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Monday, 9 April 2018
Monday, 2 April 2018
Virago ... solo show by Pradnya Khandgaonkar
Virago
वह तीर थी,
तलवार थी,
भालों और तोपों का वार
थी,
फुफकार थी,
हुंकार थी,
शत्रु का संहार थी..
- Tribute to Rani
Durgawati
Pradnya’s works are
addressing the strength of women: man-like, a female warrior. ‘Heroine’ is the
English word for Hindi वीरांगना (vīrāṅganā) or rather, a ‘Virago’. However, with time the
meaning of Virago shifted towards negativity as fighting battles, wearing men's
clothing, or receiving the tonsure was not considered as women’s prerogative.
So, virago is used disparagingly, to imply that a woman was not as excellent or
heroic, but was instead violating cultural norms.
खूब लड़ी मर्दानी, वह तो
झाँसी वाली रानी थी…
(Queen of Jhansi fought like Virago)
Yet, we appreciate Queen of Jhansi Rani Laxmibai, Gondwana Queen Durgavati,
AwadhBegamHazarat Mahal, SavitribaiPhule, Sarojini Naidu, Indira Gandhi and so
many.
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Pradnya Khandgaonkar |
It is surprising that
Pradnya asked me to write for her catalogue. As a man, I find it challenging to
think like a woman as her works provoke layered feminine angst. Although, by
nature, men are masculine and has physical strength, with technical advancement
it is the intellect that is considered real strength. In spite of it, there are
millions of women abused by men who are still influenced with their false ego.
It is in the hope of humanity that these tortured women survive and very often
emerge stronger than men. As Pradnya says, “I feel women have strong
personalities and should be portrayed as a blend of power and care.” The sheer
ability to care for others is the source of power and greatness that needs to
be recognised and depicted.
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recent work by Pradnya Khandgaonkar |
In Pradnya’s
paintings, the women sometimes wear naqaab, army uniform or they are
nude, holding symbolic routine issues like abuse, fear, war, peace, erotism,
love and our planet. The violence and abuse has a subtle and restrained quality
in her works. Her rendering has a very delicate and detailed quality that
evokes a quizzical experience in the viewer’s mind. The visuals are calm and
meditative without direct propaganda but keeping the silent boldness of the
rebelliousness towards the social oppression. It is obvious from the works that
the artist looks at the subjects’ contexts analytically and turns to swim out
of the vortex. Her ‘women’ give an unshakeable positive motivation to aspire
and admire.
Rajesh Pullarwar
Artist / Curator
Saturday, 31 March 2018
My name is Ujjayani Nandi, Print maker as live on plant Earth
“I want to
do so many things, and I know that I can but the only thing which I need is
little bit support”. This is not only my verdict or thoughts but I think every
woman have it in herself.
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Ujjayani Nandi |
I Ujjayani Nandi artist from
the North Eastern part of India, form a very last time try to present inner puzzle or hidden desires of
a Woman. I completed my graduation and Masters from IKSVV
Khairagarh. I believe in changes and for this I believe to break stereotypes
and for it I consider my art as a most powerful medium.
Being
a lady with bold character… no doubt, I always make my way from no way, and try
to express the suppressed feeling of women through my art work. Being an artist
I always try to send progressive messages to the society so we can make a
better world for everyone. I believe in freedom and of course women freedom,
which is our dominant desire for a better world.
Nature
is a dominant think which attract my art forms, just imagine if it may possible
that tree, birds, animals can express their feelings or the things which going
with them then I truly think that it must be look like my work, which have all
that natural form and textures. I draw what I feel. I always try to create
those feelings which come out from the incidence which happen to me or a woman
nearby to me. My issues are very minor, mostly not noticed by many people, for
ex I grew up in my family with my younger brother in same love and care but
still at certain point we experience the difference of low and high among us. Surely
we didn’t face gender discrimination in an educated family like us, but still I
feel it any how in many places, though I have equal rights as my brother.
I try to imply this view through my work, I am sure
that it is not my pain but yes it is the bitter truth which I feel at many
aspects of my life.
“A
lady is a perfect Home maker” actually this is the basic ideology of our
society and somehow I also agree with it. A lady is actually a home maker
doesn’t matter that she is a working woman or a house wife, she always have a
responsibility of making, she was treated as a leader of this task but still
she didn’t enjoyed the freedom of taking open decision in the making of her own
vision. This thought always fascinated me and of course I feel it too many
times which come as an imagination in my prints.
Yes I
can say, that my prints speak women’s emotions, my emotions and yes I just love
to do it, because it gives a relief to my thunder through which I can assure myself that, yes I
express what I feel. It gives me such a strong feeling of expression which
actually oxidized my nature of freedom.
by Pooja Upadhyay
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Friday, 23 March 2018
After preview of Archival Dialogues in a colonial house belonging to the East-Indian Community at KhotachiWadi
Spaces and Traces
A Prequel to Embracing Modernity
A Prequel to Embracing Modernity
Curated by
PronoyChakraborty
PronoyChakraborty
Artists
Aslam Md. | Deepak K. Agasthya |Dipti Batlawala | Lokesh Khodke | Mustafa Khanbhai | Shailesh BR | Shiva Gor | Tehmeena Firdos | Teja Gavankar | Urvi Sethna
Aslam Md. | Deepak K. Agasthya |Dipti Batlawala | Lokesh Khodke | Mustafa Khanbhai | Shailesh BR | Shiva Gor | Tehmeena Firdos | Teja Gavankar | Urvi Sethna
Preview
Friday, 23rd March 2018, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Show continues till- Tuesday, 3rd April 2018.
Timing- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Monday – Saturday
Friday, 23rd March 2018, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Show continues till- Tuesday, 3rd April 2018.
Timing- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Monday – Saturday
Venue: Kathiwada House, Westmore, 69 sir Pochkhanwala Road, Worli Mumbai-400069.
Curator’s Note
Priyasri Patodia & Sangita Kathiwada |
After preview of Archival Dialogues in a colonial house belonging to the East-Indian Community at KhotachiWadi, this curatorial attempt seeks to activate yet another significant space in the history of Mumbai's colonial architecture. This residential bungalow formerly belonged to the eminent art-collector and Sheriff of Mumbai, Jehangir Nicholson; and was later purchased by Sangita Kathiwada, a fashionista widely known as an ardent lover and collector of art. The foyer of her bungalow built in an eclectic Art-Deco architectural style at Pochkhanawala, Worli will be the site for this exhibition, primarily of sculptures and installations.
The International Art-Deco style arrived in Mumbai in the 1930s because of colonial trade in the volatile years between the World Wars, fusing with variants of the Indo-Saracenic style. Art-deco drew heavily from the visual vocabulary of Cubism, yet in Mumbai, blended with pre-existing elements and motifs. Second only to Miami, Mumbai has the largest number of art-deco buildings- ranging from the earliest public theatres to bungalows owned by influential individuals of the time. The style marked the beginning of the modernist phase of Mumbai’s urban development, soon to be taken over by high-rises and sky-scrapers bordering the coastline.
The International Art-Deco style arrived in Mumbai in the 1930s because of colonial trade in the volatile years between the World Wars, fusing with variants of the Indo-Saracenic style. Art-deco drew heavily from the visual vocabulary of Cubism, yet in Mumbai, blended with pre-existing elements and motifs. Second only to Miami, Mumbai has the largest number of art-deco buildings- ranging from the earliest public theatres to bungalows owned by influential individuals of the time. The style marked the beginning of the modernist phase of Mumbai’s urban development, soon to be taken over by high-rises and sky-scrapers bordering the coastline.
Private collections of art have played a huge role in determining the writing and reading of art-history. A collector’s taste and zeal of acquisition of a specific genre, or an artist, can formulate dialectical critical discourses centered on the notions of style and mannerism. Jehangir Nicholson was one such pre-eminent collector in Mumbai from 1967 till his death in 2001. Likewise, the Kathiwada royal family had always been a keen patron of artists, N.S. Bendre for instance used to be good friends with the family and had done over a dozen of paintings while staying with them.
In response to the historical importance of the site- its affiliation to two influential art collectors in Mumbai, and the architectural style of the bungalow; the selected artists were requested to give one or two sculptures/installations culling from their distinct oeuvre for the Preview to happen in March 2018. This show is a prequel to a holistic larger exhibition, including the interiors and the terrace of the same bungalow, featuring quintessential contemporary Indian artists working across a wide range of mediums and formats.
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P R I Y A S R I A R T G A L L E R Y
42 Madhuli
4th Floor
Shiv Sagar Estate
Next to Poonam Chamber
Dr Annie Besant Road
Worli
Mumbai 400018
P R I Y A S R I A R T G A L L E R Y
42 Madhuli
4th Floor
Shiv Sagar Estate
Next to Poonam Chamber
Dr Annie Besant Road
Worli
Mumbai 400018
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Talk : Prashant Hirlekar at Art Gate Gallery
Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai
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Artist Friends- Vedio Release by Art Gate Gallery
Artist friends' group show at Art Gate has eclectic work from various precinct of art, from etching prints to installation are on the view. Pallavi Pawaskar is inspired from furniture pieces with pastel shades and achieved highly evolved texture from zink plate, wood cut and corex. jyoti Puri 's figurative drawings and sketches of folks around us, freezing them deftly in their activities..Done with Charcoal and soft Pastels in various shades of browns and indigo on textured paper. Praful Sasane's acrylic shows nature with existence of human being he is fascinated with peeple leaf, Mahesh Kamble's pen and ink work has cubistic planes with solid black patches and textural lines drifting viewer's attention from figures to unknown artistic realm. Ashok Hinge's semi abstract work has creatively evolved from a punctuation mark 'comma' with minimalistic use of colours. Shailesh Patne has created sculptures from scrap material. he has beautifully depicted memories from village life. Nitin Vinchure has large abstract with watercolour, his modernistic composition shows his colourist nature and finally Prashant Hirlekar's innovative installations on the theme of 'Void' shows abstract and modernistic mode of artist at his best. They are 'Artist Friends' indeed in true sense with an original vision of their work.
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Sunday, 11 March 2018
NGMA MUMBAI
Manu Parekh is known for use of animals, which correspond to times of violence,
where animal head approaches a plant, that may be devoured or he
superimposes these heads onto portraits that resemble humans with great affinity
and despise. In his early watercolours, simple lines symbolise abstracted faces
and these flower studies are similar to portrait studies, often resembling humans.
Parekh is credited with several group exhibitions and solo shows in India and
abroad including his exhibitions at the NGMA New Delhi, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington DC, Bose Pacia Modern in New York, ARKS Gallery in London
among others.
I take this opportunity to thank Mr Adwaita Gadanayak, DG, NGMA and would
like to congratulate the artist Mr Manu Parekh and Ms Tarana Khubchandani of
Art and Soul for presenting this exhibition at the NGMA, Mumbai. I also take this
opportunity to thank Mr Suhas Bahulkar, Chairman and Ms Brinda Miller, Dr.
Manisha Patil, Shri Bharat Tripathi, Shri Bhagwan Rampure, Shri Hemant Medhi,
Shri Sandesh Bhandare, Shri Vikas Shinde, the members of the Advisory
Committee of NGMA, Mumbai for their guidance and support for all that we do at
the NGMA, Mumbai. Our thanks are due to the Ministry of Culture, Government
of India for their continued support. I would also like to thank all my colleagues at
the NGMA, Mumbai particularly, Mr M. Shankar, Keeper, Mr G. J. D’Souza,
Assistant Director (Administration & Finance), Ms Shruti Das, Dy. Curator and all
other staff for their extraordinary support in making this exhibition possible.
Shivaprasad Khened
Director – NGMA, Mumbai
Friday, 2 March 2018
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NGMA Mumbai :“I have been a photographer longer than I have been a doctor”
About Dr. Debal Sen:
Dr. Debal Sen's photography defies the urbane world of Kolkata where he resides and is a practicing cardiologist. It is difficult to imagine this cardiologist of such great repute be able to divide his time equally between the two critical aspects of his life: life-saving through health giving, for which he yields his medical skills; and life-saving through Nature-worship for which he wields his camera.
In spite of his considerable fame as a cardiologist, Dr Sen avers:
“I have been a photographer longer than I have been a doctor”
His journeys across the country's wilds from coast to coast and mountains to plains stand testament in to his prolific creations: photographs that look like paintings.
Partnered with the Museum's current exhibition: "Nature Embedded - a Design Technology Experience," Dr Sen's photography as one of fifteen different medias at the Museum, also finds itself intervening with Augmented Reality (AR) to reveal an additional layer of visual imagery.
In the words of the author of these photographs, Dr Debal Sen:
“The images presented here were garnered over a period of three decades. They took me from the high altitude lakes of Ladakh, to the glacial rivers of the high Himalayas, onto the lakes, rivers and wetlands of the baking plains of central India, across the puddles and pools of the great mangrove swamps of Orissa, West Bengal and the Andaman Islands, to culminate in the varied coastlines of the subcontinent”
And then summing up his experience of water as the subject through the idiom of shoreline, the author concludes:
“These shores extend from the edge of a dewdrop to the edge of the sea – between music and silence, between color and white”.
The words are reminiscent of the photography of Ansel Adams who viewed life through the lens of Nature, choosing to see it unfiltered as the great wilds of the outdoors, with a protestant spirit that only Nature could wield.
No wonder then, to experience these images, in the words of the poet Corbin, is to “browse in the archives of the Earth.”
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Posthumous Solo Show of Late Pradeep Nerurkar, 20th Jehangir Art Gallery
When a painter leaves this world for ever
we remember him through his paintings and his ideas, his habits, his choices,
his views about his own life as well as others'. His dedication towards his
work and his passionate approach towards the life and other things he loved. As
a human being he helped others too to live their way. Because he never defer
his own life from others. His personal relations with his family, friends and
rest of the people amongst whom he lived were co-ordinal. As a painter and at the
same time a part of the society he had a very sensitive yet sensible approach
towards living. For him everything was a part of his world of painting.
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He never treated artistic work as special
or separate or special kind of activity. It was for him a day to day breathing.
His sense of personal and social life had immerged out of his social and humble
behaviour. Therefore those whom he left behind are living their lives with all
the memories and stories. These memories will always create the presence out of
unseen presence of the beloved painterPradeep. They think that he has entered
into their body, mind and soul along with his paintings to take care of them.
Pradeep Nerurkar has shown his unique
presence as a highly innovative painter quite late in his career but the impact
of his innovation has shocked his fellowartists and the connoisseurs alike.
His approach towards his work had been always experimental as he used to tell
us that he wanted to invent a medium that would reflect his most delicate sense
of expression. He developed a technique with a paper pulp soaked in water on
which he would work with his hands loaded with colours and a mind impatient to
pour out the unknown patches of space and some hidden wounds peeping out on the
edges and some lost themselves to reveal their new existence. And finally he
would looked into the coloured surface to see his identity, his silent poetry
evaporated from the surface leaving behind the marks of her existence on the
edge of the visual periphery in an evangelic way.
The works being shown in the present
exhibition are from his several works he has left behind. They were built
sensitively by him with utmost care, delicacy and the ingredients produced with
long research and experiments. Each of them reflects the hard work, his
emotional involvement and evocative urge with utmost spiritual feeling.
He left behind very sensitive and sensible
works for us to cherish. Wherever he is, I am sure; he must be living without
body but with spiritual colours on his fingers and passionate ideas in his
eyes.
Prabhakar Kolte
Mumbai, 13th January 2018
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Saturday, 17 February 2018
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Thursday, 15 February 2018
Friday, 9 February 2018
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Sunday, 28 January 2018
According to the statistics in India there are 29 states to represent 1.25 billion people
ARTIST STATEMENT
India is a multiverse land, where art and culture resemble its diversity and ethnicity. Art has been pre-eminent throughout the array and has been explored holistically by all forms of life. I believe the world is full of insightful creations waiting to be explored and so is mankind which is indeed a wonderful creation of the almighty. I represent the entire 1.25 billion population of the country in a unique form of art. My work is an attempt to express myself and socio- cultural status of our society. Though the educational system we receive knowledge to enrich ourselves to transform into a better human being.
India is a multiverse land, where art and culture resemble its diversity and ethnicity. Art has been pre-eminent throughout the array and has been explored holistically by all forms of life. I believe the world is full of insightful creations waiting to be explored and so is mankind which is indeed a wonderful creation of the almighty. I represent the entire 1.25 billion population of the country in a unique form of art. My work is an attempt to express myself and socio- cultural status of our society. Though the educational system we receive knowledge to enrich ourselves to transform into a better human being.
According to the statistics in India there are 29 states to represent 1.25 billion people. With this wide range of population of our country human being has been divided into categories too.
My art represents the dysfunctionality of the society. The society where we have a static learning processes, and through that systematic process each of us is judged and categorised. The representation may be anything that describes the identity of the state in the country. This may include my self-portrait, public figure, the animal, spoken language, or even a famous artist.
The reparation which is constantly scene in my work is not only focusing on the numerical table but also the rhythm and harmony of life. My major response to everything around and the interaction with the non-living objects is the metaphor of my art.
In order to motivate and bring awareness to people, I wish to create art in which the ethnicity of the state will be carried thus depicting the importance of the education and the significance of it in saving a human life.
- Jignesh makwana
EXHIBITION & SALE at Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai
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EXHIBITION & SALE at Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai
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Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Sunday, 21 January 2018
Thursday, 4 January 2018
Monday, 1 January 2018
The principles in art which were once considered inapt have been completely eradicated with the course of time.
Progressive
understanding of art is ‘Rupayatan’. And hence the past rules do not remain valid
in the present. The aesthetic perspective of art has revolutionized throughout
the years. The process of creating and decoding modern art has changed with
growing peculiar interests of the populace. It has acted as a catalyst for the
growth in the change in the aesthetic perspective of art.
The current
creative tendency is not decisive; it is more likely to keep changing with the
change in the aesthetic perspective of the populace. The inspiration is taken
from the daily life and when presented through art is highly illusorily. The
organization of pre-requisite knowledge, shapes and construction of subjects is
primarily conveyed in visual presentations. The paintings then can have varying
effect on the human mind. This phenomenon has lasted from the time of ancient
art to the changed modern art.
The principles in art which were once
considered inapt have been completely eradicated with the course of time. The
pure and unique thoughts emerging from the artist’s subconscious mind are
accountable for it. The individualistic thoughts and the artist’s perspective
as an individual about the subject, both physical and deductive are the
particular reasons for the same.
The obsession of beauty and crave for
innovations comes from the natural thinking process based on the right morality
denying the façade, is the tradition of visual interpretation of unnamed and
unlabelled form. This accepts the space. Increase in the form of art through
the process of colors, lines and understanding and the maturity of an artist are
the things which enhance the value of the art.
The absence of clothes does not define
nudity; it is originally the raw and pure state of nature. It is also a social
state. The meaning of nudity for us is in the subconscious state and not in the
conscious state of mind. This is not an attempt to change the statements of the
critic. There is similarity in the imaginative state and the existing state
hence there is no hiding the truth, it gets amplified.
The artist and his art is like the eye and
vision. What is seen is not always helpful for creative presentation; even if
this is inspired by our lives it is highly fictitious. It is a blend of
imagination and pre-requisite knowledge. It is illusorily and an extract of our
vision. Hence nudity does not require a canopy; it is in an oblique state. This
exhibition of paintings and sculptures emphasizes on strengthening the natural
instinct. A painting is exclusively visual, which originates from the
indigenous thoughts. A painting is the very representation of our thought
process. We would like to convey this message through this exhibition.
Text translate Santosh Sawant
Edit by Vinit Lawande
Art Blogazine
Pankaja JK (Founder)
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RUPAYATAN GROUP SHOW
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RUPAYATAN GROUP SHOW
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