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A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle


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This exhibition traces more than 100 years of South Asian art, from the 1920s to the present day, through the people and places that influenced Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015). Her artworks fuse abstraction with the human form – drawing on nature, regional traditions of architecture and craft and international Modernist art and design.

Alongside Mukherjee, the exhibition features seminal work by her parents, Leela Mukherjee and Benode Behari Mukherjee, who taught at Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan, the pioneering art school founded by poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. It also celebrates key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including KG Subramanyan, Jagdish Swaminathan, Nilima Sheikh and Gulammohammed Sheikh. The works on view range from monumental woven sculptures to intricate paintings, ceramics, collages and drawings.


 
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