To coincide with the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, Art Musings presents a rare treat for art lovers in the city of Mumbai, with ‘Resonance’, an exhibition featuring works of an inter-generational ensemble of artists. The exhibition is a celebration of the completion of the gallery’s 25^th anniversary.

Founded in 1999, Art Musings has enjoyed a long-term relationship of collegiality with stellar practitioners of distinctive approaches, working across generations and choices of medium and vocabulary. In this upcoming exhibition, on display are works by Anjolie Ela Menon, Sakti Burman, Maïté Delteil, Paresh Maity, Jayasri Burman, Baiju Parthan, T. Vaikuntam, Maya Burman, Nilofer Suleman, Smriti Dixit, Gopikrishna, Raghava KK, Nikhil Chaganlal, Sheetal Mallar and Shilo Shiv Suleman.

Timeless concepts are predominant in the works of Anjolie Ela Menon, Sakti Burman and Paresh Maity. Whereas Anjolie explores the mother and child series, Sakti revisits the cosmic churning. Paresh pays tribute to Benares, a city beyond history and time, a source of immense inspiration to him for several years.

Maïté Delteil, Jayasri Burman and Maya Burman pays obeisance to Nature. Jayasri beautifully captures the inherent splendor of nature, unveiling its abundant resources with poetic grace. After Maya’s shift to the idyllic south of France, she has discovered nature, flowers, garden; not only as pictoral elements, but as reality. Maïté Delteil’s Tree of Life stands tall as an ode to Nature.

Works by Baiju Parthan, Gopikrishna and Raghava KK are open-ended, allowing multiple interpretations. Baiju’s work speaks about the arrival of a new world order or the nostalgia for the one that is being erased. It resonates with the artist’s struggle to grasp the world as an event horizon holding multiple sequential realities suspended in a state of superposition. Gopikrishna narrates the first meeting of the natives and the floating continents. Raghava’s work honours women and addresses the impossible contradictions that femininity holds; fierce and fragile, nurturing and untamed, grounded and ethereal.

Nikhil Chaganlal displays achromatic works rendered with black and white tubes of paint on paper, are done in plein air, as he explores the scene or scape of Goa. Sheetal Mallar is drawn to spaces people inhabit and communities they feel a part of. Here she does a docu-photo series on the Kudd dorms, incredible centuries-old spaces that are still in use, in the city of Mumbai.

Memories of earlier experiences of seeing, listening and being, form the crux of the works of Smriti Dixit, Vaikuntam and Nilofer Suleman. Smriti’s works are memory traces, inspired by characters from Kabuli Wala stories. This installation emerges from a full-bodied and sensuous abstraction that extends itself into a sculptural assemblage. Vaikuntam draws on experiences of his land and its people in the family portrait done in his trademark style. Nilofer approaches her painting in the spirit of a storyteller who enjoys nesting one episode inside another, arranging them within circulating cycles of tales. Suleman maps terrains that are shaped by fabular narrative, embroidered travellers’ tales and sensory excitements. In her painting, Manzil e Qaraar, she makes a map of fulfillment, and paints a world where her female protagonist is no longer seeking the beloved but completely content.

Shilo Shiv Suleman’s triptych draws from the ancient traditions of Tantra – seeking the ultimate goal of bringing together our inner and outer worlds. Through this series, Shilo unifies the world of spirit with the world of matter. Through her paintings- Ida, Pingala and Sushumna- she finds sacred center.