Pin Poster : Jehangir Art Gallery

This photography exhibition, in Mumbai's premier art space, shares some of the most iconic images from the so I asked them to smile project.

 So I asked them to smile (soiaskedthemtosmile.com) is a popular ongoing international photography project that explores the smiles of strangers. This December 20, for the first time, it comes off the screen and into the Jehangir Art gallery. As a project incubated in Mumbai, India, it was important to share it here first. So I asked them to smile has been received in dozens of languages and featured in Better Photography Magazine, The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Design Taxi, The Daily Mail, Bento, and National Geographic Poland. 

Come, say hello, and smile.

BEING ‘HER’ by Swati Sabale

BEING ‘HER’ She sits, crouched, pensive and lost in her thoughts or talks in hushed whispers to her companions, almost inaudible, cocooned in her space. Swati Sabale’s present body of paintings revolve around womanhood, a theme which the artist has been preoccupied for a while now. In solitude or in groups, the women appear in varied situations, offering a slice of their feminine world filled with its dichotomies of strengths and insecurities, highs and lows, pleasures and pain, deference and insinuations.

Swati fleshes out her characters from her surroundings, women on board the Mumbai local train, or a remote hamlet near Pune, her relatives and friends, her own journey into adulthood, encounters with the feminine gender across multiple strata of Indian society, and even recent social and political events that have made headlines. The voluminous figures and heads are always encased in a painterly grid, which the artist believes to play both formal and metaphorical role, providing for a structure and representing the boundaries of the feminine domain. The woman is constantly warned not to overstep these limits, though, in changing times, the woman of today is ‘given’ more freedom. Drawn with an assured hand which reflects Swati’s predilection for portraiture, the women with half closed eyes, and drooping shoulders seem hesitant to share their very private world. She has the fortitude to seek sustenance and joy within the limits of the demarcations, balancing her multifarious roles as a wife, mother, daughter in a male chauvinist society. 

The artist prepares the canvas surfaces by dripping, dabbing, smearing and even flinging analogues colour hues. The flow of acrylic colours, applied in diaphanous overlays, augments in building up a sense of mystery and ambiguity. Questions are raised in the viewer’s mind- Are these women happy? Are they content? What exactly bothers them? For Swati, life is an enormous canvas of experiences which are intertwined complicatedly, unpredictable and absurd, yet purposeful and alluring and her paintings reflect these perspectives.

Dr. Manisha Patil 

December 2017 Artist and Art Historian Professor, 

Art history Sir. J.J. School of Art, Mumbai

Pin Poster : Art Gate Mumbai

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

NGMA Mumbai

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ministry of Culture, Government of India  & Sakshi Gallery, cordially invite you to the inauguration of "Sub-Plots: Laughing in the Vernacular Exhibition" on Friday, 08th December 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

Kindly find e-invite for the inauguration and curatorial walk appended below for your reference

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CARNAL MORPHOSIS- A MYSTRY, MAGIC AND MESMERISER. - Pankaja JK

My self Grishma Pankaj Mali was bron at Kurundwada, on August 11, 1996 but my childhood was spent at my native place Ichalkaranji. I was always passionate about painting right from childhood and at last after 10^thstd, I got my freedom to nurture my passion of painting and I took steps towards development of my art and for that I took admission in Pune’s ‘Kala Mahavidyalaya’.

Painting has its own individual existence and life. Artist struggles to input the emotions; give a particular form to each creation. Likewise I too painted various forms in my paintings, but my inner spontaneous desire germinated as the creator of erotic images or sexually provoked bodily reactions, I began to probe deeply into this subject to know more about it. I tried to bind sensitive and voluminous lines in my drawing by studying and cogitation of source code of bodily enhancement and development, its rhythm, movement, harmony, muscles and arteries. My creations appear to express my views. If ever I think of any relevant medium for my creations then I feel I am only the closest one to my paintings because my thoughts, incidences that happen around me and my experiences form the subject of my work. Environs around me prove as a booster to my subject. Also, my friend Kapil Alaskar has been helping me in every way. While discussing work, we both always agree with each other’s views. Since, I have always trodden on the path that he did, stepped on his foot marks, he has made me understand many important things. Many a times he became my comrade, wherever the need be, he becomes my Guru (teacher). And he is always there with me to live and make me enjoy bounding and art. 

Recent Digital work by Grishma Mali

I create my artwork by taking into consideration the fact that a body can express so much by gesticulating and even by remaining potential. I keep this theory in my mind and therefore my artwork changes according to the changes in my life. The routine life and its experience was not enough for enhancing my subject, so I had to create more romantic temper in myself and I realized that showing erotic or romantic images gives liveliness to the creation. This makes the observer understand my images and my vibes stimulate him/her. This effect of liveliness started being effective only after the live experiences of reality poured in the artworks. 

Recent Digital work by Grishma Mali

Nudity and romance in my paintings and artistic advances cannot be adored by applying scholarly mind to understand them, but can be appreciated considering it important as an individual experience. Its taste, touch and essence have to be relished gently. My paintings shape up naturally by savoring this taste.

Recent Digital work by Grishma Mali

As I progressed in developing my subject, I could feel variations in the images, in the sense vision was developing to search and find clitoris in the painting. Along with it, the experiments done on myself made me use images of my legs because there were and are movements in it and by amalgamating some fruits and their texture I created a human body and thus, formed my images. There is one common association and that is, the body fuzz or hair on the body, which is common between the both, human body and fruits. This is the only common association in my paintings.

As I felt the need to be different, in some images I presented male and female in individual romantic mood and gestures to enrich its beauty. Some lines or images in these paintings can also be presumed as my own feelings.

Pankaja JK

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Prof. Vishwanath Sabale has a vision to carry these impressions with his comments through his paintings.

There are lot of metamorphic structures in nature around us that are being destroyed rapidly.  Being the Dean, Sir J. J. School of Art and a sensitive, mature landscape painter, Prof. Vishwanath Sabale has a vision to carry these impressions with his comments through his paintings.

The mountain range of the Western Ghats is a belt of basalt rock, which has the tendency of being etched upon by sea water. This results in circular pot-like contours being formed in Harihareshwar and around. These natural forms in basalt rocks with flora and fauna fascinates a nature lover like Prof. Sabale, inspiring him to paint them in a simplified manner. He cleverly captures the ethos with unusual shades of blues and fresh greens, sometimes with small quantity of yellows, on canvas and paper with a number of transparent layers of pigment.

Recent work by Vishwanath Sabale

Being a nature lover, he has travelled extensively in NaneGhat, MaalshejGhat, Bheemashankar and Junner regions. All these areas are enriched with forts, hilltops, colourful trees with attractive forms and a serene solitude that is the perfect foil for a creative soul. The artist is beguiled to put brush to canvas to capture the ethereal and the real.


Huge rock-cut, steep hillsides, valleys and nature’s ravages turn into beautiful, soul-stirring imagery as Sabale applies acrylic colours as watercolour washes to obtain the transparency of the delicate colour-palette of nature. 

Recent work by Vishwanath Sabale

He laments the rise of brutal changes in nature – especially due to rampant urbanisation. The felling of trees, destruction of parks… to make way for man-made structures manifests in some of his art as he portrays the changing profile of metros via vivid textures attuned to the relevance of the landscape-like forms. Nature’s devastation for and by human indulgence results in chaos and unrest in human living. This is his concern as a painter and he depicts this very pressing concern, making an appeal through his paintings to save the environment and keep it intact.

Prof. Sabale’sArchaeographs are the visual form of such relationships with the remains of the past – that induce nostalgia; and still maintain the same interests in the modern world with concern. All his works are powerful painterly reactions to the surrounds.


Text by

SHRIRAM KHADILKAR.

Pin Poste : NGMA: Mumbai

 National Gallery of Modern Art, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India in collaboration with Art Musings cordially invite you to a book release on "Sakti Burman's Art" by Ranjit Hoskote on 18th Nov, 2017 at NGMA Auditorium, 2nd floor, at 6:00 pm.