in these pictures.
I am alive. See my forms of life, the road proclaims in these pictures. See me at Berlin. I more...
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Rooh Punjab Di: Folk Musical Instruments and their Players in Punjab
Cetral Plaza Sec 17 Chandigarh
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An exhibition of Photographs of rare folk musical instruments and their players in the State of Punjab as part of a project for a cofee-table book by Dr. Alka Pande.
The book "From Mustard Fields to Disco Lights" is published by MAPINS along with a CD of rare folk tunes of Punjab.
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Ages of Separation
Art Room-119, Western Avenue, Sainik Farm, New Delhi-110062
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September 29, 2006 -
October 15, 2006
10:00:00 AM to
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Currently On
CURATED BY DR.ALKA PANDE
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Indo-French Glances
Firminy-France
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November 20, 2006 -
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Exhibition of Photographs on Le Corbusier's Buildings in Chandigarh, India and in Firminy, France.
Diwan Manna was invited as an artist in residence in May-June 2006 by Saint-Etienne Metropolis in France to photograph people and corbusier creations in Firminy. As a part of this cultural exchange more...
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| St-Pierre Church, Firminy | |
| St-Pierre Church, Firminy | |
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Le Corbusier's Chandigarh 1951-2006: Lucien Herve, Stephan Couturier, Diwan Manna
du Musee Des Beaus-Arts De Tourcoing, France
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October 14, 2006 -
January 14, 2007
11:00:00 AM to
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It is an exhibition of photographs by three photographers. Diwan Manna as Indian perspective on Le corbusier's city, Chandigarh, in north India, capital of two states-Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory; Stephane Couturier as French perspective on the great master and Lucien Herve as he doc more...
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