India Art Festival: A Soothing Breeze In A Desert After Two Years-From 13th to 16th Oct, 2022 at The Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi

The art events, exhibitions and art fairs across the world were on hold in 2020 and 2021 on account of gathering restrictions in pandemic. Artworld came back to normalcy this year, as least, we
can say for sure from the crowds that we saw at the India Art Festival editions hosted in April-May
2022 at New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. No matter how much digital platforms we create, art
festivals are uniquely appealing due to the experience of actually being there, visually relishing
artworks hanging on the walls, enjoying chat with the artists, mingling with friends and enjoying a cup of coffee in a makeshift cafeteria. India Art Festival is starting season’s campaign from the national capital from 13 to 16 Oct 2022 at the Constitution Club of India followed by Bengaluru edition and Mumbai edition respectively in Dec 2022 and Jan 2023. The art enthusiast and collectors can find the original
works of art – paintings, drawing, prints, figurative & semi-abstract, landscapes, portraits,
sculptures and all other forms of visual presentation of art. This year in the artists’ pavilion, close
to 200 artists are presenting their artworks apart from 250 artists represented by 25 art galleries
from all over India. Art galleries are presenting wide variety of artworks in various mediums – oils,
acrylics, watercolours, original prints, drawings in myriad styles dealing with varied subjects including landscapes, figurative, abstracts, cityscapes, seascapes, urban and rural scenarios, portraits, nudes, semi-nudes, religious art, traditional paintings, murals, warli art and many more.
The quality and trust are not only the keys to building art gallery brand, but they ensure continual
reputation and credibility among art buyers. The Curators Art, Studio3 Art Gallery, Rhythm Art
Gallery, Gallery Pioneer, Pastel Tales are some of the galleries who take meticulous care to create inspiring viewing ambience in their booths forcing visitors to enter it. The other participating galleries including Beyond Square, Mriya Arts, House of Emerge, Eminent Art Gallery, Uchaan, Rabi Art Gallery, Gallery Nataraj, Roopchand Art Gallery are vying this year to woo visitors in their booths at the art festival in Delhi. There are many master artists including Jogen Chowdhury, T Vaikuntam, Rabin Mondal, Suhas
Roy, Seema Kohli, Laxma Gaud, Arpan Bhowmick, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Laxman Aelay, Sudhir
Patwardhan, Ramesh Gorjala, Satish Gupta, Ravinder Reddy and others whose works are displayed in the art festival. Every year artworks of all kinds of mediums, subjects and styles are seen at India Art Festival. This year, the ever enticing art form landscape paintings by Apoorva Hans, Gurjeet Singh, Shashikant
Patade, Subrata Malakar, Anurag Kapoor, Sunil Poomangalath, Bandhna Arora Banga, Monika
Singh, Mayur Heganekar will be on display at the art festival. The works of Kaukabh S Ahmad,
Arpita Goel, Nisha Dial, Shibani Sehgal are the slight variant of landscape genre; the figures in
these works are either infused in the foreground or they look close to flower-scapes and have different narrative than what is overtly visible. These artists’ works highlight atmospheric effect rather
than merely capturing the floraand fauna. B. Narahari’s painting with female figures, parrots
and stylized works by Anukta Mukherjee Ghosh, Prakash Pore,Pratima Abhange, Prithvi Soni,
Saurabh Dingare, and Simple Pani evokes lyrical quality and tilt towards symbolic narratives.
The Female enigmatic world has been a subject widely dealt by many artists but when female
artists herself explores her own world, it acquires different dimension. Monica Ghule, Pavani
Nagpal, Shivani Sharma, and Tanu Goel with the female figures, more of a silhouette than
detailed depiction takes theviewer at different level whereas artist D Anantaiah and Dhiraj Patil captures her in different moods with playful charm.
Artists Alka Pandey, Deepika Harbhajanka and Vikram Malik bring their visual connotations
in the semi-abstract idiom at the art fest. Within this Artists Pavilion one would find a moment of peace and tranquility in the works of Anuradha Singh, Babita Satpati, Dr Bharti Sharma, Kanchan Mahante, Manish Kumar, Roma Handa and Vandana Dhodi if one went looking for it among the purely pious and
spiritual expressions of the artists. Spirituality is inadvertently linked with divinity and when
artists paint their beloved deities, like artist Krishnaprakash Jagadale, Radhika Karwa, Simran Kadam, Swapan Sutradhar, did with as much love and devotion as they do a landscape or an abstract, the art work seem to became an offering of worship.

While realistic styles elucidate and articulate the stories in the minds of the viewer, relating the work of art to them directly, some artists have chosen to take it as a contemporary language of the their expressions. Artists Milind Varangaonkar, Ria Das, and Yuvraj Patil express themselves in
an incredibly realistic way with high perspective. The figurative but symbolic compositions
displayed by artists Hema Kar, Nikita Tater and Srishti Jindal is an added fascination for the
visitors in the art festival. Artist Pallavi Donni, Prakash Bal Joshi, Sapna Gupta, Savy Jain, Shubham Malav, Aayushi Gupta, and Swati Goel are showcasing their artwork in Semi-abstract and abstracts idioms in the upcoming edition of India art festival, leaving it to the viewer to dig deeper through their works and
decipher it the way they want.

Employing various images, pictorial elements, symbols, unique material and colour permutations with contemporary and traditional handling of medium have created a blend of contemporary jargon in the works of Lashika Malhotra, Dimcy Madaan, Parul Nath, Atul Todi, Shobitha Hariharan, Bharti Shah, Chetan
Salhotra and Vandana Malhotra. A world without colour is nonetheless rich in texture as the
artists explore a variety of subjects and styles. The visual world of artists Anju Kesarwani, Asis
Soni, Om Thadkar, Dr Anubha Aggarwal, Rashi Bajaj and Swati Aggarwal starts with dim grey,
charcoal black, mid-night black, ash grey, lead black and ends with smoky black and umpteenth
shades of greys. These artists are still able to capture the mesmerizing details and stunning perspective in the subjects. The subjects broached by the artists vary from personal experiences to
intense narratives with faith and tradition. One would feel reconnected with our tradition in the
works of artists Dr.Shipra Bhatia, Puja Agarwal, Seema Sethi, Simi Biswas and Srinidhi Dabriwal as
all of them have some common element found in the transitional compositions, though they are
not exactly transitional configurations. The visitors can also find few sculptures in various mediums; the one by Shubham Malav in gypsum is sure to catch the visitors attention. Among several
others noticeable works, the new artists after two years of enforced banishment came with a fresh
perspective and unbridled form of imagination to this edition of must visit India Art Festival.