Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta ( born 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar ) is an Indian artist who excites mainly due to its installations of stainless steel ware attention. His work portfolio includes sculpture, painting, photography, performance and video installations. He lives and works in New Delhi and is one of the most famous contemporary artists of India. He is one of the ten most commercially successful artists of Asia.
Subodh Gupta ( external links )!
- 5 Offerings for the Greedy Gods, 2006
- Everything is Inside, 2006
- Distant Nearness, 2008
- Gandhi's Three Monkeys, 2008
- Very Hungry God, 2008
In his work, Subodh Gupta makes regular on typical Indian stereotypes, including the use of stainless steel utensils in his installations and sculptures.
Life and work
Subodh Gupta was born as the youngest son of six children of a worker of the railway. In 1988 he received his degree and studied at the College of Arts & Crafts in Patna and worked for two years as a graduate for graphics at a newspaper. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA) in 1998. Together with his wife Bharti Kher, an internationally known British artist of Indian descent, and their two children, he lives and works in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi.
Since 1983, he regularly exhibits works of art, initially mainly in Patna, New Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai. In 1993, the first exhibition outside India as part of the group exhibition Contemporary Indian Artists in Dubai. 1994 was followed by exhibitions in Rome ( Nessuno Tocchi Caino ) and at the Venice Biennale. Many of his works from this period have a strong connection to his rural home Bihar, such as My Mother and Me (1997 ), a round house made of ash and dried cow dung. In addition, he painted pictures with cow dung, and the video loop and Pure Performance, 1999, shows the artist with brown vaseline smeared. The photograph Cowboy, 2001, he rides naked on a sacred cow. Commercial success was not at this time, especially as the contemporary Indian art was known neither in India nor abroad and even desires. Indian art was bought mainly by Indians living abroad, but these mainly art from the 1970s was popular, the time of the painter Maqbul Fida Husain.
Opened in 1997, the New York Peter Nagy in New Delhi gallery Nature Morte, the next Bodhi Art Gallery of India is the most successful today. Peter Nagy took Subodh Gupta on in his program and this presented here for the first time in 2000, an installation of stainless steel kitchen utensils. 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 was a red lotus flower made of fiberglass. The installation did not sell, however, marked the beginning of the work is, for Gupta is known today.
In the year 2007, Nature Morte Gupta's monumental installation Gandhi 's Three Monkeys front of the halls of Art Basel and thus achieved an enormous stir. The three-piece sculpture was sold for one million euro and subsequently broke Guptas works at auctions regularly the one million mark. In the same year the prestigious Galerie Hauser & Wirth had taken the artists under contract. Parallel to the Biennale di Venezia 2007, the most well- known sculpture Guptas, the Very Hungry God, erected by François Pinault in front of the Palazzo Grassi in the Grand Canal and excited corresponding sensation. The 2.56 m high sculpture represents a huge, compiled from polished stainless steel utensils skull
In 2008, at the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano in Tuscany two of his installations: There is always Cinema and Bhandarghar shown.
In 2010, his installation Et tu, Duchamp? issued in Vienna. The work shows the Mona Lisa as a bronze sculpture. The title refers to the 1919 manufactured by Marcel Duchamp reproduction of the painting, to which he added a mustache and goatee and with LHOOQ had titled.