25 November 2025:

Beauty Isn’t the Point: R.B. Murari Solo Exhibition in Bengaluru

FROM DECEMBER 8–14, 2025, THE KARNATAKA CHITRAKALA PARISHATH, BENGALURU HOSTS BEAUTY ISN’T THE POINT, A STRIKING SOLO EXHIBITION BY RENOWNED CONTEMPORARY ARTIST R.B. MURARI.

Renowned artist R.B. Murari‘s non-objective works invite audiences into a realm beyond narrative or ornament—where art becomes pure rhythm, emotion, and presence. His canvases abandon representation, choosing instead to awaken feeling before thought.

Through layered color, balance, and stillness, Murari explores the raw current of awareness beneath perception, offering viewers a profound encounter with art in its most elemental form.

About the Artist: R.B. Murari

Chennai-based artist R.B. Murari shapes a world of non-objective expression through instinctive mark-making and layered color fields. Silence becomes his visual language, where rhythm, depth, and stillness converge.

His practice invites audiences to look without judgment and feel without explanation—an encounter with pure emotional energy beyond words or representation.

Redeeming the Inner Self: Critical Essay by Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat

“The potential today seems to lie in non-objective art, because through it the painter can best find his way back to reality and to an awareness of that which is essential in it.” — Alfred Manessier

Emerging as a remarkable self-taught artist, R.B. Murari carries the lineage of Indian modern art through his grandfather Professor S. Dhanapal and father Professor R.B. Bhaskaran. Yet, his voice is distinctly his own—rooted in abstraction and the non-objective.

R.B Murari’s canvases are not mere formal experiments but living extensions of emotion. Guided by subconscious rhythm, he weaves line, color, texture, and silence into fields where structure and spontaneity coexist—grids of discipline dissolving into gestures of release.

Dr. Bhagat identifies three moods in his work: architectonic grids of linearity, organic curvilinear forms evoking calm, and spiritual tonal blends reflecting transcendence. Together, they chart Murari’s journey from external control to inner liberation.

His abstraction becomes redemption—a reclaiming of the inner self through color and silence. As Bhagat affirms, “Good abstract art is never an accident; it is carefully developed and expertly orchestrated.”

Highlights

The exhibition moves beyond numbers, seeking to deepen understanding of non-objective abstraction as pure experience. It invites audiences into dialogues on emotion, silence and self-discovery, while opening new pathways for R.B. Murari’s work to reach fresh audiences and discerning collectors.