Mahesh Baliga, Eye hospital, 2022 © Mahesh Baliga. Casein on canvas. Courtesy the artist, Project 88, and David Zwirner
“I start with an emotion that makes me want to paint,” says Mahesh Baliga, the Vadodara-based contemporary artist whose first overseas solo exhibition opens today in London at David Zwirner, the blue-chip art gallery. The show, titled Drawn to remember, features 40 casein tempera works, on view for the first time at the gallery’s Upper Room.Debuting at the powerhouse art space, which is headquartered in New York but is also present in London, Paris and Hong Kong, is a major accolade for 40-year-old Baliga. After all, this is a gallery that represents artistic heavyweights such as Yayoi Kusama, Donald Judd and Carol Bove among a fleet of others.
