Sunday, May 13, 2012

Inviting all you art lover to my 2nd Solo exhibition of paintings at Jehangir art gallery, starting from 16th May till 22nd May 2012. timming - 11.00am - 7.00pm

Dear Friends,
Its my immense pleasure to invite you to my 2nd solo show of paintings titled "PHILOSOPHY OF URBAN SANDWICH" at Jehangir Art Gallery, Gallery 1, M. G Road, Kalaghoda, Mumbai 400001 
show opening on 16th May 2012 from 11:00 am till 9.00 pm
Show continues till 22nd May 2012. 
Gallery is open for every one from 11:00am - 7:00pm 







Concept of the series is circled around urban lifestyle where the common people experience its life in many dimensions. He is the viewer of its own life and the director of this life is many other factors. I take you to travel with this experience with me. I invite you to be a part of the visual beyond its image where you identify yourself or your surrounding through inner and outer sensation.

Do visit this show. Your presence is awaited

Javed Mulani
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Write up of “” PHILOSOPHY OF URBAN SANDWICH “”


Expressing a language which is close to an artist’s sensitivity is a very personal sentiment. It begins with his integration in living a worldly life and extracting himself from it. The constant conscious involvement of the senses to experience and express through art slowly and steadily matures to a superior level causing artists to develop a different thought process. Artists too are a part of society and are not different from those who belong to it. In fact, they are responsible for shaping and molding society and influencing people’s outlook towards life.  It is a cycle of getting back to point of ‘start’ and ‘end’ at same moment. Life is moving, memories are growing, and perspective has changed and is relentlessly changing with experiences. Plans are failing and re building to exist till your last breath. In this course of gain and loss of materialism and subjective phenomena I approach this series of representing life in an urban setting through a middle class perspective.

My work revolves around the Urban “Mumbai” lifestyle. The process of pre conceived notion, reality and a rational approach with or without enforcing my pragmatic view point is the base of my canvas. The finely camouflaged society surviving under the banner of cosmopolitan has deeper secrets. As a traveler, an artist I want to nail every idea, thought or observation and give it a source in my mind.  In this urban sandwich, my thoughts ponder on my surroundings. I remember while walking on the Dadar station, my mind argued with the present and unfaded memories. The overly populated bridge stormed with hawkers and fellow citizens. Regular Commuters are struggling to reach their destination, calculating time, train schedule and the hassles of daily life.

The traffic, astronomical prices, baffling changes and the memories I grew up with is creating a dialogue in my mind. I generalize my thoughts, imaginations, perspectives, predictions, dreams, hopes, fears, contentment and many such aspects which I have shared or experienced myself, with friends or mere strangers. My visuals begin to develop when my thoughts become transparent to a moment.

My paintings are a representation of being sarcastic, superficial, real, universal or at times conceptual. They bring a smile to my mind. Each painting has an individual and unique thought behind it. I relate to each visual as a process of building my thoughts amid levels of realization where I see only myself attached or detached to the space.. Animals have long been pals to humankind. They have been admired, worshipped, used, exploited and glorified, all at the same time. As an artist and as a viewer I force thought through this norms and stimulate the thinking process beyond the visuals.
The real endeavor in creating this series was to characterize my visual
There is no dais to represent wrong or right, good or bad… It is simply the acceptance of the experience. I define myself through this representation

By
Javed Mulani