Art Mumbai 2024

Galerie ISA is delighted to participate in the second edition of Art Mumbai, 2024 at Mahalaxmi Race Course. On display will be various artists from the roster with works spanning landscape, abstract, figurative and miniature genres.

German sculptor and painter Christian Achenbach’s landscapes bring together musicality with Modernism, Dadaism and Cubism, in perfect symphony.

The abstractions of artists Gregor Hildebrandt, Russna Kaur, Idris Khan, Vipeksha Gupta, Annie Morris and Antonio Santin are iterative, drawing on previous series’ and cultural and social influences. Music and cinema is at the heart of Berlin based sculptor and artist Hildebrant’s eye-catching works with vinyl records being used to trigger memories and associations; Canadian-Indian artist Kaur comments on society’s preoccupation with linearity; a medley of cultural sources compose Idris Khan’s narratives that also rely on repetition and layering; Gupta’s works are bathed in luminosity with deep introspections on human consciousness; Morris’s whimsical sculptures, bring levity and depth in equal measure while Santin employs optical illusions of depth in his hyper-realistic, highly laborious paintings of ornamental rugs.

In both their figurative practices, Indian origin artists Anoushka Mirchandani and Ricky Vasan comment on feelings of otherness, of inclusion, and of the immigrant experience, in broad, vivid strokes.

On the other end of the spectrum, miniature works by Edouard Baribeaud, Ian Davis, Ian Malhotra and Eeman Masood are going against the grain with their innovations in form. A cinematic layering of classical Indian traditions, colour blocks and collages come together in Baribeaud’s storytelling; For American artist Ian Davis, the mundane wins against the mythical with repetitive patterns reflecting rituals and power struggles; the new frontiers of the digital world editorialized as novel landscapes comprise Ian Malhotra’s detailed morse-code drawings while Masood continues to push the boundaries on the didactic nature of this age old miniature art practice.

Priyanka R Khanna