Art Musings is presenting an exhibition of charcoal, drawings, etchings and limited edition prints by several eminent artists. The artists include Laxma Goud, Lalu Prasad Shaw, T. Vaikuntam, Jayasri Burman, Ajay De, Badri Narayan, Jogen Chowdhury, S H Raza & Sakti Burman. All artists have done small works in their trademark style. The exhibition opens on 1 July and continues till 20 July 2009
01.07.2009 – 31.07.2009
Untitled | Charcoal on Canvas | 19" X 15"
Limited Edition - Print (S H Raza) | 39.5" X 39.5"
Untitled | Charcoal & Acrylic on Paper | 40" X 20"
Art Musings showcased 5 renowned artists for the 1st Sunday where art galleries across the city remained open on Sunday with interesting & informative exhibitions & programs. The artists on exhibit at Art Musings included Nalini Malani, Shibu Natesan, Raghava K K, Gopikrishna & Reena Kallat. All the artists displayed small format works in oils, acrylic & watercolour in their trademark style.
22.03.2009 – 12.04.2009
Nalini Malani | Old Age Kidney | Watercolour & Ink On Papier Darches | 14" X 20" | 2007
Shibu Natesan | Two Afgan Girls | Oil On Canvas | 24’’ X 28’’
Shibu Natesan | An Old Actress | Oil On Canvas | 24" X 18"
Reena S. Kallat | Siltscape - 22 | Mixed Media On Paper | 25" X 18"
Art Musings, in association with Aicon Gallery, presented a solo show by international artist Sakti Burman entitled ‘Enraptured Gaze’. The show featured recent works of oil on canvas as well as large watercolour works on paper. In the words of Lynn Gamwell, (director – Birghamton University Art Museum, New York) “Sakti sees the world in terms of the exquisite patterns he saw as a child in India, and, inspired by Bonnard and Matisse, he focuses on people in moments of ecstatic joy. It is Sakti’s own enraptured gaze that gives his work its dreamlike, fantastic aura…By the mid-1960s Sakti had formed his style, which has basically remained the same over the years, becoming richer with his age and experience, as his recent work attests. He typically combines imagery from India and Europe, and achieves an exquisite fusion of Indian decorative patterns with fin-de-siecle Nabis and Fauvist colour…Sakti Burman has embraced two cultures and created from them his own unique international vision – his enraptured gaze.”
14.01.2009 – 31.01.2009
Sakti Burman | Durga Et Le Monde | Oil On Canvas | 57.5 X 45
Sakti Burman | Music Runs From Sky To Sky | Oil On Canvas | 57.5 X 45
Sakti Burman | Susan Swinging In The Evening | Oil On Canvas | 45.5 X 35
Art Musings & Jehangir Art Gallery Art Musings gallery featured a solo exhibition by renowned artist Milburn Cherian. The show featured a large body of recent paintings in acrylic in her trademark palette of amber, ochre and mahogany, with a medieval theme. Though Milburn recognizes the formative influence of Breugel and other pre-Renaissance painters, she has evolved a distinct style, thus making her detailed work totally individual and unique. In the words of art critic Carmel Berkson, “The initial effect of conglomerate, multiple, individual shapes offers the viewer, who is intent on entering this highly complex world of interacting form, colors and symbols, the possibility of initiating, step by step, detail by meticulously executed detail, a journey which leads on towards an ultimately unified, single synthetic whole.” Born in Mumbai, Milburn graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has had several solo shows in India & UK and has participated in important group shows as well.
12.11.2008 – 16.12.2008
Milburn Cherian | Flamingo Acrylic On Canvas | 20" x 16"
The Grooms Village | Acrylic on Canvas | 20" x 16"
Empty Basket | Acrylic on Canvas | 17" X 12.5"
The Triumphant Entry | Acrylic on Canvas | 30" X 30"
Art Musings presented a solo show by international artist Raghava K K that opened with a preview by invitation only. The show entitled ‘Drawn & Quartered’ featured acrylic on canvas paintings from 4 series beginning with ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Arrival of the [Swan]’, ‘I Hate Fat Boys’ & his latest series ‘Incoherent Scraps of [Gluttony]’ . In the words of art critic Gitanjali Dang, “Prior to Drawn and Quartered (2008), his recent suite of paintings, KK Raghava’s painterly articulations were intersections where the nebulous and the defined convened variously. In his new works, the artist plumbs the recesses of the cruel and the unvarnished truth. He amplifies these by adopting the Baconian body fixation. Raghava’s combustive pictorial vocabulary keeps the parenthesis advanced by various genres at a distance. Instead, the artist mobilises the plural ancestry that has irrigated his dialogue with visual cultures. Although stylistic analyses would reveal much about the artist’s various interactions with the visual arts, the body/ the figure is undoubtedly the fraught site of meaning.”
Art Musings presented a solo show of Delhi based artist M Pravat entitled ‘Late Again’. Pravat obtained his BFA – MFA degree from the faculty of fine arts at the MS University in Baroda. He was awarded the Nasreen Mohammadi scholarship in 2001. Apart from painting, Pravat works in several mediums including photography and clay. In the words of art critic Gitanjali Dang, “In Late Again, M. Pravat mobilizes his painterly vocabulary to occasion often-lush living spaces. Although the insides of these apartments provide a giddy torrent of visual possibility, the artist almost never relies on the quirky to state his case. The provenance of these works lies in the network of unspeakably similar desires that colour and saturate the decadence of consumer culture. But Pravat elides any direct reference to consumption habits and instead invites us to inhabit these rooms and envelope ourselves in their vapidity.”
05.08.2008 – 20.09.2008
Moon Light | Oil On Canvas | 66" X 56"
The Horizon Before You | Oil On Canvas | 66" X 56"
Art Musings presented 10 renowned artists at the opening of a new space at Jehangir Art Gallery – the Hirji Gallery. Artists included Anjolie Ela Menon, Laxma Goud, Jayasri Burman K G Subramanyan, Sunil Padwal, Maite Delteil, and Satish Gujral. All the artists had exhibited small format works in oils, acrylic & watercolour in their trademark style. This was accompanied by series of limited edition ceramic platters of some of the works.
22.07.2008 – 30.07.2008
Serenity | Watercolour | Pen & Ink on paper | 14 X 14
Untitled | Acrylic on Board | 15" X 15"
Tranquilty | Oil on Canvas | 40" X 40"
Durga | Acrylic Reverse Painting On Glass | 13"X 10.5"
Art Musings presented Excavation: Memory / Myth / Membrane featuring Nalini Malani, Jayashree Chakravarty and Reena Saini – Kallat. The art critic Nancy Adajania wrote: “In the show, Nalini and Reena relate the themes of mythological and cosmic violence to today’s world beleaguered by irresoluble conflict. Jayashree’s silver-gray landscapes signify a fragile ecology: their vocabulary ranges from originary myths to the incipient cityscape that tames the land and overpowers the forces of nature.
Art Musings in association with Palette Gallery presented a solo exhibition by Baroda based artist Suneel Mamadapur. Art Critic Ranjit Hoskote wrote in the catalogue essay: ‘Suneel Mamadapur’s paintings take the form of precarious tableaux. He builds up elaborate assemblages of humans, animals, ghosts trees, architectural images, and a variety of mechanical contraptions geared to the mandates of balance, purification, mobility and communication.
Art Musings presented a solo exhibition by Paris based artist Maya Burman. It has been said that Maya’s indication towards floral decorative patterns is along the lines of the French Art Nouveau tradition. Maya’s idiom includes decorative floral patterns that intermingle with people. The way patterns weave and float around the central forms evokes a sense of exuberance.
01.11.2007 – 30.11.2007
MAYA BURMAN
Untitled
Watercolour, Pen & Ink on paper
19 X 19
2006
MAYA BURMAN
Untitled
Watercolour, Pen & Ink on paper
19 X19
2006
MAYA BURMAN
Untitled
Watercolour, Pen & Ink on paper
19 X19
2006
MAYA BURMAN
Untitled
Watercolour, Pen & Ink on paper
19 X 19
2006
