Review: Mrinalini Mukherjee's "Unbound Forms" at The Met Breuer — Sculpture Between Craft and Fine Art
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Daisy Hildyard
Summary
A critical review of Mrinalini Mukherjee's exhibition "Unbound Forms" at The Met Breuer, exploring her unique sculptural practice that blends organic materials (hemp, ceramic, bronze) with references to nature, mythology, and the human body. The review examines how Mukherjee's work resists easy categorization, existing between craft and fine art, abstraction and figuration, and how her intuitive, tactile approach to materials creates powerful, ambiguous forms that challenge Western art historical frameworks.
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· 3 pulledThe sculpture should be molded into shape with hands to maintain the critical dimensions and shape.
The sculpture is to be vacuum cleaned with a brush head after installation.
The former instruction suggests an intuitive, artisanal, embodied relationship with the organic material from which the work is made; the latter is modern and pragmatic.
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