Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani (* 1946 in Karachi , today Pakistan ) is an Indian painter and video artist . She lives in Mumbai .
life and work
Nalini Malani was born in 1946 and moved with her family to Calcutta as a refugee due to the partition of India . In 1958 her family settled in Bombay. Malani studied fine arts and graduated from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in 1969 . During this time she had a studio in the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, where she made contact with other artists, musicians, dancers and theater people. A scholarship enabled her to stay in Paris. From 1984 to 1989 she received another scholarship. Stays in India, the USA, Japan and Italy followed.
As a painter and draftsman, Malani dedicates herself to traditional glass painting, wall painting and oil painting. She expands her politically motivated work with theater and video art. In her multimedia installations she often uses her own drawings to show them as projected animations . Nalini Malini coined the term video / shadow play for this. She is familiar with the texts by Bertolt Brecht , Heiner Müller and Christa Wolf , which flow into her exploration of power, gender and feminism.
“Her focus is often on female main characters - from a woman who has become a mutant through an ecological catastrophe, to a victim of religious oppression, to reinterpretations of archetypal dramatic figures from Greek mythology, such as the Greek characters Medea , Antigone , Kassandra and the Hindu goddesses Radha and Sita , and literature like Alice in Wonderland . "
Nalini Malani worked with Bhupen Khakhar , Vivan Sundaram , Fiona Hall , Anuradha Kapur and Alaknanda Samarth.
Exhibitions (selection)
Her work has been exhibited in India, Japan, Australia, England, Cuba and South Africa, among others.
- 2000 Century City Tate Modern , London
- 2001 Unpacking Europe Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam
- 2007 with the 14-part panel Splitting the Other at the Biennale di Venezia 2012 dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel.
- 2002/3 Solo exhibition at the Hamletmachine New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York City
- 2014 Solo exhibition (retrospective) You can't keep Acid in a Paper Bag Kiran Nadar Museum of Art , New Delhi
Awards
- 2013 Fukuoka Prize
- 2019 Joan Miró Prize
literature
- Nalini Malani-Splitting the Other , Hatje Cantz (English, French), 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2580-4 .
Web links
- Website Nalini Malani
- Nalini Malani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood
- ↑ Saffron art Nalini Malani , accessed on August 13, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Caroline Schilling, May 3, 2012 Kunstlexikon, Nalini Malani, accessed on August 13, 2016.
- ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3 , 2012, p. 184.
- ↑ Nalini Malani biography , accessed on August 13, 2016 (English).
- ^ Artist of the Floating World. In: indianexpress.com. April 28, 2014, accessed January 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malani, Nalini |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian painter and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karachi |