Within his variously nuanced tones one
encounters a mysterious, meditative note,
abstract forms that are vigorous, playful, and
lyrical through which he continues to explore
the textural possibilities of marks made on
paper with charcoal, the brush on canvas.
UMA PRAKASH, 2017 Asian Art News, Hong Kong
Gopi Gajwani employs it with so much
painterly grace that it is impossible not to hear
the alaap and the taana in the raga of his
paintings. In a noisy chaotic world, he builds
us a refuge and then gives us a melody to cling
to, and to make our own
KISHORE SINGHJanuary 2017,
Gopi Gajwani handles his brief statements
in smaller canvases like a composer
weaving out musical dreams on the piano,
preparing us to experience the mystique
of ‘correspondence’ between our sense
perceptions. To a contemplative audience
it is a rare art experience.
SANTO DATTASeptember 2005
For Gajwani the very making and mooring
of the abstract experience brings about a
pure line of ascent and descent. Sensuously
ordained rather than fabricated according
to a diagrammatic or geometric ordering,
he revels in the calibration of scale and
colour and conforms to a decisive sense of
independence. For him abstractionism is a
language.
UMA NAIR, February 2000The Asian Age, New Delhi
Essentially Gopi’s is a spirited display of his
cheeringly warm, joyous, lyrical feelings in
abstract formulations of colour combines;
evocative and soulful handlings so that you
only witness and share states of mind feeling
wise rather than their meanings.
K.L. KAUL, February 1993Statesman, New Delhi
The viewer experiences sheer joy
in his paintings amidst a calypso of colours
which also reflect the painter’s abiding love
for Indian classical music.
R.T. SHAHNI, November 1994The Sunday Free Press Journal, Bombay
Gopi’s mixed-media works contain so
much of the elements of drawings and the
way he has used the traditional drawing
materials and techniques that one is
delectably intrigued as to what to call them.
The distance between drawing and painting
he has erased with his spontaneous use of
pen-and-ink, brush, crayon, etc.
SANTO DATTA, December 1988The Sunday Free Press Journal, Bombay
Gopi is this order of artist. He helps
you contemplate as if the neatness and
impeccability of mathematical equations…
Impeccable deportment, comeliness and
control, are the primes value of these works…
In sum, Gopi’s work is entirely
non-decorative but classical in outlook.
KESHAV MALIK, January 1982The Times of India New Delhi
The exhibition of paintings and drawings
by Gopi Gajwani comes as a pleasant
surprise. The impact of the works on
view is immediate. The reason for this
astonishing achievement is not far to seek.
The artist shows a rare sense of discipline
in handling the composition, colours,
and design.
RICHARD BARTHOLOMIO, April 1978The Times of India, New Delhi
Gajwani has made a mark as a
pronouncedly abstract painter over the
years, and as a superb craftsman excelling
in impeccably defined contoured shapes
and forms.
S. KRISHNAN, April 1978The Statesman, New Delhi
Mr. Gajwani is a very disciplined, precise
hard-edge painter. He has a wonderful
grasp of space, shape and design, which
are necessary ingredients of non-objective
painting, which is his forte.
DR. CHARLES FABRE, October 1968The Statesman, New Delhi
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