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mercredi 19 juin 2019

At the Met Breuer, Awe-Inspiring Sculptures of Deities Show How an Indian Artist Forged Her Own Personal Language for Fabric Art


Source Artnet News by Ben Davis
My sense is that the public might be in danger of missing the Mrinalini Mukherjee show, “Phenomenal Nature,” which opened recently at the Met Breuer, because her name is not well known, and because it lacks an easy hook. Mukherjee hailed from a different art world, India in the 1970s to the 2000s, and her work draws on a pool of references and traditions that might be slightly unfamiliar. But at the same time, her sculptures eschewed the kinds of easily marketed images of “Indian-ness” that the global contemporary art biz sometimes feeds on. It has its own rhythms, and you can’t approach it either purely formally or purely iconographically, but have to find some other way in.
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mardi 11 juin 2019

Bhupen Khakhar's painting on homosexuality breaks auction record


Source Business Standard
"Two Men in Benares", a 1980s painting by Indian contemporary artist Bhupen Khakhar has set a new auction record for the painter by selling at a whopping $3.2 million here. The sale took place at the Sotheby's auction house on Monday. Going under the hammer was the "Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Helen Barbier Family Collection", an offering of 29 artworks from one of the finest collections of 20th century Indian art in private hands. When Khakhar (1934-2003) first unveiled "Two Men in Benares" in Mumbai in 1986, he became the first Indian artist to freely disclose his sexual orientation through his work.
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lundi 10 juin 2019

Jogen Chowdhury’s new gallery is a much-needed pick-me-up for Kolkata’s art world


Source The Hindu by Soumitra Das
This lacuna has been somewhat filled, though in a small way, with Jogen Chowdhury’s five-storey building devoted entirely to the visual arts. The first of its kind in Bengal, the museum is on a street opposite the busy South City Mall on Prince Anwar Shah Road. Charubasona, the Jogen Chowdhury Centre for Arts, was inaugurated in April in the presence of the eminences grises of Kolkata’s cultural world, including poet Sankha Ghosh, artists Rabin Mandal, Ganesh Haloi and Partha Pratim Deb, actor Soumitra Chatterjee, litterateur Sirshendu Mukherjee, and art critic and historian Pranabranjan Ray.
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vendredi 7 juin 2019

Inside sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee’s highly-anticipated exhibit


Source Vogue India by Shanay Jhavery
I remember the first time I came across Mrinalini Mukherjee’s art—it was the early 2000s at a private collector’s home and a sculpture titled Adi Pushp II (1998-99). The bold evocation of sexuality, the exceptional handling of fibre, and the deft deployment of colour… it was a revelation. I was a PhD student when I met her for the first time in 2014. The following year we had planned to spend more time together in Delhi after her retrospective at the NGMA, but sadly she passed away a week after the opening. I never imagined then, that one day I would be curating her first international retrospective and also editing the most comprehensive monograph on her prodigious practice.
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mardi 4 juin 2019

Met, New York: Mrinalini Mukherjee’s sculptures will flourish at the museum this summer


Source Architectural Digest by Uma Nair
“The historic exhibition takes a deep look at Mukherjee’s crucial work, highlighting her anthropomorphic sculptures exploring spirits, deities, feminism and sexuality,” says Max Hollein, museum director. “Together these pieces will demonstrate the significance of Mukherjee’s oeuvre to the evolution of modern art in India and her role as a forerunner of contemporary figurative sculpture.” The exhibition’s curator is Shanay Jhaveri, Assistant Curator, South Asia, in The MET’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Mrinalini always enjoyed subverting conventions,” says Jhaveri. “She prefers to explore the hidden character of the material, its tactile potential, its ability to express a daring yet subtle eroticism, its power to contain within it an organic fecundity.”
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