‘Pata’ Pallette
‘Pata’ means cloth based scroll. Manu Chitrakar is a Pata scroll artist who paints and sings. He is a part of a living art and performance tradition that is as open to contemporary new stories and politics as it is to ancient length and myth.
‘Machli ki shaadi’ (Wedding of the Fish), Lovers and Urban Jungle are a few of Manu Chitrakar’s artworks that we have reinterpreted. The concoction is filled with cultural references and satire such as the painting of a lion playing a sitar, which portrays this fierce animal as a tamed musician. Or eyes and gaze of the animals which depicts a certain vigilance on humans who have destroyed their homes under the garb of progress.