Mumbai’s art fraternity gathered at Jehangir Art Gallery for the opening of Cohesive Impulses, a solo exhibition by noted contemporary artist Sanjay Kumar Srivastav. The exhibition was inaugurated by actor Fardeen Khan and Nidhi Choudhari, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, alongside Laila Khan and Rupali Suri, in the presence of artists, collectors and members of the cultural community.
The evening saw a distinguished turnout including Kavi Srivastava, artists Ratan Saha, Vishwa Sahani, Prakash Bal Joshi, Ramji Sharma, Sonu Gupta, Vijay Verma, Nagnath, Gautam Mukherjii, Jain Kamal, curators Sunil Chauhan, Kirti Kumar Gaikwad, Dhaval Mehta, composer and collector Diesel Dan, veteran photographer Pradeep Chandra, and Anusha Srinivasan Iyer, among many others.
Sanjay Kumar Srivastav, whose career spans more than three decades, has exhibited widely across India and internationally in London, New York, Germany, Singapore, Italy, Russia, Hong Kong and South Africa. His works form part of important private collections and have been auctioned by leading art houses, reflecting sustained collector interest.
In Cohesive Impulses, the artist explores the idea of time as an eternal force that binds the conscious and the subconscious. His canvases move between the spiritual and the emotional, between silence and turbulence.
The Mother and Child series radiates warmth yet carries an undertone of vulnerability. The cityscapes shimmer with light but hint at isolation beneath urban rhythm. His clown works, rich in colour and movement, reflect the paradox of joy masking deeper introspection.
Working primarily in oil and acrylic, Sanjay Kumar Srivastav builds layers of texture and tone that evoke memory, empathy and human resilience. His practice is not merely aesthetic. It is philosophical. He sees art as a bridge between the physical and the metaphysical, between fractured imageries of reality and the possibility of harmony.
