Introducing a painter who stands out in the crowd
A Balasubramanium is back from Germany, where he spent a few months working reclusively and now he has headed back to Chennai where he lives. What he has left behind in Delhi is a set of four of the most moving and beautiful works on paper that we have seen from him in a long time. They are the first works of their kind, a forerunner of a series, maybe, from an artist who is always pushing ahead, letting concepts, not markets, dictate to him.
Bala has been noticed for his cerebral, intuitive, (should we say, spiritual?) work for over a year now, ever since he exhibited at the British Council.
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