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Rina Banerjee - Take me, Take me… to the Palace of Love - 2003
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Take me, Take me… to the Palace of Love
2003
Mixed media
410 x 410 x 575 cm / 161 x 161 x 226 in.
Exhibition view "Chimères de l'Inde et de l'Occident", Musée Guimet, Paris, May 25 - September 26, 2011
© Musée Guimet, Paris, dist.RMN / Raphaël Chipault/Benjamin Soligny Photographie extraite du catalogue de l’exposition
Rina Banerjee - Take me, Take me… to the Palace of Love - 2003
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Take me, Take me… to the Palace of Love
2003
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Exhibition view "Chimères de l'Inde et de l'Occident", Musée Guimet, Paris, May 25 - September 26, 2011
© Musée Guimet, Paris, dist.RMN / Raphaël Chipault/Benjamin Soligny Photographie extraite du catalogue de l’exposition
Rina Banerjee - The promise of self rule, played on her mind’s paradise, a paralysed her curiosity and then only had she the will to erect her sitting beauty from sleep - 2008
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The promise of self rule, played on her mind’s paradise, a paralysed her curiosity and then only had she the will to erect her sitting beauty from sleep
2008
Mixed media
426,7 x 121,9 cm/ 168 x 48 in.
Exhibition view "Chimères de l'Inde et de l'Occident", Musée Guimet, Paris, May 25 - September 26, 2011
© Musée Guimet, Paris, dist.RMN / Raphaël Chipault/Benjamin Soligny Photographie extraite du catalogue de l’exposition
Rina Banerjee - Winter’s Flower- "Raw materials from sea and from foul and even from some exotic mice was eaten by a world hungry for commerce made these into flower, disguised could be savoured alongside whitened rice - 2010
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Winter’s Flower- "Raw materials from sea and from foul and even from some exotic mice was eaten by a world hungry for commerce made these into flower, disguised could be savoured alongside whitened rice
2010
Mixed media
165,1 x 165,1 x 134,6 cm/ 65 x 65 x 53 in.
Exhibition view "Chimères de l'Inde et de l'Occident", Musée Guimet, Paris, May 25 - September 26, 2011
© Musée Guimet, Paris, dist.RMN / Raphaël Chipault/Benjamin Soligny Photographie extraite du catalogue de l’exposition
Rina Banerjee - Upon civilizing home an absurd and foreign fruit grew ripened, made food for the others, grew snout, tail and appendage like no other - 2010
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Upon civilizing home an absurd and foreign fruit grew ripened, made food for the others, grew snout, tail and appendage like no other
2010
Mixed media
102 x 76 x 102 cm/ 40 x 30 x 40 in.
Exhibition view "Chimères de l'Inde et de l'Occident", Musée Guimet, Paris, May 25 - September 26, 2011
© Musée Guimet, Paris, dist.RMN / Raphaël Chipault/Benjamin Soligny Photographie extraite du catalogue de l’exposition
Rina Banerjee - Preternatural passage came from wet whiteness and mercantile madness, paid for circular migrations (...) - 2011
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Preternatural passage came from wet whiteness and mercantile madness, paid for circular migrations (...)
2011
Mixed media
170 x 157 x 160 cm/ 67 x 62 x 63 in.
Rina Banerjee - Preternatural passage came from wet whiteness and mercantile madness, paid for circular migrations (...) - 2011
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Preternatural passage came from wet whiteness and mercantile madness, paid for circular migrations (...)
2011
Detail
Rina Banerjee - Water and wisdom wheeled her world, gurgled such creatures made of Empire’s germs with guns and girls, slaves and swirls made merchants mischief over a New World (...) - 2011
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Water and wisdom wheeled her world, gurgled such creatures made of Empire’s germs with guns and girls, slaves and swirls made merchants mischief over a New World (...)
2011
Acrylic ink, pen, pencil, rice paper collage, steel powder, mica, graphite, iron fillings suspension on Water Color Paper by Arches
123,6 x 92,6 cm/ 49 x 36,4 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Three for tea and what was she one with turban, one with bonnet but what was on it? The last was neither her thoughts where quicker and last she did flee to land naughtier   - 2011
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Three for tea and what was she one with turban, one with bonnet but what was on it? The last was neither her thoughts where quicker and last she did flee to land naughtier
2011
Acrylic, ink and 18 ct. gold on watercolor paper
74 x 56 cm / 29 x 22 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - The element of fun was missing in this sport that was bit controlling, war was a game, high culture was another name (...) - 2011
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The element of fun was missing in this sport that was bit controlling, war was a game, high culture was another name (...)
2011
Acrylic ink, rice paper collage, steel powder, mica, graphite, iron fillings suspension on Water Color Paper by Arches
94 x 75 cm/ 37 x 29,5 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - She fell out of Eve’s tree, then did dazzled me, dressed so dangerously, a mix of Indian and Atlantic seas stretched her modernity to tackle this culture of forgetting uncertainties (...) - 2011
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She fell out of Eve’s tree, then did dazzled me, dressed so dangerously, a mix of Indian and Atlantic seas stretched her modernity to tackle this culture of forgetting uncertainties (...)
2011
Acrylic, ink and 18 ct. gold on watercolor paper
74 x 56 cm/ 29 x 22 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Maddening was this community of three, its ubiquitous feelings of inauthenticity and for harmful fun for labels and tables sprayed names for race and ritualized her every gaze (...) - 2011
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Maddening was this community of three, its ubiquitous feelings of inauthenticity and for harmful fun for labels and tables sprayed names for race and ritualized her every gaze (...)
2011
Acrylic ink, rice paper collage, steel powder, mica, graphite, iron fillings suspension on watercolor paper by Arches
129 x 94 cm/ 50,7 x 37 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - I wished upon your falling dot that did drop upon this one colonial knot, a fairy, a ghost, and a witch she was not. Margaret Mead who could study me, transformed the West to surprise the rest (...) - 2011
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I wished upon your falling dot that did drop upon this one colonial knot, a fairy, a ghost, and a witch she was not. Margaret Mead who could study me, transformed the West to surprise the rest (...)
2011
Acrylic, ink, thread, embossed paper, silk handmade paper and rice paper on mylar
210 x 124 cm/ 83 x 49 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Imposing was her morality over the underclass and its fragility while the villain was appalling to me and as impoverished as world is too see he suffocated her as natures’ primitives (...) - 2011
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Imposing was her morality over the underclass and its fragility while the villain was appalling to me and as impoverished as world is too see he suffocated her as natures’ primitives (...)
2011
Acrylic ink, rice paper collage, steel powder, mica, graphite, gold/silver suspension on Water Color Paper by Arches
94 x 74 cm/ 37 x 29 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Hen of ornamental oriental very fine and fingered feathers she drew and blew the greenest bubbles, threw away one others as trouble… - 2011
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Hen of ornamental oriental very fine and fingered feathers she drew and blew the greenest bubbles, threw away one others as trouble…
2011
Acrylic, ink and 18 ct. gold on watercolor paper
74,5 x 56 cm/ 29,3 x 22 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Circuitous and sinusoidal her broken English was amusing deflected language that was quite confusing, spiraling into something that opened away into something and nothing was the same again (...) - 2011
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Circuitous and sinusoidal her broken English was amusing deflected language that was quite confusing, spiraling into something that opened away into something and nothing was the same again (...)
2011
Acrylic, ink and 18 ct. gold on watercolor paper
74,5 x 56 cm/ 29,3 x 22 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Change me - 2011
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Change me
2011
Acrylic ink, rice paper collage, steel powder, mica, graphite, iron fillings suspension on watercolor paper by Arches
93,5 x 74 cm/ 37 x 29 in. framed
Rina Banerjee - Beastly Flower - 2009
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Beastly Flower
2009
Mixed media, steel, shells, polyester, linen, feathers, curly willows
Diameter around 110 in./ Diameter 280 cm environ
Rina Banerjee - Red Tree Head Girl - 2009
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Red Tree Head Girl
2009
Ink, acrylic on watercolour paper
87.8 x 68.3 cm/ 34.59 x 26.91 inches framed
Rina Banerjee - Your lips must lie if it really split thrice once to Africa, the other to Asia and then tied to yet another - yes America. Mine don’t open to foreign hearts so swollen - yours don’t count you have already spoken - 2009
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Your lips must lie if it really split thrice once to Africa, the other to Asia and then tied to yet another - yes America. Mine don’t open to foreign hearts so swollen - yours don’t count you have already spoken
2009
Ink, acrylic on watercolour paper
87.8 x 68.3 cm/ 34.59 x 26.91 inches framed
Rina Banerjee - Searching for greener pastures and even greener (nicer) people - 2009
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Searching for greener pastures and even greener (nicer) people
2009
Ink, acrylic on watercolour paper
87.8 x 68.3 cm/ 34.59 x 26.91 inches framed
Rina Banerjee - The shape of its life was loose and looped, the details lived large and loomed but bottomless was a desire for free and freer loops to be spun - 2009
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The shape of its life was loose and looped, the details lived large and loomed but bottomless was a desire for free and freer loops to be spun
2009
Ink and acrylic on canvas
92.5 x 73.6 cm/ 36.45 x 29 inches framed
Rina Banerjee - Exhibition's view booth at the Armory Show, March 2010 -
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Exhibition's view booth at the Armory Show, March 2010
Rina Banerjee - A very dry and very tidy heat swept into her land, lulled her country to a simmering sleep and all the while -culture was left ungroomed and grisley - grew an African horn, paddle her vessel, grew wild green chinese umbrellas dry and dirty skirted about to catch each gentle wind for sale, blew hard a creamy and fertile commerce - 2008
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A very dry and very tidy heat swept into her land, lulled her country to a simmering sleep and all the while -culture was left ungroomed and grisley - grew an African horn, paddle her vessel, grew wild green chinese umbrellas dry and dirty skirted about to catch each gentle wind for sale, blew hard a creamy and fertile commerce
2008
mixed media
145 H x 265 L x 176 P cm / 57 H x 104,3 W x 69,2 D in.
Rina Banerjee - Goldielocks, when and where can our desire to reach be? In the larger world she can roam and not be still,,,then does temptations turn to know and curiosity can rock-leaving her cut, cut free - 2007
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Goldielocks, when and where can our desire to reach be? In the larger world she can roam and not be still,,,then does temptations turn to know and curiosity can rock-leaving her cut, cut free
2007
mixed media
186,5 H x 80 L x 26 P cm / 73,4 H x 31,4 W x 10,2 D in.
Rina Banerjee - Lentil flour, chickpeas mixed fermented friedballs presented in the leaf of bananas could cure the hunger of a labouring man - 2008
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Lentil flour, chickpeas mixed fermented friedballs presented in the leaf of bananas could cure the hunger of a labouring man
2008
mixed media
120 H x 80 L x 130 P cm / 47,2 H x 31,4 W x 51,1D in.
Rina Banerjee - The alterity of nature in the tropics (...) - 2007
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The alterity of nature in the tropics (...)
2007
Mixed media
56x40,6x33 cm/ 22 x 16 x13 in.
Rina Banerjee - She Slithers, she slides, she smiles at the garden’s Edge -
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She Slithers, she slides, she smiles at the garden’s Edge
Mixed media
100x50x50 cm/ 39,4x19,7x19,7 in.