"VOY-AGE" Solo Show of Paintings By Well-known artist Swati Roy in Nehru Centre Art Gallery

Recent work of a luminary from Govt College of Art and Craft and a renowned contemporary artist Swati Roy will be showcased in a solo art exhibition at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Dr. Annie BesantRoad, Worli, Mumbai 400 018 from 19^th to 25^th November 2024. It will be open there for free public viewing daily between 11am to 7pm. This series made in watercolours on art paper using Gouche technique will exemplify subtle nuances of her skillful application of apt colours in thoughtful pragmatic thematic perceptions.

Artist: Swati Roy

Swati Roy had her art education upto diploma in fine arts followed by diploma in Indian style drawing and painting from Govt. College of Art and craft, Kolkata. Then she displayed her thematic work in solo and group art exhibitions at renowned galleries all over India such as Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi etc.

The present series VOY-AGE highlights subtle nuances of the thematic conceptualizations based on fundamental concepts and their skillful application via apt colour tones to suit thematic peculiarities. Her works have a magical sensibility via essence of both Indian and Western arts. Perfections in her style command over the medium and techniques   adopted and expertise in presenting non figurative abstraction compositions are commendable. Her work is in the genre of classic modernism and expressionism which are bold pictorials of her deepest thought. Her thoughts & Inspiration received from nature find a prominent place in the creative endeavors.

Her faith in phenomenal nature as the ultimate source of forms and configuration, duly reflects in the creation by selection of the recollected memories of the observed contents as configuration of colour-masses with shapes defined by contour lines on dimensional pictorial surface divided into flat colour areas. These shapes and spaces being the residues of images of the phenomenal terrains, sky, land, roads, plants etc become expressive. The various contour lines with which she encloses the shapely colour masses endow the shapes with a strange kind of organic rhythm thereby rendering expressionism to the work. In a way her works are at a junction between representationalism, formalism and expressionism. She has adopted suggestive colours and common symbols upheld by plastic rhythm and inventive shapes. The insistent flowing vegetative rhythms of semi-abstract and abstract combinations find a significant place in her creations which are both eloquent and lucid as well as thematically relevant.

VOY-AGE

Solo Show of Paintings

By

Renowned artist Swati Roy

From: 19^th to 25^th November 2024

VENUE:

Nehru Centre Art Gallery

Dr. Annie Besant Road,

Worli, Mumbai 400 018

Timining: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 8910812801

Blue city’s -‘The Poetic Soul’ Recent Works by contemporary well-known artist Madan Pawar in Jehangir

Madan Pawar does not abstract human settlements but rather renders them in shapes and hues that celebrate the ingenuity of those who build them despite the challenge of poverty and space. Skylines are not always tall towers - flat roofs or Chaths as they are called in India are communal places. The hues of the walls of the city of Jodhpur even though they are coloured convivial blue  to protect from the sun they also serve as caste markers. Behind the immense beauty of Rajasthan there are deep divisions of caste and its continuous celebration.

Artist: Madan Pawar

 

An art school research trip to Rajasthan is when Madan Pawar discovered Jodhpur.  Jodhpur is a city on the edge of the Thar desert from where wades of sand extend across  the districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer  into Pakistan until the fort towns of Umerkot in Tharparkar and Derawar in Bahawalpur.  This is the region of the Marwar and the Dhatki, a community with a distinct language,  ways of society,  cuisine, music and clothing all attuned to the desert.  A distinct frugality is seen in the way of life and thus are the ways of living.  Homes are mud houses built of red stone created to insulate against the hot summers and cold winds of the winters.  

Recent painting by  Madan Pawar

On the slopes of the Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur just above the grid like  modern city built by the Maharajas in the 20th century is the old city.  Here different castes inhabit different quarters called Mohallas.  Each one of them is adjacent to a gate or a Pol.  We have people working with bamboo,  the dyers making the distinct multic-oloured bandhani turbans and sarees,  the sonars or goldsmiths gather on many thoroughfares and the Brahmins who hold pockets across these places give name to the city -  the Blue City.  Fortunately in the Republic of India people are free to not use colour as a social class or caste marker and the colour blue is the hue for social reform.  The homes across Jodhpur are made of a lime mortar called 'Surkhi Choona',  the blue glaze comes from the copper sulphate used in the lime mortar to protect it from termites.  This use of indigo forms the colours of the walls giving the panorama from the fort a distinct azure tint as we see the homes gather around the slopes.

 

Madan Pawar is a trained painter and printmaker from the Sir JJ School of Arts,  Mumbai and is an artist drawn to forms that allow him to explore colour using the prisms of grids.  His aerial studies are formed through grids of architecture that allow him to fill in colour that form patterns which are magical to the eye.  Landscape painting holding realism in perspective was introduced through the colonial schools of art in the 18th century. In Rajasthan miniature painting across the Rajput schools, have a surreal magical rendition to represent divinity, myth and fantasy.  Madan Pawar to paint Jodhpur takes cues from Paul Cezanne's fauvist landscapes of Mediterranean towns in the south of France.  Towns around Avignon,  Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Les Baux dès Provence and Aix-Marseille hold similar planning in terms of inhabitants and architectural structures - saving the inhabitants from the many days of the sun.  Jodhpur has the most number of bright days in India and one look at the old city from the vantage point of the Mehrangarh fort we see the number of solar panels air-conditioning tourist homestays that most old city houses today serve as in the 21str century. 

Recent painting by  Madan Pawar

Madan is not a painter defined by fauvism,  in fact his images have sharp edges and boxes that justle each other on geometric angles.  The effect almost is a prism Vasarely would have been envious of but it is one that arrives after a lengthy three month use of technique,  precision and a personal colour theory.  The juxtaposition with   colour to form scapes that hold a very pleasing sight to the city by forming  a spectrum of patterns  is very unique.  I have known Madan over the last 15 years as an artist and it has surprised me how he has grown as a painter.  He has worked with architects to closer align his practice to them by helping them reimagine folk architecture.  They often commission him to work on projects where they are re-interpreting Indian architecture and its resonances with materiality.  Paul Cezanne's renditions  of Mont Sainte-Victoire (1904 - 06) the mountain that overlooks Aix en Provence and separates it from Marseille is where the Cezanne finds himself in his painting practice.  Madan Pawar's renditions of 'Jodhpore en Azur Bleue'  in many hues, shapes and colour holds the light an artist seeks in his painting.  

  

 

Sumesh-Manoj-Sharma

writer and curator, Bombay.

Press Release

From: 19^th to 25^th November 2024

Blue city’s -‘The Poetic Soul’

Recent Works by contemporary well-known artist

Madan Pawar 

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M. G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9765504620

 

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“Rhythm of City Life” Solo Show of Paintings well-Known artist Vaibhav Thakur

Recent work of a well-known artist, Vaibhav Thakur will be showcased in a solo art exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai - 400001 from 12th to 18th Nov. 2024. It will be open for between 11am to 7pm. This series in Acrylic colour on canvas will exemplify the subtle nuances of the dynamism of urban City life in a metropolitan city like Mumbai and relevance as well as sanctity of its rhythm in apt perspectives of visual Arts. 

 

Artist : Vaibhav Thakur

Vaibhav Thakur had his art education at L.S. Raheja School of Arts, Bandra, Mumbai followed by an advanced course at Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai. He was a proud recipient of several awards from reputed Art promotional institutions since his student days and early phase of his art Journey. He has been working as a teaching faculty in Vasai Vikasini College of Visual Art, Vasai Since 2001. He has presented his thematic work in several reputed art galleries in solo and group exhibitions in Mumbai, New Delhi etc. He has actively participated in many art camps, demonstrations and workshops organized by reputed art promotional institutions and thereby rendered his yeoman services for propagation of visual arts in the present art scenario. His thematic works are in a proud collection of several art lovers and collectors of national and international reputation.

 

The present series in acrylic colours on canvas focuses on his artistic perceptions about the pulse of urban struggle to highlight the unseen struggle of city workers and the unrelenting pace of urban life in a metropolitan city like Mumbai. He has also revealed his thematic perceptions that delve into the unseen struggles of the city. He has shed light on the often overlooked lives of city workers from early morning tiffin services to the late night shifts in industries.  The various artworks capture the frenetic energy of the city, where speed and efficiency are of paramount importance at the cost of human labour and hard work. He narrates the highlights of the struggle and resilience of various workers who keep the cities running often without recognition or respite.

 

He has mostly highlighted ' Tiffin Service' a poignant depiction of early morning rush for a scramble to deliver Lunches to offices across the city, 'Cycle of Life' A vibrant series capturing speed and energy of city streets showing cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles in coexistence with one another and City Lights - A haunting depiction of nocturnal city life where workers toil late into the night often unseen and unappreciated or somewhat to some extent ignored by all. 

Various works shown in this art exhibition showcase unique story of city life from Chaotic streets to the quiet moments of introspection and resilience to indicate the rhythms of urban life in apt perspectives of visual arts.

VENUE

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001

Timing: 11am to 7pm