Subodh Gupta

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Subodh Gupta (* 1964 in Khagaul , Bihar ) is an Indian artist who mainly attracts attention because of his installations made of stainless steel tableware. His range of works includes sculptures , painting , photography , performance and video installations . He lives and works in New Delhi and is one of India's most famous contemporary artists. He is one of the ten most commercially successful artists in Asia.

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In his work, Subodh Gupta regularly draws on typical Indian clichés, including the use of stainless steel tableware in his installations and sculptures.

life and work

Gandhi's Three Monkeys , 2008

Subodh Gupta was born the youngest son of six children of a railroad worker. In 1988 he graduated from high school and studied at the College of Arts & Crafts in Patna and worked for two years as a graphic graduate for a newspaper. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in 1998. He lives and works in Gurgaon , a suburb of New Delhi, with his wife Bharti Kher , an internationally known British artist of Indian descent , and their two children .

Since 1983 he has exhibited works of art regularly, initially mainly in Patna , New Delhi , Chennai and Mumbai . In 1993 the first exhibition outside of India took place as part of the group exhibition Contemporary Indian Artists in Dubai . In 1994 exhibitions followed in Rome (Nessuno Tocchi Caino) and at the Biennale di Venezia . Many of his works from this period have strong references to his rural homeland, Bihar, such as My Mother and Me (1997), a round house made of ashes and dried cow dung. He also painted pictures with cow dung, and the video loop and performance Pure , 1999, shows the artist smeared with brown vaseline. In the photograph Cowboy , 2001, he rides naked on a sacred cow. There was no commercial success at this time, especially since contemporary Indian art was neither known nor sought after in India itself or abroad. Indian art was mainly bought by Indians living abroad, but art from the 1970s, the time of the painter Maqbul Fida Husain , was particularly popular with them .

In 1997 the New Yorker Peter Nagy opened the Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi . He included Subodh Gupta in his program, and he exhibited an installation of stainless steel kitchen utensils here for the first time in 2000. The Way Home (II) consisted of polished plates, spoons, cups, trays and pistols, which were arranged on the white floor of the gallery, in the center of which was a red lotus flower from glass fiber . The installation did not sell, but marked the beginning of the work Gupta is known for today.

Exhibitions

In 2007, the Nature Morte Gupta gallery exhibited Gandhi's Three Monkeys in front of the Art Basel halls , which caused a tremendous sensation. The three-part sculpture was sold for one million euros and as a result, Gupta's works regularly broke the million mark at auctions. In the same year the renowned Hauser & Wirth gallery signed the artist. Parallel to the Biennale di Venezia 2007, Gupta's most famous sculpture to date, the Very Hungry God , was installed by François Pinault in front of the Palazzo Grassi in the Grand Canal and caused a sensation. The 2.56 m high sculpture represents a huge skull made of polished stainless steel dishes.

In 2008 two of his installations were shown in the Galleria continua in San Gimignano , Tuscany : There is always Cinema and Bhandarghar .

In 2010 his installation Et tu, Duchamp? exhibited in Vienna. The work shows the Mona Lisa as a bronze sculpture. The title refers to the reproduction of the painting made by Marcel Duchamp in 1919, to which he added a mustache and goatee and entitled it LHOOQ .

Under the title Subodh Gupta. Everything is Inside showed the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main from September 2014 to January 18, 2015, the largest exhibition of the artist's work in Germany to date .

  • What does the vessel contain, that the river does not

Web links

Commons : Subodh Gupta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Daniel Völzke: The oracle of Delhi. Monopol 10/2008, pp. 58-74
  2. ↑ a b Image from the Arario Beijing gallery from the exhibition Hungry God - Indian Contemporary Art , March 2006
  3. ↑ Illustration from the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  4. ↑ a b Images of the sculpture as an outdoor installation in Venice and as an indoor installation in Paris in The Saatchi Gallery Blog
  5. ↑ Nagy, Peter, Subodh Gupta, Frieze Art Fair , ArtPublic.ch
  6. ↑ Biography of the Nature Morte gallery
  7. ↑ Biography of the Saatchi Gallery
  8. ↑ Subodh Gupta: Et tu, Duchamp? In: KÖR Art in Public Space Vienna. 2010, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Indian art star in Frankfurt: Everything is inside , review by Rose-Maria Gropp in the FAZ of September 13, 2014, accessed September 13, 2014
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personal data
SURNAME Gupta, Subodh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Khagaul , Bihar , India