PIN POSTER : 13th Jehangir Art Gallery

Jehangir Art Gallery is an art gallery in Mumbai. It was founded by Sir Cowasji Jehangir at the urging of K. K. Hebbar and Homi Bhabha. It was built in 1952. Managed by the Committee of Management, the entire cost of this mansion was donated by Cowasji Jehangir

Rare Poem by Pankaja Jk 2010

आमच मात्र ....

सर्व धर्म सम भाव,

गरिबाला खायला वडा पाव 

आमच मात्र सर्व धर्म समभाव .

गरिबीची भीती आम्हा नाही 

आत्महत्य्ने जनतेचे तसे नुकसान नाही,

अहो, अश्या गोष्टींचा आमच्या गावी नाही ठाव,

आमच फक्त एकच ....सर्व धर्म समभाव ....

आतुर माता प्रवासी लेकाच्या चिंतेत,

शेतकऱ्याची काळी आई उगवी न शेत, 

पोट लागले पाठीशी म्हणून गेलो  परदेशी 

महागाई वाढली आता येऊ कसा परतुनी?

अशी ही तुटती घरे आणि व्याकूळ मने,

अरे, अश्या गोष्टींचं आम्हाला काय राव,

आमचं एकच उद्धिष्ट...सर्व धर्म ....

मारतात त्यांना मारू द्या

जगतात त्यांना लाडू द्या 

आमच्या इच्चा पुरती साठी 

लोकांच्या जीवनाची राख- रांगोळी होऊ द्या 

आम्ही नाही कोणास मारले

आमचे हात बघा नाही माखले

मग हा  दोष आम्ही कशा पाई घ्यावा, लेकहो,

आमचा आहे एकच द्य्ह्यास,

सर्व धर्म समभाव हो!

भारतात आहेत जाती हजार 

सर्वांनाच काही न काही त्रास

आम्ही त्यांना बघतो एकाच दृष्टीकोनातून

सगळयांनसाठीच आसवे आमची गेली सुकून, 

मतदानासाठी किती येतील ह्यात आम्ही चिंतातूर,

सर्वांनी यावं हा आपलाच देश, हे आपलंच गाव

इथे कोणी ना परकं, इथे सर्व समान,

कारण, इथे....सर्व धर्म समभाव...

पंकजा. JK

2010

PIN POSTER : 1st Nov 2018 Art Gate Gallery

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

Exhibition Date : 13th to 19th November 2018 Time: 11am to 7pm Jehangir Art Gallery Auditorium Hall

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INVITATION:13th Nov-2018, 4pm.

HONEYCOMB
MUMBAI +DELHI + KOLKATA + GOA + RATANAGIRI
GROUP SHOW

You are invited for the grand opening of HONYCOMB, A group show by 9 Artists at Jehangir Art Gallery,

Tathi Premchand I Raj Bhandare I Santosh Kalbande I Nilesh Shilkar I Vinita Dasgupta I
Srabani Sarkar I Kumar Ranjan I Tushar Potdar I Vishal Pawar

13th November 2018 : Exhibition open at 4pm on
Exhibition Date : 13th to 19th November 2018 Time: 11am to 7pm

Jehangir Art Gallery Auditorium Hall
161B, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, India.

Datura — Shahid Datawala's second solo exhibition at TARQ.

It is with great pleasure that I write to you about our next exhibition Datura — Shahid Datawala's second solo exhibition at TARQ.

This exhibition continues to highlight Datawala’s preoccupations with light, nature and the everyday. Featuring images taken over the last several months in Mumbai and Paris, this series looks at flowers and plants not only as objects, but almost as separate characters in a story.

Please find attached the invite and press release for the show. It would be wonderful to have you join us for the preview which will be at TARQ on Thursday, October 11, 6.30 pm onward.

In case you need further information including images, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. Looking forward to hearing from you soon, and if you're in town, I hope to see you at the preview!

Warm Regards,     

Lipika

Art Gate Gallery- Mumbai115, Jamshedji Tata Road, 1st Floor, Above Satyam Collection, Next to Eros Cinema, Churchgate, Mumbai, India 400020

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

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.

PIN POSTER : PUNE

Maharashtra Cultural Centre

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

Pune-411030, Maharashtra, India

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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