Growing Leaf and Other Forms

It often seems that Prabhakar Barwe, one of India’s foremost modernists, had a third eye with which he saw the world that he then recreated in his works. His objects resembled nothing like real life, the space they occupied was imbued with meaning, and they provoked the onlooker into engaging with the fantasy created by the artist. Growing Leaf and Other Forms looks like a snapshot from that part of an evergreen forest of blooming broad leaves and tiny creatures where no man has ever set foot. It is the tender distortion of accepted shapes of common things that makes it a hallmark Barwe work.