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Art Musings presents a solo exhibition entitled ‘The Metaphysical Edge’ by Cholamandal based S. Nandagopal, Nandagopal is an artist steeped in the traditions of his country, and yet his work has a contemporary sensibility that appeals to an international taste. While Nandagopal’s regular medium is welded copper and brass sculpture with enamel finish, for the first time in several decades, Nandagopal has made a major change in medium and in this exhibition, and here he features a suite of 28 paintings done in colored, gold & silver inks. His sculptures have gods, goddesses, mythical creatures and airborne demigods. These vibrant small format ink paintings also have the same protagonists. For Nandagopal, the fascination has been in explaining what could come out of the aesthetic adventure of the attempt to reconcile the latent memories of a magnificent, highly evolved tradition and experiences of a vital contemporary West.

12.11.2016 – 12.12.2016

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A solo exhibition of Baiju Parthan – Necessary Illusions, Parthan is showcasing in Mumbai after a gap of 10 years. His last exhibition Source Code in Mumbai was with Art Musings in 2006.

Baiju Parthan, (1956, Kerala, India) is an inter-media artist, working with painting as well as digital technology based installation art. He is one of the early exponents of new media art and mediatic-realism in the Indian contemporary art scene. His work presents worldviews built upon differing ideologies that are in collision and transforming each other, and the resulting ontological fallout felt by us all. Human history thus becomes a compilation of tracks, traces, and debris left behind by such collisions for the artist. Parthan’s vocabulary consists of arcane symbols, found imagery, as well as contemporary photographic materials that are woven together to create paintings which reveal a dense multi layered phenomenological landscape. His work in the digital realm consists mainly 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 video installations, large scale prints on metallic surfaces, and lenticular prints, Parthan manages to present a critique on high technology and its impact on our life and experience of reality.

14.09.2016 – 05.11.2016

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To coincide with the upcoming Ganeshotsav, we would like to offer a new suite of paintings by Raghava K K from his on-going series of Advaitha Ganesha to our select clients.Do go through the attached e-catalog and let us know if you would like to acquire a work.

01.09.2016 – 10.09.2016

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Art Musings ongoing group exhibition features works of artists Nalini Malani, Smriti Dixit, Sudarshan Shetty, Shibu Natesan, Raghava K K, Ajay Dhandre, Reena Kallat, Nilofer Suleman, Gopikrishna, Sunil Gawde & Shilo Shiv Suleman.

03.08.2016 – 10.09.2016

Art Musings opens their 2016 edition of Quarto on 8 June 2016 with a group exhibition featuring 4 renowned artists, Ajay De, Samir Mondal, Lalu Prasad Shaw and Nandan Purkayastha showcasing recent paintings.

Ajay De’s works are easily identified by his trademark use of charcoal, interspersed with a dash of red or blue. His use of light is masterful; the mood of the work is evocative and enigmatic. His unusual technique, involving the delicate use of fingers, thumb and the palm add a stunning effect to the artworks.Samir Mondal’s bold striking watercolors are radiant in their rendering. Mondal has incorporated the inherent quality, richness and substance of the medium of oil, and has developed textures and structural features into his watercolor works giving them vitality and depth.Lalu Prasad Shaw’s work is notable for its smooth synthesis of disparate stylistic elements to produce a simple, yet sophisticated result. He is known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women, laying the most emphasis on his subject’s physical characteristics. Shaw’s works, mainly executed in gouache or tempera, are simple and graceful, having a very still, well-composed and smooth exterior. Nandan Purkayashtha’s monochromatic drawings are full of detail and dimension. 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. The fine spiral pattern drawing inter-relates all the elements in the works giving them a unique complexity.

08.06.2016 – 16.07.2016

Samir Mondal
‘Soft Geometry 02’
Watercolour On 300 gsm Arches Paper
30’’ X 22’’

Samir Mondal
‘Soft Geometry 01’
Watercolour On 300 gsm Arches Paper
30’’ X 22’’

Nandan Purkayastha
The Lucky Wonders
Acrylic Pen Ink on Paper
32" x 60"

Nandan Purkayastha
Acrylic pen
Ink on Paper
60" x 30"

Lalu Prasad Shaw
Waiting in Veranda
Tempera On Paper
21" X 15"

Lalu Prasad Shaw
Butterflies In Spring
Tempera On Paper
22" x 15"

Lalu Prasad Shaw
Bengali Babu - II
Pastel on Paper
23" X 15"

Lalu Prasad Shaw
Bengali Babu-I
Pastel on Paper
20" X 15"

Ajay De
Mother
Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper
30"x 40"

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Art Musings is proud to present a group exhibition ‘Troika’ showcasing recent paperworks of Raghava K K, Gopikrishna & Ajay Dhandre opening on 2 May 2016.

Raghava‘s nonchalant and edgy pictorial vocabulary hints at a future, which engages with experimentation. The present suite of drawings is a whimsical exploration of our capacity to play many disembodied roles at once.

Gopikrishna’s paintings appear as though they were pages from a book of fairytales. In his surrealistic conte paperworks, one can witness the ordinary and the impossible, unity and solitude, illumination and darkness.

Ajay Dhandre’s meticulously detailed paintings have the aura of science fiction. His interest in chimeras, 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.

The exhibition continues till 31 May 2016 at Art Musings.

02.05.2016 – 31.05.2016

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Art Musings is proud to present a solo exhibition of Padma Vibhushan S H Raza, which opens on 22 March 2016, entitled Nirantar. In celebration of the artist’s 94th birthday, the exhibition will showcase recent works. This exhibition opens in three cities simultaneously, Mumbai, Delhi & Kolkata.

22.03.2016 – 30.04.2016

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Sakti Burman (1935, Kolkata) returns to Mumbai after a gap of 9 years with a solo exhibition The Beholder’s Share, featuring recent oil on canvas works. The exhibition also showcases a small selection of sculptures, drawings and lithographs. Sakti has embraced two cultures and created his own unique world of fable, fantasy and myth, which has grown ever richer over the years. He draws inspiration from myriad sources, ranging from the Ajanta caves to the paintings of the Italian Renaissance. He combines imagery from India and Europe, and achieves a fusion of Indian patterns with colour preferences inherited from the fin-de-siecle Nabis and Fauves. His paintings evoke the dreamlike look of a time-encrusted fresco, achieved through the blending of oil and acrylic to produce a marbling effect. In the course of a distinguished career, Burman has received many honours, including the Prix des Etrangers, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris; the Medaille Arts, Science et Lettres, Paris; the Medaille d’Argent de Montmorency; the Medaille d’Or, Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris; and the Prix de la Ville de l’Isle-Adam, France. Burman’s works have found place in the collections of major museums and cultural institutions, including the British Museum, London; the Musée de la Ville, Paris; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; the National Gallery, Auckland; the Punjab Museum, Chandigarh; the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay; and the Ministry of Culture, Government of France, Paris.

10.02.2016 – 10.03.2016

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In Focus Booth# D7, Art Musings is showcasing works by renowned artist S H Raza. Raza is the last surviving founder member of the Progressive Artists Group. Well into his nineties, he continues to be a questor for new horizons of significance. The Dheere Dheere series comprise of 15 small size paperworks, with his symbolic vocabulary and a system of geometrical interpretations. Booth # B15 features works by Anjolie Ela Menon, Baiju Parthan, Smriti Dixit, Raghava K K, Nilofer Suleman, Gopikrishna & S Nandagopal. Anjolie Ela Menon’s protagonists are mythological figures as well as the ordinary people. Her paintings, through their texture and stunning coloration, convey the wonder of breathtaking transmutations. Baiju Parthan believes data and the virtual space where it exists is a newly formed meta-reality. This meta space certainly has an aesthetic dimension that can be accessed as imagery through data visualization technology. In this work, he has used the traditional medium of canvas, paint, and compositional devices to address that aesthetic dimension and make data visible as imagery in a painting. The art of Smriti Dixit is born out of her experiences with everyday life. Drawing on intimate interactions, she fashions objects carefully, using handmade techniques, engaging in the tactility of her materials, becoming familiar with their specific properties.  Here she presents a site specific installation in ceramic. Nilofer Suleman’s work is inspired by Indian typography and street graphics. Distinctions are found in the details of these flamboyant works, where the elements of fun and fantasy belie a more complex layered composition. Raghava‘s nonchalant and edgy pictorial vocabulary hints at a future, which engages with experimentation. The present suite of drawings is a whimsical exploration of our capacity to play many disembodied roles at once. Gopikrishna’s 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.Nandagopal’s narrative sculptural work in enamel, copper and brass feature traditional icons. While Nandagopal is an artist steeped in the traditions of his country, his work has a contemporary sensibility that appeals to an international taste.

01.02.2016 – 01.02.2016

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Art Musings is presenting a solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Anjolie Ela Menon from 26 November – 31 December ’15. The show features recent works of oil on Masonite board. Anjolie is showcasing in Mumbai after a gap of 9 years, her last solo exhibition was held in Mumbai with Art Musings in 2006.

Over a journey that spans five decades and has taken her across the globe, Menon’s art has incorporated the resonances of many schools, diverse cultures. The present suite of paintings sees the artist’s revisit some of her favoured motifs. Menon charges her figures with the mandate of their hybrid identity. Her figures seem always like avatars travelling between the way stations of a quest. They carry within them the residues of other times, other civilizations, other ways of looking at the human form and preserving it for posterity, whether as a secular image or a votive icon.

26.11.2015 – 31.12.2015