Home as Studio
by Sudhir Patwardhan Published in ‘Family Fiction’ exhibition catalogue, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2011
The work presented in this exhibition marks a change in course for me. Stories about people continue to be the main focus, but the source of these stories has changed. My last exhibition
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by Nadia Nooreyezdan The artist discusses his retrospective ‘Walking Through Soul City,’ at the NGMA. Mumbai.
Walking Through Soul City, Sudhir Patwardhan: A Retrospective spans five decades of the artist’s expansive oeuvre across 200 works, from his early socialist reflections to representations
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by Gayatri Sinha Gayatri Sinha: You came to Bombay in the early 1970’s?
Sudhir Patwardhan: I came to Bombay in 1974 from Poona after I finished medical college.
GS: What was the encounter with the city like? Was the dominant impression one of rampant growth or was it one of the power of the city?
SP:
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by Manik Sharma Published in the Firstpost, 19 November 2017
There comes a point in every man’s life, usually after he is past a certain age, that he turns his gaze inward. Artists aren’t independent of the ageing process, they are merely in a better position than most to express and contemplate it. Sixty
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by Gieve Patel
‘As above, so below’
- Hermetic axiom
‘All that is yonder is also Here.’
- Plotinus
‘Whatever is here, that is There.
Whatever is There, that again is here.’
- Kathopanishad
The paths that lead from the
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by Jitish Kallat Drawing from Life
Within the art school studio, the human body is put under intense scrutiny in a typical figure drawing class. The model strikes a pose against a blank backdrop, usually for a stipulated period of time. Professional studio models hardly move, they keep their eyes fixed
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