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Booth # B15

Anjolie Ela MenonBaiju ParthanGopikrishnaRaghava KKNilofer SulemanS Nandagopal Smriti Dixit

ANJOLIE ELA MENON(1940, Asansol, West Bengal)

Anjolie Ela Menon is among India's leading contemporary artists, and has

created a name for herself in India and internationally. Menon studied art at the

JJ School of Art, followed by Post graduate at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris.

In Europe it was the Christian, Romanesque, church imagery and the brilliance

of a Byzantine palette that caught her imagination and continues to impact her

work. Besides weaving legendary narratives she is in her element when she combines

myth with reality. Her paintings, through their texture and stunning coloration,

convey the wonder of breathtaking transmutations. Menon's work is well known

for the translucent textures which she creates by using thin glazes on Masonite.

Menon has been awarded the Padmashree by the Government of India, the

Chevalier des Arts et des lettres by the French Government and the Lifetime

Achievement Award by the Delhi Government. Her paintings hang in major

museum collections globally. She has held over 60 solo exhibitions including

retrospectives at Lalit Kala Akademi and National Gallery of Modern Art, and

represented India at the Algiers Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale and three

Triennales in New Delhi. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

Prithvioil on masonite board 10” x 7”

Viroil on masonite board 12” x 8”

Vrindavan Ioil on masonite board 72” x 24”

Vrindavan IIoil on masonite board 72” x 24”

Mayaoil on masonite board 36” x 24”

Namboodrioil on masonite board 36” x 24”

BAIJU PARTHAN(1956, Kerala, India) Baiju Parthan is an inter-media artist, working with traditional media of painting and digital technology based installation art. He is one of the early exponents of new media art and mediatic-realism in the Indian contemporary art scene. Baiju Parthan's chosen vocabulary consists of arcane symbols, found imagery, contemporary photography and computer graphics woven together to create artworks which reveal a dense multi layered phenomenological landscape. Through computer generated virtual objects presented as video installations, large scale prints on metallic surfaces, and animated lenticular prints, Parthan manages to present a critique on high technology and its impact on our life and experience of reality. He has participated in several landmark exhibitions including The Eye and the Mind- New Interventions in Indian Art – China Art Museum Shanghai, and Gaungdong Museum of Art, China 2015, Indian Contemporary, Benedictine Museum, Fecamp, France, 2009, Beyond Globalization, Beijing, 2009, 101 Contemporary, Tokyo, 2008, Liquid Memory, Austria, 2007, and shown at several important art fairs. He has held many solo exhibitions including Source Code, Art Musings Gallery, Mumbai, 2006. A monograph entitled Baiju Parthan: A User's Manual was published at the time of this exhibition. The artist lives and works in Mumbai.

Engineered Fruit (Disputor)acrylic on canvas 72” x 72”

GOPIKRISHNA(1965, Trivandrum, India)

Gopikrishna completed his BFA from the College of Art, Trivandrum, 1987 and his MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi, 1989. His paintings appear as though they were pages from a book of fairytales. In his surrealistic canvas, one can witness the ordinary and the impossible, unity and solitude, illumination and darkness. He won the Kerala State Award for Drawing from the Lalit Kala Akademi, 2000 and the All India Fine Arts Society Award, 2002. The artist's solo exhibitions with Art Musings include Perceptions from the Precipice, 2013, Carnival of Rising Emotions, 2010 and Dream Conservatory, 2007. He has also shown with the gallery at the India Art Fair in 2013, 2012 and 2011. He has also participated in several important group shows in India, Singapore, Amsterdam and New York. The artist lives and works in Trivandrum. .

Man Discovering Missing Linkoil on canvas78” x 62”

Treshold (Series Secret Picture) charcoal on paper30” x 22”

Travel of th child Yogi (Series Secret Picture) charcoal on paper30” x 22”

Dwellers of The Tree (Series Secret Picture)charcoal on paper30” x 22”

Travellers Crossing Crab Countryoil on canvas30" x 93”

RAGHAVA KK(1980, Bangalore, India)

Named by CNN as one of the most remarkable people of 2010, Raghava KK is a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur. He works in genres as disparate as iPad Art, interactive art, painting, film, installation and performance. He is a five-time TED speaker and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. In his works, iconic cartoons and popular memes are placed beside prominent historical figures in a space where each character transcends its usual association and takes on new identities. Raghava approaches his paintings as his own personal historical documents, where the linearity of time has been distorted and rearranged like a big knot creating parallel and orthogonal universes. Raghava's nonchalant and edgy pictorial vocabulary hints at a future, which purposefully engages with interdisciplinarity and experimentation. His iPad art-book Pop-it won a Best of 2011 award from Kirkus Books. His solo exhibitions with Art Musings include Ridiculous Copycats, 2015, That's All Folks 2013, Exquisite Cadaver 2011, Brooklyn Bound R-Train 2009/10 and Drawn and Quartered 2008. Raghava has also shown with Art Musings at the India Art Fair in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2009. The artist currently works between New York and Bangalore.

Through The Looking Glass - XIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XVIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XIVcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XVcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XVIIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XVIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XIIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XIXcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - XVIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - VIIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - Xcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - IXcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - VIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

Through The Looking Glass - VIIcharcoal on paper18" x 12”

NILOFER SULEMAN(1963, Indore, India)

Nilofer Suleman started her artistic career as a cartographer and miniature artist. Her work, inspired by Indian typography and street graphics, is a coalition of styles that take Indian Graphic Culture onto a contemporary platform. Nilofer's paintings are a witty and colorful illustration of India, offering vibrant vantage points and comical observations about the city. The characters, which animate her canvases, produce a signature effect with their elongated almond eyes and stylized features. Distinctions are found in the details of these flamboyant works, where the elements of fun and fantasy belie a more complex and layered composition. Pictures, posters and icons within the works spill into a painted space that is inhabited by Suleman's quirky and idiosyncratic figures. Memories and imagined moments converge to create an entirely unique spectacle. Art Musings presented her debut exhibition Sulemani Chai in 2009 which was followed by We Two Ours One in 2010 -11, Bombay Bioscope in 2012 and Jantar Mantar 2015 with Art Musings. She has also shown with the gallery at the India Art Fair in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2009. The artist lives and works in Bangalore.

Chandni Chowk Antique Storeacrylic on canvas60" x 45”

Chaand Bibi Ki Chudiyaanacrylic on canvas29" x 22”

Gulbadan Perfumesacrylic on canvas29" x 22”

S NANDAGOPAL(1946, Bangalore, India)

Nandagopal studied at the Government College of Art & Crafts, Chennai, after which he went on to become a life member of Cholamandal Artists Village where he is currently based. His narrative sculptural work in copper and brass constitutes one of the most important collections in contemporary Indian sculpture today. While Nandagopal is an artist steeped in the traditions of his country, his work has a contemporary sensibility that appeals to an international taste. Nandagopal is the recipient of several important national awards, and has been on the advisory board of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi since 1998. Several of his large murals have been commissioned and can be seen in public venues like the Hotel Taj Connemara, Chennai; Hotel Sofitel Surya, New Delhi; Hotel Taj Chandera, Khajurao; Priyadarshini Park, Mumbai; and the TCI, Gurgaon. The artist has had several exhibitions all over India and abroad, and had his solo exhibitions in Mumbai with Art Musings include The Metaphysical Edge, 2014 and The Wheel as Metaphor & Other Sculptures, 2009. His works can be found in important museum and private collections. The artist lives and works in Cholamandal.

Acrobat with Wheelssilver plated copper, brass, enamel24’’ X 17’’ X 4’’

Acrobat with Wheelssilver plated copper, brass, enamel36'' X 22'' X 5''

SMRITI DIXIT (1971, Bhopal, India)

The art of Smriti Dixit is born out of her experiences with everyday life. Drawing on small moments and intimate interactions, she fashions objects carefully, using handmade techniques, engaging in the tactility of her materials, becoming familiar with their specific properties. Dixit's art is an indelibly feminine procedure, finding its foundations in the process of its creation as much as in its final form. Her palette consists of variously textured fabrics and plastics. She embraces the processes of experimentation and creation to communicate the concepts of rebirth, recycling and renewal. Smriti Dixit's signature work Trap will be seen as part of the Jaya He GVK New Museum, the Airport Art Project for the site-specific installation. Her solo exhibitions with Art Musings include Memory of Red, 2014, Feasting and Fasting, 2012, and Exile from Symmetry, 2007. Dixit has shown at the India Art Fair with Art Musings in 2013, showcasing her work in a solo space, and in the general booth in 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2009. In 2015 Smriti showcased several on-site installations at the India Art Fair, from her series Memory of Red. The artist lives and works in Mumbai.

Handle with CareCeramic Size variable

S H RAZA(1922, Babaria, India)

SH Raza, one of the original founders of the Progressive Artist's Group, is one of the most prominent artists living today. He has shaped the face of Modernism in India with his unique vision and style. He was conferred the Padma Shree Award in 1981, Padma Bhushan Award in 2007 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2013. Raza's work has formalism as well as the mystic aspects of Hindu philosophy. Raza's style has evolved over the years -he began with expressionist landscapes. It was in the late 70s that his focus turned to pure geometrical forms. His images are improvisations on an essential theme: that of the mapping out of a metaphorical space in the mind. The circle or 'Bindu' has become more of an icon, sacred in its symbolism, and placing his work in an Indian context. Raza has had several important exhibitions all over the world. He has participated in the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1958, the Biennale de Menton, in France in 1966, 1968 and in 1978, and Contemporary Indian Painting, at the Royal Academy in London, in 1982. Solo exhibitions with Art Musings include Aarambh @ 93, 2015, Vistaar, 2013 and Japa, 2004. Art Musings has also released a monograph on the artist. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.

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Dheere Dheere - 5acrylic on paper17" X 12”

Naadbindu acrylic on canvas40" x 40”

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