Apr 18, 2026

From: 18th & 19th April 2026

“Yellow Canvas 2026”

A Children’s Art Exhibition

VENUE:

Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery

Bajaj Bhavan, Ground Floor, Jamnalal Bajaj Marg,

226 Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 9975781972

www.yellowcanvas.in

The Yellow Canvas Platform presents Yellow Canvas: A Children’s Art Exhibition 2026, an initiative led by Sohan Kumar Choudhary, an alumnus of Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art. Conceived as a space to recognise and nurture emerging talent, the exhibition brings together a diverse body of work by young artists trained under his guidance, with 81 students from Sr. KG to Grade 12 participating in this edition.

At its core, the exhibition celebrates creativity as an essential and deeply human faculty. It reflects a pedagogical commitment that moves beyond technical instruction, encouraging students to develop independent visual languages while grounding them in strong foundational and advanced artistic principles. Over the years, many participants from this ecosystem have progressed into fields such as applied art, product design, graphic design, fashion, and interior design, with several establishing themselves as practicing professionals, educators, and international exhibitors.

This edition expands its scope by including works from students based across the United States, Germany,  UAE, Armenia, Canada, Belgium, Thailand, Netherlands, and Singapore. The exhibition thus situates itself within a broader global dialogue, while remaining rooted in Indian artistic traditions, including engagements with folk forms and regional visual cultures.

Yellow Canvas 2026 is not merely a display of youthful expression but an evolving platform that fosters discipline, imagination, and cultural exchange. By creating an environment that is both structured and exploratory, the initiative underscores the importance of sustained engagement with art from an early stage.

The exhibition stands as a testament to the role of mentorship in shaping future creative practices, offering young artists both visibility and encouragement in their formative years.

The Participating Students:

Siddhansh Romin Mehta, Aaryan Chandresh Soni, Anoushae Aga, Narek Mihranyan, Ye Htut Naing, Aanya Potdar, Ariha Romin Mehta, Ivaan Sancheti, Ivaan Potdar, Naavya Pratik Shah, Ye Htut Bo, Ayansh Hiren Vora, Kabir Kurien, Leonid Luchkin, Raehan Aga, Avni Hitesh Gurav, Nirvi Ankit Mehta, Smera Sanghvi, Tahmir Patrawalla, Veera Arvind Kumar Jain, Agastya Jhaveri, Annirudh, Anvay Shah, Dev Sushil Kothari, Dhrishay N. Mehta, Hitansh Ankur Kothari, Kimaya Padhye, Mihaan Ajmera, Myra Shah, Rehaan Sahil Jhaveri, Aarav Pankaj Dhawan, Aariv Sanghavi, Anaaya Deep Shah, Joel Varghese, Yashika Jain, Hiya Shah, Kayan Shah, Kiah Rohan Shah, Mohnish Sajnani, Mysha Jain, Riaana Kartik Shah, Saathvik Subrotho Rana, Saisha Dalvi, Yashika Chandresh Soni, Aahana Gaurav Koradia, Aarav Jain, Hia Kaushal Shah, Himaayaa Raghani, Nathanael Nadal Suganth, Tanush Jani, Vviyaa Ritesh Jain, Aalia Kacheria, Aarav Dave, Aditi Kothari, Akshaj Sanghvi, Anay Aadish Shah, Anaya Meghani, Antak Sanghvi, Dhruti Vrajesh Shah, Dhruvi Dassani, Dravya Dilip Vardhan, Nisreen Sanchawala, Vivaan Shah, Vyom Goenka, Aamena Lokhandwala, Amatullah Shabbir Masalawala, Anshul Minda, Ayaana Agarwal, Hufriya Italia, Livana Sethi, Owee Vinayak Hendre, Vritti Prem Avichal, Aarya Sharma,  Ananya Subrotho Rana, Diya Vakil, Natasha Kalpesh Rathod, Nithya Sharad Avhad, Tia Bhavik Shah, Manav Gorakh, Naffeesaa Murtazza, Taksh Gagan Kothari.

This show was inaugurated on 17th April 2026 by Honourable. Chief Guest H.E. Aliaksandr Matsukou (Consulate General of the Republic of Belarus in Mumbai)

Guests of Honour :

Ms. Nidhi Chaudhary (IAS) Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Prof. G. G. Waghmare Former Director, Directorate of Art, Government of Maharashtra Former Dean, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Dr. Uttam V. Jain Patron, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai, Ms. Dolly Thakore Indian Theatre Actress & Casting Director Malti Jain Director- Public relations & Social Philanthropy, Mr. S. P. Ahuja President – All India Anti Terrorist Front, Mumbai, Dr. Aneel Kashi Murarka Industrialist & Indian Philanthropist, Tassnim Nerurkar Television Actor, Dishita Sehgal Child Actor, Anngad Raaj Child Actor.

  

“Yellow Canvas 2026” A Children’s Art Exhibition At Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery I 18th & 19th April 2026

 

Apr 17, 2026

Renowned sculptor Dr. Venkata presents “IN THE FACE OF IT ALL”, a solo exhibition of his recent sculptures at Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, on view from 14^th to 20^th April 2026, from 11 am to 7 pm.

Working with bamboo, paper, resin, and draped fabric, Dr. Venkata transforms humble materials into striking sculptural presences. At times enhanced with paint, the works take on a semi-realistic quality, further enriched by the enduring sculptural traditions of the temples of Andhra Pradesh. The result is a compelling visual field where humanity and environment remain inseparably bound in a tense coexistence.

Nature, in this exhibition, is not passive scenery but the structuring principle of existence. Fishermen, women, and hybrid anthropomorphic forms emerge as tidal beings shaped by wind, salt, soil, and the memory of coastal labour. Their bodies inhabit porous, honeycomb-like landscapes suggestive of multiple, entangled worlds.

The exhibition emerges from Venkata Rao’s sustained engagement with the sea as both memory and material condition. His sculptures pulse with the unruly energy of water, responding to the violence of human excess and the ecological aftermath it leaves behind.

Dr. Venkata Rao’s sculptural language moves with the force and unpredictability of water, surging in response to the consequences of human excess. Rooted in the memory of a place once called home and layered with nostalgia, his works unfold through profound spatial and emotional depth. Rather than moralising, he excavates enduring archetypes of time and transformation.

These sculptures resonate with the lived realities of seaside communities for whom the sea remains a lifeline. Here, nature is not a backdrop but the governing force that shapes labour, survival, and everyday life. The works also bear witness to polluted waters, altered coastlines, and bodies marked by ecological imbalance.

As the artist reflects: “My reaction to humanity’s savage flaws has transformed into forms that are partly human and partly animal. Yet my concern for humankind has altered my judgment, turning them into gorgeous gargoyles, metaphorical depictions of metropolitan life and its convoluted existence.”

The sculptures also open a conversation around memory as an ecological archive. In Venkata Rao’s practice, the coastline is not merely a site but a living repository of labour, ritual, erosion, and resilience. Each surface seems to retain traces of weathered histories, allowing the viewer to encounter not only the form itself but the sediment of lives shaped in proximity to the sea.

A compelling tension runs through the exhibition between fragility and monumentality. While the use of bamboo, paper, and fabric suggests delicacy and impermanence, the figures assert an undeniable physical authority. This duality mirrors the condition of the communities they evoke, vulnerable to environmental change, yet enduring through inherited knowledge, collective memory, and adaptation.

What ultimately emerges is a sculptural meditation on coexistence: between the human and the animal, the urban and the elemental, memory and transformation. The works invite viewers to consider how bodies, landscapes, and systems remain deeply entangled, and how the restoration of this relationship may be as much an act of remembrance as it is of responsibility.

This show was inaugurated on 14^th April 2026 by Honourable Guests Dr. Achal Pandya(Professor and Head of the Division(Conservation) Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) Janpath, New Delhi), Mr. Ratan Krishna Saha(Eminent Sculptor) among others.

   

“IN THE FACE OF IT ALL”, Solo Exhibition Of Sculptures By Dr. Venkata At Jehangir Art Gallery

Jan 31, 2026

From: January 16 – 31, 2026

JMD Gallery Presents

“Breath of The Infinite”

A Group Exhibition of Paintings by Chetan Katigar, Dinesh Kumar Parmar, Pradip Kumar Sau, Ranjit Kurmi, Santosh Kumar Sandilya

VENUE:

JMD Art Gallery

J – 109, Ansa Industrial Estate,

Saki Vihar Road, Saki Naka,

Near Shiv Sagar Restaurant, Andheri East,

Mumbai, Maharashtra 400072

Phone: 093231 29595 / 09221133506

www.jmdartgallery.com

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Breath of The Infinite

A Group show of Paintings by five contemporary renowned artists – Chetan Katigar, Dinesh Kumar Parmar, Pradip Kumar Sau, Ranjit Kurmi, Santosh Kumar Sandilya will be displayed at JMD Art Gallery, J-109, Ansa Industrial Estate, Saki Naka, Andheri(West), Mumbai from 16th to 31st January 2026 between 11am to 7pm.

Santosh Kumar Sandilya paints Kashi not as a picturesque city but as a living cosmology, where architecture, river, boats, and human ritual are bound into one breathing organism. Working with Ganga -jal as both medium and meaning, his layered ghats turn Varanasi into a site where faith, time, and everyday life flow through the same visual bloodstream.

Ranjit Kurmi’s abstraction moves like a charged weather system; bands of colour collide, fracture, and recombine, producing a painterly turbulence that feels both lyrical and volatile. His canvases hold the tension between structure and release, where pigment behaves like memory in motion rather than fixed form.

Chetan Katigar builds a lush narrative theatre where myth, music, flora, and human presence fold into a single ornamental rhythm, giving devotional storytelling the pulse of contemporary colour. His figurative worlds feel ceremonial yet intimate, where Krishna, musicians, animals, and forest become a single breathing choreography rather than separate motifs.

Pradip Kumar Sau constructs a metaphysical theatre in blue, where floating heads, ascending triangles amidst celestial bodies, and drifting bodies map the human mind’s restless pull between gravity and transcendence. His paintings stage the psyche as a dream-space in which the finite body strains toward an infinite, luminous elsewhere.

Dinesh Parmar composes memory like a palimpsest; layered fields of colour, fractured faces, and symbolic geometry drifting through one another as if time itself were being slowly repainted. His mixed-media surfaces feel archaeological, where emotion, history, and private myth surface and dissolve in the same breath.

This show was inaugurated on 16th January 2026 by Honourable Guests Mr. Milind Pai(Principal Architect), Mr. Sameer Bhambere(Founder of Lemon Yellow LLP)

—–Sushma Sabnis (Art Curator & Writer)

   

JMD Art Gallery Presents “Breath Of The Infinite” A Group Exhibition Of Paintings By 5 Contemporary Renowned Artists

Dec 27, 2025

From: 23^rd to 29^th December 2025

“CHITTADARSHANI”

Art Exhibition by contemporary artist Dhiraj Hadole

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

www.dhirajhadole.com

Holding Space: Dhiraj Hadole’s Geometry

Dhiraj Hadole’s work enters the long history of geometric abstraction not through utopian rigidity or formal bravado, but through a quieter, inward recalibration of what geometry can hold within. Where early modernist abstraction like Constructivism, De Stijl, Suprematism, often positioned geometry as a universal language detached from subjectivity, Hadole belongs to a later, more reflective strain of abstractionists that allow structure to coexist with memory, affect, continuity, and care.

His compositions recall the disciplined clarity of hard-edge abstraction, yet they resist its doctrinaire coolness. Unlike the mathematically assertive geometries of artists such as early Bauhaus painters, Hadole’s planes feel lived-in. They are not declarations; they are settlements. The edges meet without aggression, and colour behaves less like a system and more like a mood. This places his work closer to artists who softened geometry through experience, where colour interaction became psychological rather than purely optical, like Josef Albers.

At the same time, Hadole’s surfaces carry an unmistakable emotional register that aligns him with a lineage of felt abstraction, artists who used reduction not to erase feeling, but to distil it. One senses an affinity with quiet grids, where repetition functions as a form of attention rather than control. Hadole treats geometry as a meditative framework, a way to steady the mind rather than dominate it. It is evident in the way he constructs the wood stretcher, and drapes the canvas over it deftly, almost like one was reenacting a childhood memory, shaping it to precision.

The stitched and layered qualities in his work also introduce a material memory absent from classical geometric abstraction. Here, the work quietly diverges from Western modernist purity and moves toward a more indigenous abstraction; one shaped by domestic knowledge, textile logic, and inherited labour. Hadole’s quilt-inspired works situate him within a broader global shift where abstraction absorbs cultural specificity without becoming illustrative of the milieu. The geometry does not reference craft directly, yet it carries its ethics: patience, repair, assembly, warmth.

Emotionally, these works do not aim for expressionism. There is no outburst, no rupture. Instead, they emerge as a feeling that can exist in equilibrium, that care can be structured, that intimacy can be measured without being diminished. This places Hadole in dialogue with post-minimalist sensibilities, where restraint becomes a moral position rather than an aesthetic trick.

What makes Hadole’s paintings quietly radical is their ethics. They insist that stability is not the enemy of life. They argue, without preaching, that a composed surface can still carry intimacy, that precision can still be soft. Dhiraj Hadole’s geometry is not about control for its own sake; it is about building a space where inner turbulence can settle without being forgotten. In that sense, his work aligns with the exhibition’s spirit of Chitta–Chitra: the mind and heart translated into image, not through confession, but through construction.

These are paintings that behave like shelters. They do not shout to be understood. They stay, they steady, and they reward the viewer who is willing to slow down and meet them at their pace.

This show was inaugurated on 23rd December 2025 by Honourable Guests –

Adv. Dr. Kirti Kulkarni :Chief Legal Advisor, MAHAGENCO, Special PP, Bombay High COURT, CLA, MSETCL, Ministry of Energy, Govt of Maharashtra  A Panel Adv. MSEB Holding Co. Ltd. Manager Legal, NFDC, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, Member, Consumer Court, Mumbai. Asst. Govt Pleader, Writ Cell, Bombay High Court, Mumbai,

Mr. Madhukar Wanjari – Eminent Sculptor

Dr. Narendra Borlepwar – Founder President Aum the Global Art Centre and Aarey Museum, Mumbai,

Amit Shah  :Director – Magnifique Décor and Mangal Movements Mumbai

—-Sushma Sabnis Mumbai (December 2025)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zrHgAgREL1k

 

“CHITTADARSHANI” Art Exhibition By Contemporary Artist Dhiraj Hadole In Jehangir Art Gallery

Dec 27, 2025

From: 23^rd to 29^th December 2025

“CHITTADARSHANI”

An Art Exhibition by Dhiraj Hadole, Pravin Waghmare, Swapnil Sangole

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Dhiraj Hadole 

Dhiraj Hadole’s work enters the lineage of geometric abstraction not through utopian rigidity or formal bravado, but through a quieter recalibration of what geometry can contain. Hadole belongs to a reflective generation that allows structure to coexist with memory, affect, and care.

His compositions echo the discipline of hard-edge abstraction, yet resist its doctrinaire coolness. The planes feel inhabited rather than imposed; edges meet without aggression, and colour operates as mood. Geometry here is closer to a psychological modulation than an optical one. Reduction does not erase feeling, it distils it. Repetition becomes attention, not control.

Materially, Hadole’s practice departs from modernist purity. The stitched, layered surfaces introduce a tactile memory aligned with domestic knowledge and inherited labour. Quilt-like constructions suggest an indigenous abstraction shaped by patience, repair, and assembly, without slipping into literal craft reference. Cultural specificity is absorbed ethically, not illustrated.

These works propose equilibrium: that intimacy can be measured. In this restraint lies their quiet radicalism. Dhiraj Hadole proves that stability is not the enemy of depth, that precision can remain soft. These are paintings that behave like shelters, steady, composed, and rewarding to those willing to slow down and meet them on their own terms.

Pravin Waghmare

Pravin Waghmare’s art practice emerges from an acute attentiveness to the visual and emotional residues of everyday life. Forms, colours, textures, and fleeting sensations are not treated as passive observations but as active forces that impress themselves upon the artist’s inner self. From this silent accumulation of experience, Waghmare constructs a language of abstraction that is grounded firmly in lived reality.

Although his works appear abstract, they are anchored in the rhythms of the visible world, its pauses, frictions, and reverberations. His surfaces carry a sense of return and response: every encounter, whether with nature, society, or the ordinary mechanics of daily existence, rebounds into the pictorial field. This cyclical exchange lends his compositions a quiet intensity, where colour blocks, fractured planes, and layered textures behave like echoes of perception rather than representations of objects.

Waghmare’s use of colour is deliberate and experiential, functioning as a carrier of emotion. Lines and forms unfold through an intuitive yet disciplined process, reflecting an honest negotiation between control and spontaneity. His paintings offer a sustained meditation on how experience transforms into visual thought. Pravin Waghmare articulates abstraction as a deeply human, perceptual act, one that translates the unsaid into form with clarity and depth. 

Swapnil Sangole

Swapnil Vilasrao Sangole’s sculptures are rooted in a rigorous engagement with material, memory, and metaphysical inquiry. Working primarily with stone, he positions sculpture as a site where permanence and impermanence coexist, where time is both resisted and inscribed. Drawing deeply from Indian temple architecture, Sangole distils their structural intelligence, symbolism and spiritual gravity into a contemporary language.

His works reveal a careful balance between solidity and openness. Carved voids, layered planes, and architectural motifs evoke sacred spaces while remaining resolutely abstract. Each chisel mark becomes a temporal gesture, an assertion of continuity that acknowledges rupture. The stone is listened to, negotiated with, and allowed to assert its own agency within the final form.

Sangole’s sculptures function as thresholds between the material and the metaphysical, inviting tactile contemplation. They are not objects of passive viewing but embodied experiences that ask the viewer to slow down and reckon with scale, weight, and silence. In expanding his practice toward collaborative and community-based projects, Sangole further opens it up to collective memory and shared authorship. Ultimately, his work honours the sacred while confronting contemporary realities. Through restraint, precision, and conceptual clarity, Swapnil Sangole affirms sculpture’s enduring capacity to witness, question, and heal.

This show was inaugurated on 23rd December 2025 by Honourable Guests –

Adv. Dr. Kirti Kulkarni : Chief Legal Advisor, MAHAGENCO, Special PP, Bombay High COURT, CLA, MSETCL, Ministry of Energy, Govt of Maharashtra  A Panel Adv. MSEB Holding Co. Ltd. Manager Legal, NFDC, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, Member, Consumer Court, Mumbai. Asst. Govt Pleader, Writ Cell, Bombay High Court, Mumbai,

Mr. Madhukar Wanjari – Eminent Sculptor

Dr. Narendra Borlepwar – Founder President Aum the Global Art Centre and Aarey Museum, Mumbai,

Amit Shah  : Director – Magnifique Décor and Mangal Movements Mumbai

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CdOI9KaplkQ

“CHITTADARSHANI” An Art Exhibition By Dhiraj Hadole, Pravin Waghmare, Swapnil Sangole At Jehangir Art Gallery

 

 

“Manthan: Let the Churn Begin Within You”, a solo exhibition by U.S.–based artist and educator Anisha Sanghani, opened at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Nariman Point, Mumbai (December 1–6, 2025). The show reimagines the myth of Samudra Manthan as an urgent ecological warning, where oceanic beauty stands shoulder to shoulder with the devastation of consumer waste.

Sanghani’s mixed-media works capture this collision with striking clarity. In The New Manthan, a sea turtle threads its way through swirling mythic forms and towering heaps of plastic debris. In Wrath, an enraged goddess rises from the depths, expressing the fury of divine forces witnessing oceans defiled by human negligence.

Her rich, layered aesthetic draws viewers in before revealing the stark reality beneath. That reality informed her process: in a series of personal experiments, Sanghani submerged herself with her face sealed in plastic to experience, momentarily, the suffocation marine creatures endure. “I became their voice,” she says.

For Sanghani, art becomes a call to conscience. “Art cannot clean the oceans,” she notes, “but it can remind us of what they mean to us.” Manthan invites viewers to confront their own role in this crisis—and to begin their own internal churning toward awareness and responsibility.

The exhibition was inaugurated by Ms. Nidhi Choudhari, IAS, Director & Artist, National Gallery of Modern Art, along with Sameer Balvally and Shilpa Jain Balvally (Studio Osmosis), Ronak Sutaria (Respirer Living Sciences), Rishiraj Sethi (Aura Art), Dilip Ranade, and Prakash Bal Joshi.

Bollywood director Harshavardhan Kulkarni, Sony marketing strategist Parinda Singh, and music director Khamosh Shah were also present.

Photography by Ajay Natke and Sharon Dev Pimento.

 

“Manthan” A Solo Exhibition By U.S.–Based Artist Anisha Sanghani, Opened At Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery

From: 14^th to 20^th October 2025

“UJJAL”

An Exhibition of Paintings & sculptures by 6 contemporary renowned artists – Bappa Maji, Pravat Manna, Subrata Paul, Sudeshna Sil, Sudip Biswas, Tanmoy Hazra.

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9163718889, +91 9831307228

UJJAL” — A Radiant Confluence of Painting & Sculpture
14 – 20 October 2025 | Jehangir Art Gallery (Auditorium Hall), Mumbai

The group show “UJJAL” displays paintings and sculptures by six contemporary Indian artists: Bappa Maji, Pravat Manna, Subrata Paul, Sudeshna Sil, Sudip Biswas, and Tanmoy Hazra.

“UJJAL” (meaning bright, luminous) draws viewers into a deep conversation with form, colour, memory, myth, and nature. These six artists, regardless of their fields, combine tradition and novelty, the physical and the lyrical, the individual and the general.

This show was inaugurated on 14th October 2025 by Mr. Brahmanand S. Singh(National Award Winning Filmmaker, Author & Mentor)

Bappa Maji of Kolkata sculpts sacred and animal forms using the Bengal Dokra tradition. He reinterprets mythological Vahanas in new materials. His art considers humans, animals, myth, and daily life, prompting viewers to feel respect and think.

Pravat Manna uses paint to change the canvas into a landscape of feelings, using oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Through layered compositions, he explores memory, identity, and humanity, using technical skill and personal symbolism.

Active since the late 1990s, Subrata Paul sculpts, often with bronze and wood, moving beyond mere replication to reveal the hidden energies of form. His sculptures communicate human feelings and interactions, using both old and new artistic methods.

Sudeshna Sil’s work reflects her sensitivity, influenced by Bengal’s nature and art training. Through watercolour, mixed media, and fabric, she portrays nature’s depth, offering escape from city life.

Sudip Biswas, a notable modern Indian painter, creates stories of quiet feelings, cultural remembrance, and tradition. Benaras and the Ganga influence his paintings, which combine abstraction and figuration. His recent awards highlight the impact of his work.

The exhibition also includes Tanmoy Hazra’s work, which is characterised by its expressive and innovative qualities and engagement with diverse materials, form, context, and meaning.

The six artists engage in a complex dialogue, rich with layers of myth and matter.

“UJJAL” presents a unique mix of artists, allowing art lovers to dive into modern Indian visuals that are both classic and forward-looking. We welcome everyone to experience these artworks at Jehangir Art Gallery.

Sushma Sabnis – Mumbai.

“UJJAL” An Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture by 6 renowned artists in Jehangar Art Gallery

From: 14^th to 20^th October 2025

“Visthapan”

A Solo Show of Recent Work by Vishwa Sahni

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9324647023

“Visthapan” Solo Show of Recent Work by Vishwa Sahni in Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai from 14^th to 20^th October 2025

This show was inaugurated on 14th October 2025 by Ms. Manju Ramesh Chouhan(Staff member of Jehangir Art Gallery) in the presence of Mr. Padmanabh Bendre(Eminent Artist), Pradeep Chandra(Eminent Photographer & Author), Mr. Uttam Jain(Patron Hindustan Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Snehal N. Muzoomdar(President, Indian Musicological Society), Mr. K.K. Tated(Chairman, committee to monitor Animal Welfare) among others.

Vishwa Sahni’s painting seems to have been focused for some time on the contention that abstraction, if allowed to breathe in a deeper pictorial space, can maintain visual opulence without drifting too far from its essentially two-dimensional syntax. Among a generation of artists who matured on this side of painting’s pluralist expansion, where each painter’s style, look and touch was far more varied than that of their predecessors, Sahni held to a firm figurative scaffold based on migration both perceived and imagined. Though the iconography in this recent work remains readable each painting’s horizon is still easy to find, there is in newer panels a softening of the edges and a swelling of forms that now shimmer behind translucent washes instead of bending, as they once did, into each other’s space. From an optimal distance coerced from the viewer by the five feet by nine feet spread of their frames their reconfigured cohesion seems to rely less on drawing and more on a spontaneous manipulation of hue and texture.

The resulting airiness is a clear departure from his earlier work, which is reprised in this exhibition, an example of his harder-edged shapes, apparently reconstituted during the painting’s many stages of development so as not to diminish the careful coordinating of its unique structural invention. To drift from the success of this method is risky, for what’s been so appealing about Sahni’s work until now has been precisely its interconnected complexity. The changes seen in this exhibition may be attributed in some measure to his establishing a studio in Mumbai, a move from country life in Madanpur, for reasons linked to the landscape itself, resetting a painter’s perspective.

A clue to the path taken in this shift between the earlier compositions and these newer, cloudier apparitions may be found in seven-foot square painting representing the artist’s trials at keeping the structure fixed tighter to the surface. Here, a familiarity with Sahni’s elevated horizon line helps the viewer read the ghost of a landscape that still exists despite the missing diagonals and story-book trees of his earlier work, elements that had once supported the artist’s penchant for excavating spatial illusion with little cost to a lively surface. Visthapan marks the change as its simplified shapes are not immediately recognizable as landscape elements. They also seem unusually tolerant of each other’s position in the composition.

And yet to my eye the most adventurous of the newer canvases in the show, still owes something to the lexicon of the earlier work, though here it seems Sahni’s method has turned to a new and pronounced improvisation. Visthapan’s surface remains in a perturbed state. Edges are ragged and makeshift. Translucency dominates. There is even a gestural coarseness replacing what was once a controlled chaos of endlessly suggestive shapes. The color alone in Visthapan provides the link to earlier work, being mostly middle tones of contingent primary and secondary hues.

For anyone who has followed Sahni’s work these many years, an effort to catch up to where he is now will require diligence, which I believe is a fair expectation for him to make as his paintings have always appealed to a visually smart audience. Because his abundant inventiveness had constituted as near a legible pictorial language as created by any painter in recent memory, encountering its contraction will demand a real and unavoidable learning curve. Sahni is a painter whose strength had always been his ability to develop variations on a theme. The construction of an intelligent, readable and teasingly ambiguous pictorial image, still speaks to a continuity of vision.

Sahni has never been a painter fixated on concocting a new look, and there is no indication here of chasing novelty, nor is there any hint of applying arbitrary effects to avoid comparison with contemporaries. From the beginning his work has been a conscious adaptation of migrant landscape elements knit tightly into compositions that owed a great deal of their cohesion to those compositional properties that as any instructor knows are maddeningly difficult to formulate verbally but can be appreciated in its many variations. As galleries continue to hawk brightly colored things apparently meant for the simpler aim of accessorizing the expansive blank walls that once provided inexpensive working space for artists, it gives one hope to watch a painter keep to self-imposed limitations, not in spite of, but because there is more than enough room within a rectangle of canvas to address a thoughtful and historically aware sensibility.

—Abhijeet Gondkar

October 2025, Mumbai

 

“Visthapan” Solo Show Of Recent Work By Vishwa Sahni In Jehangir Art Gallery

8^th to 14^th October 2025

“Wandering Eye”

An Exhibition of Photographs by Sateesh Dingankar

This show was inaugurated on 8^th October 2025 by Honourable Guest – Prakash Bal Joshi(Veteran Visual Artist), in the presence of Dr. Sanjay Bhide ( Founder, Convenor and secretary TACCI), Mukesh Parpiani(Legendary Photojournalist)

Photography has always been a way of holding a mirror to the world. But in these images, the mirror is tilted—revealing not only what is seen, but also what is suggested, what lies between perception and imagination. These photographs by Sateesh Dingankar listen to the quiet gestures of the world— a twig casting shadows that dance, a crack turning into an exclamation, a tree trunk whispering a human form.

Light bends, metal shimmers, rust deepens into memory. Ants march, a snail hesitates, nature leans against the man-made, and even what is discarded smiles back. In this exhibition, photography is not just documentation, but meditation. It is a practice of finding poetry in surfaces, gestures, and fleeting light—reminding us that the extraordinary is often hidden in plain sight.

—-Prakash Bal Joshi- Eminent Artist

WANDERING EYE An Exhibition Of Photographs By Sateesh Dingankar In Jehangir Art Gallery

23rd – 29th September 2025

Bouquet Of Art Gallery & Hyderabad Art Society present

VIBRANT VISIONS

An Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures by 30 Contemporary Renowned Artists

Venue:

Nehru Centre Art Gallery (AC Gallery)

Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai – 400018

Timings: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Contact: +91 7208256585

VIBRANT VISIONS: A Celebration of Diverse Strokes and Shared Perspectives

Mumbai, September 2025 – Vibrant Visions, a distinguished art exhibition showcasing the works of 30 acclaimed contemporary artists, opened on 23rd September 2025 at the prestigious Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Worli, Mumbai.

The exhibition was inaugurated by Rajiv Mishra, Principal of Sir J. J. College of Art, Architecture & Design (Deemed University), in the esteemed presence of:

* Rajendra Patil, Director, India Art Festival

* Bandana Jain, Expert in Sustainable Art & Design

* Ajay Samir, Celebrated Contemporary Artist

This collective art showcase brings together paintings and sculptures across diverse genres—ranging from abstract, figurative, cultural, and urban expressions to nature-inspired and sustainable creations. The exhibition celebrates the unity of artistic thought while highlighting each artist’s unique perspective.

The event is presented by:

Anjali & Narendra Arora, Founders & Directors, Bouquet Of Art Gallery

V. Ramana Reddy, Eminent Sculptor & President, Hyderabad Art Society

Vibrant Visions will remain open to visitors until 29th September 2025, offering art enthusiasts and collectors a chance to engage with works that embody both tradition and contemporary imagination.

 

Bouquet Of Art Gallery & Hyderabad Art Society Presents VIBRANT VISIONS  An Art Exhibition By 30 Renowned Contemporary Artists At Nehru Centre Art Gallery