‘Nee Hoon a 3B _“Auouert-15, 1999 Verses and moods in colours. pe tete-a-tete with her joes make one ponder whetherta tist or as one s at the vagar- are reasons since she is in the role of each one of them. And that is Meena Chopra who is all set to organise two Capital. i The first one, a 11 day exhibi- tion will open on August 12 at Shridharani Gallery while the next one will be spread over 2 days on August 23 and 24 at the India Habitat Centre. The exhibition at IHC will be a notable event since it will coincide with a mini film fest featuring the great maestros from the world of arts. Thus Meena, born and brought up in the foothills of Naini Tal, can be described as a versatile artist. After bag- ging a B.Sc scroll from the Lucknow University in 1976, she did a course in textile designing from Delhi and even worked as a fashion de- signer. The ‘Seven years itch’ in visualis- ing fashion- able con- cepts took a break in 1985 as she sought to ineract with the so- ciety through her colourful no- tions of paintings and oil pastles on paper. So far, she has held nu- merous solo shows both at home and abroad. She has also participated in group shows. Art critics have penned their comments on her abstracts, in commend- able words which indeed, re- flect the trio of genius in Meena Chopra. Unlike many other artists who title their works, Meena who presently owns an ad- . vertising agency, has her short poems to radiate the essence of colourful thoughts. For instance, so run her versified thoughts to depict, complement and supplement the ‘Entwined Dimensions’. Unrevealed mysteries coloured wide spaces entwining dimensions. The vacuum became horizonial. Lines deciphered. Core looked for its peripherv having fallen out from the centre, Searching - The centre or the periphery? She has brought out an edi- tion of her poems, titled Ig- nited Lines. It was released first in London, in 1966 and. later in India, in 1977. Ger- man versions of these verses have appeared in Austrian ‘Zenit’ and ‘Capriccio’ in the land of Ruhr. Literary-cum- computer buffs could scaf_ her poems on the intemet too. Perhaps the day is not far off when her colourful abstracts too would follow suit! -PSuresh