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“Known Unknown” Solo Show of Paintings by well-known artist Pankaj Jha in Jehangir

Artist: Pankaj Jha

Pankaj Jha is a person of versatile talents, but here, we are talking about his paintings. Some of these paintings carry poetry, some tell a story, while others depict an entire life, but all of them are "wordless." In this world, there are only two colours: white and black, and from their combination emerge numerous shades of slate gray. In every painting by Pankaj, the mind pauses on the slate gray. It is this slate that, with great care, slowly guides you up and down, at times toward white and at times toward black. In every painting, between the earth and the sky, life is a pearl that thrives between day and night. Pankaj, apart from being an actor, poet, and artist, is also a philosopher, one who sits detached, above the cramped buildings of the metropolis, gazing beyond the infinite with clarity. Pankaj's paintings don't attract attention due to their colourful hues, but because of their depth. These little white-and-black eyes of a philosopher, sharp and profound hold great significance. There is something in them that, while embracing the earth and sky, effortlessly presents to us the true pearls formed between every storm, whirlwind, day, and night. This vision doesn't just extend outward, but also delves as deeply within. What is within is also what is outside. As Osho says, "All education and teachings are worthless if they do not teach you the art of diving within yourself.

Recent works by Pankaj Jha

"On Pankaj's canvas, the basic three energies, sat, rajas and tamas are depicted through white, black, and slate gray. One must give time and dive deep. Only then will one discover the rare pearls thriving within each painting, each with its own unique shades. Those who understand will seize them.

I extend my heartfelt wishes to Pankaj Ji for his upcoming

art exhibition. The mountains of Himachal are waiting for this artist.

 

Deepti Saraswat 'Pratima' (Art Critic)

From: 2^nd to 8^th December 2024

“Known Unknown”

Solo Show of Paintings by well-known artist Pankaj Jha

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9970076496

www.pankajjha.in

 

 

Layered Meaning - Curated by Vibhuraj Kapoor

 

"Layered Meaning "

Curated by Vibhuraj Kapoor

Ten leading Contemporary  Artists 

Abhijit Pathak

Arunkumar H.G

Himanshu Joshi

Pooja Iranna

Puneet Kaushik

Nilesh Kinkale

Santana Gohain 

Smita Kinkale

Sunil Gawde 

Vanita Gupta

Date: 9th to 15 th  Jan 2024  Time: 11am to 7pm 

Venue: Jehangir art gallery

AC -2 , Kala Ghoda, Fort 400 001, Mumbai - India

www.gallerybeyond.in

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Yellow: Weekend

 

What Is Underneath?

Five artists create mesmerizing, dreamlike world in What is Underneath?, the five artist group known as Urge exhibiting at Nippon Art Gallery through December 12th; refer to things that exist underneath of nature which cannot be explained by conventional means. Each of the artists Santa Rakshit, Shekhar Bhattacharjee, Namrata Sneha, Sumedh Kumar and Jigna Gaudana create a representational world that has been twisted and turned in dreamlike scenes that fill one either with anxiety or sunlit peace. The artists are in uncharacteristic harmony with one another. For starters, they all embrace a saturated palette. Their works representational strangeness, which evokes the unconscious through deliciously skewed illustrations of concepts of things seen and unseen, relates them to Surrealist dream like images.

Recent artworks Shekhar Bhattacharjee

Shekhar Bhattacharjee paintings conjure the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson in small figures within a lusciously abstracted, paranormal forest in the style of Paul Klee. Borrowing Klee’s language of abstraction, a charming and intense offshoot of his painterly vocabulary Shekhar turns Klee’s forms inside out in a spiritual landscape saturated with color and form, made with oil paste and ink on paper, unlocks a vision of a new landscape of dense forest that divides up the canvas vertically using trees outlined in a cerulean blue with the boldness of spray-painted orange and yellow. The painted forest is deep, dark and impenetrable. The mysterious forest is a mass of fantastically messy yellow, green and orange spray paint that defines a canopy held up by trees outlined in a luminous periwinkle moon; the work centers on a tree whose bark is a fauve masterpiece, with tiny flecks in a myriad of colors surrounded by the most intense ultramarine blue. His bold abstraction is overlaid with marks and images that have a graphic sensibility and presence; the drawings make one think he is tagging his own work. One can only imagine what narrative is at play here. That sense of being a privileged, silent observer in nature has to be one of the defining human experiences. As a teenager, he used to wander in the miles of pinewood behind his parents’ house, from the beginning the svelte and songful shepherds and nymphs don’t have a lot in common with actual agricultural workers they’re obviously projections of the poets into a fantasy of beneficent nature. Maybe what you’re up to is to insist on that powerful felt relationship between man and nature, whatever we may mean by that at a given moment without pretending that all is well and the genre can continue to operate in denial.

Recent artworks Namrata Sneha

In Namrata Snehas’ painting, twisted and playful compositional elements show her intense relationship to Pop Art and such representational artist as David Hockney. Spring is yet to come is a large and wonderful landscape of an abstracted form that has been distorted by the artist. Made up of nine small canvases measuring one foot by one foot, the wiggly line therefore is the beginning and essence of the painting: a trajectory through space and time. As if this were not enough, Namrata’s paint and color are rich and saturated reds, greens, and yellows as well as blues. It’s an expression of excitement in the discovery of new place and a fresh way of painting and depicting space that is so powerful and engaging. One of the largest paintings in the show, it anchors the canvas with an expansive spring-acid green, punctuated by dots that seem to have been made by placing the mouths of multicolor tubes of paint directly into the negative space of the composition, effectively kissing the canvas. These painterly passages are invented to palpably ground the auras she creates in her canvases. They mix optically over a cracked and milky surface to create a hovering presence in the center of the canvas. It’s the kind of mystical in terms of its formal transformation epiphany that Namrata anticipates throughout her canvas. She employs a wide array of paint applications. In this instance, such a painterly mixed bag helps to phenomenally ground her tree/subjects, and creates equilibrium with the explicit, sometimes illustrative pictorialism of their branching figures. As in her aforementioned dotting technique, Namrata actively embellishes different shifts of focus in her paintings with thick scumbling, translucent washes and dry brush of kaleidoscopic chroma, and dabbing and dripping of thinned oil paints. The assuredness with which she weaves these disparate approaches together into coherent visionary images is impressive. Accordingly, one gets the chance both to witness her transformative visions and to participate in the rituals of their making. Her work deploys a more generalized and perhaps more sober template of twining vegetal daemons similar, though much more brut, to those seen in decorative friezes in classical ornament. This interweaving syntax lends these paintings a compositional unity that can easily support the tension between pictorial symbol and painterly substance that seems to be the artist’s métier.

Recent artworks Santa Rakshit

Santa Rakshits’ Postcards from Post Box, oil on canvas, series is a lot more abstract than her: thickly painted black lines, outlined in white, dance around the canvas in an enchanting array of drips and dabs of various sizes and viscosities that hint at landscape. Representing the landscape feels urgent now because it’s under threat. According to Santa she used to attend these visualization meditations where one would be led through imaginary landscapes, actively using our minds to conjure what was being described by the trusted leader. One evening a few years ago she had a particularly vivid sense that the concept of landscape was her own skin, and there were roots and tubers growing beneath it, swelling and bursting through the surface. In her vision the earth bled and screamed. ‘I am in mourning, as a lot of us are, for damaged ecosystems and disappearing animal species.’ As with the paintings, where her toxic acrylics performed a kind of transubstantiation her forests are indexical floriations: sinuous strokes are branches; spills can be glitters of leaves; spray paint, fog; protruding paint-licks, thorns, ticks or mosquitoes. Santas’ experimental approach to mark-making thick or thin, macro or micro, tight or loose, brushed, sprayed or sponged goes for both forests and figures. The precisionist symbolism echo in Santas’ crisp ferns and fluorescent lepidoptera, scintillating against a nocturne of blue, yellow, red and black. Santa points out all the ways in which the land is both interpreted and shaped by the human mind. She talks about the Dutch origin of the word landscape and how wishful thinking has been embedded in it all along. The word first appeared in the late sixteenth century, and it meant painting or drawing a view of natural scenery. If landscape is a framing and representing of nature, it cements the idea that nature is an invention of the psyche, an illusion of tame and wild, leisure and threat, life and death. Yet rogue textures icky drips and thorny bumps interpreting the most beautiful passages of Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali reminding us that nature, just like art, is a messy and dangerous concoction.

 

Recent artworks Jigan Gaudana

These new paintings by Jigna Gaudana, like her previous bodies of work, arrive in a headlong rush of invention festooned upon a canny theme, in this case the female body in nature about the feminist reckoning with that moribund tradition as well as the post-feminist inversion of that reckoning the figures themselves can be all but incidental in Jignas’ overgrown miasmas of cactus, wildflowers, whiskery stalks and impenetrable leafage. A more occult art history comes to mind in these unkempt, unruly wildernesses, one which begins where the babes-in-the-woods tradition itself, after giving birth to modernism, withers away. Jignas’ everyday ecstatic includes luminous beings, spirits of the self whose spare, archaic profiles float among the flowers. Faces, flowers, birds and weeds are painted with a kind of folk-art zeal while the cerulean forest behind, solidly modeled then dematerialized by dancing layers of sprayed pigment, is appealingly contrary in color, scale and attack. In Grieving Woman, a lone woman in a classical pose is incised in white against the mottled background like a fading figure. Jigna, however, putting the brakes on such skillful seduction according to her restless temperament, encloses this exquisite scene in a dark, seething knot of numerous cactus plants that branches out of her body as brut as the figures are delicate. One of the most interesting things about pastoral poetry is that it is the fantasy of urban poets so fantasies of nature are a counterpoint to a more urban experience. There is a sense of nostalgia around that; and as you say, the characters and settings are poetic projections. The utopian nature experience exits the grasp of the poets’ minds just as it turns into words. The Stories Within in many of Jigna’s compositions is centripetally directed, often with a diminution of form, towards the center of the canvas, which has the effect of a vortex of maternal origin: a cosmic matrix of regenerative power. Such a symbolically loaded destination might be read as cliché if it were not for the artist’s ability to keep the association subliminal, as she does.

Recent artworks by Sumedh Kumar

Sumedh Kumar’s Blue Smoke Series, drawings in pastel on handmade paper, are self- portraits that have run amuck into abstraction. His paintings express a different kind of cross between figuration and abstraction, more related to the body. Although the forms that fill his paintings are not figures, they have an anatomical presence that calls up the Surrealists. When he is painting he is trying to build up irritating problems in layers of color and texture. He spills, puddles and scumbles to make atmospheres that range from tarry to luminous while being as emphatic as he can about the radiance and light sources that don’t follow any logic aside from the logic of paint and the rules the painting produces within itself. He feels like he is digging for the scenes, isolating forms to make figures, forms, and a sense of both encrusted surface and receding space. He knows vaguely what he wants to find, but he is teasing it out, searching for a story like a diviner reading tea leaves. Gestures become people; they are part of the swamp of marks that veer into the realm of things. Mess coheres into specificity and leaks back into mess. He knows when the painting is done when he thinks it might be breathing. A visual split in half with an intense blue silhouette of a smoker’s thought and pain his body feels due to atrocities. A man standing in a parallelogram of blue brushstrokes with legs tied to the pole, creating a tension that is further complicated by marks that delineate an architectural space on the painting a tonsured head of a man and a woman head or a torso not fully articulated by the rounded forms that fill out the composition. His forms evoke monsters within the body, as in Medusa, whose snake-like path also reads as a colon. It’s a scene you might see in pain. The risk of consuming the smoke is parallel to viewing Sumedh’s art; he creates works that don’t feel safe.

The inventiveness of these five artists’ works, in which they envisage their respective worlds on a small scale, is mesmerizing as they intentionally evoke such symbolism, yet captivating the viewer primarily in muscular, painterly compositions that flex their energies ecstatically outward toward the audience. A description can have the power to prospectively modify experience. To describe or name a previously unacknowledged beauty can amplify its possibility in the future for others; it can dilate the horizon of beauty and hopefully of the imaginable. To assume that experience is shaped by the evolution of our ingenious and unlikely metaphors is also helpful to these artists; it can enhance our motivation and cultivate enabling operational fictions, like freedom and power. We are provided another reason to thicken the dark privacy of feeling into art with What is Underneath?

 

Abhijeet Gondkar

November 2023, Mumbai

 

Their works representational strangeness,

which evokes the unconscious through deliciously

skewed illustrations of concepts of things seen

and unseen, relates them to Surrealist dream like images

- Abhijeet Gondkar

Show: What Is Underneath?

by

Group artist

Shekhar Bhattacharjee

Santa Rakshit

Jigna Gaudana

Sumedh Kumar

Namrata Sneha

Preview: 12th Dec 2023

Time 6pm to 8.30pm

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Date: 12th to 18th Dec 2023

Time: 3to7pm / at Nippon

RSVP: Santa Rakshit M: +91 78742 14449

Flora Fountain, Fort,Kala Ghoda

30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers, Nana bhai Lane,

Flora Fountain, Fort, Mumbai – 400 00, India.

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2005 Pomogrante Book

My Paintings gain life after their sale; else they lie dead in my studio.

My paintings are not showpieces. You cannot decorate your drawing room to make it look beautiful, but you can decorate your mind with it to make your body beautiful.

Most of my time is spent in traveling by local trains in Mumbai. I prefer it to any other mode of traveling. It is the institute for me. Thousands of minds brush with each other every single moment. People have their own news, views, opinions, reactions, sometimes resulting in mass appeal. I can view the emotional and practical reaction of the fellow citizens by interacting with them and I think they are all creative minds and provide lot of essence to my creation. I see a person trading in vegetables or scraps has more perfect knowledge of economics and politics of the world. He doesn't need a degree or big fat books to update his knowledge; the everyday struggle is guide for him. That's something different which you find only in local trains. It also represents mini India with its clashes and unity projected from time to time. People converse and argue as if discussing the issue in the world conference.
Variation is but natural in my paintings. Just as Heraclitus had rightly said, ‘It is not possible to step twice in the same river.’ My paintings too are most spontaneous expressions rather than well planned process so you will always find variety in the work. Every work has different appeal and presentation method, setting different moods with use of topic relevant colors, forms and style. Painting is not just passion for me; it is a part of my life. I paint when I get stimulated to do so. There are times when for days together I do not paint at all.
I gradually was introduced to Galileo, Heraclitus, Osho, Mirza Galib, Kabir, and Lao Tuz and their lives. Their philosophies have greater impact on my work and my self being. Pablo Picasso is great artist; I worked as a volunteer for one month in NGMA, Mumbai because of passion for Pablo Picasso, during his paintings exhibition, just to be close to his art work. Though his work has good impact on my life, but it does not influence my work. I cannot even follow foot step of my own work. I am going to be a part of 2008 BNHS Greenscape-2 Art Auction by Pheroza Godrej. I am also part of the group show by Harmony Art Foundation 2008 and many things more. Life is full of works!

The artist lives and works in Mumbai

2005 Pomogrante Book by Tathi Premchand

 

"Chitra-Reshha" exhibition by Shieital Sonawane - Ugale Artist Architect at Jehangir Art gallery

रंगविलेल्या आकारांतून साधलेली कलाकृती म्हणजे चित्र, अशी चित्राची सर्वसामान्य व्याख्या करता येते. रंगविण्याच्या प्रक्रियेतच चित्र घडले जाते. इंग्रजीतील ‘पेंटीग’ या शब्दाचा अर्थ ‘रंगविण्याच्या क्रिये’पुरताच मर्यादित आहे; पण चित्रकलेच्या क्षेत्रात लेपनाची क्रिया, रंग-कुंचला- भावगर्भ आकृती प्रत्यक्ष शारीर रूप म्हणजे चित्रकृती. कधी ते बहुतांश वस्तुनिष्ठ असते, तर कधी वस्तुनिरपेक्ष अप्रतिरूप आकारातून उदित होते. 

साधनांची गुणवत्ता, कलावंताच्या भावजाणिवांचे चित्राकृतीतील प्रतिबिंब इ. सर्व सर्जनप्रक्रियांचा अंतर्भाव ‘पेंटीग’ या संज्ञेमध्ये होतो. चित्राकृतीचा अनुभव घेण्यास काही काळ हा लागतोच., चित्राकृतीचा अनुभव अवकाशसिद्ध आणि कालानुवर्ती असतो. म्हणजे हा अनुभव घेण्यास काही काळ हा लागतोच. परिणती होऊन समतोलन होते. चित्र आणि चित्रकार या बाबतीत मी खुप संवेदनशील विचार करते. कला कलेची आस्था त्यात सृजन शोधणं म्हणून माझं क्युरेटर हे आवडतं काम आहे. 

आर्किटेक्ट, चित्रकार शीतल सोनवणे- उगले  राहणार नाशिक. गेल्या वर्षभरापासुन. तिच्याशी तिच्या चित्रा बदल आणि तिच्या बदल चर्चा करत आहे. मी एखाद्याला एक व्यक्ती म्हणून खुप तटस्थ पणे पाहते. कोणतीही परिस्थिती ती उत्तम हाताळू शकते.ती तीचे विचारातुन आलेली कलाकृती ह्या तात्रिकं दृष्ट्या कमी जरी असेल तर तो सरावाचा भाग आहे. पण विचाराने आणि तिच्या व्यक्तीषा वागण्याने निर्णय घेण्याने, वेळ देण्याने ही चित्र तीच्या सारखी आहेत. चित्र सृजनात्मक होताना ती कॅनव्हास पुढे विचाराने एकदम नागंडी आहे. आणि तिच्या वृत्ती अतिशय अचुक पणे मांडते. या पुर्ण प्रक्रीयेत मी तीला अनेकदां गोंधळात करू पाहीले, काही नाही तर अनेक विचार व चित्र मी नाकारली, अनेकदा विचारांची देवाण घेवाण केली. ह्यात ती मला ठाम वाटली.

अनेकदा तात्विक वाद झाले. पण तीला मी सुचवलेले बदल स्विकारणे, ऐकणे,समजुन घेणे ही गोष्ट माणसाला उत्कृष्ट करते. खर्या कलाकारा मध्ये माणुसकी असणे माझ्या दृष्टीकोनतुन खुप महत्वाचे आहे. त्यामुळे मी तिच्या चित्राचा स्विकार केला,विचाराचा स्विकार केला आणि आनंद होता कि मनापासून ती तीचे विचार चित्रातून  स्पष्टपणे मांडते . तिच्या कलाकृतींमध्ये कविता मध्ये स्त्रियांचे भावविश्व प्रतिबिंबित होते. प्रत्येक पेंटिंगचा आधार ठळक  रंगांचे मिश्रण आहेत जे तपशीलात प्रवाही तंत्र तिच्या मधील प्रतिमेत आयुष्यातील घटकांचा उबदारपणा  समृद्धपणा त्याचबरोबर असणारी उर्जा स्व :चा शोध शांतता याचे योग्य संतुलन दिसते. 

जी पेंटिंगमधून प्रवाही आणि अखंडपणे वाहते. तीचे चित्र बघतान तीच्यातलं कणखरपणा प्रखर खुबीने ती व्यक्त करते. स्वताला चित्रातून माडंताना स्वीकारताना ते फिगर मध्ये उमटतात. तीनं परिश्रमाने स्वताची शैली निर्माण केली आहे. कलेचे वैशिष्ट्य म्हणजे विकसीत करत, त्या कलेत एकरूप होणे तीला सहज जमते. प्रत्येकांच्या जीवनात लपलेले असे ओझे चढ उतार सामाजिक भाव बंधनाचा परिघ असतो. जो प्रत्येकाचा एक सखोल प्रवास असतो ज्यात बुद्धी मन शरीरा नुसार जरी आपण प्रतिमा आणि त्याच्या भावनिक छटा रेखाटताना ज्ञान, ध्येय, मर्यादा याचा समतोल साधत समर्पण असते .जिथे सातत्याने स्व चा ही शोध आपलं अस्तित्व शांतता शोधत असते

शिव शक्तीचा अशं म्हणजे आपली उर्जा याचां सतत शोध सुरू असतो .

ह्यात प्रामुख्याने आपण वेचतचं वेगवेगळे टप्पे गाठतो भुतकाळ आणि भविष्य या पेक्षा वर्तमान शी साधर्म्य साधणारी स्त्री सक्षम क्षमता राखुन शोध घेताना, तीला ब्ररशचा सुरेख वापर कॅनव्हास करताना पाहणं आणि ब्रश स्ट्रोक, आणि तीव्र  रंगांचा वापर जे अभिव्यक्तीवादाच्या शैलीचे प्रतीक आहे. रंगयुक्त आकार हे चौकटीत ज्या रीतिपद्धतीने क्षेत्र व्यापतात, परस्परांशी आणि चौकटीशी नाते जोडतात, त्यावरून त्यांचे गुणमूल्य आणि भावगर्भता ठरते. उदा., चित्रित मनुष्याकृतीचा चेहराच चौकटीत दिसावा इतकी ती मोठी आहे, की पूर्णाकृती दिसावी इतकी मोठी, की चौकटीत हरवून गेल्यासारखी वाटावी इतकी लहान आहे; तिची मांडणी  आकारांची व्याप्ती व अव्याप्ती सापेक्ष असते. चौकटीत भरलेल्या व्याप्त आकारांच्या तुलनेने उरलेले क्षेत्र अव्याप्त वाटते इतकेच. प्रत्यक्षात मात्र अव्याप्त क्षेत्रालाही काहीएक आकार अव्याप्त क्षेत्र  भावनांवर भर देते कलेची सूत्र चित्रकलेतील भावाविष्काराच्या आकलनात अत्यंत उपकारक ठरली आहे. विविध रंगभाव, रंगभार आणि रंगविस्तार एकमेकांवर संस्कार करीत प्रकट होतात. वर्णयुक्त रंग विशुद्ध असल्याने रंगभाव तीव्र उत्कट असतो. तांबडा⟶ तांबडानारिंगी ⟶ नारिंगी ⟶ नारिंगी पांढरा⟶ पांढरा असे भारतीय रंग श्रेणी पेंटींग मध्ये दिसतात.अभिव्यक्तीवाद कलाकाराच्या भावनांचे मनुष्याकृती विषय पुरक चित्रण मिळवण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो. अभिव्यक्तीवादक, यांनी अगदी बरोबर निदर्शनास आणून दिले की अभिव्यक्तीवादामध्ये "अगम्य कल्पना स्वतःला न समजण्याजोग्या स्वरूपात व्यक्त करतात" पेंटिंग्ज आणि ते "अगम्य आणि न समजण्याजोगे" यांना जोडतात. खरं तर, अभिव्यक्तीवाद नेमके तेच करतो, तो कलाकाराला न समजण्याजोग्या स्वरूपात व्यक्त होण्यास मदत करतो ज्याद्वारे तो कलाकृतीचे सार सांगणाऱ्या कलाकाराच्या जगात दर्शकांना पोर्टल करतो. शरीरानुसार मन आणि बुद्धी भिन्न असते, परंतु आत्मा एकच राहतो. ते परम चैतन्य आहे. शक्ती आणि शिव यांचे त्यांच्या अंतिम वास्तव. अस्तित्व हे असीम व्यक्तीशी असलेले व्यक्तीचे नाते म्हणून परिभाषित केले जाऊ शकते.

कलाकृतींमध्ये अभिव्यक्तीवादी शैली आत्मसात करून आशा, उत्साह, एकांत, शांततेची मर्यादा आणि यासारख्या गोष्टी व्यक्त होते. - Text by Heena Sk 

Artist: Shieital sonawane

Step into the enchanting world of self-realization through Chitra Reshha. 

Since few years, I've been exploring the world of architecture and art, but now I'm taking a bold leap into the realm of poetry and painting with my  “Chitra-Reshha” series. I want you to imagine a captivating fusion of heartfelt verses and mesmerizing paintings, all woven together to take you on a profound journey of self-realization.  “Chitra-Reshha” is all about celebrating the journey of women, exploring our triumphs, struggles, and everything in between.With my background in architecture, I bring a unique perspective to my artworks, infusing them with an eye-catching blend of form and emotion.“Chitra-Reshha” is a true expression of my soul, embracing the raw beauty of vulnerability and self-discovery. And this journey is keeping my emotions in motion

Artist statement : 

My journey as an artist started when I was young child and did not know how to express my feelings. Can fear be expressed? If so then how? In childhood I still remember I chose to express fear in the form of monster. Yes, ‘a monster’ and through this as an innocent child, I told my parents, “if they don’t listen to me”, then he will harm them. This is what I heard of monster in the school. With time things changed and I started taking more interest in drawing. I remember of my drawing being selected and sent to Mauritius for the exhibition. Later, when I was in 8th standard, I won the ‘Bal Kala Ratna Puraskar’. Since then I have been expressing my thoughts in my works. I graduated as an architect but my experiments also have grown with colours and arts over the years. This has always helped me in my profession as an architect also.

 Shietal Sonavane and jackie Shorff at jehangir  art gallery

After completing degree in architecture B.Arch and years of practice in India; her destiny took her to America. Being born in India, a rich cultural heritage had provided her with tremendous inspiration towards painting art. 

During 2014-2016 Shital has explored her two  series of paintings named “Legacy of India” and  "Narayani Bhaava" a female emotion at America. Her motive was to give audience a chance to learn, respond and feel comfortable with self emotions which are deep in everyone's soul. 

Staying in America and understanding all the situations and needs between us and them, Shital felt to initiate her knowledge of art and architecture that is She can do the unification of "Art of Emotion and Heart of Technics" for development of children of our country. So somehow somewhere we can fill the gap of educational upbringing differences between west and us.

Shital’s  dream made her to start an Art centre 

"a creative kuteer" in 2016 where children explore creative ideas. Children being provided an outlet for their emotions through colors,mud,canvases etc. They confidently throw their thoughts to the world and give them knowledge of universe to open up their eternal range living experience.Since last 3 years Shital has trained more than 500 children for creative vision.

Shital is successfully working in interior and architecture projects at her associate office in Banglore “design centre” to bring society close to heritage,art and culture through conceptual designs and execution. 

Shital,as a creative leader and columnist is expressing her thoughts on “Kala,Culture and Mind” at Lokmat Times every week. 

A true champion of women empowerment who has been recognised with out-of-box concepts and creative executions,Shital has often cited as an example of hard work and knowledge

Show Modarator by Heen SK and Artist Shieital Sonawane _ JAG -Kala Ghoda

"Chitra-Reshha"  exhibition by Shieital Sonawane - Ugale Artist Architect

Date: 21st August to 27th 2023

Time: 11am to 7pm

•Modarator by Heena SK 

• Instagram: @chitrareshha 

Jehangir Art gallery, 161B, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, India.

"Whispers of the Wilderness" at Jehangir Gallery

Art enthusiasts and nature lovers are in for a treat as the Jehangir Art Gallery proudly presents "Whispers of the Wilderness," an exquisite art exhibit by Vinita Sadarangani. The show will take place from 8th to 14th August 2023, between 11 am and 7 pm.

Artist: Vinita Sadarangani

 

Step into a world where art and nature converge, as Vinita Sadarangani takes you on a mesmerizing journey through her collection of beautiful and reflective artworks. The exhibit promises to transport visitors to the heart of the forest, where trees transform into storytellers, revealing tales of wonder and serenity. Within the enchanting tapestry of this showcase, a profound purpose unfolds, inviting nature enthusiasts to join hands in the noble quest for safeguarding our beloved forests.

Drawing inspiration from the Impressionist movement, Vinita's paintings masterfully blend loose brushwork, vibrant colors, and an impeccable understanding of light and atmosphere. Through a fusion of Impressionism and abstraction, she breaks away from conventional representation, delving into the realm of emotions and interpretations. Each canvas becomes a captivating symphony of colors and shapes, inviting viewers to explore their connections and responses to the artwork.

 

Through her paintings, Vinita aspires to create a sanctuary of emotions, where hearts find solace and spirits soar.  This enchanting exhibit at the Jehangir Art Gallery, a celebration of art and nature promises to leave you awe-inspired.

Press Release

From: 8^th to 14^th August 2023

"Whispers of the Wilderness"

Solo show of Paintings by contemporary artist Vinita Sadarangani

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9892969660

Website: https://artbyvinita.com/ 

 

“Rhapsody 2023” A Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures organized to support cancer patients

In the heart of Mumbai, the ARTIVAL FOUNDATION, an esteemed art promotion institution, orchestrates a breathtaking group art show, Rhapsody 2023. This grand event is a harmonious convergence of 25 revered contemporary Artists, hailing from the present art world.

The talented and renowned artists participating in this exhibition include Vasudeo Kamath, Prakash Ghadge, Pradip Sarkar, Ajay De, Ashif Hossain, Shashikant Dhotre, Gopal Pardeshi, Birakishor Patra, Deepak B. Patil, Vishal Phasale, Jaydeb Dolui, Govind Sirsat, Santosh Bhoir, Dr. Shankar Sharma, Pratibha Goel, Maredu Ramu, Dr. Shefali Bhujbal, Maya B, Ramanpreet Kaur Narang, Sudipta Adhikari, Kashyap Ray, Jyotsna Sonavane, Shailesh Gurav. They come together in a splendid display of their masterpieces at the renowned Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, transforming it into an ethereal gallery of artistic brilliance. 

This show is curated by Sharad Gurav, Satish Patil

'Rhapsody 2023' endeavors to present the diverse and captivating works of these artists, each adorned with meaningful expressions and a kaleidoscope of mediums, techniques, and color tones. The grandeur of this exhibition aims to touch the hearts of prospective art collectors, lovers, and patrons on a global scale.

Beyond its visual splendor, this art show is imbued with a noble purpose - to inspire compassion and support for those bravely battling cancer. The show's magnanimity is further enhanced by the generous support and inspiration received from the esteemed CANCER PATIENTS AID ASSOCIATION (CPAA). A portion of the proceeds from this enchanting affair will be devoted to this renowned organizations dedicated to cancer research, treatment, and patient care.

Vasudeo Kamath, Jiva & Shiva, Oil on canvas

At the core of the ARTIVAL FOUNDATION's mission lies the pursuit of uncovering hidden gems among talented artists residing in both rural and urban India. Exhibitions like Rhapsody 2023 serve as stepping stones, connecting these artists with art lovers. 

Press Release

From: 8th to 14th August 2023

Artival Foundation presents “Rhapsody 2023”

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A Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures organized to support cancer patients

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall 161-B, M.G.Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.Contact: +91 9920804573, 9833949788

Rhapsody 2023 - A Spectacular Show with Purpose

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IIFM) 2023:National award winning director Raj Pritam More Short film"Bichauliya" lead nomination

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IIFM) 2023 has announced nominations for its 14th edition. The event is the only film festival outside of Indian soil that is backed by the government of another country. The festival also honours OTT content in three categories.

National film award-winning director  Raj Pritam More’s new Hindi Short film’’ Bichauliya’’( Middleman).Produces by Girish Arora & Sangeeta Arora.Present by Sane insane pictures.

’BICHAULIYA’’( Middleman) Hindi short film based on Saadat Hasan Manto Story, it’s a new adaptation screenplay of today's time and contemporary new vision of 2022 ( written by Sameer Tabhane).It's a story of man’s manhood!.It's traveling to all international film festivals.Its world premiere'' South Asian Shorts'' at Long Island South Asian Film festival .USA.Two Awards  at 3rd MICFF India Shorts film festival Mumbai 2023.Screening''Asian corner'' at Indian Film Festival Melbourne 23.

Raj More 

Well-known Marathi actor, Ankur Wadhve, from the comic show “Chala Hawa Yeu Dya”, is making his debut in Hindi film industry through this short film. He is sharing the screen with the talented, Indira Tiwari, who was seen in “Serious men” alongside Nawazuddin. She is ready to surprise the audience again with her acting in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s released film “Gangubai Kathiawadi”.

The awards include series and movies released between 1st June 2022 to 31st May 2023. Leading the categories of Short Film,Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress include movies like Darlings, Monica O My Darling, Ponniyin Selvan, and Kantara. 

In the streaming category, series like Trial By Fire, Jubilee, and Delhi Crime Season 2 have garnered the highest number of nominations. Only series that are available in the Australian subcontinent have been considered for the awards. 

Earlier, it was revealed that R Balki’s Ghoomer will premiere at the festival. The film will kickstart the festival on August 12. Ghoomer stars Saiyami Kher and Abhishek Bachchan.

- Art Blogazine

2023