The annual Mumbai Gallery Weekend (MGW) is back for city-hoppers to add a new activity to their checklist. The exhibition will be held till Sunday, January 20.
The exhibition has 14 south Mumbai art spaces showcasing new exhibitions, talks, walkthroughs for the public. On view are prominent mediums of contemporary art such as mixed media, photography, sculpture, video art, lenticular prints.
Siddhi Malani, 20, a second-year college student initially felt out of place attending the shows by herself. "But I soon found random strangers starting discussions on the art displayed and I joined in. A lot resonated with me; some of their views match mine, some didn't but even then I was happy to find a narrative stronger than mine. I had not heard about so many artists so I'm waiting to go home and read up on them."
Her favourites were Ryan Lobo's photographs of people viewing art captioned with quotes from the Bhagavad Gita and Bharti Kher's bindi sculptures. Prakhar Deep Jain, 25, documentary filmmaker, felt MGW provided a different viewing experience because of the walkthroughs to group art shows. "I enjoyed the cross-pollination of ideas by seeing so many artists in short span in one viewing space, and then many such viewing spaces." His one grouse: galleries should distribute leaflets of the exhibition briefs as some artworks had no caption or name of the artist."
Revati Gangal, 37, a figurative artist, loved the shows at Chatterjee & Lal and Gallery Maskara, because these were by young artists who displayed some out-of-the-box visuals in their paintings. "Such events bring artists, curators and gallerists together. There's a lot of interaction and film screenings. Plus a bus by Mumbai Midtown Arts Collective to take you around. I'm most excited to catch the talk by artist Gulam Mohammad Sheikh and visit Space 118 which is hosting an art residency."
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