The ongoing exhibition at Art Musings, ‘A Touch of Carmine’ features a group of contemporary artists, each with their own unique language. Works on display include some early paintings from the gallery’s permanent collection.

An early artwork from the ‘Absurd Construction’ series by Bose Krishnamachari comprises handmade spiral bound books, which are treated as both material and canvas; burned, torn, cut, and restructured through an instinctive, process-based approach, evolving into an abstract construction on board. The imposing Chittrovanu Mazumdar canvas combines elements of text ‪amid the fierce strokes of swirling abstraction.

A four panel work by Reena Kallat invites the viewer to take a closer look at the detailed and layered storytelling, while Suneel Mamadapur’s surrealist vocabulary combines animal metaphors with contemporary cityscapes.

Paresh Maity presents a suite of angular faces in oil, alongside a large watercolour landscape, showcasing the artist’s strength in both mediums. Sanju Jain continues her exploration with the Tree of Life, in a work replete with flora and fauna.

Prabhakar Kolte, Sujata Bajaj and Shrikant Kadam, each in their distinctive way, have pursued the elusive abstract path. Kolte’s canvases are characterized by a single, dominant color in the background, on which lighter and more complex forms, both geometric and organic, are placed. Sujata’s work combines text fragments from ancient Indic scriptures in blazing vibrant shades of red and ochre, and Kadam presents a series of works in a constant endeavour to extricate colour from its bondage to the content of the painting and award it a dimension of wordless communication.