Gallery Chemould was founded in Bombay in 1963 by Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy as one of India's oldest commercial art spaces, and it has nurtured and represented many of the country's leading artists since then. During its 46-year tenure on the first floor of Bombay's Jehangir Art Gallery, Gallery Chemould held historic, first solo exhibitions of several generations of India's most prominent artists, including Tyeb Mehta, Bhupen Khakhar, Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, and Jitish Kallat, Mithu Sen, LN Tallur and several others.
In 2007, (rechristened) Chemould Prescott Road, moved into a large loft-like space remaining in the centre of the city and continues to be central to the art world. Under the directorship of Shireen Gandhy since 1988, Chemould Prescott Road has expanded its roster of artists to represent those working in experimental work, and its exhibition program spans younger, mid-career, and senior artists. In 2013, Chemould Prescott Road celebrated its 50th year, for which Geeta Kapur curated a series of 5 simultaneous exhibitions under the overarching title: Aesthetic Bind. The 5 exhibitions attempted to look at the gallery's role as a space that creates conversations through prevalent contemporary practices in contemporary Indian art.
In its 56th year and counting, the gallery remains to be relevant with a robust contemporary programme - and a roster of artists, who's works are in the forefront of both, the national and international art scene.
Out-Site / Insight
Apr 24, 2020 — Jul 23, 2020
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We approached our artists inquiring how they were doing in this time of isolation. Several of them are unable to make art - using their time to read, watch films, or make work that is a process between themselves and their drawing board. Others have shared works where they have responded immediately to their (forced) isolation and that speak of, and to this time. The selection therefore is of works that are made in this moment of lockdown, and of others that speak of isolation regardless of lockdowns. It is indeed true that artists are actually solitary creatures by nature! It was interesting to approach an existing inventory that looked at that silence that artists usually work in, juxtaposed with those works that come out of the forced isolation.
Anant Joshi
Flower Clock, Curdling Milk, Porcupine and Pangolin,
2020
Variable size
Anant Joshi
Flower Clock, Curdling Milk, Porcupine and Pangolin,
2020
Variable size
Anant Joshi
Flower Clock, Curdling Milk, Porcupine and Pangolin,
2020
Variable size