Nalini Malani
dal 18/3/2010 al 5/6/2010
Segnalato da
18/3/2010
Nalini Malani
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts MCBA, Lausanne
Employing figures from myths, fairy tales, and the religions of diverse cultures, and reflecting on war, orthodox fanaticism, the effects of capitalism, and the destruction of the environment, Nalini Malani depicts the female position in scenes past and future. In the early 1990s, Malani was one of the first artists in India to break from painting by making ephemeral wall drawings, theatrical works, and video and shadow plays.
curated by Bernard Fibicher
This spring the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne will
present the largest European retrospective to date of this artist.
Nalini Malani is one of the most influential contemporary artists from India.
She was born in what is now Pakistan.
During Partition in 1947 her family
was displaced from Karachi to Bombay, where she still lives. Since the
1970s, Malani has displayed her emphatically feminine stance there, in a
country torn between the effects of colonialism and the idealism of a Third
World social democracy, as well as being seized by the political and
economic changes brought about by rapid globalisation.
Employing figures
from myths, fairy tales, and the religions of diverse cultures, and reflecting
on war, orthodox fanaticism, the effects of capitalism, and the destruction of
the environment, Nalini Malani depicts the female position in scenes past
and future. In the early 1990s, Malani was one of the first artists in India to
break from painting by making ephemeral wall drawings, theatrical works,
and video and shadow plays. The exhibition in Lausanne is Malani’s largest
European retrospective to date.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the museum will publish a catalogue titled
Nalini Malani Splitting the Other. Retrospective 1992-2009, Written in
French and English, it contains essays by Whitney Chadwick, Doris von
Drathen, Bernard Fibicher and Andreas Huyssen.
Florence Dizdari, press officer, florence.dizdari@vd.ch
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Opening Friday, 19 March 2010, 6.30 pm
With a performance by Alaknanda Samarth: Meda Revisited
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