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Art Musings will showcase the works of the legendary artist K G Subramanyan in an exhibition that opens at the gallery on 31 January 2018. The exhibition features over 30 works – including drawings, gouaches and reverse paintings on acrylic sheets – representing over five decades of his artistic production, from 1963 to 2014.

In the catalogue essay accompanying this exhibition, the poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote writes, “KG Subramanyan (1924-2016) was a seminal artist and pedagogue who left his formative imprint on postcolonial Indian art. His works transit seamlessly between object and illusion, people and their distorted mirror images, private occasions and public spaces. Vignettes from the boudoir are intercut with scenes from the marketplace. The lady at her toilette is never far away from the hawker peddling her wares. What we know of Subrahmanyan as a suave critic, a legendary teacher, and a man of sardonic, sometimes cutting humour, can sometimes divert us from the substance of his art – which delves playfully into the secret lives that we conceal behind the public masks we present to the world.”

As part of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, Art Musings will host a walk-through on Saturday, 3 February 2018, between the distinguished artist Sudhir Patwardhan and Ranjit Hoskote on the art and legacy of KG Subramanyan, his impact on several generations of Indian artists and his continuing relevance as a major thinker.

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai & Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, supported by Art Musings presents ‘In the Presence of Another Sky: Sakti Burman, A Retrospective’, a survey of the distinguished artist Sakti Burman’s work across nearly six decades. This retrospective is curated by poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote. It situates Sakti Burman’s practice in its historical contexts – as much within an evolving Indian modern as within the European lineage of the modern.Hoskote’s curatorial reading emphasises Burman’s affinities with a spectrum of artistic reference points, ranging from Pompeii murals to Dubuffet to illuminated manuscripts and miniatures. The exhibition will map Burman’s practice across the diverse artistic engagements that have characterised his journey: this includes his memorable contributions to engraving, the art of the book, drawing, sculpture, and painting in various media. ‘In the Presence of Another Sky’ will also celebrate the role of travel, of encounters with varied cultures, in the shaping of Burman’s art and world-view.

Director NGMA, Mr Shivaprasad Khened speaks of the upcoming retrospective: “On the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, it is a privilege and honour for the NGMA Mumbai to be hosting an exhibition of an artist who was witness to India’s Independence. This exhibition – In the Presence of Another Sky: Sakti Burman, A Retrospective – is a tribute to all those who were witness to India’s historic Independence and to the most unfortunate trauma that followed during the partition of the country into two nations, when millions of migrants crossed across the divided nations of India and East Pakistan.”

Several outreach programs are planned during the duration of the exhibition including walks with the curator, a poetry reading, panel discussion and a book release.

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Art Musings opens their next exhibition BLACK/white on 14 June 2017 with a group show featuring leading artists KG Subramanyan, Jogen Chowdhury, Ram Kumar, T Vaikuntam, Ganesh Haloi, B Vithal, Paresh Maity, Raghava K K, Maya Burman, Gopikrishna, Neeraj Goswami, Suhas Roy, Nandan Purkayastha & Ajay Dhandre. The exploration of black and white has been a constant for artists. They revisit this theme for BLACK/white, creating austere dramatic works using the minimal monochromatic palette. Paresh Maity and Ganesh Haloi landscape drawings are lyrical hymns to nature. Raghava K K exhibits drawings from his series ‘Through the Looking Glass’ and Ajay Dhandre presents a suite of meticulously detailed paintings that have an aura of science fiction. Vaikuntam’s Telengana women and Suhas Roy’s Bengali women are depicted in charcoal. Maya Burman’s drawings have a tapestry like effect, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition and Nandan Purkayastha’s finely depicted birds have a splash of colour. Gopikrishna’s surrealistic drawings look like pages from a fairy tale. Neeraj Goswami and B Vithal’s bold strong drawings in charcoal explore the human body. The exhibition also features works by senior masters including limited edition etchings by KG Subramanyan, charcoal works by Jogen Chowdhary and a suite of 4 recent drawings by Ram Kumar.

Art Musings opens their next exhibition The Creator Series, on 20 April 2017 featuring works by contemporary artist Ajay Dhandre.

Dhandre’s concept is the revolution of a future language that is being generated by technological progress. The aura of science fiction surrounds his meticulously detailed paintings.  His frames are populated by mechanical-organic composite forms: cyborgs, robots, prosthetic devices that extend the reach of body as well as consciousness, and interstellar probes. In this series, Dhandre investigates the dawn of an era of revolutionary experiments. Humans become more machine-like and morph into cyborgs, the line between biology and technology starts to blur. The seamless merging of intelligent machines with organic life gives rise to a new hybrid reality, a new knowledge, indicating an evolutionary step into the future of human history.

I have attached the ecatalog to this mail. Please go through it and let me know if any of the artworks interest you. We can have them sent over for you to see them at your convenience or you can come by to the gallery.

Intelligent Organism – IN30
Watercolour on Paper
40" X 56”

Cyborg Interface Device
C26, Watercolour on Paper
84" X 60"

Cyber Kinetics Device
C66D, Watercolour on Paper
56" X 40"

C11, Watercolour on Paper
84" X 60"

8 New Born Universe
UB-06, Watercolour on Paper
27" x 15"

8 New Born Universe
UB-05, Watercolour on Paper
27" x 15"

8 New Born Universe
UB-04, Watercolour on Paper
27" x 15"

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Art Musings is presenting Vision into Infinity, a solo exhibition of prominent Indian artist Paresh Maity.  This is the artist’s 80th solo exhibition. The show brings together a compilation of Paresh Maity’s art from the early 90s to the present and represents the artist’s metamorphosis; a reflection of the refined visual aesthetics developed by the artist through decades of multi-layered practice. Tradition and modernity mingle within Paresh’s art. Recent sculptural works in bronze bring back essences of folkloric forms that surrounded him in his childhood and youth. Maity’s paintings evolve from primary encounters with the world around him and the personal responses they engender. It brings into his expression a vital emotional characteristic that touches a viewers’ sensibility. His visual narratives liberate the stories that are within him. The vastness of his visual experience is reflected in the large body of artworks in this exhibition including paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations. His is a repertoire that envelopes the minimal as well as the lushly adorned, the miniature as well as the monumental.

15.02.2017 – 15.04.2017

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The Flower and the Bulb: The Art of Maïté Delteil & Maya Burman features paintings by the Paris-based artists. For mother and daughter Maïté Delteil and Maya Burman, painting forms a lineage, a bloodline; and inspiration originates from the inner lives of the artists. The resultant compositions are bound to personal histories and images from the unconscious, making for paintings replete with layered realities. Living and working in France and India, both mother and daughter draw on the diverse aesthetics of these cultures. Both Maïté and Maya employ unusual and memorable palettes to bring their compositions together.

Maïté brush conveys into being the roundedness of cherries, the heavy pile of snow, the variegation of the plumage of hoopoes and finches, the particular serration and generic density of foliage. Delteil’s attentiveness to detail is a form of devotion: her paintings are songs of praise. Maya’s paintings, by contrast, are peopled, made up of characters that live in mythology and metaphor. Her figures float through fields, their bodies curving with the shapes of the landscape. Patterns weave and float around the central forms evoking a sense of exuberance and joie de vivre.  Burman’s paintings have a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to floral, decorative patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition.

14.12.2016 – 10.02.2017

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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