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

Tetsuya Ishida | Gagosian
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His 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
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