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‘DRAWN & QUARTERED’
RAGHAVA K K
September – November 2008

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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.”

24.09.2008 – 05.11.2008

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‘LATE AGAIN’
M Pravat
August – September 2008

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

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X @Jehangir
Various Artists
July 2008

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

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‘EXCAVATION: MEMORY / MYTH / MEMBRANE’
Jayashree Chakravarty, Nalini Malani & Reena Kallat
February 2008

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.

12.02.2008 – 31.03.2008

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‘DESERT OF THE PRESENT’
SUNEEL MAMADAPUR
December 2007 – January 2008

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.

03.12.2007 – 20.01.2008

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‘ONCE UPON A TIME’
MAYA BURMAN
November 2007

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

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‘EXILE FROM SYMMETRY’
SMRITI DIXIT
August – September 2007

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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

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‘DREAM CONSERVATORY’
GOPIKRISHNA
February – March 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

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