Rendezvous With Ray

THE FIRST EVER EXHIBITION OF MAN RAY’S PHOTOGRAPHS IN INDIA GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE THEMES AND TECHNIQUES USED BY THE LEGENDARY VISUAL ARTIST

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It’s not every day that you get to feast your eyes on the rare repository of photographs by a legendary visual artist like Man Ray. That’s why you approach View of the Spirit, an exhibition of his photographs, at Tarq, Mumbai, with a serendipitous joy. This being the first show of the photographs of the USborn artist who worked in France for most part of his life, you are poised for a unique rendezvous. It is almost surreal, because there’s a note by the artist on display that says, ‘This exhibition is not aimed at a larger audience... it is an offering from one pe