India Art Fair 2020: Seven works you must see

The 12th edition of the Delhi event brings together 81 exhibitors from 20 cities around the world, and displays works from artists including Andy Warhol and Mrinalini Mukherjee
Curated By: Jasodhara Banerjee
Published: Jan 31, 2020
Mukherjee Mrinalini. Florescence 2 1996

Image by : Courtesy of DAG

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  • India Art Fair 2020: Seven works you must see
  • Mukherjee Mrinalini. Florescence 2 1996
  • Vasantha Yogananthan. Magic Fishes 2013
  • Andy Warhol BMW Art Car, 1979
  • Madhvi Parekh 2019
  • Pichvai Tradition
  • Ai Weiwei. Martin-2019

Mrinalini Mukherjee
After a major retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Mukherjee has come into public light like never before. The artist, who is known for her signature sculptures made of jute and fabric, also experimented with bronze and ceramics, which will be on view at the 2020 fair.
As the daughter of distinguished artist Benode Behari Mukherjee, Mrinalini was raised in Santiniketan in West Bengal, at the heart of India’s modernist intellectual and artistic community. She then went on to study mural painting at MSU in Baroda, where she worked under KG Subramanyan.
Subramanyan’s mentorship was crucial to Mukherjee’s development, and encouraged by his celebration of vernacular Indian craft traditions, she began sculpting with natural fibres. This sparked her use of modest artisanal materials such as jute, rope, bronze, textiles and ceramic to create ‘high art’: Complex, even erotic, organic forms made by knotting, weaving, hammering and moulding.