Sudhir Patwardhan: The People’s Painter - Open The Magazine

Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Photography Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photosgq.comHis vast acrylic canvases may seem like a faithful depiction of the specific area, an ordinary and quite typical part of Mumbai with its uncomfortable symbiosis of decent residential buildings and poor ones, of industry and nature. These, however, exude a strangely bewitching atmosphere -both serene and disturbing, roughly literal and poetic in a... See more
Sudhir Patwardhan
e has documented his relationship with the city - as a person in the crowd, as someone looking at Bombay from afar.