Art on a Postcard for War Child UK
18 APRIL 2023 - 04 MAY 2023Notes
About
Mahesh Baliga presents the world as he witnesses: his own time, the people who belong to this time, the resources one shares, a world where everyone is in it sometimes through metaphors and sometimes through a deadpan narration. The local, the small scale the eccentric and the ordinary finds a place in his work. He likes collecting and engaging with everyday objects. Discarded places, underdogs, simple acts of human life without any halos and parables throng the canvases. He often uses his own identity which stands out against any ideas of singularity as it is seeped with histories of migration from Goa to Karnataka and then Baroda .The landscapes are thus not specific but overlays each other.
Recent exhibitions include solo shows at David Zwirner Gallery, London.
Education
B.F.A 2005 Painting (gold medal) C.A.V.A, Mysore University, Karnataka
Post Diploma 2007 (distinction) Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University Baroda
Select Exhibitions/Awards
‘Drawn to Remember’, David Zwirner Gallery, London, 2022
PASSAGE FROM RECLUSIVE CONVERSATIONS, Knots Vadodara, Gallery88 Kolkata Project88 Mumbai, 2015
CAUCUS RACE, Project 88, Mumbai, 2012
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