Gallery Silver Scpaes
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 11 x 16 inches (27.94 × 40.64 cm)
Year: 2023
This powerful abstract, expressionistic cityscape immerses viewers in an urban environment shaped by emotion, memory, and movement. The artist masterfully composes a dynamic visual field through bold, gestural brushstrokes and a richly saturated palette of dark browns, rusty oranges, burnt reds, deep teals, and shimmering gold accents. These tones conjure the energy and warmth of aged architecture, evening city lights, and lived-in spaces, grounding the painting in a deeply felt sense of place.
Rather than relying on rigid lines or literal representation, the artist layers planes and textures to construct a fractured but coherent urban form. Buildings emerge and dissolve within the composition, their outlines suggested more by contrast and texture than by precise form. This ambiguity invites viewers to navigate the work slowly, discovering detail through movement and reflection. The impasto technique, thick applications of paint in some areas, thinner in others, adds a tactile quality that enhances the sense of depth and physicality, making the surface itself feel alive with shifting perspectives.
A discreet artist’s signature appears within the composition, integrated thoughtfully rather than set apart. It anchors the visual narrative with a subtle human presence, reinforcing the painting’s personal connection to the environment it depicts. The signature becomes a gentle assertion of authorship and intimacy, allowing viewers to connect with the artist's experience of the urban world. The composition balances chaos and structure, a hallmark of abstract expressionism, offering an experience that is at once immersive and contemplative. While the cityscape pulses with energy, there is also an underlying rhythm and cohesion that holds the work together. This tension between spontaneity and control mirrors the reality of urban life itself: unpredictable yet patterned, fragmented yet whole.
The painting stands out for its emotional resonance and material richness. It does not aim to replicate the urban landscape but rather to translate its mood, complexity, and atmosphere into a language of color, form, and texture. The work resists easy interpretation, instead inviting viewers to engage intuitively and personally. Serves as both a visual and emotional map, charting not just a place, but a state of mind. It is a celebration of urban vitality, layered with history, memory, and the quiet presence of the artist within the frame.
Why Choose Us
Art has always, naturally, reflected the development and exploration of different thoughts and perceptions, and our current postmodern era is no different. It is interesting to see how art has evolved visually, yet the traditional methods of composing art remain a valid means of expression.
All it takes for an artist to rise above normalcy, is inspiration, which fuels his passion to paint beautiful creations throughout his life.
The valuable expression of art is always there with us, but now this expression is yet to take an interesting diversion with our art gallery, Gallery Silver Scapes, located in Hauz Khas Enclave. Art is no longer considered just decorative but has evolved and come forth as a major form of investment yielding high rates of returns for its buyers, making it an expression commonly used.
Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.