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Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation was formed to carry out and build on gallery g’s and the Maini Group’s several art-and-culture fostering activities.

16/06/2026

Seeing Pattern Before Animal

In these striking works from Bindu & Rekha, Sai Akhil Anand turns to the zebra — perhaps nature's most extraordinary study in line, rhythm, and repetition.

Set against bold bands of red, white, and green, the familiar animal becomes something more. Individual forms emerge, overlap, disappear, and reappear, inviting the viewer to look beyond representation and into the language of pattern itself.

The zebra is not merely the subject here. It is the medium through which Sai explores perception, movement, and visual harmony.

At fifteen years of age, he demonstrates an instinctive understanding of how simple marks can create complex worlds — where order and imagination exist side by side.

Bindu & Rekha
A solo exhibition by Sai Akhil Anand

Until 30 June 2026
Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, Bangalore

13/06/2026

Discipline Beyond the Chessboard

Many know Sai Akhil Anand as the son of Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand.

What becomes evident while viewing these works, however, is a discipline that belongs entirely to the artist himself.

Every composition is built mark by mark, to create a feeling of depth. The talent at just 15 years is remarkable. The result is a body of work that balances precision with imagination.

In Bindu & Rekha, observation becomes art.

On view from 14th until 30 June 2026.

10/06/2026

Rhythm Before Representation

Before an animal appears, there is a rhythm.

Thousands of dots and dashes come together patiently, creating patterns that slowly transform into form. What first appears abstract begins to reveal a zebra, a panda, a bird, or a horse.

For Sai Akhil Anand, drawing is not simply about depicting animals—it is about discovering structure, movement, and harmony through repetition.

At just fifteen years of age, he has developed a visual language that is distinctly his own.

Bindu & Rekha
On view from 14th June until 30 June 2026
Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, Bangalore

08/06/2026

Bindu & Rekha
A show by Sai Akhil Anand

The Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation is pleased to present Bindu & Rekha, a new body of work by young artist Sai Akhil Anand.

Through an intricate visual language of dots, dashes, rhythm, and repetition, Sai Akhil Anand reimagines animals not merely as subjects, but as living arrangements of movement, emotion, memory, and design.

Each work is built patiently — line by line, mark by mark — allowing form to emerge through meditative process and quiet observation.

At once playful and deeply disciplined, Bindu & Rekha invites viewers into a world where nature, pattern, and imagination exist in delicate balance.

We look forward to welcoming you.

14th – 30th June 2026
Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation
(Mezzanine Level, Maini Sadan, Lavelle Road, Bangalore)

For details: +91 80504 54406

06/06/2026

A Tapestry of Life: A Sacred Reservoir
By Sadanandan P.K.
Mixed Media (Natural Colours) on Canvas
5 x 4 ft | 2026

In this luminous new work, Sadanandan P.K. creates a world where nature, symbolism, and devotion exist in quiet harmony.

At its centre lies a radiant reservoir of deep cobalt blue—evoking the timeless colour of Mahavishnu, the sustaining force that holds creation together. Around this sacred expanse unfolds a flourishing universe of lotus blooms, long associated with Mahalakshmi and the abundance, grace, and prosperity she represents.

Swans glide through the waters, parrots gather among the foliage, and countless living forms emerge from a landscape rich with rhythm and wonder. Rendered using the artist's characteristic natural colours, every element feels both deeply rooted in Kerala's visual traditions and remarkably contemporary.

Known for his monumental works and his contribution to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Sadanandan once again demonstrates his ability to transform nature into a contemplative space—one that invites us to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the sacredness that exists within all life.

Now available through Gallery G.
Artist Support - Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation

01/06/2026

147 years of Albert Einstein.

More than a physicist, Einstein reminds us that curiosity itself is sacred.

At SGMF, even as an arts foundation, we often find inspiration in minds that understood wonder, imagination, intuition, and the unseen rhythms of the universe. Because great art, too, carries precision. It carries mathematics, balance, silence, timing, emotion, and an almost spiritual science that cannot always be explained, only experienced.

Einstein once said that “the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
Perhaps that is where art and science meet.

Today, on the 147th birth anniversary of one of history’s greatest thinkers, we remember a mind that continues to inspire far beyond physics.

25/05/2026

178 years of Raja Ravi Varma.
178 years of an artist who changed the way India imagined beauty, mythology, portraiture, and itself.

Born on 29 April 1848, Raja Ravi Varma continues to remain one of the most deeply loved artists in the country — not only for his mastery, but for the way he made art accessible to generations of Indians.

At SGMF, it has been our privilege to support the Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation since its inception.
And perhaps the reason is simple — like millions across India, we admire the artist, believe his legacy deserves continued care and scholarship, and feel that every effort made toward preserving that legacy is a meaningful way of giving back.

While April may be the month when conversations around Ravi Varma grow their loudest, for many of us, he is never far from thought. His presence continues quietly through our homes, our visual memory, our stories, and our continuing engagement with Indian art history.

Today, we simply pause once again with gratitude to remember a master whose work still continues to live vividly in the imagination of India.

178 years of Raja Ravi Varma.
A legacy that continues to inspire.

18/05/2026

We may have arrived late to the day, but never to the influence.

As we celebrate 165 years of Rabindranath Tagore, we reflect on a legacy that continues to guide conversations around art, education, humanity and imagination itself.

For us at SGMF, Gurudev remains not merely a literary figure, but a continuing presence in the philosophy of thoughtful creation and compassionate learning.

Grateful. Inspired. Always.

11/05/2026

The Blue Ascetic (The Toy Maker’s World)

A Southern modernist voice rooted in indigenous visual systems.

In Rajarajan’s practice, the surface is not painted—it is constructed—layer by layer, mark by mark, through a meticulous process of repetition that transforms pigment into structure.

In this work, that language unfolds through a quieter, more introspective lens.

The elongated blue figure sits in a state of inward withdrawal—almost ascetic, almost observational—surrounded not by the natural world, but by a crafted one. The animals that appear here are not wild presences. They are recognisable forms drawn from the visual vocabulary of Channapatna toys—the iconic lacquered wooden figures of Karnataka.

The tiger, in particular, carries a layered memory—echoing the historic Tipu tiger, yet softened, translated, and reimagined through the language of play and craft.

What emerges is not a scene, but a system of translation:
where folk object becomes form,
form becomes pattern,
and pattern becomes a field of thought.

The geometry of the background, the repetition of circular units, and the careful modulation of colour all speak to a practice that is deeply disciplined, yet intuitively alive.

Here, Rajarajan does not depict culture—he absorbs it, reconstructs it, and returns it as a new visual language.

This is where his mastery lies:
in collapsing the distance between the handmade object and the painted surface,
between memory and form.

Elephant Imperial Size (22 x 28 inches)
From the artist’s 2014 exhibition, acquired directly from the artist.

Part of a significant body of work owned by Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini, and now represented by Gallery G.
Display supported by SGMF.

04/05/2026

SGMF | Artist Initiative Platform (AIP)

From our continued engagement with artists across India, we revisit a voice from Western India — Punam Agarwal, a Mumbai-based artist whose practice delicately navigates memory, time, and interior worlds.

Part of her evocative series Where Time Doesn’t Exist, these three acrylic-on-canvas works revisit a language that is both intimate and constructed — where domestic spaces dissolve into dreamlike narratives, and objects quietly hold emotional memory.

SGMF first supported Poonam Agarwal in 2014 through a boutique presentation at Gallery G, where the entire body of work was met with immediate collector response. Since then, she has sustained a consistent practice, with works finding homes directly from her studio.

We are pleased to share these three recently available works — a rare opportunity to revisit an artist whose visual vocabulary continues to resonate with quiet strength.

Works details:
• 24 x 24 inches | Acrylic on Canvas
• 36 x 36 inches | Acrylic on Canvas
• 28 x 28 inches | Acrylic on Canvas

Artist Initiative Platform (AIP) is an SGMF initiative to support and spotlight artists across regions, practices, and stages of their journey.

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