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1950 - 2015 New Delhi, India. Known for: Fiber/fabric sculpture, hand weavings, macrame, rope creatures, ceramics.
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"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee". Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland... Read full biography
"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee". Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland Cotter, July 11, 2019. ??. It’s been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary... Read full biography
"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee". Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland Cotter, July 11, 2019. ??. It’s been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder “How on earth did someone even think to do this, never mind do it?” But that was my reaction to “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at the Met Breuer. Surprises... Read full biography
"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee". Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland Cotter, July 11, 2019. ??. It’s been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder “How on earth did someone even think to do this, never mind do it?” But that was my reaction to “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at the Met Breuer. Surprises start early. You step off the Breuer’s third-floor elevator and face a kind of proscenium-wide stage curtain. Made of a filmy mauve-beige fabric, its softness is the textural antithesis of gray-stone Breuer brutalism. When you go around it into the show,... Read full biography
"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee". Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland Cotter, July 11, 2019. ??. It’s been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder “How on earth did someone even think to do this, never mind do it?” But that was my reaction to “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at the Met Breuer. Surprises start early. You step off the Breuer’s third-floor elevator and face a kind of proscenium-wide stage curtain. Made of a filmy mauve-beige fabric, its softness is the textural antithesis of gray-stone Breuer brutalism. When you go around it into the show, it’s as if you’re entering a theater from backstage. On the other side of the curtain,... Read full biography
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"Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer: It’s not folk art, or fiber art. It’s finger-aching ingenuity by Mrinalini Mukherjee".
Exhibition Review, The New York Times, By Holland Cotter, July 11, 2019
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It’s been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder “How on earth did someone even think to do this, never mind do it?” But that was my reaction to “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at the Met Breuer.
Surprises start early. You step off the Breuer’s third-floor elevator and face a kind of proscenium-wide stage curtain. Made of a filmy mauve-beige fabric, its softness is the textural antithesis of gr...But wait, there's more...
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