Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body the retrospective exhibition and the subsequent monograph, documents artist Rameshwar Broota’s five-decade-long career. While his contemporaries explored the female form, he reserved his gaze for representations of the male anatomy, stripping it down from the powerful, strapping and brutish depictions to explore the fragilities and vulnerabilities. 

Broota’s practice centres around the question “Who is a man?” which the monograph articulates, showing the male form as tender and even tense, a possible documentation of the artist’s own body image as he aged. His earlier work showed the male form at loggerheads with nature and then blending into it while his later work juxtaposed the body with the urban environment, illuminating through his practice the overarching theme of fragmentation of the body to showcase the commotion within. 

The publication includes a foreword by the Dutch collector, Kito De Boer, a republished essay on the artist by renowned poet and art critic, Keshav Malik, along with an essay by the curator, Roobina Karode. His artistic practice and his body of works, each distinct from the other, are categorised into separate sections like the Ape Series, Metamorphosis, Traces of Man, Confrontation, Counterparts, and New Arrivals.

Edited: Roobina Karode
Publisher: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Pages: 239
ISBN: 978-8192803746