mrinalini mukherjee
mrinalini mukherjee was an indian sculptor born in mumbai in 1949. she was known for her distinctly contemporary style and use of dyed and woven hemp fibre, an unconventional material for sculpting. she had a career lasting over four decades from the 1970s to the 2000s. mukherjee's body of work is part of public collections at, among others, the museum of modern art, oxford; the national gallery of modern art, new delhi; tate modern, london; the metropolitan museum of art, new york; and the stedelijk museum, amsterdam. the artist's personal archive is digitised and freely accessible on asia a…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of mrinalini mukherjee's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.