Art Musings opens their next exhibition on 20 June 2010 featuring 4 artists, including Maïté Delteil, Milburn Cherian, Suhas Roy, and Ajay De. Works on display include paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolor. Paris-based Maïté Delteil’s works have a languid quality and have an old world charm. Works on display include small format oils. A plethoric cluttered tapestry of glazed humans and their existential saga formulate the distinct iconography of Milburn Cherian’s work. Her works have an enticing jewel-like quality which transports the viewer into a fantasy world. Suhas Roy’s preoccupation is with the female face and form, and his subjects are romanticized, inhabiting the dreamlike world between sensuality and innocence. Works on display include crayons, charcoal and oil. Ajay De’s works are easily identified by his trademark use of charcoal, interspersed with red or blue. Works on display include his Mother Theresa series.

20.06.2010 – 30.07.2010

Shades of Autumn | Oil on Canvas | 30" X 36"

Games in the Garden | Oil on Canvas | 11" X 9"

Art Musings features 4 contemporary artists, including Baiju Parthan, Shibu Natesan, Sudarshan Shetty and Raghava K K. Works on display include paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolour. Baiju Parthan is an inter-media artist, working simultaneously with traditional media of painting as well as digital technology based installation art. Works on display include acrylic on canvas as well as paper. In this body of work, Shibu Natesan embraces photorealism. The simulations resemble the original to a startling degree and prompt readings, which were contrary to what was intended, thus displacing the meaning without significantly altering the appearance. Sudarshan Shetty works across media such as sculpture, installations and painting. Large canvas works display an intriguing combination of the representational and the abstract. Raghava works in genres as widely disparate as painting, installation, film and performance. Raghava will go down as one of the few Indians honoured to speak at the prestigious TED conference that invites some of the greatest thinkers of our time to present their ideas. In this exhibition, he presents a series of large acrylic paintings, as well as some watercolour works.

10.05.2010 – 19.06.2010

Oil On Linen | 60"x 72" | 2007

Wrestlers | Oil On Canvas | 17’’ X 15’’

Oil On Canvas | 18’’ X 14’’

Oil On Paper | 23’’x 17’’

ART MUSINGS opens their next exhibition on 5 April 2010 featuring 5 renowned artists, including Laxma Goud, Paresh Maity, Satish Gujral, T Vaikuntam and Lalu Prasad Shaw.All the artists are displaying paintings in oils, acrylic & watercolour as well as bronze sculptures in their trademark style. Laxma Goud displays his versatility over a range of mediums, from watercolour, glass painting, printmaking and sculpture in bronze and teracotta. Laxma’s rural ‘nayaks’ and ‘nayikas’ are raw and vivacious in their appeal. Paresh Maity’s vibrant and colorful works echo the passion of the artist. The sand dunes of Rajasthan, the backwaters of Kerala, to the Benaras series, Paresh’s paints have captured it all. Satish Gujral has been internationally acclaimed for his multi-talents of painting, graphics, sculpture, murals, architecture and interior design.Works on display at the exhibition include painting and sculpture. Rustic, raw, and potent are some of the words that come to mind when looking at Vaikuntam’s works in acrylic and charcoal. The portraits of men and women represent the Indian ethos rather than particular individual identities. In the world of Lalu Prasad Shaw’s painterly realm, peace & harmony remain the resonant themes. The imagery in his work has a lyrical quality with a unique sensitivity that is strongly inspired by the classical Indian element.

05.04.2010 – 05.05.2010

PARESH MAITY
In Search Of Guernica
Mixed Media on Paper
55.5 X 95

PARESH MAITY
Mystic City - 2
Oil on Canvas
36 X 36
2009

T. VAIKUNTAM
Radhakrishna with Parrot
Acrylic on Canvas
16X20

PARESH MAITY
Reflection - 1
Oil on Canvas
40 X 40
2008

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Though Nikhil Chaganlal has exhibited extensively both in India and abroad, this is his first solo exhibition with Art Musings. The show features 21 mixed media works on Masonite board, depicting his famed interiors. Over the years, Chaganlal has developed a unique technique of painting on Masonite. He uses acrylic combined with oil paints and chemical sealants used in the fishing boat industry. Says Chaganlal, “I paint portraits of Interiors. The painting, each one a room, is like a private diary disclosing places of old world charm, with an embrace of intimacy, of happy days almost forgotten. This body of work is a painterly autobiography of a suggestive presence of people from my past. Narrations are hidden in objects and furniture sometimes reveals emotions of restless sexuality and aspiring spirituality. Painting for me is to create a space, mood and thought….. to live within a dream…… this perfectly articulates my life’s journey.”

25.02.2010 – 30.03.2010

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25 – 31 January 2010 at Jehangir Art Gallery 1 – 13 February 2010 at Art Musings Radhakrishnan is one of the most notable among the new generation of figurative sculptors who has successfully brought about a resurgence in Indian sculpture. A modernist, he recharges age-old sculptural processes with a new sensibility. His work, both intimate and universal, takes the celebration of sensuality as one of its central themes. In the words of art historian R Siva Kumar, “Radhakrishnan’s recent works bring together all the sculptural devices and images he has employed during the last eight years and thus reveals certain relations between them more pointedly. The mass on the ramp is miniaturized versions of Mausi and Maiya with their individualities dissolved as if seen at a distance; genderless, faceless figures. The reality, we are reminded, is a matter of perspective.” The artist has exhibited in important exhibitions extensively both in India and abroad, and his works can be found in several public and private collections throughout the world. This is his second solo exhibition with Art Musings.

25.01.2010 – 13.02.2010

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Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of New York-based artist Raghava K K entitled Brooklyn Bound R Train. A self-taught artist, Raghava has worked in genres as widely disparate as painting, installation, film and performance. Raghava made a decisive move to New York City, where he is actively engaged in its art scene. Raghava K K speaks about New York and this new series: “I can’t think of a more harsh reality than the crude, cattle-like, modular, transient existence in New York city. You live and die every three months. You emerge stronger, more beautiful, and more real. My works cannot remain the same after I have moved here. The subway, the crowds, the temporality, the non-spaces, the graffiti, the coffee shops, the parks, the parking-meters, all have become a strong part of my reality. My Indian-ness now is turned inside out, and I’m viewing myself from the perspective of New York City. New York has a natural way of filtering out the weak.” Raghava has been invited as a speaker at the TED Conference (2010) in Long Beach, CA as a part of its 25th anniversary year. He will go down as one of the few Indians honoured to speak at the prestigious TED Conference that invites some of the greatest thinkers of our time to present their ideas.

16.12.2009 – 20.01.2010

ART MUSINGS Presents A Solo Show by PARESH MAITY 10 November – 15 November 2009 @ Jehangir Art Gallery 16 November – 8 December 2009 @ Art Musings Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition of one of India’s most prominent artists Paresh Maity entitled Montage Moments Memories. The exhibition brings together works in diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and video. The suite of paintings, Mystic City, includes works in oil, mixed media & watercolour in his trademark style, featuring landscapes and figurative images. The bronze sculptures from the Face to Face series are large angular faces, while in Maity’s photo work, Faces of Life, the artist has worked over the photographed image in pen & ink. Also in the exhibition, the artist is for the first time featuring a video work, Kolkata to Kozhikode, tracing India through the monsoon season. The varied artworks on display celebrate the range of Maity’s creativity.

10.11.2009 – 08.12.2009

Mystic City - I | Oil on Canvas | 36" x 36"

Santiniketan | Mixed Media on Board | 40" X 60"

Mystic City - 10 | Oil on Canvas | 60" X 120"

Art Musings is presented the debut solo show of Bangalore-based artist Nilofer Suleman entitled Sulemani Chai. The artist is presenting 15 works in acrylic on canvas. Having studied her Masters in psychology, Nilofer went on to study fine art under the guidance of Chandu Nafde in Indore. She started her journey fifteen years ago as a cartographer and miniature artist. She then moved on to experiment with different media and styles like Cubism and Expressionism. Her work is fauvist splashes of un-adulerated, unapologetic colours. Suleman believes that inspiration lurks at every street corner waiting to be discovered, in the chai kadas, the barbers, old hindi movie posters, hand painted and wall-hung Ravi Varma’s god oleographs, in the excessiveness of painted trucks and in the simplicity of our short but archetypal interactions on the street and in the movies. She is inspired by Indian typography and street graphics and brings Indian Graphic Culture onto a contemporary platform. Each painting tells a story, anticipates an outcome. The main protagonists are the eternally stunned and naive Chinamma and Jayaram. Then there are the sly and lecherous Ramlal Pardesi and Tiger Murugesh complete with colourful scarves around their necks and oily hair. The seductress Kaanan Bala, the rogue Josi Kutti, the vamp Susy Mallama, love-struck Lakshmi and the disapproving mother-in-law amongst a sea of other characters. Their worlds collide while sharing ice-golas, paan and fish in a world of painted gods. “Gods and Cinema is what lies at the core of every Indian Heart, perhaps reflective of hope. As Indians, what comes most naturally to us is storytelling. My paintings attempt to weave a narrative together as I try to recognize the hope that exists in the seemingly mundane everyday ritual of life”, Says Nilofer.

14.10.2009 – 07.11.2009

NILOFER SULEMAN
Manmandir Cinema Hall
Acrylic on Canvas
45 X 44
2009

NILOFER SULEMAN
Bhagya Laksmi Holey Store
Acrylic on Canvas
45 X 46
2009

NILOFER SULEMAN
Good Luck
Acrylic on Canvas
49 X 45
2008

NILOFER SULEMAN
Hawamahal
Acrylic on Canvas
45 X 45
2009

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August 31 – September 6, 2009, @ Museum Gallery September 7 – 30, 2009 @ Art Musings Art Musings presents a solo exhibition entitled ‘The Wheel as Metaphor & Other Sculptures’ by sculptor Nandagopal. Born in Bangalore, 1946, Nandagopal studied at the Government College of Art & Crafts, Chennai, after which he went on to become a life member of Cholamandal Artists Village where he is currently based. In this exhibition, the sculptor is featuring 15 spectacular sculptures in copper and brass. His narrative sculptural work constitutes one of the most important collections in contemporary Indian sculpture today. While Nandagopal is an artist steeped in the traditions of his country, his work has a contemporary sensibility that appeals to an international taste. Nandagopal is the recipient of several important national awards and has been on the advisory board of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi since 1998. His works can be found in important museum and private collections. 31.08.2009 – 30.09.2009

31.08.2009 – 30.09.2009

ART MUSINGS At INDIA ART SUMMIT NEW DELHI – 19-22 AUGUST 2009 PREVIEW IN MUMBAI @ ART MUSINGS 5-12 AUGUST 2009 Art Musings is participating in the India Art Summit 2009, to be held in New Delhi from 19-22 August ’09 featuring works of 8 artists – Nalini Malani, Anjolie Ela Menon, Baiju Parthan, Jayasri Burman, Raghava K K, Sujata Bajaj, Smriti Dixit and Nilofer Suleman. Anjolie Ela Menon is exhibiting 2 works in her innovative kitsch style. The imagery in Jayasri Burman’s miniature series Myth and Mysticism work has a dream-like quality inspired by the Indian folk element. Nalini Malani, a senior multimedia artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, animation, video and film, is presenting a set of 5 prints. Baiju Parthan, one of the early exponents of new media art and mediatic-realism in the Indian contemporary art scene, has done a set of 2 triptychs. Smriti Dixit experiments with her materials and her vocabulary, combining these processes to present an interesting series entitled Offering.Fragments of Devanagari script peer forth in Sujata Bajaj’s mixed media series. New York based Raghava K K displays works in acrylic and ink as well as a series of giclee monoprints on archival paper. Nilofer Suleman is inspired by Indian typography and street graphics. Her work is a coalition of styles that take Indian Graphic Culture onto a contemporary platform.

05.08.2009 – 30.08.2009

Sujata Bajaj | Debris | Mixed Media on Paper | 14” x 14”

Sujata Bajaj | Debris | Mixed Media on Paper | 14” x 14”

Smriti Dixit | Offering – II | Mixed Media Acrylic Sheet | 21” x 21"

Smriti Dixit | Offering – I | Mixed Media Acrylic Sheet | 21” x 21"

Raghava K K | The Wayfarer | Giclee On Archival Paper | 24" x 30

Raghava K K | Borrowed From the Library of Ajiba | Ink on Paper | 30” X 22”

Nilofer Suleman | Royal Fantacy | Acrylic on Canvas | 44” x 45”

Nilofer Suleman | Hawamahal | Acrylic on Canvas | 44” x 45”

Nalini Malani | Girl Watching | Print (Artist Proof), Digital Pigment, Hahnemeuhle Bamboo Archival Paper | 22" x30"

Nalini Malani | Childhood Fears | Print (Artist Proof), Digital Pigment, Hahnemeuhle Bamboo Archival Paper | 22”x30”

Jayasri Burman | Stories Retold – VI | Watercolour On Board | 24" x 8"

Jayasri Burman | Myth and Mysticism – VII | Watercolour On Board | 24" x 8"

Baiju Parthan | Soft Homologue | Oil Acrylic & Gel on Canvas | 12” x 36” (Triptych)

Baiju Parthan | Soft Combat | Oil Acrylic & Gel on Canvas | 12” x 36” (Triptych)