F N Souza: Sacred & Profane showcases the remarkable range and inventiveness of India’s most iconic modernist across numerous artworks spanning from the kaleidoscopic crisscross gouaches of 1950 to his commanding canvases of the 1960s. In these works, we find traces of the profane in his sacred imagery — an impasto void that shadows a red-hooded cardinal and his sins alike; spray-painted figures mutating divine Byzantine icons into apparitions of atomic-age anxiety; frenetic altars of vessels and flesh that confound the sanctity of ritual. And we find traces of the sacred in the profane, where uninhibited and sensual forms are so starkly human that radiate the nakedness of pre-nativity and unapologetically celebrate the human condition.
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