At once painter and chronicler, Sudhir Patwardhan has, for over four decades, documented the rise and rupture of Mumbai’s ever-expanding cityscape. His latest solo exhibition, Cities: Built, Broken, presented by TRI Art & Culture, courtesy of Vadehra Art Gallery, in Kolkata (17 April – 15 June 2025), marks a return to themes that have preoccupied the artist since the 1970s. What distinguishes this new body of work is its urgency — a visceral response to a city, and indeed a world, under mounting pressure from unchecked development, political violence, and ecological collapse.
1 June 2025
