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Rina Banerjee
In green, iridescent girls, girls in bathing suits like beetles upon roses...
2015

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Full title: "In green, iridescent girls, girls in bathing suits like beetles upon roses, petal to petal and then bush. Girls fell upon beaches girls and mothers why not sisters too with boys and men and why not this too. She was faulted at 7 years of age showing flesh of her body, could be restricted by a web knitted by a circular culture of manic men and shamed women. She lanced all ties with magic in her thigh" Unframed dimensions: 14 x 10 inches Rina Banerjee, who was born in Kolkata, India and lives in New York, works with a cosmopolitan eclecticism that reflects both her transnational background and her sophisticated understanding of the narrative power of objects. Using trinkets made for the tourist trade, horn, bone, feathers, shells, textiles, glass bottles and antiques - she assembles rapturous sculptures that are mystifyingly shamanistic, yet overflowing with connotation. Her works are hyper-ornamented and lushly seductive. Conjoining rarities with cheap, mass-produced bric-a-brac, she appropriates extravagantly while rejecting hierarchies of material, culture and value. In Banerjee’s paintings and delicate drawings on paper, female figures float in chimerical landscapes, often in states of transformation or with hybrid features of birds and beasts. Her titles are long, free-form refrains that immerse the viewer in the physical and emotional space of the work, heightening its quasi-mystical magnetism. In a 2011 feature in Artforum, Banerjee describes the foundations of her work: "My mother told me that my first name is special because it is not typical in India—it is spelled differently. Hence, I was free to be what I wanted, or so I presumed. I was born in Calcutta, but I grew up in London and, then, New York, where I now live. Growing up abroad [as we called it] was a strange experience in the 1960s; there were so few Indians in the West. My parents saw themselves as international citizens. Maybe they imagined a future that we are just beginning to glimpse. I dream of this willingness to close the gaps between cultures, communities, and places. I think of identity as inherently foreign; of heritage as something that leaks away from the concept of home—as happens when one first migrates. Even my interest in science embodies an awareness of other worlds, worlds that coexist with us, but which we cannot experience or know. The sky, the stars, and the earth contain so much more than we think. Freedom is the most expensive commodity; nature the most dangerous beauty. My work examines both. My art depicts a delicate world that is also aggressive, tangled, manipulated, fragile, and very, very dense. " Rina Banerjee (b. 1963, Kolkata, India) received a BS in Polymer Engineering and worked as a research chemist before completing her MFA at Yale in 1995. Her work was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, the 2005 and 2015 Greater New York Shows at PS1/MOMA, the 2013 Venice Biennale’s Murano Glass Project, and the 2015 Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung). Recent solo exhibitions include the Smithsonian Museum’s Sackler Galleries (Washington DC) and the Musée Guimet (Paris). Her work is in the collections of the Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi), Kiran Nadar Museum (New Delhi), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Brooklyn Museum (New York), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and many others.

Creator:
Rina Banerjee (1963, Indian)
Creation Year:
2015
Dimensions:
Height: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Width: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Gold,Ink,Paper
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
San Francisco, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: HOS 127521stDibs: LU60818093

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