“INFINITE SPACE” Solo Show of Paintings by well-known artist Virendra Kumar

This show will be inaugurated on 5^th November 2024 at 5pm by Honorable Guests Dr. Uttam V. Jain (Patron Hindustan Chamber of Commerce),

Virendra Kumar

Shri. Rajendra Patil(Eminent Artist & Ex Teaching Faculty, Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai), Shri. Mahendra Kalantri(Director Acclaim Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd. ), Shri. Sanjay Nikam (Eminent Artist & Art Curator)

Virendra Kumar is an experimental and versatile Indian Painter who has graduated from Patna Arts and Crafts College, Patna University, India in 1997. Born in Bihiya Village, in Bhojpur District of Bihar, Virendra Kumar had a very happy childhood. His village like all villages in Bihar is very rich in the traditional folk arts. He drew inspiration from watching his mother, aunts and other family member painting and decorating their homes by painting on walls during festivals and weddings.

So Virendra was constantly surrounded by not only vibrant colours, celebrations of festivals with music and dance but was fortunate enough to get maximum encouragement from his own art-loving family. His father too was art oriented and strongly supported his decision to be an artist.

Love for Nature, curiosity, hard work, love and dedication for art are the qualities that motivated Virendraji to follow his creative quest with unusual commitment and passion.

His paintings today are magnificently serene, contemplative in spirit and rich in their depth. One can say that Virendra Kumar's paintings are exquisite creations of pure abstraction. In these paintings, we find an element of mystery and sense of musical rhythm. In other words, these are poetic configurations of abstract forms, all passionately rendered, which emerge like dreamscapes bathed in shimmering or muted hues of overlapping contours of abstract lines and forms, vibrant colours all intricately worked out in richly textured, visual symphony.  

       

Virendra Kumar navigates the spaces with consummate skill. There is a playful yet intense engagement with juxtaposition of forms and colours.

While dealing with spaces, the artist has very brilliantly escaped the constraints of 'traditional composition'. Spontaneity and mystic depths created through multilayered abstract forms, spaces are enlivened by vibrant colours like ultramarine blues, jade greens, ruby reds, topaz yellows, blues and Verdean greens and many more hues. These visuals also carry different space divisions and contours that hint at certain abstracted forms of landscape, city dwellings and many more interesting elements.

A discerning viewer is drawn deeper into these meditative paintings to discover worlds within worlds. These paintings linger on in the viewer's memory and touch the viewer's heart. Apart from family support, Virendra Kumar was also inspired by great masters like Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Indian artists like Ram Kumar, Natvar Bhavsar, V.S. Gaitonde too have impressed his painterly mind.

Virendra believes when he says "the artist's space, as blank canvas invites many challenges" He describes how while traveling in a plane he has often discovered the magical optical illusion that takes place when "we look out of the window, at the earth below, the landscape transforms into a maze of tiny dots - he explains.

My Art works are theme based, climate changes, environmental issues and the problematic human impacts to life on earth are all subjects, I creates new paintings, using the abstract expressionistic style to express modern social issues and raise awareness through his art. I am trying to show the beauty of nature in the beautiful valleys of the Himalayas. We see some cities situated in the mountains which look very beautiful but there our nature has also been hurt in some way or the other.

Virendra says "All my works are abstract. To reach this point or peak of abstraction I have to work hard, day and night."

Dividing these spaces or creating different planes for perception, in the available artist's space are handled by Virendra with masterly dexterity and artistic sensitivity. Virendraji's creative process centers around the battle, between chance and control from which his energetic yet meditative paintings are born, this phenomenon happens through a series of spontaneous reactions based on intuition.

Virendra's abstract techniques continuously evolve through extreme experimentation, using custom handmade tools, chemicals and textures.

The end results are magnificent paintings, richly sensuous and sublime at the same time. Virendra Kumar is not only a versatile and prolific painter, he has also organized several artist camps, both in India and abroad. Virendra, is a multidimensional Artist who has worked with many different mediums, such as sculpture, photography and installation art.

Recipient of several national and international awards, his works have been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in major Galleries in India, U.K., U.ae., Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, Mauritius, Burma, Kuwait, including Fame Art Gallery in Belgium, Gallery of Light Dubai, Gallery 76 Dubai, Wilesden Gallery in London, Nehru Center Gallery in London and many private collections around the world. Virendra was featured on the Indian television channel DD Bharati, and many television Channels and his work can be found in corporate collections throughout India as well as in private collections worldwide.

Sumati Gangopadhyay 

( Senior Artist and Art Critic )

 M.S. University – Vadodara

I am naturally drawn to the forms that Mukhtar composes on the canvas

Mukhtar Kazi paints like he speaks; in a measured and calm tone, pausing and thinking before each sentence and with a depth and baritone that makes you hang on to every word.

Artist: Mukhtar Kazi

I have been acquainted with Mukhtar’s work for the last decade or so; since the time I bought my first work by him not having known him or his oeuvre personally. I was simply attracted to the work itself. There was a stillness yet a gentle vibration in the work that captivates me even now after a decade and I continue to find layers, dualities and depths that I was unaware of when I acquired it.

Being an architect, I am naturally drawn to the forms that Mukhtar composes on the canvas. I can almost imagine him in the process of painting, gently applying the brush to the canvas with the lightest of touches and then building up the layers as he goes on, extracting a balance between the different personalities and tones of the same color at times and teasing out the various nuances of chiaroscuro to achieve depth and volume on a simple two-dimensional canvas.

Recent Painting by Mukhtar Kazi

There is no rushing of the brush, not a casual stroke here or there, nor a sign of the artist’s ego. Instead, there is a driven commitment, both personal and artistic to draw out the slivers of light that seem to be hiding behind these veils of colors and which want to break free.

His canvases draw you in and hold you in a grip once you drop your guard and decide to enter them. Your eyes move furtively across the canvas following the angled forms and sharp edges and then turn when they encounter color which then pulls you further into the deep abyss of its multifarious shades. There is no escape.

I believe Art should not only be about the “pretty picture”.

Art is a medium of communication that needs to have the capacity and the depth of character to make its viewer want to converse with it and go back renewed.    

And in Mukhtar Kazi, that medium has found a sensitive and devoted messenger.

 Prashant Prabhu

Architect.

October 21 2021

Press ReleaseFrom: 16^th to 22^nd November 2021

“Silent Forms”An Exhibition of Paintings by well-known artist Mukhtar Kazi

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Paintings like A Prayer of Hope and Solace of Crashing Waves usher this quiet sense of peace and positivity in the viewer.

Various artworks made by a contemporary artist. Dr. Ishita in oil colours on canvas reveal her intense urge to adorn them with apt icons of beauty of nature in different seasons. Her forte lies in an attempt to depict in each work with the wonders of Nature and their impact on the human mind via relevant visual metaphors. She has been impressed by the countless moods of Nature, from vast skies, to deep valleys, blossoming meadows, snow peaks, frothing seas, and all the dynamics of their constantly shifting light and shade. 

Artist: Dr. Ishita

She was deeply obsessed with an inner urge to create artwork using the eternal wonders of nature. She came in contact with Artist Sayaram Waghmare, senior contemporary artist of international repute who, as her guru, played a pivotal role in her journey in art. Dr. Ishita is a Life Member of Art Society of India, Bombay Art Society, and Artist Center, Mumbai, and has participated in various solo and group exhibitions across reputable galleries throughout the country, including Kala Ghoda Art Gallery, Mumbai, Kamalanayan Bajaj Hall & Art Gallery, Mumbai, Parijat Art Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, Lokmanya Tilak Art exhibition, Pune, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata and has now reached the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. 

Recent Painting by Dr. Ishita

Her latest series, Boundless, to be presented at Jehangir Art Gallery, exemplify subtle nuances of various happenings in seasons throughout a year. A burst of colours and the mad beauty of Nature find voice in her works like A Skyful of Madness, A Paradise in Bloom, Morning Revelation, etc. Her paintings give solace and hope to the suffering souls in these turbulent times. Paintings like A Prayer of Hope and Solace of Crashing Waves usher this quiet sense of peace and positivity in the viewer. 

This show will be inaugurated 

on 16^th November 2021 at 4pm 

by eminent artist 

Pramodbabu Ramteke 

at Jehangir Art Gallery.

 

 

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From: 16^th to 22^nd November 2021

“Boundless”

An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by contemporary artist- Dr. Ishita

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

 

 

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The Accidental Jacket

“The Accidental Jacket” includes a new series of paintings that anticipates Pratik Ghaisas’s playful studies of personal identity; he delivers a deeply felt experience of human absence in a new installation of exquisite subtlety. Each work is meticulously crafted to its own emotional note. Beautiful and rich in associative resonance, the piece eviscerates abstraction and lodges right in the bones. Between the moments of tenderness and the undertow of anguish, the form pulsates with the full spectrum of human emotion. Circling its exterior, its outermost arm forming a closed ring, we’re barred from entering; we become empathic onlookers of the whole human drama.

 Artist : Pratik Ghaisas

Artists of the previous generation, the Pop painters and Minimalists, who came of age in the 1960s, defined the unity of their concerns by creating distinctive visual styles a Warhol, like a Lichtenstein or a Donald Judd, is unmistakably their personal product. What links these visually varied early works together is what might best be called a consciously eccentric poetic sensibility, his irony-laced fascination with unexpected sensory pleasures. One basic, longstanding rule governing the visual arts is that pictures and words tell stories in essentially different ways, and so should not be mixed together. That the human mind can conceive of a nothing as a something is an extraordinary feat of intellectual abstraction.

Gazing down across the form suggestive of our galactic home, we’re led to consider our predicament in the universe. Bound inside time, acutely aware of our own smallness and finitude and yet feeling ourselves and those we love to be as large as the world, we live in eternal incongruity with our indifferent cosmos. The economy of means with which Ghaisas is able to evoke such ultimate questions is remarkable. Indeed, his use of a metonymically implied personal space to conjure the universal charges, the work with the kind of condensed expression we expect of great poetry. The human mind may be able to grasp negation between the abstract and the reasoning faculty founders when it comes to its own. Perhaps it’s only with the language of poetry that we can think the unthinkable and, if not exactly accept the unacceptable, dare to feel the flame in all its intensity.

Though there all along, the issue of using a shaped support came into particular focus during the 1960s as an emphasis on both the painting as object, its unnecessary privileging of easel painting and ultimately the expendability of using only a single rectangle. In the current series the artist brings together and explores the possibilities of a shaped support as an optional formal development. But gone today are the conscious strictures and aesthetic divisions articulated in 1967 by Michael Fried in his germinal essay ‘Art and Object Hood’. There are works here that evince playfulness or Dada disregard for convention, as well as a compositional exuberance of both materials and pictorial forms that ultimately set an overall shape. That is to say they find shape by an excessive build up of material itself, or in working with one form or another, leaving those shapes to define an external perimeter edge.

The artist narrates how his father and his contemporaries were responsible for building audacious and imaginative meccas of free play, in particular that exceeded even the best paradigms. Examining the pictorial thinking of outsiders often takes a back seat to the thrill of rescuing overlooked objects from history. An excitement that is fueled by a perhaps unconscious nostalgia for artistic sincerity is elicited by work that often bears a coincidental visual relationship to modernism but is untainted by modernism’s worldly ambition. This is not really the case with Pratik Ghaisas. The correspondence to mainstream art in his work is not superficial. The diligence and concentration that he brought to his work are qualities of many mainstream artists, and tells us a lot about what it means to be an artist. As an artist, he exists on a twentieth century continuum. Art has historically been forged in solitude, and though it is tempting to romanticize it, his solitude, while deeper than that of most artists, fueled a quiet passion that is evident in the mood and intensity of the work and beyond its psychological concerns, these jackets tell a dynamic story that change with each subsequent viewing.

Abhijeet Gondkar

March 2020, Mumbai

Visible Invisible

solo exhibition
by Pratik Ghaisas


2nd March To 8th March
11AM To 7 PM

Jehangir Art Gallery


Inauguration on 2nd March at 5pm.