Bombay Boys: A Group Show of Paintings by Anand Panchal, Gautam Mukherjee, Jagannath Paul, Nishant Dange and Omswami

The exhibition brings together the works of Anand Panchal, Gautam Mukherjee, Jagannath Paul, Nishant Dange and Omswami, a collective repertoire that is as variegated as it can get. The title of the exhibition is a playful use of the 1998 Mira Nair cult comedy Bombay Boys, to indicate that all the five participating artists are residents of the city of Mumbai; and that is all that is common between these artists. This group exhibition is a primary site for curatorial experimentation and, as such, represents a new discursive space around artistic practice. It offers new artistic interventions and observations of a fragile world: a world in which social relations are masked by a historical, untruthful ‘truths’; a world in which technology and ideology have merged to produce a complex image-landscape in which reality can no longer be taken for granted; a world in which nature has been altered so quickly and completely as to become almost a simulacrum of itself. In this uncertain and challenging moment, this diverse group of artists, informed by their working proximity are developing methods to critique, analyze, and recover vulnerable images, materials, and relations.

Collectively, the exhibition offers a partial glimpse rather than a sweeping overview of the complex the complex and ever-growing iterations fielded by these artists. Now as it emerges, there is a sense of defamiliarisation and conceptions of the self as a fixed and autonomous subject which runs as a shared feeling in each of these works. These creative gestures are at once expressions of resiliency, resistance, and celebration.

Anand Panchal

Untitled - 2 | 12" x 12" | INR 50000	Untitled - 1 | 12" x 12" | INR 50000	Untitled - 3 | 12" x 12" | INR 45000
Untitled - 4 | 12" x 12" | INR 45000	Untitled - 6 | 72" x 36" | INR 360000	Untitled - 7 | 72" x 36" | INR 360000
Untitled - 8 | 72" x 36" | INR 360000

Gautam Mukherjee

Couple | 24" x 24" | INR 86000	Waiting | 36" x 48" | INR 240000	Freedom | 48" x 28" | INR 185000
Hand Fan | 18" x 18" | INR 55000	Happy Family | 48" x 60" | INR 400000

Jagannath Paul

Bond of Love I | 48" x 48" | INR 320000	Bond of Love II | 36" x 36" | INR 180000	Bond of Love III | 36" x 24" | INR 125000
Togetherness | 60" x 36" | INR 300000

Nishant Dange

Untitled - 1 | 60" x 36" | INR 280000	Untitled - 2 | 60" x 36" | INR 280000	Untitled - 3 | 30" x 50" | INR 200000
Untitled - 4 | 18" x 36" | INR 90000	Untitled - 5 | 18" x 36" | INR 90000

Omswami

Splendour's of Love - 1 | 18" x 60" | INR 180000	Splendour's of Love - 2 | 18" x 60" | INR 180000	Splendour's of Love - 4 | 36" x 36" | INR 195000
Splendour's of Love - 3 | 36" x 48" | INR 260000

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