Mrinalini Mukherjee Phenomenal Nature

life-size figure made of knotted fiber awaited visitors who followed the undulating pathways of “Phenomenal Nature,” the first United States retrospective of Mrinalini Mukherjee, one of India’s most prolific women sculptors. Hooded eyes, a gaping hole where a mouth should be, and frayed rope ends evoke the mustached face of Mukherjee’s chimerical (1981). Appropriately dyed green, the sculpture hung from the ceiling of the Met Breuer, its is startling and indeed an “iconic presence,” as the late Mumbai-born artist intended, much like the other works that populated the show.