Get ‘Enchanted’ at Art Musings

Mumbai-based Art Musings is hosting a solo show of works by Maite Delteil. Entitled ‘Enchanted’, this is her third solo with the gallery after the much acclaimed ‘Gardens of Grace’ in 2004 and ‘Fruits of Grace’, held three year later.

An accompanying note elaborates: “The exquisite images that comprise Delteil’s recent body of paintings at first glance may appear to express a preoccupation with the genres of still life and landscape; but they are more accurately readable as meditations that unfold in the borderland between memory and fantasy, wakefulness and dream.

"The artist’s attentiveness to detail is a form of devotion: her paintings are songs of praise, in which she exalts the beauty of things even as they pass into decay and dissolution, as creatures of time.” Maite Delteil (1933, Furnel, France) received her art education at Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Academic Julian and National School of Art. This was followed by fellowship from the Government and Institute De France to study in Spain and Greece in quick succession. She received the Prix De la Casa Velasquez in 1959.

Her works have a languid quality and have an old world charm. Her subjects are seemingly simple like landscapes and figuration but the artist uses them as a means to explore the depths of her thoughts. Her work has been exhibited widely in several cities of France as well as other countries in Europe. She has had several solo exhibitions all over the world including America and Japan. The artist lives and works in Paris.

The exhibition will also be accompanied by a coffee table book release, which documents her wonderful works spanning her career, some rare photographs of the artist with her family including her husband ( celebrated artist Sakti Burman) and daughter (Maya Burman), as well as contain in-depth essays by eminent writers.