Reviews

  • Living Up to a Promise to Rebuild in Style

    From Revival to A Promise to Rebuild, Amdavadi artist Sheena Chawla has taken a substantial leap forward in her quest for discovery of the self and its innate powers. This is the firm feeling you get after you visit the…

  • “The Linear Matter” has Weighty Mass and a Fourth Dimension!

    The newest exhibition at 079 Stories is featuring two artists hailing from Kolkata and Akola/Pune. Showcasing the contemporary works by Saumya Bandyopadhyay – an arts graduate from New Delhi – and Harshit Bondre who trained from Pune, and titled “The…

  • Antar-Jyot: Jesal Carries The Flame of Instinctive Art Within

    Fresh from a group show with her compatriots in “Enthralling Eight” – the beautiful and talented band of eight Amdavadi women watercolourists who muse together, learn together, work together and show their creativity together with that epithet – last fortnight,…

  • Interconnect is All About Nature And Its Creations!

    It’s an exclusive show of bronze sculptures. It’s also an exclusive show of artworks focused on ecological and environmental concerns by a young but certainly and totally a committed artist. Enter K R Nariman with her third solo show of…

  • Ruby returns with a solo on ‘Maya’

    Maya – the well known philosophical concept about the world being illusory and how not to be entrapped in its quagmire is a much sought after quest for many. More so for people in the spiritual academics and artistic pursuits.…

  • Abhivyakti Arts Festival is back to eager, thronging crowds!

    The ongoing Abhivyakti City Arts Festival 2022 becomes the fourth edition of the fortnight long annual art extravaganza in the city of Ahmedabad as it opened this past weekend. The festival is happening at the Gujarat University Campus this time…

  • “Prem-Rang” takes you on a Voyage of Love & Devotion

    Prashant Patel the Amdavadi painter of the folk, miniature and classical schools inspired themes is back with his second solo show Prem-Rang. This one comes after his first solo show held at Amdavad ni Gufa Gallery in 2017. Aided and…

  • A Photo Exhibition for the Sake of Cultural Heritage of Gujarat

    The religious, traditional and tribal Fairs, the rural games from north to South in India and carnivals in foreign cultures particularly Sourh American countries always present colourful and exotic sights and settings which can be a wiling photographer’s delight. The…

  • Prerna by GVWAA is part of an Inspiring Process that Goes on

    Twelve years on they held the first show, their love for their own creativity, as also their spirit to provide an opportunity to householders like them has brought them to where the biannual shows of visual women artists are looked…

  • Rajesh Sagara’s ‘Lay Witness’: Gallery Ra Does It Big!

    Gallery Ra the Invent Art collaborative is back – celebrating this time the Foundation Day of the Heritage City of Ahmedabad, as perhaps in previous years. Its well attended show titled Lay Witness was opened at the Gujarat University lawns…

  • A show to hone our sensibilities towards the contemporary in art

    The Contemporary Currency is the current show in town that has brought the contemporary art of fourteen well-versed, well endowed and well-known artists from all over the country for the Amdavadi connoisseurs to view, relish and acquire. Curated by Amadavadi…

  • From Jain Chronicles to Tales of the Kalpavriksh

    Swati Parikh has traversed and transitioned to her second solo show of paintings and her known commitment to her Faith remains firmly intact as the content is driven from Jainism literature again. From February 2021 to February 2022, while the…

  • A New Year, A New Show & New Fare at 079 Stories

    Prepositions, the new show at 079 Stories that commenced on Friday showcases a range of off-beat fare. Hosted in collaboration with Vis-a-Vis Studio of Vadodara, for whom it’s their annual show out of Baroda, it features thirteen artists most of…

  • Water Colours Are the Flavour of the Season

    Coming close on the heels of an exclusive solo show of water colour works by Aarti Patel and a substantial presence of this medium in an earlier group show Sham-e-Art curated by Namit Kadia and still more at the group…

  • Yamini’s Water Colours are a Visual Delight

    Two art shows are currently on in the city this week. Interestingly while one is a solo show by Yamini Gajjar comprising entirely of water colour works, the other a group show by Rajkot Art Society has a couple of…

  • The Verve shows the Nerve of the Jain Community to Promote Art

    Art institutions, artists’ collaboratives or art galleries organizing and hosting art shows is a given phenomenon and we keep coming across events under the aegis of these promoters who show a regular but significant presence in the art circuit of…

  • Kapadia is Not Done Yet: His Tryst with Gandhi goes on in Gusto

    Profiles of Gandhi was the first major book that your scribe acquired as a young adolescent in 1969. That was the Centenary Year for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and this special hard bound edition of tributes by world leaders with black…

  • Gallery Ra Showcases Errol Pires’ Enchanting Magic of Braids

    Errol Nelson Pires at the exhibition at Kanoria Centre for Arts Ply split braiding is an applied art of the craft variety which has its own unique aesthetics and even allied techniques that have lent it some creativity beyond its…

  • For the love of Ganesha

    So after a dual exhibition in real and virtual space by the city’s favorite Archer gallery, the Gujarat Visual Women Artists’ Association (GVWAA) started its bi-annual show on Thursday at Hutheesing Centre at the hands of their guest Mrs and…

  • It’s Ganesh all the Way!

    Its that time of the year – once again – when almost every believer in the polytheistic Hinduism turns to praying to and pleasing Bhagwan Ganesh also known with Ashtottar Shatnamavali, that is with 108 names, the more popular ones…

  • Weaving Abstractions Offers Rare Variety of Forms and Media

    With five shows running concurrently at five different galleries, the city of Ahmedabad is seeing its peak potential in the realm of fine arts after the pandemic having receded at least temporarily and partly over the last two months or…

  • Season 05 by Art Connect Begins at Gufa

    While two art shows are already on at 079 Stories and at Kanoria Centre, two more opened on Tuesday at the two prominent and busy galleries in KL Campus. Whereas a solo by Raju Kadia opened at Hutheesing Centre, a…

  • The artistic impulses are all Inside Us!

    “Inside Us” is the new art show that opened on Tuesday at The Gallery in Amdavad ni Gufa. A show by abstract artist Saloni Dalal Patel this one as the title conveys and the show intro manifestly says “is a…

  • “The Initial” Shows a Promise for the Final Future!

    After the coming together of veterans of the C N Sheth College of Fine Arts’ 1981 batch last week, it was the turn of three young pass-outs of 2019 of the same College to collaborate and host a show of…

  • Mati by Lohar showcases the Real Contemporary World

    This week it is a Photography show at Amdavad ni Gufa. Coming precisely a year after Jyoti Bhatt’s pre-Corona Lockout show about the Indian Portrait – Part XI in March 2020, titled Mati, meaning ‘the dust’, this one at hand…

  • Spandan: An Ode to the Power of the Feminine

    Come March with its much celebrated International Day for Women on 08th; or Come September and the art fraternity in Apnu Amdavad can be sure, there will be a biannual show by this modest group that we know with the…

  • Trupti Returns with a ‘Big Bang’

    Nirgun is the 29th solo show by the senior female artist of Gujarat Trupti Dave. The show opened at the Amdavad ni Gufa in Ahmedabad’s central area of Navrangpura adjacent to the Gujarat University, which can boast of the unofficial…

  • In Transit is actually a Quantum Jump in the First Step!

    The newest group show in the town by the newest gallerists opened on Friday evening at the Hutheesing Centre with a good deal of promise, both for the artists it is featuring as also for itself as an enterprise in…

  • Anubhuti by Kaleidoscope lives up to its name

    Image Source: Facebook profile – Kappari Kishan It has been a notable incidence about art shows in the town and we have always loved to mention it: the art scene keeps ticking briskly here. Leaving the Corona times behind, the…

  • Nathdwara Paintings right in your hands

    Toso preet tod, Krishna, kaun sang jodu-n – If I break the thread of love with you, Krishna, who else would I bond with! Meera’s gopi-bhav of complete surrender to Krishna is seen in all his devotees – ordinary ones,…

  • Finding aesthetics and beauty in times of chaos

    Can chaos really be beautiful? That’s the question you start with when you receive the invite for this art exhibition titled The Beautiful Chaos that attempts to bring back some ‘normalcy’ in the midst of the pandemic which refuses to…

  • Krishna Returns with Janmashtami!

    As you walk into this exhibition on Krishna you recall that in February of this year – the month before in March when most of the world closed down for things public, we had two exhibitions devoted to Krishna almost…

  • The Great Saga of Indian Portrait Keeps Going!

    Jyoti Bhatt The great visual saga of the Indian Portrait moves on! Written with a huge penchant for its historic significance and a certain episodic regularity by Anil Relia of Archer Arts Gallery, this saga entered its eleventh edition on…

  • Installations Galore as Abhivyakti Juggernaut Moves On

    The Abhivyakti Visual Arts segment was seen to be having its fair share of keen visitors and interested onlookers as the Fest entered its second Day at the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG) campus. We went around too through the…

  • Installations Galore at Abhivyakti Edition 3

    Abhivyakti Edition 3 has commenced on Friday evening with a play, a musical and a large number of visual art installations but without any hullabaloo. A modest and elegant start sans any fanfare of VIPs where people walked in coolly,…

  • Yet Another Art Space Comes Up, this time under PPP

    The Saturday evening brought forth a very happy development not only for the art fraternity and art connoisseurs of the city, but also for the citizenry in general, more especially of the Satellite Area by adding another option for recreation!…

  • Visitors add to the exchange tradition in Apnu Amdavad

    Tatpashchaat a group show of Delhi based artists visiting Ahmedabad was opened on Tuesday at the Gallery in the Amdavad ni Gufa campus. Displaying some 60 works by fifteen artists associated with artists’ group Grains of Canvas of Delhi, the…

  • Roots and Pathways: Yes, It Is all Inside!

    It’s invariably the human life at the core of every artistic endeavour – either in its raw existentialist form whereby the artist deals with its enigma and tries to find answers, or it is about the evolved forms in the…

  • Priya breaks new ground with Tribal Forms

    Priya Pariyani is back with her nineteenth solo show. But this time it is a set of different strokes as she tries her hand at several popular tribal art forms in what is an apparent shift from her signature style…

  • Two Shows and two Different Worlds

    Even as two very successful solo shows by two Amdavadi women artists ended on Sunday and two are continuing at 079 stories and Archer Art gallery through the week and beyond, two more art shows commenced at Hutheesing Centre and…

  • Archer Marches on: And Now a Group Show

    After hosting a number of star artists and their solo shows of paintings and photographs over the last one year and more, the last being When the Pawari Calls by Bhairavi Modi, the Archer Gallery has now turned to hosting…

  • Women are Goddesses in their own Right!

    Women are Goddesses in their own right, so says our worldly experience! “A woman immersed in her own world, one with actions is no less than divine!” believes this feminist artist who presented the latest art show in town “Of…

  • Breathing the Past in Present

    While the World Heritage Week ended on Monday, the Heritage talk, walk and watch haven’t. This was evidenced at local artist Aarti Patel’s show of her watercolour paintings Breathing The Past which captures the essence of the old Ahmedabad in…

  • First Take 2019: It’s the Indian Diversity All the Way

    The Abir’s First Take which by its name is likely to be thought of as ‘some first appearance’ is actually a credible recurring annual competition-cum-show of visual arts which has successfully completed its fourth run in Edition 2019. The competitive…

  • The Euphoria is no Enigma

    Muskaan Darshan is back with her second solo show of paintings. That is in a space of a year and a half after her maiden show in June 2018; perhaps a wee bit earlier than an announced timeline for return.…

  • It’s Trilok Soni and his Pichhwai one more time

    Trilok Soni is a Rajasthani artist who returns to Ahmedabad with his Pichhwai art every now and then. In fact, he claims Ahmedabad is the only place where he puts up his shows at his own initiative and expense; and…

  • Roma & Rakesh Patel : Creating Two Different Worlds

      #Transformed: Divergent Individuals, the new show of artworks by Roma and Rakesh Patel that began on the auspicious day of Dussehra is a mix of two very distinct flavours created by the husband-wife duo who were both trained at…

  • Remembering the Mahatma @ 150

    Gandhi at 150 is finally here! A much-awaited and much-talked about occasion! And we are celebrating the Man who was born Mohandas and got transformed into a Mahatma right in the thick of the twentieth century; his contemporaries wondered if…

  • The Indian Portrait by Archer: Waiting for a Permanent Museum

    The much popular and well-known showing of The Indian Portrait by Archer Art Gallery has come a full circle. That’s, it has actually come to a significant milestone for these exhibitions under the series now with an overview in the…

  • Cramoisi Set on a Firm Foothold…

    Into their third exhibition in town, Cramoisi Art of Ahmedabad looks all set to gain a firm foothold for itself in the secondary market for visual arts. We say this as we finish our quick round of the show titled…

  • Opening a window on the myriad colours of Dangs

    L to R: Manan Relia, Tanuja Relia, Mallika Sarabhai, Bhairavi Modi, Anil Relia. (Photo courtesy: Archer Art Gallery) Geographic regions or cultural-ethnic groups as artist’s fancy are an accepted and popular trend in the art-world. Evidently, we see artists-photographers dwell…

  • The Khoji Returns with ‘Poetic Renditions of Existence’

    Seema Kohli of Delhi is not unknown to Ahmedabad even as she came and conquered the town by starting her first solo show at 079 Stories the past weekend. For record’s sake, Seema actually debuted in Ahmedabad last year in…

  • Visual Arts at Abhivyakti: A trip to the unchartered

    Even as Edition 2 of Abhivyakti unfolds further with its events in the second week, it provides a sense that the entire fest is poised to indulge in experimentation; each event demonstrating that dimension in their own right. You see…

  • Bringing Banaras to your doorstep and how

    Banaras, Varanasi or Kashi as the artist’s fancy is before us yet again. This time in a show of photography. The show Banaras – the breathing legacy by the well-known photographer of our part and Navjivan Trust’s managing trustee Vivek…

  • Gandhi in Folk Forms is a Hit

    That Mahatma Gandhi evokes mixed emotions of surprise, awe, disbelief, even sarcasm in some cases, on some of his actions, stances and values as people down the time judge him with the benefit of hindsight as also the common criticality…

  • Transcendence is the Way Forward for Bharvi

    The artist community would know but the art buffs may not know that the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy (GSLKA) is possibly just one of the few similar institutions in the country that run a scheme to financially support individual…

  • NID’s newest exhibition looks back in history

    National Institute of Design (NID) is one pioneer institution that along with IIM, CEPT and NIFT, Gujarat Forensic University and others makes Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar an educational hub of some standing and repute. While the NID established in 1961 as an autonomous…

  • The Era of Retros is here…Look for More

    It’s a double bonanza for Delhi-based Gujarati artist Madhvi Parekh as she visits Ahmedabad this season! Even as her show The Last Supper started at The Gujarat Theosophical Society’s IP Mission Chapel only on Sunday, a Retrospective on her creative…

  • The Last Supper: An apt Expression of Cross Cultures

    The Last Supper is a famous Biblical episode described in the Gospels which depicts the last meal taken by Christ with 12 of his apostles before his crucifixion. The episode details the interaction all of them had. A moving point…

  • ‘Alchemy’ at KL Museum gives form to the colour Indigo

    ‘Alchemy’ is a precursor to the Arvind Indigo Museum that will soon come up at Arvind Mill’s Naroda campus in Ahmedabad. Alchemy is the newest exhibition in Ahmedabad, but it showcases not just some artworks – it also gives a beautifully pieced…

  • Post-Age : 187 Artists Send a Postcard from the Past

    Like a postcard from the past, ‘Post-Age’ stirs up old memories and urges the viewer to engage with the art on display. For this charity exhibition, 187 artists from across India and Ahmedabad have made paintings on postcards. The show’s…

  • Lines to Strokes – Mahendra Kadia’s Artistic Evolution from Literal to Visceral

    The passionate Ahmedabad-based artist’s four-decade-long visual journey has left citizens of the city completely enthralled. Check out how the veteran painter’s love for birds manifests, in this comprehensive  retrospective. If Mahendra Kadia hadn’t been an artist, he would’ve surely pursued ornithology…

  • A smell of musky perfume in Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum

    Worshippers of Goddess Saraswati are known seldom to have the grace of Goddess Lakshmi. Quite a few of those who worship Goddess Lakshmi, on the other hand, have noticeably been beneficiaries of Goddess Saraswati’s grace. Eminent industrialist the late Kasturbhai…

  • Call of the Mountains – Lensman Mitul Kajaria’s Conversational Landscapes

    Self-taught photographer Mitul Kajaria’s monochromatic captures of the Himalaya’s ‘folded landscapes’ are curiously multidimensional and unconventioinal. As soon as I entered the Somalal Shah Art Gallery at Ravishankar Raval Kala Bhavan, and observed Kajaria’s aligned photograph frames, I imagined hearing…

  • Face To Face With Art, Talent and Experience at Gufa

    Vis-a-Vis Art Gallery Vadodara has brought together MSU alumni to give Ahmedabad a feel-good art experience. The showcase is a wonderful confluence of artistic expressions as veteran artists are exhibiting their artworks with blooming painters for the first time at Amdavad Ni Gufa.…

  • Connotative miniatures on the Gita

    In its pithy communication, the Gita is a matchless piece of literature handed down to us through its ancient oral tradition reflecting on the essence of life. The Mahabharat, Prof Alok Bhalla in his 6th N C Mehta Memorial Lecture at…

  • When 275 People are Handed 275 Cricket Bats, See How Art Happens

    Home-makers, jail inmates, children, celebrities and artists create art on miniature cricket bats. Visit this one-of-a-kind exhibition ‘Chhota Bat Badda Score’ by Mantra Art Gallery. Nayana Soparkar, Curator of the show “You may love cricket, or hate it, but you can’t run away…

  • The Latest in Indian Furniture Design, Curated

    Customisable furniture, recycled things and out-of-the-box material combinations, were part of the eclectic display at RAW Collaborative’s exhibition. On September 9th, against the backdrop of Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, the ATMA house, was laid out a true feast for the eyes…

  • Unadulterated Creativity and Life at Satya the Art Show

    Photo Credit : Ronak Sopariwala Eye-soothing creations of resident artists of Navajivan truly reflect life in its most unadulterated form. Touching the emotions of purity, death and beliefs in a simple way, the art show is moreover a therapy, besides…

  • Heart : Beat – The Pulse of the Warli Art

    Heart : Beat is an exhibition that showcases and re-imagines Warli art. Stemming from a residency programme in Bapugaon, in the Warli Heartland, it incorporates different forms of arts and crafts from the region and was on display at Kanoria…

  • Art 17: From Political Satire to the Traditional Pichwai

    If you’re an art lover living in Ahmedabad, then the Kanoria Centre for Arts isn’t foreign to you. Known to be home to artists from various disciplines, the Centre celebrated 33 years this weekend in true artistic style with no…

  • Nagjibhai’s Legacy: Tasmai Shree Guruve Namah

    With hidden gems of art curated by loving students of Nagjibhai Chauhan, a real revelation is on display at Ravi Shankar Raval Kala Bhavan that compares well with the works of the great Surrealists and Impressionists. Name a teacher who…

  • Art Makes Sense: A Tactile Art Exhibition

    While most of the time, art in exhibitions is kept shielded behind a pane of glass, this unique exhibition organised by Sense International India is tailored so that people can touch the art – because that is how the deafblind…

  • Solo Together: Two Parallels in the Works of Artist Lovers

    The image of a beautiful evening with people in love all around, celebrating togetherness – Valentine’s Day this year was more than just this. Born from the thought that people who are together are individuals first and foremost, the couple’s…

  • Nabibakhsh Mansoori Wins Hearts with Brush Strokes at Amdavad ni Gufa

    The life-sized solo exhibition codes ‘hidden messages’, replete with energy, colours and motifs from the artist’s creative life painted onto ceramic plates. “It’s like a family coming together to celebrate art as an occasion, it’s not just as an exhibition,”…

  • To Sir, With Love: A Tribute to Jeram Patel the Teacher

    The artist’s teachings come full circle, as his students pay tribute to the man through their own work and inspirations at Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts. It was a weary Tuesday afternoon at a high-street art gallery in Mumbai. It…

  • Reimaging France with Imaginative Photographer Maia Flore

    The French Republic is renowned for its culinary art, culture, architecture and of course the courteously beautiful language. And to relive the French in our nation Alliance Francaise de Ahmedabad has brought us the creations of avid photographer Maia Flore…

  • The Grandeur of Hampi : Photography exhibition by Vivek Desai

      A man bathing his elephant in the flow of a mighty river… A priest conducting rituals between the pillars of an ancient temple… Rocks, trees, clouds and the river coming together in timeless harmony… These are some of the…

  • Freezing Time on Canvas

    The art world scenario has gone through interesting shifts from time to time – from conventional art to experimental forms and from a handful to a sea of artists. There is a lot that has changed all around and considering…

  • Remembering Dashrath Patel : when friends reminisce

    Satya Gallery is one such art space of Ahmedabad that defines simplicity and elegance as its true radiance. The delightful ambiance welcoming every patron with a ‘Mahatma’ experience is something that will take you on a time travel of the…

  • Kala Katha: Legends on Cloth ( Mata ni Pachhedi)

      Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University hosted a unique experiential exhibition on November 19, 2016, on the traditional art of Gujarat, ‘Mata ni Pachedi’. The exhibition was held on the first day of the ‘World Heritage Week’ and was…

  • Abir’s First Take : a celebration of artistic dare !

      A maverick is not only a person who is independently minded or unorthodox but is actually a person, who observes things really closely and still accepts the variety of opinions wholeheartedly. Every maverick may not be an artist, but…

  • Reviewing The Five

      A gallery full of masterpieces, L&P Hutheesing Visual Art Centre was all blooming with the paintings of 5 art pundits this week, Hindol Brahmbhatt, Indrapramit Roy, M.Sasidharan and Vasudevan Akkitham. An exhibition curated by Giriraj Kadia, The Five will continue for spectators…

  • Blue Icon : A Strong Criticism on Castism

    “In believing we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. How can people divided into thousands of castes be a nation?” – B.R. Ambedkar. Blue Icon – Contemporary Reiterations is a perfect example of brilliant curation, one which…

  • Romance with Nature : Paintings by Surya Prakash

    Mantra Art Gallery, opens up a new display, vibrant and colourful, of paintings by Surya Prakash. The paintings compliment the mood of monsoons, but more importantly the exhibition brings about a pleasant change from what we have seen in various…

  • Janmashtmi’s Art Treat – Pichawai Exhibition at Gufa

    On the eve of Janmashtmi, Amdavad ni Gufa is offering Amdavadis a treat with an exhibition by renowned Pichawai artist Shri Trilok Prakash Soni titled “Darshan: Shrinathji”. The exhibition was inaugurated by Shri Sanjay Lalbhai on the 23rd of August…

  • 100 Clicks: A Digitized World Photography Exhibition

    Industrial Revolution is one of the important turning point in the course of history. It gave birth to many inventions and technological advancements like combustion engine, large machine powered factories and electrical power generation. And a major invention related to…

  • The coming together of Easel & Chisel

      IIM-A known world over for its excellence in business education has, for past 10 days turned host to a very different kind of an activity, an art event. A workshop of interdisciplinary artists called ‘A dialogue between Easel and…

  • SPD Art Exhibition at Amdavad Ni Gufa

    This is her second art exhibition in Ahmedabad; Sanaz Panahpour Darehshoun is a respected Turkish artist, who travels the globe to spread the joy of aesthetics. Her expressive and appealing way of painting using bold colours has tremendously set a…

  • The Art of Intricacy by Hiralal Patel

    Like a secret inscription written on a treasure chest, the intricacy of Hiralal Patel‘s sketches were extremely beautiful. It truly defined the nomenclature of event, ‘Micro circle art’. To further elaborate and understand the artist’s real mastery we all as…

  • Swaraj of Hindol

    “Memory is the scribe of the soul” Aristotle I heard that quote first time in movie called “The Book Thief”, it struck me. And it struck me real hard. That proves right for the words as well. And when one…

  • Summer Strokes : art exhibition

    India’s country map is a real-time delusion of a continent itself. A mystical vast land that is nourishing diverse beings, who spread inspiration through their creativity and creations since decades. The Summer Strokes Exhibition at Herwitz Art Gallery, Amdavad Ni…

  • Glorious Galore!

    From left : Sanjay Savaliya, Paragji Patel, Rajkumar Sarde, Priya Aghera, Naisargi Dalal A bunch of Rhythmic notes together make a constant melody. And within a melody every note has its own tone, uniqueness and importance, giving a holistic effect…

  • Aesthetics of Romesh Mistry at Amdavad Ni Gufa

    Mother and child, a bond that is completely unadulterated. A relationship, where only love and affection is meant for existence. Where both the beings are same, their souls are same, their feelings for each other are same, but only their…

  • Flowing creativity at Kanoria Centre for Arts

    It sometimes feels like a fairytale, glancing white walls full of design formations, based numerous themes, billions of colours and nymphet sculpturing figures. A situation totally resembling all human feelings and emotions within a single shot. This is what you…

  • Monkeys of the blue god – Amit Ambalal Show

    Happiness is undeniable!! Any viewer in front of Amit Ambalal‘s work responds with a sense of happiness and sheer, sensual pleasure. Maybe it has to do with the wittiness of the characters he chooses to paint. At his recent exhibition…

  • Kishor Parekh’s Bangladesh – A Brutal Birth : a Review

    Some visuals in this story show graphic violence, may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewers discretion advised. Birth is painful! They say, when a mother gives birth to a child she undergoes through a pain equivalent to fracturing 20…

  • Beautiful Expressions

    Shri Tushar Purani, Director (Retd.)  C.N. Vidyavihar Group of Institution inaugurated ‘Expression’ an exhibition of Mona Bhavsar’s work on the 12th of April. The exhibition is being displayed at Amdavad Ni Gufa till the 17th of April and is open…

  • Inside the Road

    ‘Inside the Road’ an exhibition of monotype prints, prints on textiles and acrylic paintings is on show at the Kanoria Centre for Arts till the 14th of February. The exhibition is a show of the works of Meghan Shah an…

  • Conversations with Artists

    Art has myriad meanings and is interpreted in many ways. Thus when artists themselves talk about their art, their inspirations and the thoughts behind it, it becomes much more noteworthy. Kanoria Centre for the Arts and Coffee Mates gave Amdavadis…

  • Scrap Design Innovation – at NID

    Imagine a child loving his wardrobe and always keeping it neat and clean. Not leaving clothes around but keeping them in order. Imagine a vibrant and playful piece of furniture which is also utilitarian. You don’t need to imagine anymore…

  • 60 / 60 by Pablo Bartholomew : A knockout show!

    Institutions of the town have always played a vital role in giving important exhibitions to the city. Undoubtedly NID is one of them. This time it’s Pablo Bartholomew. A world renowned photographer and photojournalist- whose works are being exhibited at…

  • Sensationalism of Bindu

    Syed Haider Raza – Master of Colours needs no introduction in Asian Art Market. Ahmedabad’s Archer Art Gallery and Akar Prakar Gallery from Kolkata have assembled an exhibition of the Maestro at The Gallery, Amdavad ni Gufa. Born in 1922…

  • Gujarat Photo Festival 2016 at Satya Art Gallery

    The Gujarat Photo Festival 2016 is currently going on in different parts of the city. This event has been organised by Navjivan Press. The festival was inaugurated on the 31st of March by Jyoti Bhatt and has many events in…

  • Shri Nathji Pichwai : exhibition review

    An exhibition on Shri Nathji Pichwai is going on at Amdavad ni Gufa. Pichwai is a stunning art form which depicts legends from the life of Lord Krishna. It is a traditional art form of India which depicts scenes from…

  • A Tribute to MF Husain in his centenary year

    Hutheesing Centre of Visual Arts and Archer Art Gallery have associated together to put up an exhibition to tribute M.F. Husain in his centenary year. There could be no better place to pay tribute to Husain than Hutheesing Centre of…

  • Amrut Patel – exhibition of recent paintings

    Amrut Patel needs no introduction in Ahmedabad’s Art Fraternity. Extremely soft brushwork is his hallmark. He is exhibiting at “The Gallery” near Amdavad ni Gufa. There is gentleness about his paintings which is also characteristic of the man. No doubt,…

  • F. N. Souza – works on paper

    “Renaissance painters painted man and women making them look like angels, I paint for angels to show them what men and women really look like.” – Francis Newton Souza What can be more bold start of 2016 for Ahmedabad than an…




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