Mrinalini Mukherjee: Force(s) of Nature

Source Ocula by Stephanie Bailey
Bagh, which translates to garden, is a fitting title for Jhaveri Contemporary's current exhibition of works by Mrinalini Mukherjee (29 February–31 July 2020). It was in the garden towns of her youth where Mukherjee developed a deep and enduring relationship with nature that charged her practice. The exhibition marks the first time Mukherjee's early etchings and late bronze sculptures have been shown in conversation. The etchings were created in the 1970s and 80s at the Garhi studios in New Delhi and shown for the first time at the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. They depict vibrant woodland scenes that reflect the artist's formative years growing up between the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India, and Santiniketan in West Bengal, where Mukherjee's father, the renowned artist Benode Behari Mukherjee, taught at poet Rabindranath Tagore's experimental art school Kala Bhavan, which celebrated nature and folk traditions in its independent curriculum.
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The house of art, the story of a gallery and an art revolution

Source The Telegraph by Ruchir Joshi
Often an important transformative moment in a city’s history becomes identified with a neighbourhood or even a house. While Colaba is not Montmartre, Bandra is not Bloomsbury and Kekee Manzil not quite Jorasanko, the mansion on the Bandra seafront was a hugely important site in the development of modern Indian art. Behroze Gandhy’s eponymous film, Kekee Manzil: The House of Art, is a documentary about her parents, Khorshed and Kekoo Gandhy, who played such a central role in launching the art scene in Bombay between the 1940s and 1960s. Part decade-traversing home-movie, part archive footage buffet, part Films Division homage (complete with constant Voice of God commentary and wall-to-wall background music, including a tabla riff exactly at the mention of a riot), the film offers many riches. If you are at all interested in modern Indian art, or in our country’s recent urban cultural history, or in the city once known as Bombay, or in the story of contemporary Parsis, or in interior decoration, or in the changing texture of the moving image over the last seventy years, then you shouldn’t be able to take your eyes away for any of the film’s 90-minute running length.
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Woodson Art Museum exhibit features artwork of India

Source Woodson Art Museum
Spice up summertime by experiencing contemporary artwork of “Many Vision, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India.” This exhibition, featuring dazzling patterns, vibrant colors and nonlinear storytelling, is on view at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Musuem through Aug. 30. Learn about life and culture in India through artworks from central India’s Gond and Warli communities, the Mithila region of Bihar and the narrative scroll painters of West Bengal. These distinct and imaginative Indian cultures are united by a common love of narrative as a source of meaning in daily life. The resulting artwork is imbued with tradition, yet dynamically responsive to contemporary global issues. The exhibition features more than 40 paintings and drawings by 24 artists, including Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jivya Soma Mashe, Sita Devi and Swarna Chitrakar.
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Publication of the book "Richard Long - India"

Publication of the book "Richard Long - India" work in progress photos Hervé Perdriolle. This book is one of the rare photographic testimonies allowing us to discover Richard Long's works in progress inspired by his first trip to India. More information and online order:
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