1990s – Metamorphosis – Rameshwar Broota

Broota creates sensual volumes and expressive textures highlighting sharp details in the successive series – moving from ‘man’ to metamorphosis’ and then to ‘traces’ and ‘scripted in time.’

“Metamorphosis introduces a shock element as the artist struggles to refine his departure from the dominant position of the male as ‘heroic and the virile.’ The ravaging forces of time reinforce the desire for the impossible – a life of permanence. Broota is preoccupied with the disappearance of the material body, its disintegration, leaving behind an exposed web of nerves and veins held on their fragile edge. Entangled, partly buried and sometimes half-gone, the body resists the forces of time, in but a futile battle. Faces are blown away, distorted and left there as if by an onslaught of a storm or a wild wind. The incomplete drawing of the whole figure makes references to a mutating body with compositions carefully constructed to draw analogies between a lacerated landscape and a shriveling body.”

– Roobina Karode, Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body