JITEN THUKRAL AND SUMIR TAGRA
NEW improved BOSEDK
Since 2000, Thukral & Tagra have been experimenting with a wide variety of media including painting, installation, video, music, fashion, graphic and product design to create their signature brand, Bosedk Design. In this exhibition of canvas and installation-based works, the duo explore the effects of consumerism and the mall culture.
(February 5 – 23, at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, in collaboration with Nature Morte, Delhi)

NANDINI VALLI
DEFINITE REINCARNATE
When she pursued a degree in photography in the UK after a chance apprenticeship with a commercial photographer in Chennai, Nandini Valli encountered and became fascinated by the language of contemporary art photography. This collection, seen at the Alliance Francaise of Madras last year, is her take on the physical manifestation of God.
(February 19 – March 4, at Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai)

MONKHOR ERDENEBAYAR
RED HORSES IN THE SHADOWS
Better known simply as Bayar, this renowned Mongolian painter has had two very successful shows in Bangkok and Singapore last year with a number of art collectors from Europe, the USA and Asia vying for his work. Representing courage and might, horses are central to Mongolian culture – wherein his semi-abstract paintings are rooted.
(February 7 – 20, at Studio Napean, Mumbai)

NALINI MALANI, JAYSHREE CHAKRAVARTY and REENA SAINI-KALLAT EXCAVATION
With Nalini Malani acting as catalyst and drawing them together, the three storytelling artists bound by the common thread of exploring ‘myths, memories and membranes’ in their own individualistic narrative styles have co-curated this show of their own work.
(February 12 – 17, at Museum Gallery, February 18 – March 31 at Art Musings, Mumbai)

DAVID TRATTLE
OUT THERE CANADA
A social documentary photographer from Canada, Trattle has travelled across 60 countries on his bicycle. For the past decade, he has worked with marginalised groups like the Muslim women boxers of Kolkata and unemployed Germans living as full-time cowboys. This series is a general photo-essay about some aspects of life in rural Canada.
(February 12 – 20, at The Stainless Gallery, Delhi)

DAMIEN HIRST AND BONO
THE RED AUCTION
Singer Bono and artist Damien Hirst have joined hands with Sotheby’s and Gagosian Gallery, NY, to organise an auction of contemporary art that will benefit the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programmes in Africa. Among the world’s leading artists contributing their work is our own ‘dabbawalla’ Subodh Gupta – whose Sunday Lunch (oil and enamel on canvas) is estimated to fetch $180/250,000!
(February 14, at Sotheby’s, New York)

ANJU DODIYA
ALL NIGHT I SHALL GALLOP
The 55 mixed-media prints, made while Dodiya was on a residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), comes across as a compilation of visual flights of fancy that take off from the verbal diaries of Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems – which also inspired the title of this major exhibition by an artist who has been galloping to the forefront.
(February 15 – 29, at Bodhi Art and Bodhi Space, Mumbai)

DILIP DHORE
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION
These large watercolours reflect the artist’s love for the city of Mumbai as he captures the pervasive influence of the media and the resounding clash of tradition with modernity. His protagonist is the charismatic city-dweller in various avatars – hero, villain, tapori...
(February 15 – March 8, at Articullate, Mumbai)

BHARAT SIKKA
SPACE IN BETWEEN
These visually-arresting landscapes highlight the changes taking place in the country as well as the timeless beauty of its varied terrain. The large-scale prints with their subtle colour palettes and balanced compositions are more akin to painting than photography.
(February 28 – March 12, at Matthieu Foss at C&L Gallery, Mumbai)

SUHASINI KEJRIWAL
AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR HEAVEN OR HELL – II
Close on the heels of the Ram Kumar show that marked the first anniversary of Chemould Prescott Road and celebrated the Padma Shri awarded to Kekoo Gandhy, comes an exciting exhibition of recent paintings and installations by Suhasini Kejriwal. Her intricate imagery with its painstaking detail evokes unconscious associations by employing startling juxtapositions to reveal alternate levels of meaning.
(February 19 – March 14, at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai)

SHUVAPRASANNA
WORKS ON PAPER
This suite of charcoals and mixed media on paper, peopled by predator-like figures of hawks and owls, draws inspiration from the Kolkata-based artist’s impressions of the anguish and despair that followed the Nandigram riots in West Bengal.
(February 19 – 28, at Art Alive Gallery, Delhi)

SUDHIR PATWARDHAN
DRAWINGS
He is known for his monumental oils and acrylics that capture panoramic townscapes and cityscapes reflecting his socialist leanings (see Citing the City, which will be shown by Sakshi at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi, from February 27 – March 5), but it is the artist’s expressionistic drawings that depict the finer nuances of his figurative style.
(February 5 – 28, at The Guild, Mumbai)

GROUP SHOW THE MINIATURE FORMAT 2008: PART 2
The re-launch of this gallery was aptly flagged off with the inauguration of this three-part signature show designed keeping in mind scale (11”x15” for paintings, 12”x12”x12” for sculptures). Participating artists range from youngsters Minal Damani and Lavanya Mani and stalwarts Baiju Parthan, Bose Krishnamachari, Sunil Padwal, Chintan Upadhyaya, Debraj Goswami and Sheetal Gattani to seniors like Prabhakar Kolte and Navjyot Altaf.
(February 21 – March 8, at SansTache Art Gallery, Mumbai)