Sayyam … a Sanskrit word which evokes a sense of harmony, balance, wholeness.

The perfect name for an exhibition brought to you by two rising stars in the art firmament … Gallery 5 and Artistree … who have come together to bring you the best in the world of art. Powerful yet serene, sublime yet evocative, Sayyam is a collusion, a meeting of minds and an amalgamation of energies featuring the works of the great masters.

Gallery 5, brings you the rich heritage of art. Masters old and new who are immortalised on canvas and paper.

Artistree is an energetic fellowship of young artists whose collection of fresh and invigorating oils on canvas kindle in the partaker a sense of longing for that pure and powerful world just beyond the reach of the mortal sense.

Come and revel in the bridging of dichotomies, the merging of the halves, the yin and the yang of life and the underlying harmony of the universe.

Discover yourself in the world of raw beauty and abstract perfection. Immerse yourself in Sayyam.

Sanjay Sethia - Gallery 5

David Maurer - Artistree

November, 2009 Angelina Kumar Arpana Caur F.N. Souza Jamini Roy

9 19 33 43

Anita Chauhan Amitava Das Ganesh Pyne Joydip Sengupta

11 21 35 45

Anwar Khan G.R. Santosh

13 23 37 46

Ashok Bhowmick B.N. Arya J. Sabavala Laxma Goud

15 25 38 47

Arpana Caur D. Maurer J. Sabavala Laxma Goud

16 26 39 48

Arpana Caur D. Rathore Jai Zharotia Laxma Goud

18 28 40 49

Arpana Caur D. Rathore Jai Zharotia M.F. Husain

19 31 41 50 M.F. Husain Rahim Mirza S.H. Raza Thota Vaikuntham

53 66 77 89

Paramjit Singh Rahim Mirza Sanatan Dinda Thota Vaikuntham

55 67 79 90

Neeraj Goswami Ram Kumar Suman Roy Thota Vaikuntham

57 68 81 91

Manu Parekh Ram Kumar Sanjeev Verma Tyeb Mehta

59 69 83 93

Paresh Maity Rashmi Sikand Sidharth Vasundhra Tiwari

61 71 85 95

Neeraj Bakshi Ramesh Gorjala Sohan Qadri Venkatesh Pate

63 73 87 97

Rabin Mondal Rodwittiya Thota Vaikuntham Atul Sinha

65 75 88 99 Angelina Kumar

17” x 36” Oil on Canvas 2009

8 9 Anita Chauhan

child with balLOon 48” x 36” Acrylic on Canvas 2007

10 11 Anwar Khan

34” x 34” Acrylic on Canvas 2009

12 13 Ashok Bhowmick

BULL & BIRD 36” x 24” Acrylic, Ink & Pen on Canvas 2008

14 15 Arpana Caur

JOURNEY 36” x 60” Triptych Acrylic on Canvas 1992

16 17 Arpana Caur

21.5” x 14.5” Mixed Media on Paper 1991 21.5” x 14.5” Mixed Media on Paper 1992

MILKY WAY 14” x 10.5” Etching 1995

18 19 Amitava Das

92 cms X 114 cms Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 2002-03

20 21 Bhupen Khakhar

9.5” x 7” Limited Edition Etching 1 of 23

22 23 B.N. Arya

30” x 20” Watercolour on Paper

24 25 David Maurer

a new dawn 30” x 80” Diptych Oil on Canvas 2009

26 27 Dharmendra Rathore

a decent couple 48” x 84” Acrylic on Canvas 2009

28 29 Dharmendra Rathore

Enlightenment 30” x 20” Watercolour on Paper 2008

30 31 F.N. Souza 12.5” x 9.5” Tempra on Canvas 1962

32 33 Ganesh Pyne

yellow sari 19” x 18” Mixed Media on Paper 2004

34 35 G.R. Santosh

Brahmand 30” x 24” Oil on Canvas 1995

36 37 J. Sabavala J. Sabavala

Under sail 24” x 19” L.E. Serigraph 2007 17.5” x 11” Watercolour on Paper

38 39 Jai Zharotia Jai Zharotia

15” x 20.5” Acrylic on Paper 2001 15” x 20.5” Acrylic on Paper 2001

40 41 Jamini Roy

8.5” x 27” Tempra on Paper

42 43 Joydip Sengupta

Two to tango 48” x 48” Acrylic on Canvas 2008

44 45 Laxma Goud Laxma Goud

9.5” x 13.5” Pen & Watercolour on Paper cc. 1980’s 17” x 11.5” Mixed Media on Paper 1983

46 47 Laxma Goud Laxma Goud

man with lamp 10.5” x 9.5” Acrylic on Paper cc. 1980’s 10.5” x 9.5” Acrylic on Paper cc. 1980’s

48 49 50 51 M.F. Husain

 Previous Image: 34” x 57” Acrylic on Canvas 2003 14” x 21” Pencil on Paper 1982

52 53 Paramjit Singh

7” x 9.5” Charcoal on Paper 2000

54 55 Neeraj Goswami

Together “with love” 28” x 24” Acrylic & Gold Leaf on Canvas 2008

56 57 Manu Parekh

22” x 17” Mixed Media on Paper 1995

58 59

60” x 50” Mixed Media on Paper 2007

60 61 Neeraj Bakshi

16” x 12” Watercolour on Paper 2009

62 63 Rabin Mondal

19” x 14” Acrylic on Paper 2001

64 65 Rahim Mirza Rahim Mirza

21” x 21” Acrylic on Canvas 2006 21” x 21” Acrylic on Canvas 2006

66 67 Ram Kumar Ram Kumar

36” x 24” Oil on Canvas 1978 8” x 7” Mixed Media on Paper 1976

68 69 Rashmi Sikand

30” x 40” Acrylic on Canvas 2009

70 71 Ramesh Gorjala

38” x 33” Acrylic on Canvas 2008

72 73 Rekha Rodwittiya

PRIVATE SPACES 66” x 46.5” Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 2001

74 75 S.H. Raza

60 cms x 30 cms Acrylic on Canvas 1996

76 77 Sanatan Dinda

28” x 22” Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 2008

78 79 Suman Roy

36” x 24” Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet 2006

80 81 Sanjeev Verma

42” x 42” Acrylic on Canvas 2007

82 83 Sidharth

the lotus 50” x 40” Silver / Gold Leaf & Natural Pigments on Canvas 2009

84 85 Sohan Qadri

39” x 27.5” Watercolour on Handmade Paper 2007

86 87 Thota Vaikuntham Thota Vaikuntham

24” x 18” Acrylic on Canvas 2009 18” x 24” Acrylic on Canvas 2009

88 89 Thota Vaikuntham Thota Vaikuntham

12.5” x 8” Acrylic on Paper cc 1990’s 12.5” x 8” Acrylic on Paper cc 1990’s

90 91 Tyeb Mehta

25” x 19” Pen on Paper 1992

92 93 Vasundhra Tiwari

62” x 46” Acrylic on Paper

94 95 Venkatesh Pate

36” x 36” Acrylic on canvas 2009

96 97 Atul Sinha

Free Standing Natural Wood

98 99 Angelina Kumar b 1986 insight into blending matter with aesthetics. His forte, however, is sculpture and what makes him stand out Angelina Kumar produced her first oil-on-canvas painting at the age of 16 and since then has never looked back. in the crowd of young artists pursuing all sorts of fads is the fact that he has consistently been producing Her innovative style, which has been lauded by critics as “ground-breaking”, utilizes surreal and conceptual ‘sculpture for use’ images to portray a wide variety of themes. She recently embarked on a tour of Europe, which she used as an occasion to display her art in European cities. Bhupen Khakhar b 1934 Bhupen Khakhar was born in Bombay in 1934 into a middle class Gujarati family. His father died when Khakhar Anita Chauhan b 1968 was four years old, and his mother, Mahalaxmi, brought up the children. In keeping with the expectations Anita Chauhan has been described as some one representing the new talent that was emerging in and of the successful mercantile classes, Khakhar initially trained as an accountant, graduating with degrees in her figurative contemporary art was vibrant, colorful, full of form, sensuality and expression. Anitahas commerce and administration. He began painting in the early 1960s. He moved to the University town of transformed into a fine artist and her lines have a life of their own. The sheer force, the sheer energy and Baroda, north of Bombay, where he completed a degree in Art Criticism at the Fine Art Faculty at the M.S. the sheer fluidity compels one with a mesmerizing effect. She is a promising artist of whom we will surely University. Khakhar thus comes to painting relatively late. His early works draw on his interest in the imagery hear a great deal about in the years ahead. Anita has done several shows and has been written about quite of Indian popular culture - cinema posters, calendar art and street kitsch. This interest is now less apparent extensively on her themes and interests. Anita, age 41 years, has a creative background and has been painting in the work of Khakar, who has become an established artist and one of India’s foremost contemporary for the last ten years. She is self-taught and successful and has a fairly large list of prominent collectors and painters. admirers. B.N. Arya b 1936 Anwar Khan b 1964 Arya is purely an artist of Indian ethos, culture and customs. He has perfected the difficult technique of National Diploma in Fine Arts from, Gwalior, (M.P.) He has had many solo shows throughout India and watercolour so well that he became the lone exponent of the wash medium and imagery of the Neo- Internationally. He has participated in selected Group shows including the Bharat Bhavan Biennial of International School in Uttar Pradesh. The impact of colour in his wash paintings is vibrant and pulsating with life. Wash Prints, Bhopal 1991; 6th International independent Exhibition, Japan 1990; Indo-Russian International Art painting has been defined as a poem in line and colour. Hence poetic effects are heightened by the use of Exhibition, 1991. International show Com-Art, Korea, Indo-Syrian art exhibition. His work are in the hazy lines and colour. The tones of colour when superimposed on one another, promote phantasmagoria of collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, the , Delhi and several private and colourful shades, ennobling and uplifting its appeal. His romantic imagination has fancifully sought abode public collections worldwide. in myths and legends as well as the usual ways of expression in various festivities, celebrations and other cultural traits of Indian life. He was born in Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. His ancestors Arpana Caur b 1954 were prosperous businessmen. He had no inclination to adopt his family business, and he developed his Born in New Delhi. Her major group and solo include the Algiers Biennale (1987), the Glenbarra Art Museum aptitude towards art. He then took to photography which inspired him to enter into the realm of art. After Exhibition of 1987, the exhibitions at the Lalit Kala Akademi (1979, 1993), the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, partition of India, his family migrated and settled at Hewet Road, Lucknow. In college he was mainly inspired the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (1986) and with and educated by his senior C.D. Sharma. Head of the Deptt. of Fine Arts, Govt. College of Art, Lucknow. Lives Saffronart (2001). Her works are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Singapore and works in Lucknow. Museum of Modern Art, the Kunstruseum Dusseldorf, the Bradford Museum, in the U.K., the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art, and the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan. Caur lives and works in New Delhi. David Maurer b 1981 Able to produce a masterpiece within minutes, David Maurer has stunned audiences throughout Delhi with Ashok Bhowmick b 1953 a revolutionary art technique which he brought from his native Canada. By employing stencils and acrylic Solo shows spanning from 1974 to 2004 throughout india. has published various articles on painting and lacquers, David has managed to capture scenes of nature at its divine best. David has decorated homes and theatre in many of the national newspapers and periodicals. His works are in collections in India and abroad. galleries throughout the NCR with these novel creations and is keen to popularize this concept throughout the country. Amitava Das b 1947 Born in Delhi studied at the Delhi College of Art where he later became a lecturer. He was a founding member Dharmendra Rathore b 1965 of the artists group New Group. Amitava works in abstract form but his technique and matrix is very different. Dharmendra Rathore was born in Salari, Rajasthan. He completed his Diploma in Painting from the Rajasthan Some of his earlier work is in smaller size but more recently he has done large sized paintings. His current work School of Art, Jaipur in 1990 with a First Class. In 1993, he obtained his MFA from the Delhi College of Art, often dwells on juxtaposition of the ‘opposites’ within a common frame. His works feature exquisite textures New Delhi. Rathore has participated in several exhibitions both in India and abroad. His works have travelled and is often multi-layered, both in spirit and essence. Amitava’s works have been widely exhibited throughout to Denmark, Hong Kong, Singapore. South Korea and Mauritius and have been featured in exhibitions like- India, as well as internationally. He has many solo exhibitions and over one hundred group exhibitions to his “Harmony Show”, “Save the Children” and “The Joy of Life.” He has also participated in the First Biennale of credit. Contemporary Art held in Arad, Romania in May, 2005. He has also won various scholarships from AIFACS, Rajasthan Biennial, State Lalit Kala Akademi and a fellowship from Ministry of Human Resource Development Atul Sinha in appreciation of his works. Dharmendra Rathore’s works are in collection of Glenbarra Art Museum Japan, Atul Sinha is one of the most accomplished and innovative artists who is adept at ceramics, glass etchings, Wolgon University of Australia, Ambassador of Denmark, Ambassador of Singapore, Mauritius, German wood, bronze and papier mache sculptures and has painted in oils, acrylics, gouache, water colour and inks, Embassy, New Delhi, Sahitya Kala Parishad, College of Art, National Lalit Kala Akademi, DLF, Taj Hotel, Maurya even using kerosene and diesel in his early works. His capacity to use different materials has given him a rare Sheraton Hotel, Himachal Futuristic, Hero Cycles, Daewoo, Apollo Tyres, Samsung, Punj Group, Birla Group,

100 101 Jindal Group, Oasis Communications, U.P.S.C, State Bank of India, Jawahar Kala Kendra, J.D.A, State Kala AIFACS award in 1987 for Ceramics and Drawing and the 1993 Lalit Kala Akademi National Award for painting. Akademi, Jaipur and with many other eminent personalities in India, U.K, U.S.A, South Korea, Germany and He has been part of several prestigious group shows and workshops in India and abroad and has had more Japan. He had had many solo shows at many art galleries in Delhi and . than 25 solo shows across the globe. His paintings are part of several institutional and private collections in the country and outside. F. N. Souza 1924 - 2002 Born in Portuguese, Goa. Souza joined the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai in 1940. He was a founder member Jamini Roy 1887 - 1972 of the Progressive Artists Group, which held it’s first exhibition in Mumbai in 1948. However the following Born in Bengal to a middle-class land owing family, Jamini Roy was sent to the Government School of Art year Souza left India and moved to London. The works he produced in 1950’s and 1960’s reflect his catholic & Craft, Calcutta at the age of Sixteen to acquire an academic training and technical facility in the western upbringing in Goa, which had a great influence upon him as a child.H e has participated in many international tradition. For his creative inspiration and freedom of expression however, Roy drew from the indigenous exhibitions, including Art Now in India, London (1965), India: Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, culture traditions of India rather than that of Europe. The Kalighat artists of Calcutta particularly influenced Oxford (1982), , Royal Academy, London (1982), Modern Indian Paintings, Hirschhorn him. It was his ability to break down the barriers between the indigenous influences and his academic training Museum, Washington D.C. (1982) and Coups de Coeur, Halles de L’lle, Geneva (1987). that resulted in his unique personal idiom, with its strong sense of line, design and colour. He was awarded the Padam Bhusan in 1955. G. R. Santosh 1929 - 1997 Joydip Sengupta G.R. Santosh was born in Srinagar, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. He has had solo shows in leading In both large-scale oils on canvas and small-scale watercolors on paper, Joydip Sengupta presents vignettes galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Mumbai and New Delhi. He has participated in the Sao Paulo from contemporary Indian life interlaced with images from ancient mythology and motifs from decorative Biennale (1969-71), the Indian Art Exhibition in Eastern Europe (1956), the 1st Triennale in India (1968) and friezes, jalis and textiles. The end results are complex puzzles that weave together a myriad of influences and Contemporary Indian Painting , in Washington (1973). The Government of India honored him with the Padma experiences, brought together by the artist’s deft handling of surfaces, textures and colors. Often dizzying, Shree in 1997. always oscillating between the representational and the abstract, a pointed iconography and random absurdity, Joydip’s works are rich and multi-layered, much like life itself. Ganesh Pyne b 1937 Born in Calcutta, studied at the Government College of Art and Craft from where he received his diploma Laxma Goud b 1940 in 1959. He experimented with various media before settling for a self innovated form or tempera, whilst Born in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, Goud studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad still using pen and ink and watercolour. Pyne has participated in various exhibitions including the I and II and at the M.S. University, Baroda where he was a student of K.G. Subramanayan. Following on from his first Triennales, New Delhi (1968, 1971), the Paris Biennale (1970) and many others in both Europe in Asia. He solo show in 1965 in Hyderabad, Goud has exhibited widely both in and outside India, including Ansdeell was the recipient of the Calcutta Art Society Award (1973), and the Shiromoni Puraskar (1985). Pyne’s work Gallery, London (1973), Hamburg, Germany (1975 & 1976), Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil (1977), Royal Academy, is to be found in the permanent collections of many National and International Museums, including National London (1982), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1985) and Festival of India, Geneva (1987). Goud’s work is in Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Birla Academy of Fine Art, Calcutta, the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi many permanent collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Salarjung Museum, and in many private and public collections. Hyderabad and the Glenbarra Museum, Japan. Laxman Goud work is predominantly figurative using pen, pencil, crayon and watercolour. Jahangir Sabavala b 1922 Born in Mumbai, Sabavala studied art at the Sir J. J. School of Art till 1944. Thereon he went to the Heatherly M.F. Husain b 1915 School of Art, London and to Paris where he was at the Academie Andre Lhote till 1951. He studied at the Born at Pandharpur, Maharashtra. His paintings were shown at the Biennale in Sao Paulo (1971), where he Academia de la Grande Chaumiere in 1957. He has participated at national and international venues such as was an invited guest along with Picasso, India: Mythy and Reality, Oxford (1982), Modern Indian Painting, the Venice Biennale 1954, The Commonwealth Arts Festival in London 1965 and ‘Modern Indian Painting’ at Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Six Indian Painters, Tate Gallery, London (1982), Modern Contemporary Hirschhorn Museum, Washington 1982. Sabavala is famous for creating an illusion with light and dark colours Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York (1985), Indian Art Today, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., and giving his canvas an almost translucent and delicate look. Very widely exhibited in India and abroad, and being Coups de Coeur, Halles de L’lle, Geneva, (1987). Retrospective exhibitions of his work have also been held in a part of almost all prestigious private and most public collections. Bombay (1969), Calcutta (1973), Delhi (1978). Husain’s work can also be found in the permanent collections of major international museums and art galleries, and his murals and other important public commissions are Jai Zharotia b 1945 on display throughout India as well. In addition to painting, Husain has made twelve short films and was the Jai Zharotia was born in Delhi and did his professional training in Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Art. recipient of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1967. He has received honorary doctorates from Benares Hindu University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Mysore University, and was nominated to the Rajya He worked in Bal Bhawan on children’s educational projects, before becoming a lecturer at his alma mater. Sabha (upper house of Parliament) in 1986, and the Padma Bibhushan (1989). Recently he received Aditya Zharotia believes imagination is god’s gift to man and he believes that it is this that provokes him to create. Vikram Birla “KALASHIKHAR” Award in 1997 for lifetime achievement. Here is an Indian artist who tells stories through his art. He draws upon all aspects of nature and everyday life, whether living or non living. He believes everything has emotions and it is this belief that leads him to Manu Parekh look beyond their confines and conjure up the powerfully evocative and communicative images we see in his A third generation modernist, Parekh was born in in Gujrat. His initiation in the art of drawing and work. A world that gives birth to new dimensions and gives birth to a parallel reality. Jai Zharotia has received painting was under Mukund Shroff After he got the Diploma in Drawing and Painting from Sir J. J. School of several awards in his career, from the 1979 Sahitya Kala Parishad Awards and 1980 Silk Screen Prints to the art, Bombay, in 1962, Manu started as a stage actor in Bombay and designed stage-sets in Ahmedabad. Parekh

102 103 participated in the Third and Fourth Triennale-India (1975, ‘78), and between 1975 and 1994 he attended eight inter-dependence of form and the non-formal application of colour is the key to his art. A student of the artists’ camps in India and abroad. from 1967 to 1992 he had 20 solo shows and 30 group shows, national and Graphics department at the Bharat Bhawan, Mirza has taken part in both national and international art events international, including ‘Modern Indian Painting’, National Gallery of Modern Art (1982), Hirschhorn Museum, including the Tokyo International Mini Print Triennale. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute (1982), ‘Seven Indian Artists’ traveling exhibition in several cities in West Germany.Parekh lives and works in New Delhi. Ram Kumar b 1924 Born in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, Ram Kumar initially studied economics before moving to Paris in 1950 to Neeraj Bakshi b 1970 study under Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger. In 1970 he received a Rockefeller Fellowship and visited USA. He Born in Delhi, studied art at the Delhi College of Art and has worked with well-known artist Arpana Caur. He has exhibited widely and his work were included in the Tokyo Biennale (1957, 1959), Venice Biennale (1958), teaches art at various institutions. His own work oscillates between pure figuration and abstraction. Even Sao Paolo Biennales, Brazil (1961, 1965, 1980), Festival of India, Japan (1988) and retrospective exhibitions when he does figurative paintings, a sense of abstraction drives his palette.B ased in Delhi he has participated of his work have been held at the Birla Academy, Calcutta (1980), Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1986). His work is in several shows in India and abroad. His works are in collections in India and abroad. included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, the Birla Academy of Fine Art and Culture, Calcutta and the Henry Abrams Collection, New York. Neeraj Goswami b 1964 Born in Patna, Neeraj Goswami has made the medium of oils his own achieving a brilliance and vibrancy that Ramesh Gorjala is outstanding. Using tones of Celadon Porcelain and Onyx Styrations, Goswami gives his canvases a gentle A talented, upcoming artist, Ramesh Gorjala paints Indian mythological figures and themes with detail and radiance. His paintings glow like precious stones with translucence rarely seen. Through this sheer haze his sensitivity. For Gorjala, myth seems to be unfold into endless narratives and emerges into the forms of characters come alive almost as if they are ready to walk out of the canvas. The vitality and life-like images of Hanuman,Vishnu or Buddha often symbolic of protection and heroism. He completed his B.F.A. (Painting) his paintings have made Goswami one of the most sought after artists of his generation from J.N.T.U. in, Hyderabad, India. He has won several awards and details of these are provided: Received “Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial Award” for the year 2000 from Victoria Technical Institute ( Paramjit Singh b 1935 V.T.I.), Chennai. Participated in State Level Art Exhibition conducted by Telugu University of A.P. State, India Studied at the College of Art, Delhi, from 1953 to 1958. Has shown widely in India and abroad in solo shows in 1988 – 1999 & 2000-2001. Participated in the Handicraft Exhibition conducted by Craft Council of A.P. and important group exhibitions. Was awarded the National Award in 1970 by the Lalit Kala Akademi. Was Received the “State Award” from A.P. Crafts Council for the year 2002. Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, where he taught at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Education in “Art in Action”, London. from 1963-1992. His work is represented in several major public and private collections. Rashmi Sikand b 1968 Paresh Maity b 1965 Rashmi is a Delhi based artist whose canvases are brought alive with vivid colours and fantastic Figures, Born in Bengal. Paresh graduated in Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, and Her brushes paint on full-blooded reds, vibrant yellows and sparkling blues and greens, purple and violets. obtained his Masters of Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Art, topping his class. In a short span of time he Rashmi is a self taught artist and has been painting for a number of years, She has drawn inspiration for a host has held over forty solo exhibitions and has participated in several prestigious art workshops and group shows of contemporary & progressive artists .although a recluse, her main showing’s has been in dubai with M F in India and abroad. He has won acclaim in USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Husain, Jamil Nashq and Allah Baksh to name a few. She hardly exhibits her works However Rashmi’s paintings UAE, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Over the years he has won many prestigious awards. These include in capitulate life forces with powerful strokes. This young artist, who already has an artistic movement to her awards from Royal Watercolor Society, London, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata, Harmony Award, credit, hopes to use this latest platform to enhance her visibility. She works and lives in Delhi. Mumbai amongst others. Rekha Rodwittiya b 1958 Rabin Mondal b 1932 Rekha Rodwittiya was born in Bangalore in 1958. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda A graduate of Indian College of Art, Calcutta, he started working at the Ashatesh Museum, Calcutta University (B.A. fine 1981), and at the Royal College of Art, London (MA 1984, on the Inlaks Scholarship). She held her and at the same time pursued his muse. Since 1961, he has held many solo shows all over India including first solo show in 1982 in Baroda, and has subsequently held nineteen solo shows in New Delhi, Bombay, participating in various shows abroad. His works are at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras, Stockholm, Bangalore and Calcutta. Her work has been included in several group exhibitions in India New Delhi to mention a few and in many private collections in India and abroad. He lives and works in and internationally, including the VI International Triennial, New Delhi (1986), India in Switzerland: Six Young Kolkatta. Contemporaries, Geneva (1987), Dialogues of Peace, Geneva to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, Geneva (1955), and Inside Out: Women Artists of India, touring exhibition in the UK (1995-96). Rahim Mirza A Bhopal based artist, Rahim Mirza was inspired in his artistic career by J.Swaminathan’s statement that an Syed Haider Raza b 1922 artist should have a personal equation with nature. Mirza closely observes nature and links it to philosophy. Born in Barbaria, Madhya Pradesh, Raza studied at Nagpur and later at Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. He was The leaf is one favourite themes and he chooses it because according to him it shows infinite possibilities. a founding member of the Progressive Artists Group in 1948 with Husain, Souza, Ara and Bakre. In 1950 he When its bright green, its alive. When it’s yellow and falls on the ground it has so much presence and it won a French Government scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, assumes a different character. Another interpretation is that the floating nature of the leaf beckons people to where he moved permanently soon after. Apart from numerous one-man shows, including a retrospective closer. His technique involves working in transparent layers and always moves towards simplification. The at Musee de Menton, Paris (1991), Raza has participated in the Venice Biennale (1956), the Menton Biennale

104 105 (1964-1976), Rabat Biennale, Morocco (1968), Salon de Desin (1978), the Royal Academy, London (1982) and Bhavan. His one-man shows include several in South India and New Delhi, Mumbai and London. He has also Salon de Mai, Paris (1989) amongst many others. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the taken part in various group exhibitions such as a show entitled Encounter, Kessel (1992). National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris and the Asia Society, New York. Tyeb Mehta 1925 - 2009 Excellence is not one time phenomenon; rather it’s a habit, performed repeatedly. Tyeb Mehta belongs to the Sanatan Dinda clan which has made excellence, its second nature. Tyeb Mehta was born in July 1925 in Kapadvanj district of Sanatan Dinda is a first class graduate from the Government College of Arts & Crafts, Kolkata. His speciality . He is not only one of the greatest artists of India but also an acclaimed painter. After working as a is producing figures with a three dimensional quality, which transcends the limitations of a two dimensional film editor in a cinema laboratory, his interest in painting led him to Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai from where canvas. In his short career span, Sanatan has received many awards right from inter college competitions to he graduated in 1952.To further his interest, he made a short visit of four months to London and Paris. With a the prestigious Birla Academy award. He has had shows all over India as well an in the US, Singapore and UK desire to accentuate his skills and learning, he left for London where he lived and worked from 1959 to 1964. and is fast becoming one of the most sought after Indian artists of today. His work has found its own space He also made a visit to USA on a Rockfeller Fellowship in 1968 .He also tried his hand at film-making which part of notable collections like that of the Duchess of Kent, UK; the Belgium Consulate, ISKCON and in private made him win Film fare critic’s award in 1970 for his experimental film Koodal.H e is also a Recipient of Kalidas collections across the globe. Samman by the Madhya Pradesh Government in 1988. Truly, Mehta is a multi-faceted personality. In addition to a range of solo exhibitions, he has also participated in several international shows too. Immaculate in nature, Sidharth b 1956 he is one of the most influential artists ofI ndia. To think of the fact that, he chose his calling when there was not Born in Punjab. He first studiedT ibetan Thangka Painting for 6 years in a monastery at Dharamshala before he much knowledge and understanding about the art, says a lot about his resolve. He has certainly contributed went on to do a Diploma in Painting from the College of Arts, Chandigarh. He has also studied Glass blowing a lot for the art of painting and sculpture in India by means of awareness and exposure. As a confirmation of at Oreforsh, Sweden. Sidharth grinds, pounds, and mixes his own vegetable and mineral dye. He paints on his brilliance, Mehta’s paintings fetch the maximum prices of any living Indian artist. He possess the record hand-made `wasli` paper, giving his work a translucent and ethereal quality. He has had several one man and for the highest price an Indian painting has ever been sold in a public auction for “Celebration” at Christie’s, group shows in Delhi, Mumbai, UK, Sweden and the US. Sidharth`s paintings are in private collections in India New York in 2002. Adding to that his painting “Mahisasura,” brought $1.58 million, the first time a modern and abroad. Indian painting had crossed the million-dollar mark. Tyeb Mehta’s hugely influential works, across six decades makes him one of the supreme names in modern Indian art. At the forefront of rise of Indian art, his name will Sohan Qadri b 1932 be etched in the canals of great Indian artists. Obtained his Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Government College of Arts, Shimla. Initiated by Guru Bhikham Giri he learnt yoga, Tantra, Dance and Music in remote temples in the Himalayas and Tibet. He received awards Vasundhra Tiwari for his paintings from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and has won the IAPAA Award Toronta. He founded the Born in Calcutta in 1955, Vasundhara Tiwari is one of the experimenting figurative women artists of the Loose Group Painters and Poets in India. He has many books to his credit, including ‘The Dots and the Dot’s younger generation. She graduated in literature from the University of Delhi, and studied art at the Triveni Poems and Paintings’, Stockholm Mitti Mitti and the Punjab Sutras, Amritsar. He has made documentary films Kala Sangam, New Delhi. During 1982 -84, she worked on a Cultural Scholarship awarded by the department ‘Tantra, The Ancient Art of Energy’ for Sweden TV and ‘Journey into Silence’ for Doordarshan. His works are of Culture, Government of India. Vasundhara first drew attention for her sensitive mixed media work in which in collections public and private across the world. she interpreted the female nude as an image of the Indian womanhood suffering, searching and aspiring for independent individuality. Her treatment and use of the female nude soon diffused she creates are abstraction Suman Roy and are often emblematic of the inner life or contemporary women. Her paintings are characterized by Suman Roy, son of the noted exponent of the Bengal school, Suhas Roy, trained at Santiniketan and has had tensions arising out of the naturalistically modeled figures and the flat pictorial space which is enriched with to struggle both with the personal legacy of his father and that of the painterly traditions before choosing small focuses of tonal recessions his own language of figuration. His art reflects varied influences, from the Ajanta frescoes, Bengal School, European masters and others, which he has imbibed into his own unique style. His paintings usually depict Venkatesh Pate single male figures. Venkatesh graduated from Madras J.J. Institute of applied arts in 1983. He has worked as a Creative Director and graphic Designer in India, France and Australia. He has participated in a number of high profile art and Sanjeev Verma b 1961 design exhibitions in India and abroad, including solo show at Tao, Bombay, the Power of Peace for the United Bachelor of visual arts 1984 (Govt. College of arts Kolkata). Have been painting since 1996 (Water colours / Nations in Bali, the Sovereign Art Foundation in Hong Kong and Indjapan the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo. Inks & acrylics on paper). Currently for last three years have started using canvas as surface to express with acrylics.

Thota Vaikuntham b 1942 Vaikuntham was born in Karimnagar District of Andhra Pradesh. He studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad. In 1971, having won the Lalit Kala Akademi. Fellowship to study at M.S.University, Baroda. He was able to work under K.G. Subramanayam. In 1973, he returned to Hyderabad to teach at Bal

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