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Serpent Deity (Nag Devta I)

1979

Mrinalini Mukherjee

(Indian, 1949–2015)
Culture
India
Medium
Undyed and dyed hemp rope and fibers; cotton; steel
Measurements
Overall: 114.3 x 83.8 x 129.5 cm (45 x 33 x 51 in.)
Weight: 35-40 lbs.
Credit Line
Gift of Phyllis Granoff 2016.544
Copyright
© Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Mrinalini Mukherjee often worked intuitively to create her hemp textile pieces, without sketches, models, or preparatory drawings.

Description

Mrinalini Mukherjee's array of organic abstract forms evokes human and animal bodies as well as vegetation. Mostly made of knotted hemp fiber, a material and technique traditionally used by village women in rural India, this contemporary sculpture references the serpent deities that have been revered in southern Asia for thousands of years.
Knotted hemp rope in green colors with rippling, bumpy edges like a woven rug and reminiscent of a cobra hood, a brown-green strip extending down and piling on the floor before lifting up into an elongated neck from which stick out rib-like protrusions. Dark green knotted hemp rope flares on either side from behind the cobra hood.

Serpent Deity (Nag Devta I)

1979

Mrinalini Mukherjee

(Indian, 1949–2015)
India

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