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)

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"

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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

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"

They Were Here | Oil On Canvas | 60" X 48"

Late Again | Oil On Canvas | 66" X 56"