My dream to visit art galleries came true on 23-11-2011 during my stay in Mumbai. With great eagerness and thrill I started my journey from my place to Church gate and reached the galleries that are located in and around Colaba area.
Art Musings
How to reach there?
Address:
No 1, Admirality Building
Colaba Cross lane, Colaba, Mumbai.
Phone number :91 22 22163339 and 91 22 22186071
But it is difficult for any one to reach the place by just following the above postal address. However when I contacted the gallery over phone they readily helped me , talked to the cab driver and guided him.What you need to know is the land mark. Unlike the Public Galleries, the private and popular gallery is situated in a small lane adjacent to Colaba Bus Station. You can reach the place by taxi from Churchgate at a very reasonable price. The Bus route numbers are 132, 137 and 70.
later on when I browsed their web site I saw a very useful location map ( I should have checked it before starting my trip !)
About the gallery?
The gallery though situated in a small lane, is very appealing and spacious with ground floor and first floor having enough space to display large art creations.
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| Picture Courtesy: http://www.artmusings.net |
The gallery was founded in 1999 and around 60 shows have been conducted here within the 12 years of its establishment.
In their own words, "The gallery has been extremely responsive to the emergent vocabularies shaping contemporary Indian art and has played a key role in nurturing a spectrum of artistic practices. Over the years Art Musings have offset exhibitions by renowned Indian modernists such as F N Souza, Ram Kumar, S H Raza, M F Husain, Akbar Padamsee, K G Subramanyan, Anjolie Ela Menon, Sakti Burman, and Jogen Chowdhury with shows by contemporary artists such as Nalini Malani, Baiju Parthan, Reena Saini Kallat, Gopikrishna, Smriti Dixit, Paresh Maity, Jayasri Burman, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Suneel Mamadapur, Maya Burman, Shibu Natesan, Raghava KK & Nilofer Suleman. It is our endeavour to take the works of these artists, and others, to a collector base that is spread across Asia, Europe and North America."
What was the event on the day of visit?
Besides visiting the gallery my another motivation for this trip was the Art Exhibition called "Exquisite Cadaver" by the great artist K.K. Raghava. To know about this artist please see our post in art bay india blog
The gallery looked bright with narrative text in style about the title of the exhibition and about each creation displayed.
I spent lot of time in seeing around 16 abstract paintings of acrylic and water color media, displayed in both the halls. Of them the best paintings of my choice are -
"24:00" Acrylic on canvas
" In addition to Domestic Disaster Relief" - Water color on paper
"Preferred to the shadow" -Water color on paper
"The six digit Fidget" - Water color on paper
Current Exhibition:
'50 REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE SUN'
A Solo Show by NIKHIL CHAGANLAL 
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