Zarina Hashmi
(1937 - 2020)
Beginning in 1990, Zarina Hashmi, whose sense of home and identity was fractured by a series of dislocations, made many works meditating on the concept. The present lot is a set of woodcuts from her acclaimed 1999 series Home is a Foreign Place in which Hashmi traces her life from a rooted childhood to her venturing into the unknown. Art critic Geeti Sen notes that the series is the artist charting her inner life. The woodcuts serve as...
Beginning in 1990, Zarina Hashmi, whose sense of home and identity was fractured by a series of dislocations, made many works meditating on the concept. The present lot is a set of woodcuts from her acclaimed 1999 series Home is a Foreign Place in which Hashmi traces her life from a rooted childhood to her venturing into the unknown. Art critic Geeti Sen notes that the series is the artist charting her inner life. The woodcuts serve as snapshots of her “psychic states of emotions, experience, the elements, the passing of years, her journey through distance to destinations, and ultimately to the border.” (Geeti Sen, Your History Gets in the Way of My Memory: Essays on Indian Artists, Noida: Collins, 2012, p. 149).Destination is inscribed with the Urdu word manzil which holds the same meaning in everyday conversation but could also be used to refer to the floors of a house, an objective, a milestone or the grave. By cleverly enfolding the Sufi belief that uniting with the divine in death is our final and most important destination in a piece following her own earthly journey, Hashmi casts the range of her work beyond the mere autobiographical into the metaphysical.
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$20,000 - 30,000
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$48,000
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Zarina Hashmi
a) Road (Home is a Foreign Place)
(Set of six)
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EXHIBITEDHome is a Foreign Place , New York: Admit One; New Delhi: Gallery Espace; Karachi: Chawkandi Gallery, 2000 (another from the edition)Zarina Mapping a Life: 1991 - 2001 , California: Mills College Art Museum, 4 November - 21 December 2001 (another from the edition)Home is a Foreign Place , Madison: Korn Gallery, Drew University, 2002 (another from the edition)Zarina Hashmi: Home is a Foreign Place , Mumbai: The Guild Art Gallery, 13 June – 2 July 2005Zarina: Weaving Memory 1990 - 2006 , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 2007 (another from the edition)Expansion – Résonance , Paris: Galerie Jaeger Bucher, 23 October - 20 December 2008 (another from the edition)The Ten Thousand Things , New York: Luhring Augustine, 20 June - 31 July 2009 (another from the edition)Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now , New York: Museum of Modern Art, 5 May – 16 August 2010 (another from the edition)Venice: Venice Biennale , India Pavillion, 2011 (another from the edition)Contemporary Galleries: 1980 - Now , New York: Museum of Modern Art, 17 November 2011 – 9 February 2014 (another from the edition)Zarina: Paper Like Skin , Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 29 September - 30 December 2012; New York: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 25 January - 21 April 2013; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 26 June - 22 September 2013 (another from the edition)Advance through Retreat , Shanghai: Rockbund Art Museum, 10 May – 3 August 2014 (another from the edition)Inner and Outer Space , New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2019 – 2020 (another from the edition)Zarina Mapping a Life: 1991 - 2001 , California: Mills College Art Museum, 2001, pp. 28, 30, 36 (illustrated, another from the edition)Zarina: Weaving Memory 1990 - 2006 , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 2007 (illustrated, another from the edition)Expansion – Résonance , Paris: Galerie Jaeger Bucher, 2008, pp. 8-9, 14-15 (illustrated, another from the edition)Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode , Venice: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 (illustrated, another from the edition)Your History Gets in the Way of My Memory: Essays on Indian Artists , Noida: Collins, 2012, pp. 152-153 (illustrated, another from the edition)Zarina: Paper Like Skin , Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2012, pp. 29-30, 106-117, 151, 180 (illustrated, another from the edition)
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