Sunil Gawde participating in "The Journey is the Destination"
The Journey Is The Destination, an upcoming exhibition at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya (CSMVS), pays homage to the art of transformations, choosing works from Jehangir Nicholson's collection. The late collector, who worked with his family's cotton business, spent his spare time at art galleries, creating a collection of modern and contemporary art that ended with his death in 2001. Seven works from this collection will meet their present day counterparts, in this exhibition that puts forth a nifty retrospective. For instance, Parthan's An Act of Equilibirum — The Wind, made in 1991 and part of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF), will be shown alongside Chorus — 2, made of lenticular prints from 2011-15.
Kamini Sawhney, curator of the exhibition and the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at CSMVS, says, the choice of these from 800 works depended on those "who changed and showed current concerns". "Nicholson's collection has a lot of the Progressives and Moderns, which stopped in 2001. With this exhibition, we are able to stay contemporary, and reflect on not just each artist, but on the overall scene as well," she says.
