Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting is a part of intense living

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Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is proud to present Nasreen Mohamedi : Waiting is a part of intense living in collaboration with The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is proud to present Nasreen Mohamedi : Waiting is a part of intense living in collaboration with The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. The show will open 22 September - 11 January, 2016 at the Reina Sofia followed by 1 March to 5 June, 2016 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This is the first time that such a comprehensive showing of any Indian artist has happened outside India. With 207 of Nasreen Mohammedi's works on display, the exhibition will bring three decades of her work to international audiences, compelling in its handling of her drawings in ink and graphite, watercolours, collages, photographs and a few oil on canvas paintings.

This exhibition is curated by Roobina Karode, Chief Curator & Director of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art along with Manuel Borja- Villel, Director, the Reina Sofia Museum and Sheena Wagstaff, Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kiran Nadar, Chairperson, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art says.."For the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art as a young museum, it is an exceptionally significant moment to collaborate with two of the most prestigious art institutions in the world, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to showcase one of the most extraordinary artists from India, Nasreen Mohamedi, whose contribution to modern art remains distinctly singular and is being recognised worldwide."

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective of the artist in 2013 at KNMA in Delhi and has more than 40 of Nasreen Mohamedi's works in its collection.

Attached here is a press note with further information on the artist and the show. Please note, Roobina Karode, Director and Chief curator, KNMA is available for a comment.

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Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting is a part of intense living

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is proud to present Nasreen Mohamedi : Waiting is a part of intense living in collaboration with The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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