Bare and there: A look at Rameshwar Broota's masterpieces

By Sumit Malik | Hindustan Times

Titled Visions of Interiority: Interrogating The Male Body, the retrospective, curated by Roobina Karode, features some of Broota's finest works.

With an artistic career of over five decades, the retrospective showcases the artist's works right from 1963. The exhibition includes works from various series created by Broota, including the Man Series, which delineates a prototype of a universal man, one who has withstood various trepidations and challenges put forth by time. Often dressed only in a vest, his nakedness is exposed to the viewer, but what is most overbearing is his loneliness and vulnerability.

Broota's Metamorphosis series transports the viewer into a primordial landscape where the surface is layered with a dense carpet of flesh and veins, and at other times, a monolithic phallic structure dominates the picture.

22 October 2014