"What seems to excite the painter's imagination is the war between heroic vitality and death. He would seem to celebrate the exploits of moral heroes at his more serious moments. Also, in these moments, there is an attempt to prove the realness of experience, and of us the viewers, in a world which otherwise appears dull. Painters establish the true realness, and of our relationship to it, so that we come alive in body and mind. A good painting celebrates in almost pure solidity, our illusion of the passing show of the world. Yes, that is the only way by which, as artist unburdens himself of that excess which for its part, the bulbul on the branch sings away to glory."
- An excerpt from the exhibition essay by Keshav Malik