“Between Form and Silence” Recent works By Contemporary artist Asha Shetty in Jehangir Art Gallery

Between Form and Silence - Solo Exhibition by Asha Shetty

Between Form and Silence is a solo exhibition by Mumbai-based contemporary artist Asha Shetty, presented at Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda. The exhibition brings together recent works in acrylic and ink on canvas that move between abstraction and figuration, exploring states of balance, transition, and inward contemplation.

Artist: Asha Shetty 

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Shetty’s practice is grounded in rigorous training in drawing and painting, supported by formal study of Indian aesthetics. Her works do not follow narrative structures; instead, they invite slow looking and quiet engagement. Figures appear as inward-facing presences rather than portraits, existing as states of being. These are placed in dialogue with abstract structures, subtle geometric rhythms, and elements drawn from nature and ritual

Material process plays a central role in the artworks. Working with acrylic, ink, collage, and layered textures, Shetty builds surfaces gradually through addition, erosion, and restraint. Marks remain visible, carrying traces of time and decision, while the balance between what is revealed and what is concealed is carefully maintained.

Colour, symmetry, and surface rhythm guide the viewer’s experience, creating compositions that hold stillness without becoming static. The artworks resist immediate interpretation, allowing meaning to unfold through sustained viewing.

The past year marks a new phase in Shetty’s artistic journey, where traditional sensibilities intersect with contemporary abstraction. ‘Between Form and Silence’ offers a reflective space within the gallery, inviting viewers to pause, observe, and engage with a visual language shaped by quiet intensity and considered restraint. 

This show will be inaugurated on 30th December 2025 by Honourable Guests – Mr. Surendra Jagtap, (Eminent Artist & Principal of J.K. Academy of Art & Design Mumbai), Mr. Prakash Bhise(Eminent Artist), Mr. Ganesh Hire(Renowned Artist), Virendra Chopde(Well-known artist).

The exhibition is open daily from 11 am to 7 pm for public viewing.

From: 29th December 2025 to 4th January 2026

“Between Form and Silence”

Where the unseen begins to speak- Recent works By

Contemporary artist Asha Shetty                                               

VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery,161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001, Timing: 11am to 7pmContact: +91 9326475228

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is proud to invite you to the prestigious book launch on the life and works of M. V. Dhurandhar (1867–1944).

M. V. Dhurandhar was a renowned Indian artist and an esteemed teacher at the Sir J. J. School of Art. A master of both oil and watercolour techniques, he was honoured with the title ‘Rao Bahadur’ by the British Government. 

Following the passing of Raja Ravi Varma, Dhurandhar emerged as a leading figure who popularised figurative compositions blending human drama, Indian aesthetics, and Western academic methods.

This newly published book presents a significant survey of Dhurandhar’s artistic journey by featuring his major and newly identified works from different phases of his life. It reveals his evolving artistic personality and sensibilities, and also reflects the literary depth seen in his Marathi writings. His paintings vividly document the fashion, customs, and socio-cultural nuances of the colonial period and the Indian Princely States. A gold medalist of Western India and a beloved artist of the island city of Bombay, Dhurandhar shaped the visual culture of his time through his illustrations, postcards, posters, chromolithographs, and periodical artworks.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Venue: National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Walk-ins are allowed.

All are welcome to join us for this special evening that honours one of India’s most influential artists.

Warm regards,

Team NGMA Mumbai

Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Aakriti Art Gallery to Launch Two Landmark Books Marking 20 Years of Art Excellence

 Friday, 26th December 2025 | 5:00 PM onwards | Kolkata

Kolkata, India — Aakriti Art Gallery proudly announces the launch of two significant art publications—“Shaping Bengal: Modern Sculpture in Bengal (1850s–2025)” by noted art historian Mrinal Ghosh, and the research-led volume “Forgotten Fold: On Rediscovering Ananda Mohan Shaha”—as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations. The launch event will be held on Friday, 26th December 2025, from 5:00 PM onwards at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, Kolkata.

The evening will be graced by the presence of Samik Bandopadhyay, distinguished scholar, critic, editor, and author known for his seminal contributions to art, film, and theatre.

About the Books:

Shaping Bengal: Modern Sculpture in Bengal (1850s–2025)

Authored by Mrinal Ghosh, this monumental work is the first comprehensive survey of Bengal’s sculptural journey across more than one and a half centuries. The volume maps the evolution of modern and modernist sculpture in Bengal—from colonial academic realism to post-Independence experimentation and contemporary practices—featuring over 150 sculptors with critical commentary, archival photographs, and curatorial insight.

Forgotten Fold: On Rediscovering Ananda Mohan Shaha

This pathbreaking publication restores attention to Ananda Mohan Shaha, an overlooked academic realist painter of early 20th-century Bengal. With contributions by Uma Nair, Soujit Das, Mrinal Ghosh, Dr. Anuradha Ghosh, Debdutta Gupta, and Vikram Bachhawat, Forgotten Fold brings together archival research, facsimile material, and new interpretations that reposition Shaha within the larger narrative of Indian art history.

Event Schedule:

• 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Launch of Shaping Bengal
• 6:00 – 6:15 PM | Tea Break
• 6:15 – 7:15 PM | Launch of Forgotten Fold

The books will be available at the gallery and will also be distributed as part of a special New Year gift to collectors, artists, scholars, and patrons who have supported Aakriti’s journey over the past two decades.

“This twin launch marks not just our 20-year milestone, but also our continued commitment to rigorous research, rediscovery, and celebration of India’s visual heritage,”

— Vikram Bachhawat, Founder–Director, Aakriti Art Gallery

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 admin@aakritiartgallery.com

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“Chittadarshani” An Art Exhibition by Dhiraj Hadole, Pravin Waghmare, Swapnil Sangole

 

Pravin Waghmare

Pravin Waghmare’s art practice emerges from an acute attentiveness to the visual and emotional residues of everyday life. Forms, colours, textures, and fleeting sensations are not treated as passive observations but as active forces that impress themselves upon the artist’s inner self. From this silent accumulation of experience, Waghmare constructs a language of abstraction that is grounded firmly in lived reality.

Artist: Pravin Waghmare, Acrylic on canvas

Although his works appear abstract, they are anchored in the rhythms of the visible world, its pauses, frictions, and reverberations. His surfaces carry a sense of return and response: every encounter, whether with nature, society, or the ordinary mechanics of daily existence, rebounds into the pictorial field. This cyclical exchange lends his compositions a quiet intensity, where colour blocks, fractured planes, and layered textures behave like echoes of perception rather than representations of objects.

 

Waghmare’s use of colour is deliberate and experiential, functioning as a carrier of emotion. Lines and forms unfold through an intuitive yet disciplined process, reflecting an honest negotiation between control and spontaneity. His paintings offer a sustained meditation on how experience transforms into visual thought. Pravin Waghmare articulates abstraction as a deeply human, perceptual act, one that translates the unsaid into form with clarity and depth.

 

Dhiraj Hadole:

 

Dhiraj Hadole’s work enters the lineage of geometric abstraction not through utopian rigidity or formal bravado, but through a quieter recalibration of what geometry can contain. Hadole belongs to a reflective generation that allows structure to coexist with memory, affect, and care.

 

His compositions echo the discipline of hard-edge abstraction, yet resist its doctrinaire coolness. The planes feel inhabited rather than imposed; edges meet without aggression, and colour operates as mood. Geometry here is closer to a psychological modulation than an optical one. Reduction does not erase feeling, it distils it. Repetition becomes attention, not control.

Artist: Dhiraj Hadole

Materially, Hadole’s practice departs from modernist purity. The stitched, layered surfaces introduce a tactile memory aligned with domestic knowledge and inherited labour. Quilt-like constructions suggest an indigenous abstraction shaped by patience, repair, and assembly, without slipping into literal craft reference. Cultural specificity is absorbed ethically, not illustrated.

 

These works propose equilibrium: that intimacy can be measured. In this restraint lies their quiet radicalism. Dhiraj Hadole proves that stability is not the enemy of depth, that precision can remain soft. These are paintings that behave like shelters, steady, composed, and rewarding to those willing to slow down and meet them on their own terms.

Swapnil Sangole

Swapnil Vilasrao Sangole’s sculptures are rooted in a rigorous engagement with material, memory, and metaphysical inquiry. Working primarily with stone, he positions sculpture as a site where permanence and impermanence coexist, where time is both resisted and inscribed. Drawing deeply from Indian temple architecture, Sangole distils their structural intelligence, symbolism and spiritual gravity into a contemporary language.

 

His works reveal a careful balance between solidity and openness. Carved voids, layered planes, and architectural motifs evoke sacred spaces while remaining resolutely abstract. Each chisel mark becomes a temporal gesture, an assertion of continuity that acknowledges rupture. The stone is listened to, negotiated with, and allowed to assert its own agency within the final form.

Sculptures by Swapnil Vilasrao Sangole’s

 

Sangole’s sculptures function as thresholds between the material and the metaphysical, inviting tactile contemplation. They are not objects of passive viewing but embodied experiences that ask the viewer to slow down and reckon with scale, weight, and silence. In expanding his practice toward collaborative and community-based projects, Sangole further opens it up to collective memory and shared authorship. Ultimately, his work honours the sacred while confronting contemporary realities. Through restraint, precision, and conceptual clarity, Swapnil Sangole affirms sculpture’s enduring capacity to witness, question, and heal.

 From: 23^rd to 29^th December 2025

“Chittadarshani”

An Art Exhibition by Dhiraj Hadole, Pravin Waghmare, Swapnil Sangole

VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery, Auditorium Hall

161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001,Timing: 11am to 7pm