(din of crowd)
(single piano note)
BRINDA KUMAR: Nasreen Mohamedi
was an Indian artist,
and this is going to be the
first retrospective of her work
in America.
She did work
over only three decades,
but during those three decades,
she traveled enormously
and produced
a phenomenal body of work.
Here is an artist,
seemingly working in isolation,
but actually with something
fundamental and powerful
to contribute
to the story of modernism.
KUMAR: She ends up having
a kind of practice
that is completely unexpected,
particularly
when you think about
the very colorful,
figurative work,
the long history
of Indian painting,
and then
you come across Nasreen,
so it really makes us
expand our understanding
of what Indian painting
and Indian art is.
WAGSTAFF: She was able to deal
with sophisticated
and complex ideas
with very fundamental
and basic forms.
That's all she needed
to create worlds in her work.
-It's an odyssey of an artist
who despite all the difficulties
was intent on creating work
that really made a difference.
And that is both personally
very impressive but also,
artistically, well,
you can see for yourself.
