The Bihar Museum of Patna presents a major exhibition of works by the artist Subodh Gupta. Born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, Gupta has been based in New Delhi and the suburb of Gurgaon since 1992. Though he has travelled the world exhibiting his work in prestigious museums and art galleries, he has always retained a close connection with his upbringing in Bihar, inspiring many of the works he has created in the past 30 years.
Curated by the Director General of the museum Mr. Anjani Kumar Singh, the exhibition will feature twenty major sculptures from the years 2003 to 2024, as well as a small group of paintings. Gupta is well-known for starting with the humble bartan and using it to create a wide variety of works that go from the minimal to the maximal. He taps into the lives of the common Indian by using the most basic household items found throughout the country, as well as specific icons that symbolise the rapid changes and economic developments that have taken place in India in the past 30 years. In addition to kitchen equipment, some of the sculptures also use motorcycles, milk pails, airport trolleys, thali trays, an Ambassador car, and tiffins. Formally challenging and conceptually complex, Gupta’s works engage with the major schools of Modern Art developed in the West during the 20th Century, while doing so with a vocabulary which is entirely Indian.
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