As one walks through the two floors of the Durbar Hall Art Centre where the paintings are on show, one cannot but acknowledge the privilege of what the show offers. Especially the opportunity of speaking to the man behind the works. For Sudhir Patwardhan Mumbai has been a long-time muse, the city and her people — the people on the locals, on the road, and those who inhabit spaces that are not ‘visible’.
The retrospective of the 50 years of artist Sudhir Patwardhan’s works, Cities: Built, Broken - 50 Years of Picturing Life in the City is a journey through the artist’s oeuvre, of finding himself from his 20s, when he was starting out, to the present when, as septuagenarian, he has made a space for himself at the table as a contemporary Indian artist of renown.
20 September 2025
