Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee will exhibit a collection of art at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, will present a collection of works by the famous Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee at the first full exhibition from the work of the artist in America

The artist will be the subject of a revealing retrospective at Met Breuer.

The exhibition & # 39; Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee & # 39; will be presented from June 4 to September 29, 2019, bringing together 57 works by Ms. Mukherjee and exploring the artist's long-standing commitment to fiber, as well as his significant forays into ceramics and bronze in the middle and at the end of his career, said the Museum.

The exhibition is made possible by Nita Ambani, her husband, president of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani and the Reliance Foundation.

Born in Mumbai in 1949, Ms. Mukherjee studied painting. , engraving and mural at the MS University in Baroda, with the famous artist KG Subramanyan, under whose direction Ms. Mukherjee first experimented with fiber.

Phenomenal Nature will also present the second half of Ms. Mukherjee's career in the mid-1920s. When, motivated by a residency at the European Ceramics Work Center in the Netherlands, she began working in the ceramics field before winning the bronze in 2003. "Highlighting the gap that separates the figuration and the art. In abstraction, Ms. Mukherjee continued to create unusual, mysterious, sensual and sometimes grotesque, disturbing, imposing styles present in the museum, "said the museum.

A convinced sculptor who worked intuitively without ever using a drawing or a preparatory drawing explored the fracture. between figuration and abstraction.

She draws mainly on nature and her enthusiasm for Indian historical sculpture, modern design and rafts and textile traditions. The exhibition will seek to highlight Ms. Mukherjee's radical intervention by adapting manufacturing techniques to a modernist formalism.

The fiber forms of the artist are physical and organic. She has never worked with a loom; The knotting became his main technique and gave his sculptures a three-dimensional volume and a monumental sense, said the museum in a statement.

Ms. Mukherjee used natural, hand-tinged ropes from a local New Delhi market where she lived and worked. The forms she has made are full of badual images, while some of her large anthropomorphic pieces – in which the plant, the human and the animal are intertwined – sometimes suggest the images of Indian clbadical sculpture.

The exhibition is organized by Shanay Jhaveri. Assistant curator of South Asian art at the department of modern and contemporary art museum.