AWADH ART FESTIVAL – The 5th Edition Of AAF Was Recently Held At Visual Arts Gallery New Delhi

AWADH ART FESTIVAL (AAF) – the 5th edition of AAF was recently held at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 2nd to 6th February 2023 –  A fabulous  5 day  immersive experience for ART AFICIONADOS  and all ART LOVERS  ! Culture plays an important role in the development of any nation. It represents a set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices. Culture and creativity manifest themselves in almost all economic, social and other activities. A country as diverse as India is symbolized by the plurality of its culture. The 5th AAF was planned to take art to a more creative level to commemorate 75 years of independence and the glorious history of it’s people, culture and achievements. This exhibition show cased contemporary, abstract and figurative arts in various mediums of 82 artists from all around India and Bangladesh. More engaging features ( i.e. Story Telling by Kamini Jauhar,  Art Talk by the famous Manuu Mansheet and his team of experts, Re Living Batik by Vinay Singh and The Story of Calligraphy by Raghunita Gupta ) were introduced to help build cultural awareness and help artists from all over India to come together, interact, get inspired and thus expand the scope of their own art form. It was indeed wonderful to see the 5th AAF was bless by the powerful presence of Dr.Sonal Mansingh, Mrs. Ratan Kaul (the festival advisor to AAF), Mr. Suvir Saran ((the Collaborator to AAF), H. E  Mrs. Daniela Sezonov Tane (Ambassador of Romania to India), Mr. Uday Mahurkar, Mr. Sunit Tandon, Ridhima Kansal, Maneesh Baheti, Ajay Jain, Dr.Blossom Kochhar, Mr. Kamal Modi, Mrs. Anita Singh  and Ms. Gunjan Goela.Furthermore, the most interesting thing was to see Artists like Sakti Burman, Jatin Das and Subodh Gupta musing at the art works and taking time to interact with all artists and AAF team members Rritu Goel, Rashi...

THE WANDERING SHADOW An Exhibition Of Paintings By Contemporary Artist Milind Limbekar In Jehangi

31st January to 6th February 2023 “The Wandering Shadow” An Exhibition of Paintings by contemporary artist Milind Limbekar VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda , Mumbai  – 400 001 Timing: 11am to 7pm Contact: +91 9423680511, 8999722709 This exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. Sudhir Mungantiwar( Minister of Cultural Affairs, Forest, Fisheries, Government of Maharashtra in the presence of many art dignitaries. The Wandering Shadow The wandering of mind and soul needs some place to open up. My recent series of paintings has got such space to explore. The present moment, has always a dual feeling of present and absent. The missing moment always travel with us and our wandering mind gets attracted to those whom you feel shall be yours. These missing moments are what I call shadow, they are almost everywhere. The animals in the painting are representation of curbed desires, the anthropomorphic forms that appears comes from anxiousness and split personality which is subtle and dramatic. No wonder the dramatization id shown always in night scenes because they are always hidden like mystery. You have to search and understand them the most vulnerable part in my work is the expression and gestures. I still feel it as incomplete process because the concept of my painting is abstract and can be better represented in abstract manner. ———-Milind Limbekar          THE WANDERING SHADOW An Exhibition Of Paintings By Contemporary Artist Milind Limbekar In...

THE MYSTERY CULT An Exhibition Of Paintings By Contemporary Artist Sachin Sagare

31st January to 6th February 2023 “The Mystery Cult” An Exhibition of Paintings by contemporary artist Sachin Sagare VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda , Mumbai  – 400 001 Timing: 11am to 7pm Contact: +91 9011251869 www.sachinsagare.com This show was inaugurated on 31st January 2023 by Chief Guest Hon. Parvez Damania in the presence of Vinita Mirchandani and many others. The Mystery Cult These new paintings by Sachin Sagare, like his previous body of work, arrives in a headlong rush of invention festooned upon a canny theme, in this case the female body in nature. He places groups of rural women worshippers; he names them as nymphs, dryads and goddesses into clearings in deep, dark background, thus activating irresistible tropes of an Indian painting tradition meant for royals. A more occult art comes to mind in these unkempt, unruly wildernesses, one which begins with the temple women. The large acrylic paintings in the exhibition swirl chorus of graphically insistent folk women, white blossoms and filigreed stalks that recalls the backyard raptures of rural India. Sagare’s glades are uninhabited; their everyday ecstatic includes luminous beings, spirits of the feminine whose spare, archaic profiles float among the flowers. Faces, flowers, oil lamps and puja-thalis  are painted with a kind of folk-art zeal while the cerulean temple walls behind, solidly modeled then dematerialized by dancing layers of sprayed pigment, is appealingly contrary in color, scale and attack. Sagare’s experimental approach to mark-making thick or thin, macro or micro, tight or loose, brushed, sprayed or sponged goes for both background and figures. In one his paintings a lone woman in a classical pose is incised in green against the mottled background like a fading figure on a krater. Also cut from traditional lines, in this case black, are five hollow women in mystery cult, who seem to be lost, while by contrast, in the other work the three women...

MUSICAL VIBES 5th Solo Exhibition Of Paintings By Well-Known Artist Yadnyesh Shirwadkar In Jehangir

From: 18th to 24th October 2022 “MUSICAL VIBES” 5th Solo Exhibition of Paintings By well-known artist Yadnyesh Shirwadkar   VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda Mumbai 400 001 Timing: 11am to 7pm Contact: 9820144640 / 9920144640 www.shirwadkar.com   MUSICAL VIBES Recent work of a well known artist, Yadnyesh Shirwadkar is showing  in a solo art show at Jehangir art gallery, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 from 18th to 24th October 2022 between 11 am. To 7 pm. This series in acrylic colours on Canvas exemplifies subtle nuances of the rhythm of music and its relevance / sanctity in life in order to enable a human being to enjoy the nectar and elixir of eternal divinity in apt perspectives of visual arts. Yadnyesh Shirwadkar had his art education upto B.V.A. at M.S. University, Baroda. Then he received advanced art education at University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia leading to  Graduate diploma in Art (print making) followed by Master of Arts (Painting). He showcased his thematic work on Music and its relevance in human life in many solo and group art shows at leading art galleries at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Sydney, Ratnagiri etc.  He also participated in many art camps arranged by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy followed by similar participation in several art workshops / camps and related art activities. He often received good public response and appreciations from the present art world for his presentations, in various art galleries and exhibitions organised by charitable trusts/ foundations etc. His works are in collection of many renowned art collectors – both Indian as well as International.      The present series envisages his apt illustration of the very essence of Music viz. Harmony and Rhythm and its omnipresent relevance/ sanctity in the life of any human being for his peaceful and meaningful existence in this world. Music has its own characteristic uniqueness that enables one to forget his...

Au Fils Du Temps – Over A Passage Of Time – AQUARELLES BY Renowned Artist Subhash Awchat

From: 13th October to 15th November 2022 AU FILS DU TEMPS | OVER A PASSAGE OF TIME AQUARELLES BY Renowned artist Subhash Awchat  VENUE:  Art & Soul 11, Madhuli, Shivsagar Estate Worli, Mumbai – 40018 Contact: (022) 2496 5798/ 2493 0522 / 8080055450 www.galleryartnsoul.com  What happens when you search solitude within the construct of an artistic practice? Subhash Awchat’s present series of watercolours is a reflection of time, its structure, not measured by a watch but one that is witnessed when we fall humble into a magnificent landscape. In French we would say “aquarelles au fils du temps” or watercolours over the passage of time. We now face an artist with age. Loneliness is a facet of time. The pandemic allowed us to face our interiority with great intimacy. Awchat was left alone without access to his acrylics or his canvases.  A pad of watercolour paper was all that he had access to.  A pad gifted to his grandson and for colours he had basic watercolours that were fabricated here in India. The command on colour and form-forming is urgent when the brush touches the paper you need to draw with water or the images turn to smudges. Awchat displayed much ability in handling colour and form. He changed his palette. Illness in old age is always a transformation. Subhash has spent time near a lake in Bhor on the Western Ghats of Maharashtra. This plateau-esque terrain with valleys and a reservoir is stationary in time. Watercolours from here capture Awchat’s view of the Sky as blue.  He sees homes dwarfed under the horizon of the Sun. His monk-like figures run under colourful buntings that have affinities of form with geometrical abstraction. We realise how he uses space in his canvases; a particular work divided the paper into a palette of pastels. He is not using ochre. Brown is not to...

The RHAPSODY 2022 An Exhibition Of Sculptures By Renowned Sculptor Asish Kumar Das In Jehangir

From: 11th to 17th October 2022 “The RHAPSODY 2022” An Exhibition of Sculptures by Renowned sculptor Asish Kumar Das VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery 161-B,  M.G.  Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 Timing: 11am to 7pm Contact: 98243 57739 www.asishsculpture.in Recent work of a renowned sculptor from Baroda, Asish Kumar Das is showing  his recent work at Jehangir Art Gallery, Gallery AC-2, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400 001 from 11th to 17th Oct. 2022 between 11 am. To 7 pm.    Metaphorical Sculptures of Asish Das Baroda based 56 years old, Asish Kumar Das, is one of the outstanding sculptors working in India today especially in the domain of using human figures and animal imageries. Presently we are witnessing in our country the phenomena of projects like installations and such ventures which require collaboration of creative artists as well as technical persons or undertakings where deliberately assembled artists and traditional craftsmen just put together some hybrid patchwork. Amidst such an environment, Asish Das stands out as a multi faceted sculptor who has expertise in all aspects of the bronze casting processes which continues to be his medium for his fascinating, stimulating, captivating, mind arresting sculptures. His works are as much complicated in terms of bronze casting and finishing processes as much as they are intriguing in terms of conceptualization. For an artist with such in depth and subtle creative thinking, it is commendable to observe how he manages to sustain his creative impulses through the long complex technical procedures involved for its concretization or objectification. Asish Das has intense empathy for the natural animal and human forms so that he does not take recourse to distortions, though he modifies the proportions as required to give them the anticipated elongation, slimness or slight attenuation at the body joints. Consequently his animal and human bodies are graceful with discrete modelling, we as viewers could call them ‘lyrical’...