‘VISCERAL REALMS’Solo Show of Paintings By Well-known artist Hina Bhatt

This show will be inaugurated on 4th April 2023 at 5pm by Chief Guest Mr. Ashish Shanker(Managing Director & CEO - Motilal Oswal Private Wealth), With Blessings from Shri. Sumant Shukla in the presence of Special Guests Prof. Anant Nikam(Eminent Artist), Prof. Vishwanath Sabale(Dean-Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai), Shri. Prakash Ghadge(Eminent Artist), Shri. Milind Mulick(Eminent Artist)

Artist Hina Bhatt

Stupendous Visceral Realms Exhibition Opens at Nehru Centre Art Gallery “Man expresses himself through art,” said Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941); nature is beautiful, but Tagore expounds that “beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.” And it is this love that draws artist and viewer alike to HinaBhatt’s work. The tangible painting is the manifestation of this interactive experience.Bhatt’s solo exhibition, Visceral Realms is inspired by trees, and her renditions are distinctive because they are so visceral. The visceral realms are where Bhatt lives artistically and what she expresses through brush and paint on canvas.

The exhibition features a collection of oil paintings on canvas, as well as some of Bhatt’s pen drawings. Nature, the common theme, ties the variant together. This may seem a simple theme at first glance, but there is deeper research, deeper dissection of both modes, by the artist. The drawings appear to interrogate the roots—the strength—of the trees. Bhatt’s art is perhaps a quest to understand the metaphysics of these roots. Her pen drawings could be viewed as her self-portraits, in which she attempts to understand her internal roots and how they connect her to the universe. 

This exhibition is curated by Vilas Tonape, a U.S.-based Indian artist who is a professor at Methodist University. He knows the high quality of the art being presented. “Bhatt’s works resonate because of her sincere studio practice, and it is unequivocally her deepest interrogation of nature and trees that manifests on canvas,” states Tonape. Bhatt is astute and deeply philosophical, and her excellence is backed by a sound formal education—a diploma in Textile Designing from Mumbai’s well-known Nirmala Niketan, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the prestigious Stella Maris College of Fine Arts, Chennai.

Bhatt currently resides in Pune, the cultural capital of Maharashtra. The influence of the city’s richness is apparent in Bhatt and her affinity for culture, which permeates her art. Bhatt’s work has been recognized and celebrated in many important exhibitions throughout India, Dubai, Bangladesh, and Nepal. 

The exhibition is free and open to public. Gallery visiting hours are 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily from April 5-10, 2023. A formal reception will be held the evening of April 4 at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai.

From: 4th to 10th April 2023

‘VISCERAL REALMS’Solo Show of Paintings By Well-known artist Hina Bhatt

VENUE:

Nehru Centre Art GalleryDiscovery of India BuildingDr. Annie Besant RoadWorli, Mumbai  400 018.

Timing: 11am to 7pm.Contact: +91 97669 27455www.hinabhatt.com

New solo - Save Date Transformative Metaphor - SOLO SHOW by Pabitra Pal

 

New solo - Save Date

Transformative Metaphor - SOLO SHOW by Pabitra Pal

Preview 

4th April - 5pm to 8pm  - 

Open: 2nd April 2023 to 6th April 2023  - Time: 3 to 7pm

Curated by Moumita Sarkar

view at catalog on- www.nippongallery.com

RSVP: + 91 9820510599 / Nippon Gallery: on info@nippongallery.com

Nippon Gallery: 30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers, Nana Bhai Lane, Flora Fountain, Fort, Mumbai – 400 001, India.

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KHAYAAL( RUMINATION) An Exhibition of Drawings by artist Vaibhav Naik

 

Artist: Vaibhav Naik

Artist statement

I am a classically trained artist, working to explore an emotion of what exists in front of me at a given moment, using the technical and aesthetic experience I have gathered/garnered.

Over the years, I trained under the guidance of various mentors using different approaches. This has had a great impact on my artistic view and life experience.

With my work, I am trying to decipher the subject in an abstract way even though the final result is representational. In terms of my process, I like to rework areas and improvise till I am satisfied with the expression I am looking for. This allows me to constantly search for a design which is timeless and the artwork appeals to a wider audience whether they are an art connoisseur or not.

My roots are important to me and I believe that one can find answers in their roots. So, at present, I have chosen to experiment and express through drawing as a medium. With each project, I like to challenge myself so that I can keep growing as an artist. One such way is how can I harmonize various materials such as charcoal, graphite, white chalk, acrylics and pastels in my drawings.  This is why I have also chosen this medium for my current show ‘Khayal’

I don’t feel the need to follow trends in society, because I am looking to be honest to my practice and what I enjoy. And in the process if the viewer can connect with it, I think that’s when art happens.

Biography

Vaibhav Naik b.1992 native of Mumbai, India inspired by his older brother started his art education in 2010. He graduated from J.J School of Art with specialisation in illustration in 2015.

His major influences that made his interest shift to fine art were Prof. Vilas Tonape and eminent Artist Vijay Achrekar. He also served as an assistant to both artist for 5 years which taught him various approaches towards representative art. During this period, he exhibited in various shows across the country along with having 4 solo shows. He his various awards to his credit Most recently, he was awarded a Bronze Medal in 2021 Annual Competition, Art Society of India.

He is currently working as a principal instructor at Samsara Academy of Art, Hyderabad.

 

This exhibition will be inaugurated on 20^th March, 2023 at 4 pm. At Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai by Chief Guests – Gazal Nawaz Shri. Bhimrao Panchale &   Eminent Artist – Mr. Vijay Achrekar in presence of many art lovers, patrons etc.

Press Release

From: 20^th to 26^th March 2023

KHAYAAL(RUMINATION)                                                     

An Exhibition of Drawings by artist Vaibhav Naik

 

VENUE:

Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery

Ground Floor,  Bajaj Bhavan,

226 Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: 8879175969

www.vaibhavnaikfineart.com

An Exhibition of Photographs by Kabeer Ramesh “Frozen in Time” - Jehangir Art Gallery -From: 15th to 28th March 2023

 The field of photography, is a highly developed art form that has passed through various stages of development in its century long history determined by the technological transformation from film to digital formats and evolved through human effort and genius into the present form. Though one can feel and experience the beauty and joy of the art but it requires some expertise to venture into an informed appreciation.    

Kabeer Ramesh

 Kabeer’s Photography has a span of different locations, though historically important such as from Parise to Berlin, Shillong, Meghalaya, Assam, to Saputara in Gujarat and then in Mumbai Pune etc. 

To begin with your work is characterised by vividness and attention to diversity – of contexts, themes, time, moods, etc.  

 I am specifically charmed by the three photographs – of a child, an elderly woman and an old worker. Needless to say the context of them unambiguously and elegantly provide the cultural and social background - being urban, Maharastrian. The little girl looking up at the sky captures her innocent enchantment with something left to us to guess or imagine. The woman roasting corn on coals with details of container, corns and other vessels seeks to capture an important aspect of the urban life. The elderly worker who could be a dubbawala or hamal or porter presents a countenance that reflects the hard reality of a worker weather beaten as the wrinkles on his face bear witness to. The unity of art and life ought to form the centrality of any genuine art.  

 The remaining photographs capture the different sites and symbols of old and new. In this collection, the presence of Socrates is eminently relevant as Socratic vision premised on the centrality of ‘Reason’ and its primacy over emotions, ‘appetites’, desires presents hope  in the dystopian reality we find ourselves increasingly engulfed in. Socratic dialogic tradition of affirmation, contestation and resolution can help us in reasoning a way out of our predicaments, dilemmas and enigmas. Photography as an art form can be an important mode of argumentation and thereby engage us in positive dialogue.

 

Professor Srinivasulu Karli

University of Hyderabad

From: 15th to 28th March 2023

“Frozen in Time”

An Exhibition of Photographs by Kabeer Ramesh

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Terrace Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda

Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: 9920072573

www.kabeerphotoart.com

 

This exhibition was inaugurated on 15th March 2023 by Adv. Jayant Gaikwad, IAS(Retired), in the presence of  Ms. Alexandra Mockel (Leipzig University, Germany) and many others.