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Jayasri’s art, derived from the rich tradition of Hindu mythology, has carved out its own identity. The imagery in Jayasri Burman’s work has a dream-like and lyrical quality. Inspired by Indian folk element, the works have a unique sensitivity. Her deep-rooted understanding of Indian mythology, Bengali culture and tradition does not escape her artworks whether they are sculptures or paintings. In her paintings one sees the careful repetition of the surface, unwavering and exquisite, with layers of cross-hatching and the textures of fabrics adorning her characters. She weaves the element of the folk idiom into the intricate patterns of her works, without losing the natural charm and naiveté that is uniquely her own. Jayasri’s themes deal with the traditional and sacred, but the artist gives her works a nuance that is reinterpreted to have a more contemporary context. The magical, mythical creatures that inhabit her world, that perpetuate life and love, are central to Jayasri’s story telling and the narrative structures of her paintings. Jayasri has participated in landmark exhibitions all over the world, including the recently concluded St Moritz Art Masters, in Switzerland. She has had several solo shows, including Fables & Folklore, 2010, and Sacred Feminine 2006, with Art Musings. Her works can be found in important museum and private collections. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

21.11.2014 – 31.12.2014

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Nandagopal’s narrative sculptural work constitutes one of the most important collections in contemporary Indian sculpture. While Nandagopal is an artist steeped in tradition, his work has a contemporary sensibility that appeals to an international taste. The sculptures are in copper, brass, enamel and silver. Nandagopal combines the latent memories of a magnificent, highly evolved tradition with experiences of a vital contemporary West. Nandagopal is the recipient of several important national awards. Several of his large murals have been commissioned and can be seen in public venues like the Hotel Taj Connemara, Chennai; Hotel Sofitel Surya, New Delhi; Hotel Taj Chandera, Khajurao; Priyadarshini Park, Mumbai; and the TCI, Gurgaon. The artist has had several exhibitions all over India and abroad.

10.09.2014 – 31.10.2014

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Art Musings opens their next exhibition Solitary Spaces, featuring Bengal-based artist Lalu Prasad Shaw, showcasing works in tempera.

25.07.2014 – 31.08.2014

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Art Musings opens their next exhibition Rhapsody featuring watercolour works by Paris-based artist Maya Burman on 5 June 2014. Daughter of celebrated Indian painter Sakti Burman and French artist Maite Delteil, Maya has developed her own unique style. Maya Burman’s inclination towards floral, decorative patters is along the lines of the French Art Nouveau tradition. Patterns weave and float around the central forms evoking a sense of exuberance and joie de vivre. Maya creates a dreamlike fairyland in her paintings. Most of her characters are imaginary people, but she weaves in her own experiences and personal mythology. Her former training in architecture influences her work, visible in the scenes set within arches, columns and porches. In the larger works there are multiple viewpoints and the sections are not always linear. In the smaller format works however, she depicts a minutely dense imagery. The exhibition continues till 20 July 2014.

05.06.2014 – 20.07.2014

Nandan Purkayastha’s second solo exhibition Endgame, opens on 22 April at Art Musings. Nandan Purkayashtha’s monochrome drawings are full of detail and dimension, with the fine black and white spiral pattern giving them a unique complexity. The artist uses pen and ink to create expansive spaces rich in mythological and historical references. Patterns are deftly overlaid, giving the drawings the tactility and texture of fabric. Distortions of space and time come together to tell complex stories, and Purkayashtha’s fantastical landscapes play with movement and illusion, as in a monumental vision of the Taj Mahal, rippling as though it is reflected in a pool of water. Figures navigate through winding picture planes, woven into the stark contrast of black and white. They emerge half-formed, indistinct from a twisting staircase or swirling cloud, animating the inanimate. Bodies and shadows make up a narrative that is sexually deviant, subverting the naïve veneer often associated with fairy tales. Pieces are immobile in an elaborate game of chess, waiting at the brink of action.

22.04.2014 – 31.05.2014

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Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of one of India’s most prominent sculptors K S Radhakrishnan entitled terrafly. The exhibition features a series of his new sculptures, where he represents his desire to engage with his sculptural protagonist Musui’s conscience and the fluidity of Musui’s self. The title sculpture Terrafly is replete with nuanced meanings. Musui, an air bound presence at the top of a vertical column surveys all that is going on around the column. He is at once the state and the presence of a soul. The sculptor brings in a double metaphor here; one critical and the other benevolent. While making Musui an agent of intrusive gaze, Radhakrishnan counterbalances it with the benevolent presence. The other sculptures depict Maiya as a physical manifestation of Musui’s conscience placed on Musui’s head. Through these works Radhakrishnan makes a statement about the mysterious existence of the human conscience and its burdening effect on the actions of human beings. Radhakrishnan reaffirms the inseparability of Musui and Maiya – the male and the female.

20.03.2014 – 15.04.2014

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Art Musings, in collaboration with Natesan’s Antiqarts is presenting Itihaas, an exhibition of rare sculptures, being displayed for the first time in Mumbai. Itihaas takes you on a journey through India’s glorious past, from 1500 BC to 2000 CE, cutting across various geographies, dynasties and medium to give the art lover a view of ancient Indian art in a capsule. On display in the exhibition is a bouquet of objects ranging from 1500 BC to 1930 CE covering dynasties as diverse as Chola, Hoysala, Chera, Rashtrakuta and others. From an ancient harpoon to Chola sculptures to Mysore paintings, the display opens new vistas in to the lesser explored area of Indian antiquities. It is curated to give the curious art lover a clearer vision of India’s glorious past.

28.02.2014 – 15.03.2014

For the India Art Fair 2014, Art Musings is showcasing the works of six artists; S H Raza, Baiju Parthan, Smriti Dixit, Raghava K K, Nilofer Suleman and Ajay Dhandre. Padma Vibhushan awardee, S H Raza is one of the most prominent artists living today. He has shaped the face of Modernism in India with his unique vision and style. Raza’s work has formalism as well as mystic aspects of Hindu philosophy. His geometrical painting with the iconic circle or ‘Bindu’, sacred in its symbolism, places his work in an Indian context. Baiju Parthan is an inter-media artist, working with painting and digital technology based installation art. On display are his works in the digital realm consisting of explorations into the constantly mutating interstice where the virtual and real bleed into each other. Through a range of computer generated virtual objects presented in lenticular prints, Parthan manages to present a critique on high technology and its impact on our life and experience of reality. Nilofer’s painting is a witty and colorful illustration of India, offering vibrant vantage points and comical observations about the city. The characters which animate her canvases produce a signature effect with their elongated almond eyes and stylized features. Pictures, posters and icons within the works spill into a painted space that is inhabited by Suleman’s quirky and idiosyncratic figures. Raghava K K is a multidisciplinary artist, working in disparate genres. In his work, iconic cartoons and popular memes are placed beside prominent figures in a space where each character transcends its usual association and takes on new identities. Raghava approaches his paintings as his own personal historical documents, where the linearity of time has been distorted and rearranged creating parallel and orthogonal universes. Smriti Dixit’s art is an indelibly feminine procedure, finding its foundations in the process of its creation as much as in its final form. However, Dixit’s art cannot be dissected into a celebration of femininity. Instead, it acts an antidote to a reified archetype of the feminine experience. Her palette consists of variously textured fabrics and plastics. The aura of science fiction surrounds Ajay Dhandre’s meticulously detailed paintings. His frames are populated by mechanical-organic composite forms: cyborgs, robots, prosthetic devices that extend the reach of body as well as consciousness and interstellar probes. Dhandre’s interest in hybrids and devices is significant. It articulates his understanding of the future as an outcome of crossovers, genetic experiments, laboratory side effects and the confluences of diverse impulses.

30.01.2014 – 02.02.2014

Smriti Dixit
Dialogue, Mixed Media
H 77'' x W 40'' x D 34''

S H Raza
Tum
Acrylic On Canvas
150 X 150 Cms

Raghava K K
Venus 3.0
Acrylic on Canvas
60'' x 84''

Nilofer Suleman
Astro Vishnu
Acrylic on Canvas
49'' X 85''

Baiju Parthan
Deposition & Testimony- B
3d Rendering
Animated Lenticular Print
36” x 30”

Baiju Parthan
Deposition & Testimony- A
3d Rendering
Animated Lenticular Print
36” x 30”

Baiju Parthan
Deposition & Testimony- C
3d Rendering
Animated Lenticular Print
36” x 30”

Ajay Dhandre
Cyborg Interface Device - C26
Watercolour on Paper
84" X 60"

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Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of one of India’s most prominent artists Paresh Maity entitled Symphony of Silence. His last solo exhibition in Mumbai, Montage: Moments, Memories was with Art Musings in 2009. The exhibition brings together works in diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture and video. This new body of works sees the artist approach his subjects with new expression. There is a modernity of forms and shapes. The colors are vibrant, and echo the passion of the artist. The focus is on the figure, specifically the faces, with their myriad expressions, closely cropped and juxtaposed with their surroundings. Maity’s sculptural works are typical of his style – dynamic, strong and arresting. The bold lines, the piercing gaze and the painting over the sculptures give them a unique identity. Says Maity, “The most important inspiration in my work is nature. Sitting on the banks of the river, watching the reflections of the sky in the water, looking at the moods of the moving water and watching the boats…these images haunted me long after I left my home in Tamluk. I began scribbling at the age of eight, the boat was the first image I drew and this is where my journey began. My journeys through the sand dunes of Rajasthan, the backwaters of Kerala, the canals of Venice, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, have all been captured in my works. As an artist, I observe, perceive and imagine forms, which I then express in my art.”

10.12.2013 – 15.01.2014

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Art Musings proudly presents a solo exhibition of Kerala based artist Gopikrishna featuring paintings in oil and watercolour. A consummate storyteller, Gopikrishna peoples his universe with myriad creatures and characters, each conveying their own subtle wisdom. His paintings appear as though they were pages from a book of fairytales. In his surrealistic canvas, one can witness the ordinary and the impossible, unity and solitude, illumination and darkness. About the works, says Gopikrishna, “This body of paintings, executed from 2011-13, represent what has been glimpsed, experienced, memorized and realized through this period. Life, as always, has been a traverse through pinnacles and ravines. Paintings thus born bear evidence of the secretive existences perceived from the precipices of life. They reveal a state of timelessness as unaffected by the bangs of the time-bound. They seek out the spiritual fibres deeply hidden in the structure of life -forms.”28.10.2013 – 05.12.2013

28.10.2013 – 05.12.2013