When a deeply love and praise artist passes, it is left behind the city and has a huge pastech and continuity of friendship created, which provides the best possible yoga of a working life in art. Unusual expectations can be made when the artist is a city as a poet, playwright and painter Giv Patel (1940–2023) and a city as Mumbai.
A show of hands: in memoriumRecently converted by poet and critic Ranjit Hoskot, Johangir Nicholson Arts Foundation Gallery (NGAF) (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, The Exhibition, Vadari Art Gallery, exhibition by Vadari Art Gallery, Adritrara Art Gallery, said. Biraj Dodia, Gulmhammad Sheikh, Jishish Kalat, Mahesh Baliga, Nilima Sheikh, Ranbir Kalka, Rathesh T. and Sudhir Patvardon and Sujith SN – many of which work, of which were also to work.
The exhibition supported by the promise art gallery was worked by artists, many of whom were Giv’s friends and colleagues. Photo Credit: Courtesy: Promise Art Gallery,
This can become a sombre opportunity; Instead, it was a joyful, gentle and unqualified task of remembering a friend amidst the works of art, which had some kind of relationship with Give.
The exhibition in JNAF gallery was also clearly clear to a stable, solid-philanthropic tradition, which contributed to creating a rich, diverse, public-elevated and free thinking art ecosystem in Mumbai. The main collection of the gallery is from Jahangir Nicolson (1915–2001), one of the early patrons and collectors of modern and contemporary art practices and as a Bombay Institute in the form of Give.
Atul Dodia’s ‘Laughter’ | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Atul Dodia and Promotion Art Gallery
Detect the label
As friends laughed and even told a story after gossip, it was clear that Give was an artist with broad interests. He was often seen in poetry readings in NCPA lawn or Sassoon library, or quietly watched a Bharatanatyam program or read his translations of medieval Gujarati poet Akho, as six verses whose six verses Chappas He worked for decades.
It is just unnatural to try to attract a simplified correlation with the man and his artistic himself or to definitely try to slot him in a particular movement in art. He had accurate, specific, but also in the service of some principles that he did not have a permanent value of classical arts, such as not a popular position to take today. Here the art is talking to his friend Sudhir Patvardon in India (Volt 5, 2000)
Gulmhamad Sheikh’s ‘Dreaming with Give’ | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Gulmohamad Sheikh and Vaadehra Art Gallery
“I am actually a sucking for permanent values ​​in art, and for past sites. An artist will ignore them in his crisis. It is important to identify with this ‘eternal’ stream is important to identify what is important and what is not. Viven gossip!
As friend and senior artist Nilima Sheikh said, the sharpness of the observation of the Give was quite remarkable. “As artists when we talk to each other, we expect to be understood. But Give, because he was also a writer who could enter an artistic work with acumen and sympathy. She had a way to bite through a luxurious”, she says.
Marine drive memories
Pointing to unusual laughter on the inauguration day, Sudhir Patwordon said that any meeting with Give always laughed a lot. Sudhir, who went directly from Pune’s Medical College to Mumbai, to live in a city where exhibitions and meetings with fellow artists were likely to be more often, met Giv, a young doctor.
Sudhir Patwordon’s ‘Marine Drive’ | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Sudhir Patwordan and Promise Art Gallery
As a tribute to his friend, his painting is the title of ‘Marine Drive’ and shows two friends sitting on the sea shore late and a free-shabling chat. Sudhir says that he would meet in Marine Drive for some quiet time, when Give closed his GP Clinic on Lamington Road for the day, while Sudhir came from Thane before taking back the last train from VT station.
Atul Dodia chose to share his series of paintings on ‘Nayyar’ made for scholar David Shulman, from whom he met through GIV. But it was a painting called ‘Laughter’, in which one half of a human skull and one and a give laughter were used which opens many stories. Dodia indicates the famous attraction of Give with death and decay of human body. “He is probably the only painter who has painted ‘death’ in so many ways,” says Dodia.
A work from the ink sketch of the Give from the series of dead politicians. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The exhibition had his ink sketches of the ‘dead politicians’ series in the work of Give. “You can say that as a doctor he was ready to think of death, but I think it was more than a very urge -urge -urgent inquiries and was looking to run him,” he says. It was also clear in his famous series of paintings on ‘Wales’ in which self and reflection are examined.
As a young student in JJ School of Art, Dodia says, he took to his clinic in the evening to leave. A decade later, when he contacted a senior artist to write a note for his first single exhibition in Chemold, he agreed to establish another cycle of artistic friendship and possibilities in the city.
Published – June 25, 2025 01:50 pm IST
