Real within Reality—Ethics of my beloved work - my Painting.

In order to increase the better values of our lives and society -there must be a better medium – which set at naught many undesirable things, which we are accustomed in every waking moment of our lives. True to my belief, from core of my heart – PAINTING is that medium, which can evolve as a better pathway of social regeneration, when our poverty of Philosophy is eradicated.

Artist: Pratyusha Mukherjee

Painting is my first love – being an offspring of a middle- classed conservative family, I enjoyed nature, sky, flowers, birds and animals out of my windows since my early childhood and all these reflect on my paintings--- particularly, nature is embedded intimately with my creations----though, from time to time, with transformed landscape, along with inner most spaces of extreme interior of ever known sweet home –I used to wander on various aspects of theme with ease.   

Since childhood, I do have a distinct knowledge regarding social life, science, humanity, mutual respect and values, i.e. Reality of different aspects of life, which helped me a lot in combining classical & postmodern technique of painting in my own works.

To observe and nurture nature was my obsession--- which in later stage, gradually becomes my technique of searching nature within my art works.

Recent works by Artist 

Rabindranath Tagore is my pathfinder, philosopher and guide--- I’m a great admirer of his poems, songs, stories, novels & obviously paintings ----- I do have enormous influence from works of Tagore, Indian Classical Music, changing style of evaluation of visual evidence of history and time along with civilization-----all my painting works are based from all these!

I’m really thankful to Kala- Bhawana, because of its entire open education system and its acquaintance with world art, which helped me enormously to express myself independently in the entire aspect of my painting.

Background of my landscape reflects ever changing hardship of daily life style combining with dreamy fantasy world. My surrounding comes through my colour and brush to present a translucent effect of inside and outside along with juxtaposition of line, colour, texture and space division with multiple elements of nature and modern gadgets. 

                                          

Rainbows of my creation glittered across the historical stairs of ages and denotes the essence of sense of wellbeing, associated with various architectural motives.It is true that volume of animal kingdom, as well as obviously human being’s existence is too negligible in comparison to vast universe------ through our various scientific inventions and its day to day effect, yields detrimental effect in nature’s natural functioning – nature’s ecological balance appears to be dismantled.Multiple perspective of Miniature paintings, which creates enormous volume and vast expansion and architectonic quality… in the small surface area appears spontaneously in my painting. 

I would like to emphasize through my works that there is no rivalry,  no conflict between nature’s own creation and scientific upliftment – it should proceed hand in hand!

We should remember “old is gold” in one hand – and “Rolling stone gathers no moss” in other! 

My painting synchronizes values of past with enthusiasm of present, experience of past with efficacy of present, honestly of past with accuracy of present, legacy of past which leads to new rays of hope of present…in a nutshell, humanity with scientific advancement.

- Text by Artist - Pratyusha Mukherjee

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Responses I Inquiries I Reactions, a solo art exhibition by Shanthi Kasiviswanathan a visual

 Responses I Inquiries I Reactions, a solo art exhibition by Shanthi Kasiviswanathan a visual

artist from Mumbai opens 

on 1st February at The Jehangir Art Gallery, Fort, Mumbai at 11am. The

exhibition dates are 1st February to 7th February 2022, timings 11 am – 7 pm.

A special music performance by vocalist Ms. Meena Jinturkar will take place on 5

th February at 5pm. Through this note Shanthi extends a warm welcome to all for her exhibition.

Shanthi’s second solo, is a culmination of work made during the pandemic.The events in her life and that of others during the pandemic, led her to examine her own life in relation to the larger canvas of life. She realised that her experiences in life resonated with others as well. Whilst personal, her experiences are also universal.

Jehangir Art Gallery

The last two years brought about a significant shift in her work. Being homebound for the most part, her medium of expression shifted from photography to drawing and painting.

This exhibition puts forward four distinct series, each reflecting different aspects of her recent development: a narrative on her parents in her drawings, nature’s revival in her sky paintings, power and control in the collaborative sculptural pieces and her thoughts and emotions through the wall series interventions.Before the pandemic, she was photographing the overlooked beauty of deteriorating walls of different cities which resulted in her first solo Enduring I Ephemeral at Artisan’s Gallery Mumbai. (https://www.mid-day.com/mumbaiguide/things-to-do/article/Concrete-as-canvas-21715199)

About the artist:

Shanthi Kasiviswanathan is a visual artist and photographer based in Mumbai, India. She switched from a corporate career to pursue her passion in visual arts at 40 and has been practicing since graduating from the Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts in 2015. Her work, a compelling invitation to see things differently is influenced by her own innate nature to question the status quo. Observation is key to her work and it can be seen in her photographic works, her drawings, her paintings and more recently her maiden foray into sculpture, in collaboration with fellow artists. You can see her work at www.shanthikasi.com

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

The progressive journey of the painter, Mr Ashok Dhivare, has been moving forward through a variety of forms and mediums like nature painting, abstract style and cityscape.

 As the changing forms of nature leave their reflections on a painter’s mind it begins to give shapes to them.  Really speaking, it is a just thought emerging in his consciousness; simultaneously, however, it becomes an inner conflict rooted in his mind.  A process to search for form in an object begins at the centre of an individual’s mind. This process is highly individualistic and deep but it is equally obscure.

 

The presence of an object in nature is stable as well as unstable and forward-moving; this in fact is an unending, ongoing process. It is the way of the world; in a way, it is the way the world behaves. ‘The Eternal’ is an exhibition of paintings meant to present this thought. It is a search for the eternal existence of the self in the brisk-paced happenings and the fast deterioration of human values taking place around us.

 

The progressive journey of the painter, Mr Ashok Dhivare, has been moving forward through a variety of forms and mediums like nature painting, abstract style and cityscape. The paintings in this exhibition belong to the category of ‘Nature painting.’ The artist has consciously used watercolours as a medium. 

 

The moisture of the mind’s sensitivity and its subtlety for the moments escaped is noticeable in them in addition to a feeling of being lost. 

The human images in these paintings are indistinct and unclear. The structures and leftover remains of constructions around them force us to search for the eternal. The use of time and space keeps haunting our minds as these paintings begin to overpower us by coming closer and establishing an uncanny relation with us. These paintings give a distressed call to the past and present of the fall and decay we experience inside us.

 

Raju Desale

From: 1^st to 7^th February 2022

“The Eternal”

An Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings

By well-known artist Ashok Namdeo Dhivare

 

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Sharmila makes paintings to be reckoned with. Her largely abstract canvases and wild seaside landscapes can be broody, even confrontational, in earthy dark tones.

 At first glance, the bold patterns in Sharmila Gupta’s recent paintings and drawings appear to mark a change in direction from the large gritty paintings of tidal pools that were her last body of work. On further viewing, it becomes apparent that her familiar landscapes have become compressed into signs or ideograms. These perhaps reflect time spent in walks in the woods during the lockdown when she made a study of aboriginal bark as well as the abstract lineage of modernism. Sharmila’s new paintings light up the exhibition space. She moves easily between representational and abstract imagery, and she mixes seemingly contradictory inclinations. For example, her process is messy and engaged, but her compositions are deliberate and playful; her work shifts suddenly from somber to slapstick; she has a sincere belief in painting’s transcendent power.

Artist: Sharmila Gupta

The intimate, explorative body of work exposes her complex interaction with a particular place and it’s shifting transient nature. Sharmila has often spoken about rejecting the picturesque in favor of primordial nature as represented. She has found these necessary elemental motifs. At the edge of water and land, she has become immersed in the visceral experience of light, space and motion. There she has sought to bridge the atmospheric, volumetric world of matter and its equivalence in signs. Landscape thus becomes an arena not only to view the fleeting nature of the elements with its seasonal and biological cycles but also a vessel for thought and process within the context of various pictorial languages.

Sharmila makes paintings to be reckoned with. Her largely abstract canvases and wild seaside landscapes can be broody, even confrontational, in earthy dark tones. But many of these paintings sparkle with brilliant blues, and cheery greens, reds, and yellows. Darker colors crop up and provide terrific contrast. Sharmila completed her part-time course in painting from Sir J J School of Art and since then she has continually challenged herself, grappling with form in oils water-colours and collages; with space and surface in abstract painting and art history. One thing has remained constant her delight in the elemental quality of paint. She’s like a kid with finger paints, or making mud pies. She fills her canvases with smears, dollops, and grit. Her passion can’t be missed.

In her current suite of works some of her former complex spatial panoramas with their diverse vantage points and horizon lines remain. Sharmila, however, has often changed her viewing perspective. At times, she has vicariously crawled along the surface of the earth or seen things as a fish traversing water or as a bird from above or a combination of different vantage points in the same painting, a vertical panoramic space is grounded by two trees uniting land, fire, water and sky seen both from above and at the horizon. By contrast, Sharmila Gupta reveals a flatter, condensed spatial world of water patterns containing floating interactive shapes. Viewed from above, a brown form hovers over incoming and outgoing tides acting as a magnifying glass revealing particles of pollution. This pivotal form compresses the action of nature and shield shapes reminiscent of the mapping of water trails found in aboriginal painting.

Sign language becomes even more evident in small watercolor drawings that evoke musical exercises with their motifs and recapitulations of the ebb and flow of tides: times of day amidst floating objects pulled by currents. Sharmila has stated that all her abbreviations of shapes and forms come from acute observation of particular sites. Her drawings reflect these observations of a sea world with undulating patterns, horizontal and vertical lines that act as cross currents creating pulsating tensions. Sharmila subverts our expectations of space. Despite the horizon line, we appear to have a bird’s-eye view. The piece’s crackling rhythm, intoxicating tones, and the artist’s loose, playful hand make the works a joyful exclamation. These dense, expansive little nature-scapes gleam like gemstones.

Sharmila’s quest to reassemble pictorial language from a diverse painting vocabulary is no easy task. Throughout her long career she has searched for ways to meld the painterly traditions of Abstract Expressionism. Over the past decades she has been moving back and forth between both pictorial concepts, sometimes emphasizing her love of light and expressive painterly forms, other times using abbreviated signs, and sometimes managing to simultaneously employ both modes. In her painting series, she combined ideograms, patterns that interact with volumetric shapes and atmospheric moods. The exhibition shows a good introduction to her innovative merging of the physical tactile world with a formal language of signs, ideograms and pictographs, expanding the painter’s language in this time.  

Abhijeet Gondkar

January 2022, Mumbai

Artist's Statements...

Myself, Sharmila Gupta, an abstract painter. My artwork includes oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas and paper. 

Passionate about painting I create whatever I perceive after observing the environment around me. I interprete the cosmos of colour and form through my visualisation to express them uniquely.

Perseverance and expedition has shifted the quality of my works and opened a new realm off possibilities and offered me with a different context of painting and my relationship to it's process.

Sharmila Gupta.

Artist

From: 31st January to 6th February 2022

"Forms of Musing"

An Exhibition of Paintings

By artist Sharmila Gupta

VENUE:Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road Kala Ghoda, Mumbai – 400 001Timing: 11am to 7pm

"Forms of Musing" An Exhibition of Paintings By artist Sharmila Gupta

 

From: 31st January to 6th February 2022

"Forms of Musing"

An Exhibition of Paintings

By artist Sharmila Gupta

VENUE:Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road Kala Ghoda, Mumbai – 400 001Timing: 11am to 7pm

Sunita Wadhawan is a PhD research scholar and has been active in the yoga field as a practitioner and as a teacher for over two decades.

 

Life is full of challenges, uncertainties, distractions and opportunities. Our rishis gave to the world the art and science of Yoga to utilise our human existence in the best manner possible. The practice of Yoga can be done by the young and old, by the healthy as well as those in pain to bring a discipline and regularity in life. Yoga is a combination of body, mind and spirit oriented practices with each element of Yoga facilitating a greater purpose and vision of life that leads to well-being and contentment. At one level Yoga helps to overcome stress and mental tensions and at a higher level develops personality and self confidence together with realising  the spirit and the purpose of human existence.

 

Yogasutra way of life is the adoption of yogic practices for physical fitness, breath regulation and meditation for mental alertness, concentration and complete relaxation.  Incorporating these yoga practices as habits in the daily schedule shifts the direction of life from one of struggles to that of ease and joy. It could be the beginning of the best years of your life. Yogasutra way of life teaches you how to daily invest a little time in yoga to reap the long term benefits of self transformationof the body and mind for a fulfilled human existence.

 

Know your coach for the Yogasutra way of life

Sunita Wadhawan is a PhD research scholar and has been active in the yoga field as a practitioner and as a teacher for over two decades. She has won accolades at the National and State level  award for yoga asanas and sun salutations. Being proficient in the technique and tools of Cyclic Meditation and Mind Imagery Technique (MIRT) her classes on guided meditation every week are well received and appreciated.

 

Contact: Dr. Sunita Wadhawan - 7745031818

Artist & Yoga Instructor

Mrs. India Maharashtra one in million 2021

(Offline and online both Classes Available)

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www.sunitawadhawan.com

Timing: 7am to 8am, 8.15am to 9.15am  

1st to 7th February 2022

Nippon Friday presents Kolkata classic contemporary Art Show -

Artists:

Dr. Somava Dutta I Tanushree Das I Arup Roy I Priyanka Sinha

Deepsikha Das I Pallavi Saxena

Debjyoti Saha I Priti Shaw I Nupur Mitra I Ipsit Roy

Dibakar Das I Ishita Dasgupta I Sudipta Swarnaker

Souvik Roy I Aparajita Gopal I Moumita Mosan I

Curated by Moumita Sarkar

Venue

www.nipponfrinday.com

Opening: Date: 16/01/2022 to 30/01/2022

Sale Enquiry: 9432 123 234 / 7439 119 228

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THE FABULOUS -9 - at Jehangir art gallery Auditorium hall, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

 THE FABULOUS -9

Recent works of a group of 9 contemporary artists from different regions of our country have been displayed in a group art exhibition at Jehangir art gallery Auditorium hall, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 from 11th January 2022 onwards.  It will be there for public display till 17th January, 2022 between 11.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.  This unique  art exhibition has been curated  by Dyaneshwar Dhavale, who is an artist himself and intends to present the innovations of the inborn  talent in these artists under one roof with a view to enlighten art collectors, lovers and patrons with the intricacies of vivid multifaceted art works. 

The participating artists in this art exhibit are Amit Bhar Kolkata, Arvind Mahajan – M.P., B.B. Dutta- Mumbai, Goutam Mukherjee – Mumbai, Rajendra Pradhan – Nagpur, Ravi Mishra – Jaipur, Samir Sarkar – Kolkata, Subrata Das – Kolkata and Subrata Paul – Kolkata. This show was inaugurated on 11th January 2022 by eminent artist Prabhakar Kolte at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in presence of many art lovers, patrons and art collectors.

Amit Bhar  :   His works in Semi realistic style depict Scintillating pristine rustic beauty of rural Bengal with the apt textural finesse having a realistic play of light and shade. The paintings are in typical Indian style having proper emotions and peculiarities of realms of life in iconic depictions and textures which enlighten all with their ethnic hues.

Arvind Mahajan :   His works depict Royal Essences of the heritage and Traditions in Madhya Pradesh.  These present different moods and cultures and give all the experience of royal ambience.  They reveal royal grandeur and class in each line in the work and enlighten all with the rich energetic colour tones, shades and their finesse at appropriate places in the relevant perspectives of art. They also illustrate awesome grace of royalness and simplicity.

B.B. Dutta : His works portray different stages of mind (transcendental levels) in the form of creative instincts at strategic areas in the work.  The depictions mostly being Shiva and Shakti, the ultimate in bringing evolution in the universe find a prominent place in his works.  It gives tremendous joy, well being and sense of elation to all in the universe of divinity where joy has no bounds. The art works in semi realistic style do enlighten all with the ethnic hues of divinity and eternity in apt perspectives.

Goutam Mukherjee  :  His works in realistic style depict the picture of life of Christie of Bengal and the Bengali Society of that time. His works are characterized by opt colour tones, their harmony and tonal rhythm alongwith the proper emotional mindscapes of the vivid sensitive characters in conducive environments. 

Rajendra Pradhan :  His sculptures depict infinite love for life. His works aptly reflect his process of finding himself and exploring it in the proper shape and form.  Being a civil engineer having variability and genuine talent as well as creatively, his works mostly display sensitivity of his poetic heart as per strict geometrical discipline of the creative arena in it.  His works in bronze, polymarble and diestone reveal ample joy and happiness as well as pleasantness in the respective perspectives.

Ravi Mishra -  A well known sculptor from Jaipur, his works in marble have been inspired by Radha and Krishna in artistic style. These are very innovative and enlighten all with ethnic hues of divinity and eternity associated with his thematic peculiarities in relevant arenas and perspectives.  Different creations reveal the genuine depictions of omnipresent eternal love in human beings in various forms and shapes alongwith the desired textural finishes and fineness.

Samir Sarkar :  His works show people wearing headgear and faces reveal double faced nature of people like we see in most professions.  It exemplifies the fact that people wear a face which is different from the real one.  It is a face which is suitable to suit the personality which is different than actual one.  The various works in acrylic colour on canvas are indicative of this dual personality of human nature.  Inspiration for various figures in the work is from Egyptian works.

Subrata Das  :   His paintings display a poetic imagination while depicting characters from Indian mythology.  Most of the works speak volumes about the divine love between Radha and Krishna.  His canvasses reveal celebration of that eternal love in apt arenas through romantic relationships which are beyond physical.  These works in mix media display the proper mood and aesthetics that surround the divine bodies.  Mystique created in the work due to sentimental attachment between the divine couple and various colour shades as well as tonal harmony create the desired visual effect of ecstasy on all viewers due to the equilibrium and resonance of various ingredients in the apt arenas and perspectives of visual arts.  

Subrata Paul :  His works in bronze embellished with wood reveal modern concept of texture and have the desired visual effect.  His works illustrate human beings and animal forms of activities.  These also display various playful moods of human beings and their active association with living creatures in this world through various action and activities in apt arenas and perspectives of art. 

Jehangir Art Gallery

From: 11^th to 17^th January 2022

THE FABULOUS -9

An Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures

By

Amit Bhar, Arvind Mahajan, B.B. Dutta, Goutam Mukherjee, Rajendra Pradhan, Ravi Mishra, Samir Sarkar, Subrata Das and Subrata Paul

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

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Breaking News: Mrs. Sunita Wadhawan at 48 has once again underlined the off repeated saying that age is just a number.

Mrs. Sunita Sunil Wadhawan, is the new title holder of Mrs. India Maharashtra and Mrs. India one in a million 2021. She participated in the beauty pageant Mrs. India one in a million season 2, a platform given to housewives to showcase their talents.

Mrs. Sunita Wadhawan 

Mrs. Sunita Wadhawan at 48 has once again underlined the off repeated saying that age is just a number.The beauty pageant was organized by Prashant Choudhary and Swati Dixit, founders of Tiska Pageant. There was an overwhelming response to this event, in which around 103 contestants keenly fought for the number one position.Mrs. Sunita accepted the challenge and participated in the competition to showcase her talent on such a big platform. She proudly says that her husband Sunil Ramlal Wadhawan has always been supportive in all her ventures.

With whole hearted support of her parents and family she grabbed this opportunity with both hands to prove to the world that she is a multifaceted personality. In this pageant she has some more titles like “Beautiful Smile, Beautiful Skin, Glamorous and Mrs. Maharashtra 2021. She candidly gives credit to Yoga for making her worthy of all such achievements. She participated in the International Yoga Day event when she painted her body to gel with the Yogasanas which she performed for about 3 hours. She has to her credit the award on Surya Namaskar in one go.

She believes that beautiful mind resides in a beautiful body. As a nation building measure she is imparting the knowledge of yoga to one and all without any reservation. She conducted training programmes for Phetari Village School, Shradhanand Orphanage and at other places also.Besides being an ardent follower of Yoga she holds masters degrees in Fine Arts also. She has held exhibitions of her creations in the reputed Art Galleries world over like Royal Art Gallery London, Jahangir Art Gallery Mumbai and Darda Art Gallery Nagpur to name the fews.

She is now preparing herself for the Mrs. World Pageant which is going to be held in the next year.

For a personality like Mrs. Sunita Wadhawan sky is the limit.

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