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,

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

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