Nasreen Mohamedi
Subtitle: waiting is a part of intense living
By: editorial coordination, Mercedes Pineda, Mafalda Rodríguez
Contributors: Mohamedi, Nasreen; Karode, Roobina; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madrid]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9788480265218
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Waiting is a part of intense living
Work titles: Nasreen Mohamedi. English
Description: "One of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Independence India, Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) had a singular and sustained engagement with abstraction. This catalogue, first published by Reina Sofía on the occasion of the 2015 exhibiton Nasreen Mohamedi in Madrid, accompanies the inaugural exhibition at The Met Bruer, the artist's first museum retrospective int he United States. In her work, Mohamedi drew upon twentieth-century global modernisms while also referencing the longer history of geometric abstraction and calligraphy in Islamic art. Bringing together new scholarship,l this essential volume illustrates over 200 works spanning Mohamedi's entire career, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, and diaries. By xploring her work's conceptual complexity and visual subtlety, the book reveals this extraordinary artist's aesthetic approach and artistic evolution, situating her minimalist practice within the history of transnational modernism."
Notes: Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, September 22, 2015-January 11, 2016, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., March 18-June 5, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.