Art Mumbai 2025

Mumbai’s Galerie ISA is delighted to participate in the third edition of Art Mumbai 2025. On display will be 10 artists with landscape, abstract and figurative works on display.

Challenging the definition and strictures of landscape traditions are integral to the works of these exemplary artists. David Brian Smith’s dreamlike landscapes are an iteration of classic English pastoral environments with an eye firmly on the future. Fellow Brit, Ian Malhotra, also brings to the forefront the transmission and experience of landscape imagery, in encoded drawing systems. Santiago Giralda, invites us on a journey to reveal the natural beauty of an eclectic world, blending the abstract and figurative, the digital and the technical, the artificial and the natural. Michael Kunze’s large scale, architectonic landscapes are highly complex, layered in meaning and metaphor, and showcasing his immense skill in chiaroscuro. Through the use of classical drawing and oil painting, artist Ar-thur Lemaitre creates landscapes that are poetic; the organic lines and forms of the natural world offering a contrast to the linearity and repetition of cityscapes.

Layered, contemplative surfaces and a play of shadow and light can be seen in these abstractions. Delhi based Vipeksha Gupta’s works are highly stratified and imbued with a luminosity as she questions the delineation between interiority and exteriority. A deeper understanding of self, and an exploration of time, love and place is a transformational exercise for Gabriel Mills, his highly textured works showcasing technique as well as a journey of introspection. And for Hiroe Saeki, the journey of the individual cannot be seen without understanding the narrative of the collective; her multiple perspectives allowing for divinity and memory to come together organically.

An exploration of identity of the self and our relation to societal structures defines the core of these America based artists. Ian Davis’s hyper detailed works question the conformity and isolation that plagues modern society. While for Indian origin artist Ricky Vasan, the immigrant experience defines his vignettes that are rooted in nostalgia and a sense of belonging.

These artists continue to engage in dynamic conversations that challenge and upend the status quo underscoring Galerie ISA’s mission to provide a platform for cross-cultural voices and perspectives.

Priyanka R. Khanna