In the last decade, Glenbarra Art Museum has loaned the works of Nasreen Mohamedi for four international exhibitions that have travelled to eleven cities across Europe, UK and USA. For the first time since entering the museum’s collection, these works are being together in India in 2022-2023. Space Studio is delighted to host this exhibition of an oeuvre of nearly fifty works by Nasreen Mohamedi in partnership with the Glenbarra Art Museum.
.Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 – 1990) was born in Karachi and raised in Mumbai. After studying art at Central Saint Martin’s in London, Mohamedi worked in Europe before returning to India in the 1960s. She joined the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda in 1972. It was here, in Baroda, that she began to develop her abstraction, producing small-scale, geometric drawings, painstakingly composed on an architects’ table using pencil and pen. She continued to live and work in Baroda until her untimely death in 1990. An inspiration for many artists, Mohamedi’s subtle yet strong line drawings and works set her apart as one of India’s noteworthy modern artists working with minimalism and abstraction not just in drawing but also in photography. Mohamedi’s works have been exhibited in retrospectives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET Breuer), New York (2016); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2015); Tate, Liverpool, UK (2014); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India (2013) and The Drawing Center, New York (2005). Her works have also been displayed in group and collection shows at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, NY; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Space Studio
Space Studio is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting emerging artists. Founded by Krupa Amin, SPACE STUDIO offers studio space, resources and support to artists to nurture their creative practice. SPACE STUDIO has supported over 250 artists over the years through various creative projects. Along with neighbouring spaces at the Alembic City, SPACE STUDIO hosts residencies, exhibitions, talks, workshops, music concerts and festivals. Formerly an old distillery plant in the industrial district, Alembic City emerged in 2019 as Baroda’s most thriving cultural hub. Founded by Udit Amin, under the guidance of Shyam Khandekar, the complex was fitted with state-of-the-art infrastructure while carefully preserving the industrial heritage of the space. Alembic City is home to The Distillery, The Museum, SPACE STUDIO, an outdoor amphitheatre, a skatepark and cafes, all of which are located around Alembic Museum Square and collaboratively host a range of community-focused artistic events.
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Glenbarra Art Museum
Masanori Fukuoka first visited India in 1975. He was initially drawn to India as it was the seat of Buddhist learning. He returned to India between twenty and twenty-five times over the next fifteen years, but bought his first painting only in 1990.It was a trip to the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and specifically viewing Maqbool Fida Husain’s Cyclonic Silence that moved him greatly and led him to seek out galleries where he could possibly purchase works by Husain and other artists he had seen in the Museum. When he began buying Indian art in 1990, it was not as a collector, but as a self-appointed envoy for Indian art in Japan. Masanori’s approach to art has always been a personal one. The collection is a reflection of his changing personal missions over time. He opened the Glenbarra Art Museum in 1991 to share the works of approximately sixty Indian artists of the 20th century with a Japanese audience.
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