Art Musings presented a solo show of Calcutta based artist Lalu Prasad Shaw. Shaw translates, into a modern idiom, the visual attractiveness of the company school, Kalighat and the miniature folios. He is a lyrical portraitist.
12.09.2007 – 20.10.2007
Art Musings presented a solo show of artist Smriti Dixit. The artist is a recipient of the Raza foundation award. The art critic Nancy Adajania wrote in the catalogue essay on Smriti’s recent exhibition: Smriti’s practice emerges from a full-bodied and sensuous abstraction that extends itself into a variety media and genres paintings, ceramics, sculptures, assemblages and installations. Her recent works are soaked in a vaishnavite sensibility: the saffron, russet, red and black palette could imply the winter and spring shringaras of Shrinathji, the form of Krishna who presides over the temple-town of Nathdwara, and who is dressed in different costumes that change with the seasons and the times of day.
01.08.2007 – 07.09.2007
Art Musings presented Paris based artist Maïté Delteil in a solo show, presenting recent works by the artist in oils & watercolours. The exquisite images of Maïté Delteil’s works transport you into her own personal world of fantasy & dream.
10.04.2007 – 25.05.2007
Art Musings presented Kerala based artist Gopikrishna in a solo show presenting recent works by the artist in oils, pastels & watercolours. Gopikrishna is an artist quite apart from the hurly-burly of modern Indian painting. Equally, he is an artist obsessed with the relationship of man with his surroundings. In this sense, Gopikrishna is that most rare of artists: one for whom art is not a means of communicating with the world but rather a matter of understanding himself.
05.02.2007 – 01.03.2007
Art Musings showcased their bi-annual show featuring 4 master artists, K G Subramanyan, Anjolie Ela Menon, Jogen Chowdhary & Sakti Burman. K G Subrahmanyan’s works, both acrylic on canvas & gouache on paper, displayed his storytelling narrative in a combination of gentle wit & morbid satire. Jogen Chowdhury presented a suite of works in dry pastel depicting the female form. Sakti Bruman’s paintings featured the mottled mosaic surface in different mediums of oil, watercolours & pastels. The Anjolie Ela Menon works in oil on masonite incorporated diverse cultures to form intriguing images.
19.12.2006 – 22.01.2007
Art Musings presented a solo show of Jayasri Burman, comprising a large body of watercolour works both in miniature & large formats. In the catalogue, Ina Puri has noted “In the world of Jayasri’s painterly realm, peace and harmony remain the resonant themes. From the beginning, her subject matter has been the most classical themes: and the painter continues to draw inspiration from Indic mythology, Puranas, Jataka Tales, scriptures, scrolls and ancient texts.”
18.11.2006 – 09.12.2006
Art Musings presented ‘Source Code’ by Baiju Parthan from 12 September to 31st October 2006. It was Parthan’s solo show after a gap of 4 years, featuring 7 large works in acrylics & oils. The exhibition also saw the release of the art book ‘Baiju Parthan – A Users Manual’ – authored by Ranjit Hoskote.
12.09.2006 – 31.10.2006
Art Musings presented a solo show of Kerala based artist Babu Xavier. With an explosion of reds, blues and greens, Xavier’s body of work is reminiscent of the land of Kerala. Marked by a manic drive, Babu has approached this suite with remarkable zest, often burning the midnight oil in his studio to complete each painting. The dialogue with these canvases has come about in bursts of quick yet intense energy and it has revealed to the self-taught artist, a fresh territory where he discovers new metaphors and techniques.
18.03.2006 – 15.04.2006
Art Musings presented a solo show of Paris based artist Sujata Bajaj, comprising of a small but powerful body of 14 acrylic canvas works. Fragments of devnagiri script peer forth from time to time in Sujata’s paintings. They are fundamental elements of a language but seem to take on a renewed purpose in this group of canvases. They bring with them, the primal significance of a whistled tune or a hand-written note in this world of philistine technologists.
23.02.2006 – 17.03.2006
Art Musings presented a solo show of artist Neeraj Goswami. Goswami, a art masters graduate from the Delhi College of Arts has been the recepient of several important awards, including the Bharat Bhavan Award. To quote Ina Puri from the catalogue text, “ Given the artist’s spiritual philosophy, it is perhaps inconsequential that the medium in the technical use of term is oil, tempera and pastel, Goswami would like to say that the medium is the artist himself. Unlike others, he dares to un-belong, and therein lies his individuality.”
09.02.2006 – 22.02.2006
