Explore this rare exhibition in Mumbai that sheds light on a Kemps Corner art studio - Mid Day

In the quiet lanes off Kemps Corner, now at the beating heart of the city, once lay a studio looking to reshape ideas about India’s approach to art. “The Vitrum Studio was initiated in 1957 by Simon and Hanna Lifschutz, a Jewish couple escaping Poland during World War II. There were very few spaces for art and art galleries in the city at the time, and they employed emerging artists in the city, several of them graduates from the Sir JJ School of Art,” shares Puja Vaish, curator, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation. The gallery is currently hosting the exhibition, A Glazed History: Badri Narayan and the Vitrum Studio, that opened on June 14.

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