Nasreen Mohamedi
dal 4/9/2009 al 14/11/2009
Segnalato da
4/9/2009
Nasreen Mohamedi
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Her small scale drawings and photographs combined minimalist and conceptual strategies with Islamic architectural forms and a South Asian sensibility, resulting in an intensely personal body of work.
This autumn Milton Keynes Gallery will present the most substantial exhibition to date of work by important Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi. Her small scale drawings and photographs combined minimalist and conceptual strategies with Islamic architectural forms and a South Asian sensibility, resulting in an intensely personal body of work.
Born in Karachi, India (now Pakistan) in 1937, Mohamedi created a highly developed language in drawings in pencil and ink on paper and black and white photography from the 1950s to the 1980s. Early drawings, often suggestive of atmospheric landscapes with plants and trees, were followed by a series of variations around the grid, while later works present free-floating geometric forms. These abstract forms were often developed in intricately detailed diaries, written throughout the artist’s life, where the written word morphs into personalised symbols, grids and diagonals. She simultaneously created a series of photographs of fields and street scenes which are tightly cropped to focus on abstract patterns in a quest for elemental form and the sublime.
The exhibition is an expanded version of ‘Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes’ curated by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson and initiated by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, with a section of works from the Artist’s Estate and other Collections, courtesy of Talwar Gallery, New York. The exhibition will tour to Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.
This exhibition has been programmed by Anthony Spira, who took up his appointment as Director of Milton Keynes Gallery in May 2009. Speaking of the exhibition Anthony Spira says:
"This show coincides with Milton Keynes Gallery’s 10th anniversary. Nasreen Mohamedi’s lucid spaces and variations around the grid made from the 1960s onwards correspond both in time and aspiration with the Utopian concept for the city of Milton Keynes (which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007). I hope that visitors will enjoy and appreciate the late modernist aesthetic and conceptual correspondences between the work of Mohamedi and the design of this city."
Exhibition Media Partner: ArtAsiaPacific Magazine
Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard - Milton Keynes
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