Nasreen Mohamedi - Waiting Is a Part of Intense Living - Reina Sofia 2015

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Waiting Is a Part of Intense Living, held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2015-2016. Nasreen Mohamedi (Karachi, 1937 – Baroda, 1990) was one of the first Indian artists to embrace abstraction, moving away from the more conventional doctrines of Indian modern art in the early decades of the 20th century. She chose non-figuration, an artistic practice marginalised at that time by independent India, which was essentially dominated by an anthropomorphous aesthetic and academic realism determined by art schools from the colonial period.   
Combining thought and action – in the intersections between her life and her art, the show has featured drawings, photographs, paintings and collages, with a focus on Mohamedi’s work throughout the 1970s. Texts by Roobina Karode, Geeta Kapur, Deepak Ananth and Andrea Giunta. 

332p - EN - 26x20.6cm - softcover - sealed