MRINALINI MUKHERJEE

1949, Bombay (present-day Mumbai), India
2015, New Delhi, India

A committed sculptor whose work is characterized by intuitive practice, Mukherjee explores the gap between figuration and abstraction. Nature is the main inspiration for the artist who integrates craft techniques with a modernist visual vocabulary. Her works, made entirely by hand with different fibres and processes, take unusual, mysterious, sexual and, at times, grotesque and disturbing forms. Imbued with a powerful and contemporary ethic, her sculptures go beyond any distinctions between traditional and modern.

SIGNS

  • Phenomenal Nature, The Met Breuer, New York, USA, 2019
  • Transfigurations, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India, 2015
  • Mrinalini Mukherjee Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, 1994
MAGAZINE
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