Mahesh Baliga’s show in London’s David Zwirner is the first ever by a contemporary Indian artist

Titled ‘Drawn to Remember’, the exhibition explores the pain of the pandemic, while showing glimmers of hope, healing and rebirth of a new world
Gautami Reddy, Architectural Digest, May 12, 2022
In Mahesh Baliga’s paintings, his inner and outer worlds collide. As the title of his solo exhibition at David Zwirner in London suggests, every canvas is ‘Drawn to Remember.’ Details of daily life spent in lockdown in Vadodara merge with those of his childhood, spent in the lush green of Mangalore’s Mudbidri in the Western Ghats. The mind is never only in the present, but constantly coloured by the past and visions of the future. “My paintings remind me why I remember something while looking at something else,” he explains.
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