About Achuthan Kudallur (1945-2022)

Based in Chennai, the Kerala-born painter was a significant force in India's contemporary abstract art movement, and also a quiet mentor to many. For Achuthan Kudallur, painting was not a dialogue or conversation, but a communion with colour and sometimes, even a battle. From his early expressionist journeys he comes to this tranquil sense of joy in light and colour, of which one can see traces in his later abstract...