Chemould Prescott Road

Chemould Prescott Road
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Former name
Gallery Chemould
Location3rd Floor, Queen's Mansion, Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai
TypeContemporary Art Gallery
FounderKekoo & Khorshed Gandhy
Websitewww.gallerychemould.com

Chemould Prescott Road, founded (as Gallery Chemould), is the first[1] contemporary art gallery in Mumbai, India.

Chemould Prescott Road, a contemporary art gallery in India, was founded by Kekoo Gandhy[2][3] and Khorshed Gandhy in 1963.[4][5] Based in Mumbai (Bombay), in 2007 the gallery moved from the first floor of the Jehangir Art Gallery to Prescott Road.[6]

Artists

Chemould has been instrumental in establishing the reputations of many now well-known Indian modern artists. MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta, and SH Raza, who emerged on the first wave of India's modernist and contemporary art movements, first exhibited with Chemould. Under the directorship of their daughter Shireen Gandhy[7] 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. Chemould also hosted the first solo exhibition of the late Bhupen Khakhar,  Ram Kumar, Nalini Malani, Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, KH Ara, Bal Chhabda, Krishen Khanna, Jehangir Sabavala, Gaitonde, KK Hebbar, Vivan Sundaram, and Jivya Soma Mashe all exhibited with Chemould.[8] Targeting the young collector and the millennial, Shireen Gandhy conceptualized Modus Operandi[9] in 2018.

Their current roster has 30 artists which also include artists like Aditi Singh, Anant Joshi, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Archana Hande, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Bijoy Jain, Desmond Lazaro, Dhruvi Acharya, Gigi Scaria, Jitish Kallat, Lavanya Mani, Madhavi Subrahmanian, Meera Devidayal, Mehlli Gobhai, Mithu Sen, N S Harsha, Nilima Sheikh, Pushpamala N, Rashid Rana, Reena Kallat, Ritesh Meshram, Sheetal Gattani, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Shilpa Gupta, Tallur L N, Tanuja Rane, Varunika Saraf, Vivan Sundaram, and Yardena Kurulkar.

Kekee Manzil: The House of Art

A film on the life of its founders Kekoo Gandhy and his wife Khorshed Gandhy, Kekee Manzil: The House of Art, was made by Behroze Gandhy,[10] their second daughter.[11][12][13][14] Kekee Manzil is the name of a villa/bungalow/mansion, built in 1921, and named after Kekoo Gandhy, by his father, at the end of Bandra's Bandstand Promenade, right next to[15] Shah Rukh Khan's Mannat bungalow.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys of Chemould and the birth of modern art in Bombay

This book documenting details about the Gallery Chemould and the extraordinary Gandhy family traces the history of modern art in India. Written by author Jerry Pinto, the book was released in December 2022.

Chemould CoLab

The gallery has an extension in Colaba, Mumbai. It's been conceptualised by Kekoo & Khorshed's granddaughter Atyaan Jungalwala, along with Sunaina Rajan and is extension program that supports new artists

Further reading

  • Kekoo Gandhy, And then came the Progressives, the little magazine, March–April 2001, p. 43 (illustrated)
  • K. Zitzewitz, The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art, Mumbai, 2003, p. 14 (illustrated)
  • Citizen Gallery, The Gandhys of Chemould and the birth of modern art in Bombay, 2023

References

  1. ^ Gehi, Reema. "Artistic lineage: The London filmmaker on chronicling the legacy of Khorshed and Kekoo Gandhy". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ^ "UNKNOWN ARTIST". Christie's. Retrieved 10 May 2022. Property from the Collection of Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy and Behroze Gandhy
  3. ^ Jungalwala, Atyaan (10 July 2020). "Kindred spirits: in memory of my grandfather, Kekoo Gandhy (1920-2012)". STIR world. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ^ Bhatia, Sidharth (8 July 2020). "The Accidental Gallerist and the Making of Indian Modern Art". The Wire. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ Karin Zitzewitz 'Framing a gallery of heroes' Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine Art India, 2 Feb 2013.
  6. ^ Sen, Debarati S (17 August 2013). "Chemould celebrates fifty years". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Power Gallerist: Shireen Gandhy". Verve. 17 June 2014.
  8. ^ Adajania, Nancy (28 January 2013). "Beyond the Commodity Fetish: Art and the Public Sphere in India". Guggenheim, New York. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  9. ^ Ghose, Anindita (14 July 2018). "An old Mumbai art gallery draws millennials". Mint. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Behroze Gandhy". IMDb.
  11. ^ "'Kekee Manzil - The House of Art' chronicles a micro-history of Mumbai anchored in a century-old family home". The Hindu. 25 June 2020.
  12. ^ "The Chemould Couple". 24 February 2020.
  13. ^ "The house of art". The Telegraph (India).
  14. ^ "Meeting the Gandhys Through 'Kekee Manzil – the House of Art'". Verve (Indian magazine). 3 March 2020.
  15. ^ "A guide to local favorites in Bandra West". Washington Post. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  16. ^ Chandrasekharan, Gitanjali (17 January 2012). "At Bandra's Lands' End, a house named after a grandson". Bombay Architecture. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  17. ^ Sharma, Komal (21 March 2020). "Mumbai: This heartfelt film shows you brief history of modern art in India". Architectural Digest India. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  18. ^ Joshi, Ruchir (14 July 2020). "The house of art: The story of a gallery and an art revolution". The Telegraph (India). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  19. ^ "Residences: Kekee". samira rathod design atelier. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  20. ^ "Kekee Manzil - House of Art : Gala Screening + Q&A". Regent Street Cinema. Archived from the original on 10 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  21. ^ "Meet the real owner of Shah Rukh Khan's luxurious mansion 'Mannat'". Bollywood Bubble. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  22. ^ Bhuyan, Avantika (8 September 2023). "Framing the contemporary at Chemould". LiveMint.

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