Chemould Prescott Road Explained

Chemould Prescott Road
Former Name:Gallery Chemould
Location:3rd Floor, Queen's Mansion, Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai
Type:Contemporary Art Gallery
Founder:Kekoo & Khorshed Gandhy

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

Gallery

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 Bandras Bandstand Promenade, right next to[15] Shah Rukh Khans 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

Notes and References

  1. News: Gehi . Reema . Artistic lineage: The London filmmaker on chronicling the legacy of Khorshed and Kekoo Gandhy . 10 May 2022 . . en.
  2. Web site: UNKNOWN ARTIST . . 10 May 2022 . en . Property from the Collection of Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy and Behroze Gandhy.
  3. News: Jungalwala . Atyaan . Kindred spirits: in memory of my grandfather, Kekoo Gandhy (1920-2012) . 10 May 2022 . STIR world . July 10, 2020 . English.
  4. Web site: Bhatia . Sidharth . The Accidental Gallerist and the Making of Indian Modern Art . The Wire . 10 May 2022 . 8 July 2020.
  5. Karin Zitzewitz 'Framing a gallery of heroes' Art India, 2 Feb 2013.
  6. News: Chemould celebrates fifty years . 17 August 2013. The Times of India. Debarati S . Sen . 8 June 2018.
  7. Web site: Verve. June 17, 2014. Power Gallerist: Shireen Gandhy.
  8. Web site: Nancy. Adajania. Nancy Adajania. 28 January 2013. Beyond the Commodity Fetish: Art and the Public Sphere in India. 2014-05-24. Guggenheim, New York.
  9. Web site: Ghose. Anindita. 2018-07-14. An old Mumbai art gallery draws millennials. 2019-05-04. Mint. en.
  10. Web site: Behroze Gandhy. IMDb.
  11. News: June 25, 2020. 'Kekee Manzil - The House of Art' chronicles a micro-history of Mumbai anchored in a century-old family home. The Hindu.
  12. Web site: The Chemould Couple. 24 February 2020.
  13. Web site: The house of art. .
  14. Web site: Meeting the Gandhys Through 'Kekee Manzil – the House of Art' . Verve (Indian magazine). 3 March 2020.
  15. News: A guide to local favorites in Bandra West . 10 May 2022 . . 17 June 2019 . en.
  16. Web site: Chandrasekharan . Gitanjali . At Bandra's Lands' End, a house named after a grandson . Bombay Architecture . 10 May 2022 . en . 17 January 2012.
  17. News: Sharma . Komal . Mumbai: This heartfelt film shows you brief history of modern art in India . 10 May 2022 . . March 21, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210123063806/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/magazine-story/mumbai-heartfelt-film-shows-brief-history-of-modern-art-in-india-bandra-mansion/ . 23 January 2021.
  18. News: Joshi . Ruchir . The house of art: The story of a gallery and an art revolution . 10 May 2022 . . 2020-07-14.
  19. Web site: Residences: Kekee . samira rathod design atelier . 10 May 2022.
  20. Web site: Kekee Manzil - House of Art : Gala Screening + Q&A . . 10 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220510013020/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.regentstreetcinema.com%2Fwhats-on%2Fkekee-manzil-house-of-art-with-qa%2F . 10 May 2022.
  21. Web site: Meet the real owner of Shah Rukh Khan's luxurious mansion 'Mannat' . Bollywood Bubble . 10 May 2022 . en . 27 September 2016.
  22. Web site: Bhuyan . Avantika . 8 September 2023 . Framing the contemporary at Chemould . LiveMint . en.

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