Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms - Women Sculptors of India and Bangladesh

One of the ‘must-see exhibitions for a European art road trip this summer’ Wallpaper*

‘A tapestry of stories that pick up on one another’ e-flux

This major retrospective celebrates the work of Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015), one of the most significant modernist sculptors of the 20th century.

Mukherjee will be presented in the context of key works by pioneering women artists from the early generation of modern Indian and Bangladeshi sculpture – the artist’s mother, Leela Mukherjee (1916 – 2002), Meera Mukherjee (1923 – 1998), Novera Ahmed (1939 – 2015) and Pilloo Pochkhanawala (1923 – 1986).

Bringing these artists in dialogue for the first time in the UK, the exhibition will foreground an interwoven history of South Asian art that has long been underrepresented within Western accounts of global modernisms.

On display will be the wide range of media explored by Mrinalini Mukherjee across a remarkable 40-year career, including her monumental fibre works, ceramic and bronze sculptures, drawings, etchings and watercolours. Mukherjee’s work fused abstraction with sensuous figuration, drawing on nature, ancient sculptural techniques, modernist experimentation and Indian craft and textile traditions.

The Hepworth Wakefield is working in partnership with The Royal Academy of Arts to bring these exceptional artists to audiences in Wakefield.

Major Supporters

Seher & Taimur Hassan

Exhibition Supporters

Chandrika Pathak

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

The Mrinalini Mukherjee Exhibition Circle

Jhaveri Contemporary
Poonji Nath
Saffronart Foundation
Tarun Khanna, 108 Art Projects
Tia Collection
Vadehra Art Gallery

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