At 20, Art Musings set to exhibit its best
she says. The artists they displayed included big names like MF Husain, SH Raza, FN Souza and Anjolie Ela Menon.
The 20-year celebrations include a year-long cycle of shows, featuring 20 of the gallery’s best-known names and long-time collaborators, all curated by Ranjit Hoskote. There are new works by Paresh Maity, Jayasri Burman, Baiju Parthan and Sakti Burman. There are also new paintings by Nilofer Suleman, her daughter Shilo Shiv Suleman, Maya Burman, Atul Dodiya and Nalini Malani.
The first of these shows is The Opening Plenary, which opens on February 12 at the Jehangir Art Gallery. The exhibition will have a lounge in the passageway where Café Samovar used to be. “We plan to display art books and catalogues from over the years,” says Raghavan. On display also will be rare old letters and drawings by Raza, Husain,
Souza and KG Subramanyan.
Five shows at Art Musings follow The Opening Plenary. They are spread over two months each and feature four artists at a time. The first, titled The Castle of Crossed Destinies, will kick off on March 1, and features works from Ajay Dhandre, Parthan, Chittrovanu Mazumdar and Nandan Purkayastha. “At the end of the year we plan to release a book on the gallery’s history and its milestones. It will also have the works of the big artists, who are no longer with us,” says Raghavan.