Studio Visit with Artist Rina Banerjee | Christie's
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- The Indian-born, US-based artist shares insights into her practice and shows us round her studio in Brooklyn.
Rina Banerjee was born in India in 1963 but grew up in London and New York. After graduating from university in Ohio she worked as a scientist before studying for a Masters in Fine Arts at Yale in 1995. When asked why she turned to making art she observes, ‘Where else can we have the pleasure, if not in art, of exploring when we are incoherent - but are [nevertheless] saying something?’
Combining fabric, feathers, shells and all manner of organic and constructed ephemera into a conjured cosmos all her own, Banerjee evokes fairytale, fantasy and, often, a hint of dread.
Her drawings, paintings and large-scale sculptures and installations explore ideas of identity, history, and ethnic diversity and, as a review in ArtForum commented, the titles she gives these works are often ‘more intricate than their constituent parts’.
‘I like to play with the idea that we have an awareness of our ability to make our own histories, precisely and indefinitely,’ Banerjee explains. ‘That we can constantly edit and reshape it to suit to our own discovery of ourselves.’
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I'm Rina Banerjee, I'm an artist. My studio is in the area of the Navy art, in Brooklyn. I think I came into making art because it really pleasures you with intimacy. Intimacy is the driving force for what we call, I think we, sometimes we label it love. But its a very intense experience, that is intellectual, its emotional, its cultural. Textile is a very important expression of human culture. A wearable fabric that is something that is in the art references our history and our body simultaneously. So canvas or any kind of material that you paint on, print on, these things are talking to each other. Somebody had this as a precious item, to have mended it, and I like that idea that I'm getting something that someone used in another part of the world, that is part of their tradition, and relevent to my history. I like to play with the idea that we have an awareness of our ability to make our own histories, precisely and indefinetly, that we can constantly edit and reshape it to suit our own discovery of ourselves. I do think that place where you go to find out what more you have to say is very nebulous. And I think that the mystery that you leave in your work allows for them entry. I tried to move away before I completly transform something where its unrecognizable. Where else can we have the pleasure if not art to explore when we are incoherent but are saying something?
For anyone who's trying to listen to this but would rather read lol
Are all of us just going to ignore her glasses?
The butterfly spectacles or the dragonfly ones?! Absolutely agree - they are very artistic.
No! I think they look more like the Bactrian camel. …In the chameleon colors, although!
Too small for my taste
lol
Wow!!! I really like this!!!
And the story About Prince Eric and cattle farming by Armand Hammer - is so humorous and well written! In a nut shell: it’s a page turner!
A studio luxury ,
Highly Esteemed and Dear Christie’s: at the
moment I am reading the book by Armand Hammer: “My twentieth century…” The
extremely interesting and dynamic, humorous foliant, narrating on a very wide
range of numerous historic issues! ART - is a very substantial and important
part of the whole subject line. Art as such, collecting, how it connected
people and made the deals happen and got clenched. …Armand and Viktor Hammer
acquired 110 (Yes! One hundred ten!!!) works by Pissarro! What a story! Or,
being lucky, and acquisitioning first some masterpieces, literally speaking, snatching
them almost from under the nose of other fine arts hunters and connoisseurs. Dear
Christie’s: is it possible to make the series of reports on art collecting by
Armand Hammer. Undoubtedly, it must be such an interesting and captivating
TH-cam journey!!! It’ll be so great to make such an exploration! Thank You
very much in advance for giving a thought to this topic / idea. Yours
Sincerely, Petr Frizen
would love to know why you can't have an opinion without some moke trying to dissect it. It's how I feel...deal with it. I am entitled to my take on situations or topics just like anyone else. I think it is predictable and pretentious to try to "look" like an artist....whether it is with clothing, tats, makeup, odd behavior etc. It is obvious and obnoxious. True artists are indifferent to labels, "looks" or personas. True artists are just themselves. I'm sure this is how this particular artist is and isn't trying to be "art-like" but a lot of them are and I find it annoying.
Fell asleep.
The healing powers of the True Art!
You've got to be kidding me
Pure garbage and laziness