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KIRAN EXHIBITS IN MUMBAI

Kiran featured in the Times of India

The good news is that the Mumbai Festival this year has decided to expand its ambit to include the world of art and sculpture - a grievous absence in its three earlier editions.  

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There are meaningful works documenting the city's changing social histories - there are enough painters from Dhurandhar, Akbar Padamsee and Jehangir Sabavala to younger ones like Sudhir Patwardhan, Gieve Patel and Shibu Natesan whose works are telling comments ​on the politics that shaped Mumbai. 

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Look out for Manisha Patil's painting of two girls playing a board game, the two Abu Ghraib paintings by the Indo-Canadian painter Kiran Sainani - muscular works of naked bodies taut with oppression but in sunlit shades to express hope, an old Bengal work of Krishna and the Gopis and the pair of Padamsee heads.  What dominates the hallway is the statue of a seated Buddha with the body scooped out so you can look right through it. 

The most startling comment though is provided by an absence: between the two Abu Ghraib paintings, yawns a space, the kora background staring out at you.  This is where a stunning Husain, the 1950 Red Horses, was hung but which has not been displayed for fear of right-wing vandals. 

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KIRAN EXPRESSES LIFE

Kiran featured in the Toronto Star

A figurative artist, whose paintings express strong emotions and subjects such as poverty and abuse, Kiran Sainani's works have been exhibited along with those of Sadequain, Ali Imam and Bashir Mirza.  

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Having worked and exhibited in London, Paris, New York and Toronto, Sainani believes art is something you find within yourself.  "I like to make paintings that express my feelings about the world in the most direct way.  The prime mover of creativity of all my art is in the soul of the figure. The soul guides in creating timeless form."

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"Kiran's works have life, not only through what they represent but through her effects and colour vibrations which attempt to make visible her sensitivity and mature handling", says artist Ali Imam. 

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In Canada, Sainani has exhibited at the Design Exchange and the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization.  She devotes her time to making drawings and oil paintings. 

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KIRAN INTERVIEWED BY OMNI NEWS

Watch as Kiran talks about art, family and the meaning behind her work. 

KIRAN IN TIME

Featured in Global Visions and Peace Multicultural Calendar

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"The Prime creativity in all my art is in th soul of the figure. The soul guides in creating timeless form. This painting takes me back to my roots, Sindh. I have applied a little bit of Sufism. It is because of the Sufis that Sindh is called the cradle of love and peace. This piece of art is called Prayers of Multifaith." - Kiran Sainani