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Raman Bhardwaj

Posted: Oct 26, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST

As after a long time city’s celeb photo-artist Diwan Manna puts up an exhibition alongwith his French counterpart Michel Dieudonne, we wonder whether it would be a Diwan-e-khaas. He is known for his dramatic conceptual photography where he performs much like a film director and a painter rolled into one. So, we enter the gallery with anticipations and confront a large photograph of the interior of St Pierre Church in Firminy. Black envelopes the glittering slits in red, yellow, green. Diwan is known for his stylization and dark depiction of things. Working in this manner he abstracts the visible world. The element of obscurity is rendered in almost all the frames of Diwan. The series titled, ‘Le Corbusier-the master of light’ thus is a tribute to the play of light the master architect infused in his modern buildings. So the dancing lines of light on water, the sleek rays of light coming from a high roof create a sense of wonder in the those who visit these buildings.

An aerial view of the spiral stairs too is an exciting exercise on composition. But composition has not been the main concern for Diwan here. Of course, everything you shoot is a composition but here the drama is not as much based on composition as on chiaroscuro. So, these are not portraits of the building but x-rays of portions.

Michel on the other hand is more sunny in his approach and has shot in and outside the Capitol Complex here. His emphasis is on the character of these buildings alongwith its inhabitants plus the interesting geometric composition. However, he creates a different kind of illusion by putting three pictures on the same panel like a triptych. The spectator is lost in the jungle of light and colours as he watches Michel’s amazing perspectives.

The large frames hung in the ground floor gallery as well as the top floor Café are a unique visual treat.

The exhibition ‘Regards Croises, Indo French Glances’ is on at the Alliance Francaise, Sector 36 till November 4.

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