Vincent Van Gogh told his brother Theo that “I want to paint red, I want to paint red, I want to paint red with all the passion in my heart.” The colour red is a constituent of the spectrum of colours, a signifier par excellence which allows artists to explore its innate and implied characteristics. As a culmination of a trilogy of shows based on colour, Jose Abad has curated the show And the Red based on art created around the colour red.

The brightly painted figures of Telangana men and women are Thota Vaikuntam’s signature style. The exaggerated contoured of reconstructed form, with highly stylised folk features and perspective mark his paintings.

Trunks, branches, twigs are the subjects of American artist Chris Elliot world. The eponymous tree is seen in monochromatic tones, in colour, in steel casting shadows over the branches and the background. Design element is particularly strong in his works, especially in the steel sculptures where the repetitive form of undulating trunk

Sudhir Patwardhan’s universe is Mumbai; his engagement is with the people of Mumbai. Being a figurative artist he paints buildings and skyline as a mere backdrop for the characters in the vignettes of life that he presents on canvas.

Sculptures are associated with traditional mediums such as wood, metal and stone. Very rarely do we come across glass as a medium for the fine arts. Glass sculptures always evoke a reference to the decorative arts and artifacts as la dolphins and icons in glass. Sisir Sahana is a rare trained artists who has chosen to work in glass as a medium where the forms are deconstructed and rearranged in a creative vein.

The works of two artists, Viraj Naik and Viveek Sharma, representing different perspectives, different life cadences from adjacent regions of Goa and Mumbai are being exhibited in Figurative and Semiotic Urban Legacies at Gallery Nvya. Both artists however, seem to share a very self conscious approach to their art. Viraj Naik tells tales through caricatures, seeking to capture the rhythm, pace and cadences of Goa.

The art summit was all about ‘old masters’ and experimental generation.

Is the brain an organism by itself, with an independent agency, with a macrobiotic origination, are some of the questions that emerge from the recent show Let the Brainfly at Laltitude 28, consisting of videos and mixed media paintings by Nandita Kumar. Most of the works repeat the image of a brain with twisted, coiled and convoluted mass and extensions, sometimes with legs of a fly or with some added organic elements.

Today’s younger and more experimental artists are reaching beyond the canvas and using three dimensional spaces to express their concerns and concepts.

A show of the selected works of master artist Ram Kumar from 1950 to 2010, at Lalit Kala Akademi, is significant for the study not only of the individual artist, but also contemporary history of art. Through the works on display one got an insight into the creative evolution of the artist from a figurative to an abstract painter, from an ideologically-driven creator to the peaceful meditative sage who seeks to reflect a fraction of the created in his canvases.