Studies of his own anatomy have become digital fragments on archival prints. But, the 1963 canvas is a far cry from his present-day personality. The self-portrait at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) has a lanky Rameshwar Broota. Student of Fine Art at Delhi College of Art, he stares at the mirror through the corner of his eyes. Now with brows thick, strands of white in his hair, he paints in oil.
Rameshwar Broota’s works describe the man who has withstood various challenges put forth by time. A selected collection of his works from 1963 till the present day is on exhibit at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA).
Paintings by Rameshwar Broota were exhibited by some of the prominent art galleries during the sixth edition of the India Art Fair.
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A solo exhibition of works by Rameshwar Broota, titled 'Traces of Man' is ongoing at XVA gallery. The exhibition showcases a selection of his photographic works and a rare oil on canvas work from 1999, entitled; ‘Traces of Man - The Unknown Soldier – I.’
The inaugural show at Ojas Art explores how artists envision three basic desires of “Roti, Kapda aur Makan,” i.e. bread, clothes, and house. The participating artists include: Rameshwar Broota, Arunkumar HG and TV Santhosh, and works on display include photography, sculpture, paintings, video art, installations and graphic art.
Veteran artist Rameshwar Broota explores the relationship between human beings and nature in his ongoing exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery in Okhla Phase I here. The 69-year-old artist has tried to give every minute detail in his intricately textured pictures. Broota's metamorphosis into a photographer is bound to be another lesson in art history for artists who study under him at the Triveni Kala Sangam. He has been Head of the Department at Triveni since 1967.
Veteran artist Rameshwar Broota returns with a new series of photographs collected and developed in his own unique technique, over a period of four years. The exhibition titled “This End to the Other" will be on view at Triveni Kala Sangam from 13th to 21st February and thereafter at Vadehra Art Gallery in Okhla from 6th to 13th March.
Rameshwar Broota likes to work on large canvases. “I like the action,” says the 70-year-old artist, swinging an imaginary brush in the air. “When I scrape paint for the details, greater-than-lifesize gets more accuracy... When you magnify, so many things are added and subtracted.” This ‘addition and subtraction’ continues in his photography, too. In this case, his canvas is a 32-inch MacPro screen. Broota takes an image or a set of images at very high resolutions, and then spends night after night working with them on the Photoshop software — altering, superimposing, enhancing — to get the composition he wants. And he prints them at sizes of at least 40”x60” — monumental for photos.
In Rameshwar Broota’s office-cum-studio at Delhi’s Triveni Kala Sangam, a 32-inch MacPro glows softly in the morning light. It’s the machine on which the 70-year-old artist has produced his latest work — photographs taken over a period of five years, in vastly different places: from Greece to Turkey; from the barren wasteland of Spiti to the crowded streets of Haridwar. They are intricately detailed images, but blown up to a massive scale, and part of the exhibition “Open Enclosures” on at Shridharani Art Gallery in Delhi.
