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 eight-year-old Sudhir Patwardhan — in his latest solo show Spectres — turns this gaze upon himself, the ideas of companionship, of the slow tilt of life around age and his reconciliation as an artist with ideas that are beautifully simple, like a hot summer day.
19 November 2017
