26th May to 1st June 2026
“Ethereal Visions”
Group Art Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures
By Contemporary renowned artists
Ram Partap Verma, Debabrata De, Dr. Panchanan Samal, Nilkanth Mondal, Debashis Maity, Chandan Samal, Narottam Das, Sonu Gupta, Purneema Dixit, Itee Jain, Sofaiya Yasmeen, Narendra Kumawat, Himanshu Mohanta, Vishwa Sahni.
VENUE:
Nehru Centre Art Gallery
AC Gallery
Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400018
Timing: 11am to 7pm
Contact: +91 9324647023
Ethereal Visions: A National Art Exhibition
“Ethereal Visions” brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists from across India in a show that moves between figuration, abstraction, and sculptural form, mapping a wide spectrum of visual languages currently in practice. Rather than positioning the ‘ethereal’ as something purely transcendental or decorative, the exhibition locates it within lived experience: memory, labour, environment, and the psychological interior.
The paintings on view range from expressive figuration to stylised landscapes and symbolic narratives. Certain works engage with the human condition through layered, almost eroded surfaces, figures appear fragmented, dissolving into their environments, suggesting themes of migration, anonymity, and collective endurance. Others adopt a more lyrical or decorative approach, where colour fields and organic forms, such as trees rendered in vivid chromatic contrasts, evoke a contemplative, almost meditative stillness. There is also a strong presence of surreal and symbolic portraiture, where the human face becomes a site of internal tension, marked by intricate patterning and fissures that allude to identity, trauma, and transformation.
In contrast, some painters lean into narrative figuration, drawing from performance, mythology, and everyday life. These works retain a gestural softness, where the body is not rigidly defined but emerges through atmosphere and movement. Elsewhere, a sharper, illustrative precision appears in works that hybridise human and animal forms, pointing toward ecological anxieties and the fragility of biological systems. A few works also engage with landscape as a site of disturbance rather than beauty, where atmosphere, smoke, and terrain carry the weight of environmental unease.
The sculptural section extends these concerns into three dimensions. Materials such as metal, ceramic, and mixed media are employed to construct forms that oscillate between abstraction and symbolism. Some sculptures explore balance and tension through stacked, precarious forms, while others draw from ritualistic or mythological imagery, grounding the exhibition within a distinctly Indian sensibility. The ceramic works, in particular, demonstrate a playful yet controlled engagement with form, surface, and rhythm.
What holds the exhibition together is not a singular theme but a shared impulse to negotiate the visible and the intangible. The ‘ethereal’ here is not an escape from reality, but a way of processing it, through distortion, stylisation, and material transformation.
Organised and curated by Vishwa Sahni, “Ethereal Visions” offers a panoramic glimpse into contemporary artistic practices, where multiple vocabularies coexist, intersect, and occasionally collide, reflecting the complexity of the times we inhabit.
This show was inaugurated on 26th May 2026 by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nina Puri (Renowned Architect)
This show is curated by Mr. Vishwa Sahni
——Sushma Sabnis (Art Writer & Curator)
“Ethereal Visions” Paintings & Sculpture Exhibition By 14 Contemporary Renowned Artists In Nehru Centre Art Gallery