Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS on the 19th of April, 2018.

We are delighted to invite you to the preview of Songs from the Blood of the Weary (Dialogues of Peace), at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS on the 19th of April, 2018. The exhibition features the work of Rekha Rodwittiya, and was originally created as part of an exhibition to commemorate fifty years of the United Nations in 1995. This is the first time the ‘painted room’ will be displayed at the JNAF, after it was acquired by Mr. Nicholson just a year after it was presented in Geneva. It represents one of the earliest installations by an Indian artist and is accompanied by 12 works from roughly the same period drawn from the collection of the artist and Sakshi Gallery.

Do join us on the 19th of April at 6 pm at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery. Rekha Rodwittiya will release the catalogue, specially prepared to accompany the exhibition. Tea will be served at 5.30 pm.

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Maharashtra Cultural Centre

Sudarshan Hall Near Ahilyadevi Girls High School Above bank of Maharashtra Shaniwar Peth Branch 421/ 422 Shaniwar Peth, 

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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.

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.

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

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.

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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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

Curated by
PronoyChakraborty

Artists
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

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.

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

Talk : Prashant Hirlekar at Art Gate Gallery

 Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai

All Art lovers are most invited on 7th to 13th March 2018

at the Inauguration Ceremony of Amazing Recent Group show Artworks at Art Gate Gallery,

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Art Gate Gallery

115, Jamshedji Tata Road, 1st Floor, Above Satyam Collection, Next to Eros Cinema, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 400020

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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EXHIBITION &  SALE at Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai

All Art lovers are most invited on 7th to 13th March 2018

at the Inauguration Ceremony of Amazing Recent Group show Artworks at Art Gate Gallery,

More details please all +91 9820141532
 Churchgate Mumbai

Art Gate Gallery

115, Jamshedji Tata Road, 1st Floor, Above Satyam Collection, Next to Eros Cinema, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 400020

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

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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.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

EXHIBITION &  SALE at Art Gate Gallery, Mumbai

All Art lovers are most invited on 7th to 13th March 2018

at the Inauguration Ceremony of Amazing Recent Group show Artworks at Art Gate Gallery,

More details please all +91 9820141532
 Churchgate Mumbai

Art Gate Gallery

115, Jamshedji Tata Road, 1st Floor, Above Satyam Collection, Next to Eros Cinema, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 400020