Metrosexuality, the new urbane masculinity of contemporary times; and its worldwide, widespread popularity has bought about a radical paradigm shift in masculinity. The spotlight is on men like never before. This visual exhibit is an attempt to portray some facets of this new masculinity. Defining metrosexuality inclusively and fluidly as metro-sexuality, or masculinity in the city; the attempt is to represent varied elements of metro-sexuality; as interpreted by art practitioners from diverse artistic traditions.

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EXHIBTION DETAILS

       Curated by Himanshu Verma

       Featuring: Anant Joshi , Birendra Pani, C.F John, Chintan Upadhyaya

       & Amit Kekre, Coos de Graaf, Dustin Larson & Kiran Subbaiah, Hemant

       Khandelwaal, Jehangir Jani, Julius Macwan, Justin Ponmany, Kayti

       Didriksen, Manil Gupta, Manisha Gera Baswani, Merlyn Molly, Mithu

       Sen, Nayanaa Kanodia, Nikhil Chopra, Pushkar Thakur, Rashid Rana,

       Ravi Kumar Kashi, Rehaan Engineer, Riyas Komu, Sanjeev Sonpimpare,

       Shibu Arakkal, Stefan Weitzel, Sudarshan Shetty, Sujay Mukherjee, 

       Sushil Mangaonkar, T.M Azis, and Uday Mondal.

       9–18 October 2005; The Fourth Floor, Mumbai

       Held as part of Met-Fest: Masculinities in the City; India’s first ever festival 

       on men and masculinities

       Reviews

• The myth-buster about metrosexuality and men - Sonia Faleiro - Tehelka
• In Quest of the Real Metrosexual – Harshita Rao – DNA
• Maximum Male – Monica Mercer – Indian Express

• The Men’s Room – Jai Arjun Singh – Business Standard