Mumbai Art Fair
WHAT: Come October and retreating monsoon brings in variety of attires for mother earth, full of umpteenth shades and colours from Ladakh to Kanyakumari! The artists from all over the country celebrate and join this ‘chromatic riot’ of ‘ultimate painter – the nature’ at the annual Mumbai Art Fair. Mumbai Art Fair is a platform for India’s emerging as well as established artists without gallery representation without any age or qualification bar. In its second edition, Mumbai Art fair this year includes an immense diversity of art and range of mediums, styles and subjects. Artists Diptina Kothari, Jalpa Patel, Kalpana Arya, Pratima Kumar, Sathiyaseelan Gangasalem, Shipra Gupta and Sowmya Muralidhar are exhibiting one of the favourite genres ‘Landscape’, a perpetual inspiration for the artists and equally enticing ‘art form’ for the art buyers too. Winding rivers, dancing tree branches with a gush of wind and reflection of it in the water adds the lyrical quality to the landscape paintings by Ajay Sandiliya, Anupama Asher, Jenson Joseph, Komal Patil, Neha Mantry, Rakhi Desai, Vandana Bhagat and Vineet Kaur, though Shuvendu Sarkar takes delight in grandeur of architecture landscape. The stylized and slightly abstracted version of landscapes called ‘Seascapes’ which can also be termed as ‘mindscapes’ are found in the stands of K Vilvanathan, Meetul Agarwal, Rahat Kazmi and Sujata Pant whereas flower-scapes created by Bindal Shah, Geeta Sejekan and Alina Ciuciu have a tactile quality and energy that radiate from their canvases. Abstract works by Ashwini Borse, Bhagyashri Chaudhari, Lalita Sonavane, Pol Ledent, Purvi Lohana, Revathi Shivakumar, Sneha J M and Varsha Sheth explores connections between landscape, memory and the subconscious. The artworks of artist Late Shamendu Sonavane, who is known for brilliant portrayal of nature in abstract style are also exhibited in Mumbai art fair. Artists Ayesha Taleyarkhan, Bhaskar Mandolu, Chandrakant Chandra, Mrudula Nair and Shruti Yewale exhibiting at MAF use the method of painting in which abstraction and figurative images are combined which reinforce each other’s effect in semi-abstract idiom.
WHEN: October 11 to 13, 11 am to 7.30 pm WHERE: Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai
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