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Installation view of Subodh Gupta, Cooking the World, 2017, at Art Unlimited.

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Installation view of Subodh Gupta, Cooking the World, 2017, at Art Unlimited.

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What’s Cooking at Basel? An Indian Feast by Subodh Gupta With Political Ambitions

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What’s Cooking at Basel? An Indian Feast by Subodh Gupta With Political Ambitions

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Savor a meal that tries to mean something more than mere sustenance.

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Subodh Gupta, Cooking the World (2017). Courtesy Galleria Continua, Hauser & Wirth.

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Subodh Gupta, Cooking the World (2017). Courtesy Galleria Continua, Hauser & Wirth.

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Subodh Gupta’s Cooking the World won Instagram on Monday, the opening day of the fair’s Unlimited section, reserved for large-scale works.

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Tuesday saw the opening day of the 47th edition of the massive Art Basel fair, in Switzerland. Not all of us are VIPs, and some in the art world even say, like writer Martin Herbert, that they don't particularly care to attend:

Not at Basel, fomo level zero

- Martin Herbert (@MartinLHerbert) June 13, 2017

So, if you're content to enjoy the sights and sounds from afar, here are some of the themes and notable works, as indicated by social media feeds:

1. OPENING SALVOS

Market veteran and Instagram star Brett Gorvy might even win over the Martin Herberts of the world. Here he invites fairgoers to visit Lévy Gorvy's booth by way of a video of an incredibly precocious two-year-old relating a story about the perils of air travel:

Claudia Comte's huge sign reading "now I won," at the entrance to the fair, defied most amateur photographers' attempts to fit it into their camera phones' view, so the Daily Dandy found a way to focus on a detail and bring it to life:
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Before the world's wealthiest even touched down, social media lit up following Bloomberg's report that among those flocking to Basel this year are throngs of bankers looking to snag big spenders as new clients. The Wall Street Journal 's Kelly Crow and New York artist and writer William Powhida weighed in with a healthy dose of sarcasm.

2. VIP LOUNGE

Globetrotting supercurator Hans Ulrich Obrist posed with his friend Goga Ashkenazi and a slightly disturbing image of himself:

Eva and Adele made the scene, as always:

3. PAINTED LADIES

Fairgoers captured a slow-motion performance by Donna Huanca that recalled Yves Klein's groundbreaking events involving women smeared with paint. Sabine Schaschl, Director at Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich, shared some philosophical musings:

The Zabludowicz Collection interpreted one of the dancers' moves as a metaphor: #artfairfatigue

Others were captivated by Urs Fischer's colorful representations of powerful art dealer Bruno Bischofberger and his wife:

4. KEEPING IT KINETIC

Architect David Bitton captured a Jenny Holzer in motion at Unlimited:

Claudia Comte's work involved not only text but also a dance floor:

Chris Burden's final work, Ode to Santos Dumont (2015), floated gently in a circle as dozens of fans looked on:

5. TEXT MESSAGES

Several visitors picked up on poet-artist John Giorno's sarcastic text works:0

Paris collective Claire Fontaine has an equally salty warning:

Bethan Huws, meanwhile, ironically offered a text work that argues that text is subordinate to speech:

Artist trio Superflex offered what could be a message about artists producing works to meet market demand, or maybe more about cultivating a more intangible set of values:

6. UNLIMITED PLANS

Subodh Gupta's Cooking the World won Instagram on Monday, the opening day of the fair's Unlimited section, reserved for large-scale works.

Song Dong's Through the Wall was also hugely popular. Art consultant Sedat Ozturk shot a fine video:

Our own executive news editor was a bit skeptical:

Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage once collaborated on a print that used a car tire rolling over a piece of paper. Peter Stämpfli riffs on that piece at a massive scale:

Barbara Kruger's gigantic message seemed to riff on the nativism on the rise in countries around the globe:

Nick Cave's Soundsuits continue to curry favor with the Instagrammers.

And, finally, a performance by John Baldessari was major Instagram bait:

7. HARD-BOILED ART

Even the festival-like atmosphere at art fairs can be darkened by politically minded artists. At Galerie Lelong, Cildo Meireles's Amerikkka (1991/2013) is providing steady fodder for artsy Instagram snaps despite its somber message, referring to the US's own homegrown terrorist organization. A ceiling of bullets (hollow, fortunately) and a floor of white wooden eggs allude to both the KKK's brutality and to its white supremacist beliefs.

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Tuesday saw the opening day of the 47th edition of the massive Art Basel fair, in Switzerland. Not all of us are VIPs, and some in the art world even say, like writer Martin Herbert, that they don't particularly care to attend: Not at Basel, fomo level zero - Martin Herbert (@MartinLHerbert) June 13, 2017 So, if you're content to enjoy the sights and sounds from afar, here are some of the themes and notable works, as indicated by social media feeds: 1.

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The Indian artist's big show illustrates the perils of the new era of accelerated global art celebrity.

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At Hauser & Wirth, Subodh Gupta Shows He is More and Less Than the ‘Damien Hirst of Delhi’

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At Hauser & Wirth, Subodh Gupta Shows He is More and Less Than the ‘Damien Hirst of Delhi’

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Food is Subodh Gupta’s big theme. His most well-known gimmick is to build up sculptures out of pots and pans, utensils that he sees as emblematic of salt-of-the-earth Indian culture. Yet when I look at “Seven Billion Light Years,” his just-opened show at Hauser & Wirth, I mainly see appetites of another kind.

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Food is Subodh Gupta's big theme. His most well-known gimmick is to build up sculptures out of pots and pans, utensils that he sees as emblematic of salt-of-the-earth Indian culture. Yet when I look at " Seven Billion Light Years, " his just-opened show at Hauser & Wirth, I mainly see appetites of another kind.

Today, Gupta (b. 1964) is India's most feted artist. He came to prominence during the 2000s, the era of unstoppable "emerging markets," through the new circuit of art fairs that studded the earth to cater to the hyper-mobile winners of rapacious globalization. His works say as much about the mores of this culture as they do about India itself-that is, they knowingly play off of the art industry's unique brand of food-court cosmopolitanism, where global culture is always welcome as long as it is served with a soupçon of Marcel Duchamp.

Gupta's most celebrated concoctions include Very Hungry God (2006), a huge skull that mega-collector François Pinault launched into the imagination by plonking it in front of his personal museum in Venice, and Line of Control (2008), a towering mushroom cloud that made Gupta a breakout star of the Tate Triennial in 2009. For me, anyway, these works are contemporary art at its most meh, good for a portentous sound bite and a photo op, but not much more.

"Seven Billion Light Years" contains at least one work to satisfy fans of Gupta's pan-based work: This is not a fountain (2011-2013), a 25-foot-long, nine-foot-wide heap of his signature cooking dishes. Dozens of spigots poke up through the mass of pots, all of them turned on and flowing water out over the pans, the water vanishing away, presumably into a drain in the floor, gurgling pleasantly.

Up close, This is not a fountain's pots are dinged up, as if from heavy use. The work evokes Indian domestic life; it uses the contemporary-art tactic of accumulation; it invokes, via its title, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and René Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." It is also big, commanding the space. But these are all like ingredients for a recipe that have been thrown together without measure. As far as I can tell, this sculptural pile of dishes doesn't add up to anything specific that you wouldn't know just from seeing these types of utensils on the street in the first place. (When Line of Control showed in Delhi recently, locals are said to have mistaken the spectacular pan-cloudfor an ad for a local hypermarket chain.)

Elsewhere, a work like Pure (I) (1999/2014) recreates a performance-environment from the very beginning of Gupta's career, a field of caked, compacted dirt that you walk up onto, donning little hospital-style booties. It is pitted as if from some kind of archeological excavation. When you look down into the holes, nested into them are a variety of everyday objects: some worn shoes; a hookah; a pair of glasses.

Here's the context: Back in 1999, Gupta asked residents of villages around Delhi to give him objects that had particular significance for them, then buried them in a field treated with cow dung, a sacred substance in India. The people who gifted the objects are documented in black-and-white photographs accompanying this gallery remake, and Pure (I) shows more than any other work here why you can't totally dismiss Gupta. He does have a mainline to raw material that feels important, even if it seems to remain raw material, literally only half uncovered.

Gupta is the son of a railwayman from Bihar, a very provincial part of India. He trained as a painter at the College of Arts and Crafts, Patna, and spent time as a set designer for a traveling theater company. Catching the wind of India's rising status in the world in the go-go 2000s, he would be selling artwork for astronomical sums just a few short year later (as well as making Absolut ads). Recently, he and his wife, the artist Bharti Kher, sent the papers into a tizzy when they purchased a mansion in a chic neighborhood of Delhi for the equivalent of $18 million.

The market for his art has mainly not come from India, a fact that the Indian press can be snide about but that Gupta embraces: "We don't have a lot of collectors in India... Thank god art lovers from abroad give us the possibility to express ourselves and to grow." (Though it bears mentioning that he owes his earliest, pre-art-fair success to the patronage of Russi Mody, chairman of the vast conglomerate Tata Steel, whom he spent a year courting to play Saatchi to his Hirst.) The Guardian's blessing-and-a-curse coronation of him, in 2007, as the "Damien Hirst of Delhi" is reductive, but there is a reason the title has stuck: Gupta makes art deliberately cut to fit international fashion.

Consider Imperial Metal (2014), a bundle of gold rebar displayed atop a charred wooden table. The trope of transforming everyday objects into precious simulacra, served up as some kind of vague, gold-plated commentary on "power, wealth, and urbanization" could be from an entry in the Big Book of Art-Fair Clichés.

Yet at the same time that the works feel very familiar in style, Gupta insists, "I'm just writing my diary, my story." This kind of impulse to personal testimony is, in fact, the flip side of the conceptual familiarity; the global art circuit has produced a tremendous demand for testimony from newly "discovered" scenes in familiar styles; that's the trick. "My work is about where I come from," he told ArtNews. "But at the same time the expansion of the art world means that to a certain extent, everything is shrinking together, and you have to be aware of international discourses in your work."

The consequences of this conjunction of forces are best seen in Gupta's work My Family Portrait (2013). It is not much to look at, but a museum-style wall text explains that each of the three dish racks is literally from the home of one of Gupta's three siblings. The sculpture displays the contents of their actual kitchens, from which we are meant to observe things about who they might be. It is as if the imperative to testify about "Indian identity" is so acute that the artist has resorted to presenting it in an anthropological way, instead of an artistic one.

When you survey Subodh Gupta's work overall, what you sense is a lot of unresolved parts: art tropes that feel fairly stock, but also personal narratives that feel largely unprocessed. This irresolution is the hallmark of an accelerated art world, of a machine that has been built so fast that the circuits connecting these two poles never really closed, allowing form and content to mutually transform one another into something truly notable and new.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't totally give up on the guy. Gupta actually could be a lot more interesting than just fodder for curators looking for an "Indian Damien Hirst." He has an interesting story to tell, about the hyped-up, global world we live in, where a boy from the boondocks in India can find himself suddenly with the entire world clamoring after his every brain dropping. It's just that for now, as far as I can tell, his work still speaks mostly about the pitfalls of this state of affairs, which Gupta has to try to navigate with a white-hot spotlight illuminating all his missteps.
Subodh Gupta, "Seven Billion Light Years" is on view at Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18th Street, New York, though April 25, 2015.

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Artist Subodh Gupta’s exhibition in France showcases his vision of life

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‘My Village’: Artist Subodh Gupta’s exhibition in France.

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From sculptures in brass and steel to paintings of kitchen utensils, eminent artist Subodh Gupta’s ongoing solo exhibition, “My Village”, in France conveys the memories, nostalgia, desires and struggles that permeate the stories of India.

The exhibition, organised by Galleria Continua to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Les Moulins — its first space in France — presents Subodh Gupta’s vision of life, “which is made up of abstract elements, everyday objects, noise and silence”.

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New Delhi, Sep 21 (PTI) From sculptures in brass and steel to paintings of kitchen utensils, eminent artist Subodh Gupta's ongoing solo exhibition, "My Village", in France conveys the memories, nostalgia, desires and struggles that permeate the stories of India.

The exhibition, organised by Galleria Continua to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Les Moulins - its first space in France - presents Gupta's vision of life, "which is made up of abstract elements, everyday objects, noise and silence".

Born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar and studied at the College of Art, Patna (1983-1988), Gupta is widely known for working with everyday objects such as steel kitchen utensils.

The New Delhi-based artist, who has participated in numerous international exhibitions, has been using a rich variety of media to express and produce large-scale sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, videos and performances.

While stainless steel is his signature medium, he has also masterfully executed works in bronze, marble, brass and wood.

"The objects and tools present in the paintings and installations on display are entities that, in their simplicity, interact with the intricate textures of life, its shades, lines and shadows that also furrow the palms of our hands," read the note from the organisers.

So where his sculptures in brass and steel sheds light on the "aesthetic and consumerist desires" of today's world, his paintings of vessels and utensils used for cooking and preserving food highlights India's age-old ritual of feeding the needy, saints, and even animals.

Gupta's works have been exhibited in prestigious museums, art fairs and biennales throughout the world. He was awarded the Chevalier de L'Ordre Arts et Lettres, among the French government's highest honours, for his contribution to contemporary art.

The exhibition will come to a close on December 24. PTI MG MAH MG MG MG
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New Delhi, Sep 21 (PTI) From sculptures in brass and steel to paintings of kitchen utensils, eminent artist Subodh Gupta’s ongoing solo exhibition, “My Village”, in France conveys the memories, nostalgia, desires and struggles that permeate the stories of India. The exhibition, organised by Galleria…

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Isha Ambani announces India's first multi-art centre dedicated to mother Nita Ambani in this city; here’s when it will open

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Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) director Isha Ambani on Thursday announced the opening of India’s first multi-art cultural center at Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex. Dedicated to her mother and founder of the Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani, the centre has been named Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) and will be inaugurated next year on March 31.

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Three New members, Unni Krishna, Subodh Gupta, and Sridhar, too, were inducted into the chapter on this very first meeting day of the year, taking its strength to 43 now. The business exchanged in the very formally held business meeting was Rupees Three Crores plus, which was contributed by exchanging a whooping 274 referrals passed amongst the members.

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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 8 (ANI/PNN): Vysya Business Network (VBN) is a level play area, a business platform where Arya Vysyas from the Telugu community come together to aid and uphold each other's business believing in the adage "Give to Get". At the same breathe, we believe in growing together and benefiting from each other's contacts and network to emerge as a strong "VBN Hyderabad Diamond Chapter "full of committed members.

VBN Hyderabad Diamond Catering exclusively to the progressive and fast-growing, and enterprising Arya Vysya community, Vysya Business Network acts as not just a business network but a platform for members and their associates to interact, share, learn New Skills and grow together, all while having fun, promoting their business interests for the benefit of one and all, Venturing into new businesses, VBN Diamond Works on the Power of Collaboration.

The Vysya's Business Network, Diamond Chapter, was launched on May 19th 2019, with members from various business categories and backgrounds. It has been forefront and forward in helping many Vysya run businesses increases their presence, connect to more opportunities and scale to tremendous growth. VBN Diamond Chapter has completed its term, and the new PST Team was elected and took charge today.

The New leadership Team's Swearing-In ceremony happened today at the Novotel Hotel, Hitex Hyderabad. The Swearing-In Ceremony was a stupendous success, with a jubilant venue packed with all the business leaders from various industries. A one-off event with pride overflowing from members who were participating in the induction ceremony of their New Leadership being: Vikas Kylas as their President for the year 2022- 2023, Mohan Chandrala (Founder & CEO, Dishaa Designs) as their Secretary, Bala Subramaniam Vankadara (Founder & CEO - Om Tours & Travels) as the Treasurer of their VBN Hyderabad Diamond Chapter. The new head table was sworn in by the newly elected Chairman Boggarapu Sharath Chandra, of the Governing body called the Apex, who governs the chapters nationwide. The Founder and the other Co-Founders of the platform were present at the event, along with all the Apex Coordinators. Alongside a team of Coordinators who aid in the chapter's overall performance were to be given the oath by the newly elected head Table. The coordinators namely were:

Hari Kishan Boorugu (Eternal Builders), Gunda Jitender (Sri Powertech Industries) as APEX Coordinator, Bhagyalaxmi Boggarapu (Founder BLC ERP Consultancy LLP), Sirisha Tarlapally (CEO - Kreative Designs) as Visitor Meet & Greet coordinators, Karthik Boggarapu (East Hyderabad Football Club ) as Lead Quality Check, Rajasekhar Manchi (Sri Laxmi Products), Manikanta Mukka (Apna Projections) as Social Coordinator.

Sudhakar Bikkumalla (Om Sri Sai Communications) as Joint Treasurer, Srikanth Katakam (Prakar Enterprises) as Business Chat Coordinator, Kaushik Nagamalla (KR Digitals) as Joint Treasurer, Rupesh Gupta Kotha (Suman Chit Funds), Laxmikanth Murarishetty (Insurance Advisor) as hospitality coordinator, Santosh Kumar Shivakoti ( Founder of Ethics Events ) as Dresscode coordinator.

Nikeelu Gunda (Founder & CEO - Digital Connect) as Chapter Growth Coordinator, Suresh Paluri as Visitor Growth Coordinator, Rahul Erramshetty (Founder & CEO - Flipside Advertising) as Training Coordinator, Dr Goutham Kattamuri (Ga dental Clinics) as 30 Sec Coordinator, Devarashetty Vijay Kumar (CEO of HomeTotal and Sri Rama Paints & Pipefitting Store) as 8 Min Coordinator, Ramesh Gupta (CEO, Speckwud) as Funquiz Coordinator, Sampath Kumar Veda (Founder President of VBN Diamond & Director - Bandhan Tiles), Venakateshwarulu Jayavarapu (CEO - Vasantha Logistics), Sampath Kumar Proddaturi (CEO of Fortune Aluminium) are appointed as Membership Committee, Sai Chand as Digital Media coordinator, Gubba Srinivas (Insurance Advisor), Aravind Gajawada as Attendance coordinator, Dr Rajesh Thugunta (Orthopaedic & Arthroscopy Surgeon), Dr S.Mahesh Kumar (Sri Veda Sushruta Ayurveda Hospital) as Health Coordinators.

Three New members, Unni Krishna, Subodh Gupta, and Sridhar, too, were inducted into the chapter on this very first meeting day of the year, taking its strength to 43 now. The business exchanged in the very formally held business meeting was Rupees Three Crores plus, which was contributed by exchanging a whooping 274 referrals passed amongst the members.

Boggarapu Sharath Chandra MD Vishnu Constructions was sworn in as the Chairman for the Apex Body governing all the members of the various VBN chapters nationwide. The occasion has also been attended by the Founders of the Network and all the VBN Hyderabad Diamond Chapter members. He has also Mentioned he would extend all his support and bring a lot of transformation in the way of doing business and spoke about the new technology initiatives, cross chapter business generation & Individual Member Training Programs.

Vikas Kylas, CEO of Ananya Gems N jewels, a Gemology Gold Medalist in academics and an Energetic and Dynamic leader of the team VBN Diamond Hyderabad has mentioned that the theme for the year 22-23 would be " Growth "to grow individually and cumulatively as a chapter.

Nikeelu Gunda, Founder & CEO of Digital Connect, has mentioned that at VBN Diamond, we are taking various initiatives to empower and enrich the growth of Business Owners and elevate their business across the nation through different digital media channels. Nikeelu Gunda has taken charge of being a Chapter Growth Coordinator; as a part of this flow of functions, New Initiatives and all the Performance is Tracked in the Growth Parameters.

Rahul Erramshetty, Director at Flipside Advertising Pvt Ltd, has taken up the role of a Training Coordinator to better the chapter. He has mentioned that his training will be taken up at various levels to enable members to improve their performance at the chapter. Rahul has also educated the importance of networks and their benefits with a concise and exciting ice breaker session.

Vijay Kumar Devarashetty (Founder & CEO - HomeTotal) has announced the Year long calendar for the 8 MIN Presentation and informed us that he is planning a series of workshops for the effective presentation of Members.

Vikas Kylas, the president for VBN Hyderabad Diamond, has stated that along with his able team of coordinators, they would be taking the chapter to the next level of best in the nation and as well as mentioned a few steps being taken up by the team, like Daily Business Podcasts, individual Member Swot analysis, Focus Members, Doctors health sessions and many more. The President has extended a message to all the members present that he can be approached for anything constructive all the time, and he would be more than happy to be their "Go to Guy "for their betterment and intern the betterment of the VBN Hyderabad Diamond chapter.

VBN Diamond is the Young and fastest-growing chapter; It has an opportunity to take very few selected category business owners to join the Network. We shall contribute to our chapter with our full measure of devotion with 100 per cent Commitment to growth as a Theme. We are going to set an example of exemplary success with our Initiatives, Plan of Actions, and Individual Member Focus Plans & we shall strive for the Overall Growth of every VBN Member and make VBN Diamond a 70 Member Chapter by Next Quater Told Mohan Chandrala (Secretary), Bala Subramanya (Treasurer).

Veda Sampath Kumar (Founder President of VBN Hyd Diamond, Director - Bandhan Tiles), Ramesh Gupta (Founder & CEO - Speckwud), Dr Gowtham Kattamuri (Ga Dental Clinics) Congratulated and Appreciated the Newly elected PST and wished all the best for the tenure - 2022-23.

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In the nerd-friendly, conceptual multiverse of Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat and Sudarshan Shetty, the 45-year-old Gupta stands out for constantly pushing the boundaries of art and creativity. Her work straddles sound installation, video projection, site-specific sculpture, instructional art and other forms of experiments. All of which is not entirely virgin territory, but the way she forges an alternative thought paradox and shakes you out of your comfort zone is what makes her something of a critical darling within the Indian art world.

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A sound installation by Shilpa Gupta -'For, in your tongue, I cannot fit'

Three Until September 12, Antwerp's prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) has given up 20,000 sq ft to Shilpa Gupta for her retrospective, Today Will End. The Mumbai-based artist has always enjoyed a high profile in Europe but the scale of this show, featuring 25 of her works, is staggering. The show, she says, "led me to step back and look at my practicehow mobility, agency and power between individuals and surrounding structures have been a recurring concern in my art."

Three Until September 12, Antwerp's prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) has given up 20,000 sq ft to Shilpa Gupta for her retrospective, Today Will End. The Mumbai-based artist has always enjoyed a high profile in Europe but the scale of this show, featuring 25 of her works, is staggering. The show, she says, "led me to step back and look at my practicehow mobility, agency and power between individuals and surrounding structures have been a recurring concern in my art."

In the nerd-friendly, conceptual multiverse of Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat and Sudarshan Shetty, the 45-year-old Gupta stands out for constantly pushing the boundaries of art and creativity. Her work straddles sound installation, video projection, site-specific sculpture, instructional art and other forms of experiments. All of which is not entirely virgin territory, but the way she forges an alternative thought paradox and shakes you out of your comfort zone is what makes her something of a critical darling within the Indian art world.

On display at the M HKA is the highly popular Speaking Wall (2009-2010). A conceptual piece that best captures Gupta's commitment to bringing art closer to the viewer, it can be seen as an example of interactive or instructional art. Gupta motivates you to stand on a narrow line of brick steps and face a wall while an LCD screen lobs instructions. So playful is the concept that you almost miss its veiled critique of man-made borders and their impermanence. The idea grew out of something that Pakistani filmmaker Farzad Nabi said to her during a Wagah-Lahore road trip. "Farzad and I chatted about many things...and something that stayed with me, rather unconsciously, was when we spoke of his grandmother who still had the key to her house in Kashmir."

Gupta believes in art's power to generate conversation, no matter how uncomfortable. Nothing seems to thrill her more than the infectious energy of an interactive audience. "My kind of art comes from a space where a variety of people complete the story." Given that Today Will End is one of her career's biggest shows, Gupta isn't happy about missing it due to travel curbs. "It would have been wonderful to talk to people and get a sense of what they feel. A good conversation is always multifold."

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Subodh Gupta contemporary art geniuses an installation art maker.

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Bihar has a large community of visual artists including painters, sculptors and installation art makers apart from craftsmen including for internationally celebrated Mithila and Manjusha art and Sikki craft. It is also home to contemporary art geniuses such as Subodh Gupta, an installation art maker.

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Visual artists in Bihar have requested the National Academy of Arts in Delhi, popularly known as Lalit Kala Akademi, to launch a welfare programme to help them survive the financial impact of Covid-19 pandemic. They have also demanded greater inclusion in exhibitions and art camps held nationally by the academy to revive their earning, which has dried up since March last year, when restrictions on cultural events and exhibitions first kicked in to contain the pandemic outbreak. The artists earlier also approached the Bihar government for financial assistance.

Bihar has a large community of visual artists including painters, sculptors and installation art makers apart from craftsmen including for internationally celebrated Mithila and Manjusha art and Sikki craft. It is also home to contemporary art geniuses such as Subodh Gupta, an installation art maker.

"As most of these artists and craftsmen have been dependent upon exhibitions, shows, art camps and workshops, they are now in trouble. None of these activities have been held in the last 17 months due to the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. We want the Central Lalit Kala Akademi to launch a welfare programme for us," Shyam Sharma, the Padmashree award winning block print artist from Bihar, said.

Birendra Kumar Singh, a painter and Bihar Kala Manch secretary, said the visual artists last month gave a memorandum to the state government seeking monthly pension among other assistance. "Bihar chief secretary Tripurari Sharan had assured us of all possible help, but it was still awaited. That is why we have to knock at the doors of the Central Lalit Kala Akademi," Singh said.

Uttam Pacharne, the pro-tem chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi, said the institution will plan welfare programmes. "But we are waiting for the artists of the state to send proposals in this connection."

"There is also a plan to organise a National art camp in the state capital [Patna]. Delhi Lalit Kala Akademi has its camp office in the city and the event was being planned there. Altogether 30% artists in the camp will be from the state while the rest will be from other areas. It will provide good financial support and exposure to a wide variety of art styles," he said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Reena has been a journalist for over two decades. She has the experience of covering wide range of issues, including art, culture, archaeology, tourism, forest and women issues. She has also authored a book and is a recipient of the 'Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Award', given by the government of Bihar.

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Bihar's artists seek help from Lalit Kala Akademi to tide over Covid crisis

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Visual artists in Bihar have requested the National Academy of Arts in Delhi, popularly known as Lalit Kala Akademi, to launch a welfare programme to help them survive the financial impact of Covid-19 pandemic.

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Microtek Launches New Inverter and UPS Series

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Microtek Launches New Inverter and UPS Series

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In an interaction with BW Businessworld, Subodh Gupta, Chairman & Managing Director, Microtek International, informed about Microtek’s upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO) in September, 2022 and his demand outlook for the renewable energy sector in the coming years.

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Microtek Launches New Inverter and UPS Series; IPO Coming In September, 2022

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In an interaction with BW Businessworld, Subodh Gupta, Chairman & Managing Director, Microtek International, informed about Microtek’s upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO) in September, 2022 and his demand outlook for the renewable energy sector in the coming years.

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Art dealer Alizah Raza is using her Instagram influence for good, raises Rs13m for flood affectees

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Art dealer Alizah Raza is using her Instagram influence for good, raises Rs13m for flood affectees

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Raza, who runs ThisandThat.pk, organised an art donation drive to raise money for flood relief and encouraged each of her 31,000 followers to send Rs1,000.

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Art dealer Alizah Raza is using her Instagram influence for good, raises Rs13m for flood affectees

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Raza, who runs ThisandThat.pk, organised an art donation drive to raise money for flood relief and encouraged each of her 31,000 followers to send Rs1,000.

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Chromophobia: Who stole the colour from classical art?

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Chromophobia: Who stole the colour from classical art?

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Do we have a bias against colour in classical art?

Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries – leading to what has been labelled 'chromophobia', the subject of an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wilson finds out why we don't value colour, questioning a centuries-old

misunderstanding. As Chroma's curator Sarah Lepinski tells him: "It's important that audiences come to understand the way they see ancient Greek and Roman sculpture isn't the way it was first created."

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Chromophobia: Who stole the colour from classical art? - BBC Reel

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Do we have a bias against colour in classical art? Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries - leading to what has been labelled 'chromophobia', the subject of an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wilson finds out why we don't value colour, questioning a centuries-old misunderstanding.

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Microtek, one of the leaders in the power product market of India has announced that it has supplied order of 7,500 oxygen concentrators (OCTs) 

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Microtek, one of the leaders in the power product market of India has announced that it has supplied order of 7,500 oxygen concentrators (OCTs) 

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“We have set up a manufacturing plant for healthcare products in Vishakhapatnam and started producing oxygen concentrators in August 2021. The response from the market has been overwhelming. We are very proud to complete bulk order of 7,500 10LPM oxygen concentrators for ONGC in a record time of 15 days. We plan to expand our portfolio of healthcare line of products with the manufacturing of blood glucose monitors, nebulizers, dialysis machines, thermometers, and ultrasound monitors besides other products,” said Subodh Gupta, CMD, Microtek International Private Limited.

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New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): Microtek, one of the leaders in the power product market of India has announced that it has supplied order of 7,500 oxygen concentrators (OCTs) of 10 liters per minute (LPM) capacity each to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) recently under the PM CARES initiative.

ONGC, on behalf of the government of India, plans to send these OCTs to primary health centers to prepare them to combat COVID-19 waves that the country may witness in the future.

Microtek forayed into the healthcare segment last year at a time when the country's healthcare system had witnessed an unprecedented crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Better known as Microtek OXYFLOW, these devices can supply a continuous stream of oxygen at flow rates of up to 10 liters per minute (LPM).

"We have set up a manufacturing plant for healthcare products in Vishakhapatnam and started producing oxygen concentrators in August 2021. The response from the market has been overwhelming. We are very proud to complete bulk order of 7,500 10LPM oxygen concentrators for ONGC in a record time of 15 days. We plan to expand our portfolio of healthcare line of products with the manufacturing of blood glucose monitors, nebulizers, dialysis machines, thermometers, and ultrasound monitors besides other products," said Subodh Gupta, CMD, Microtek International Private Limited.

The state-run and private firms have stepped in to help facilitate efforts to combat the further waves of the COVID 19 pandemic, which is raging across the country yet again.

An oxygen concentrator is a medical device that draws in ambient air, passes it through a molecular sieve to concentrate room oxygen to therapeutic levels, and delivers it to a patient with a breathing disorder. It provides the patient with supplemental or extra oxygen.

Saurabh Gupta, Deputy Managing Director, Microtek said, "A robust healthcare system is the backbone of any progressive country. The significance of the sector has grown manifolds post the outbreak of the pandemic. We are ready to play a critical role in the growth of the healthcare market. Our vision is to manufacture world-class healthcare products and to emerge as a dominant player in the healthcare products domain."

Microtek is expecting to cross a turnover of Rs 200 crore in the healthcare segment by the end of the current financial year. As per the industry estimates, the healthcare market in India is expected to reach USD 372 billion by 2022. (ANI)
This report is auto-generated from ANI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.

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Microtek supplies 7,500 oxygen concentrators to ONGC in record time of 15 days

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New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): Microtek, one of the leaders in the power product market of India has announced that it has supplied order of 7,500 oxygen concentrators (OCTs) of 10 liters per minute (LPM) capacity each to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) recently under the PM CARES initiative.

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Life/StyleCharcoal drawings in Kolkata to Lodhi Art District in Delhi, the story of India's street art

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Life/StyleCharcoal drawings in Kolkata to Lodhi Art District in Delhi, the story of India's street art

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The proverb "Deewaro ke bhi kaan hote hai" (even walls have ears) has been etched in our minds since childhood. Though we cannot tell exactly from where this proverb came from, we can tell you this: every wall has a story to tell.

Street art in India and values attached to it have changed over time: from wall arts that screamed revolution against the establishment to connecting aesthetic values to them.

The beginning: India did not have a starting point that can be pinned as the beginning of the street art culture here. However, between the 1960s and the 90s, West Bengal saw the uprising of street art as a form of resentment against the establishment. The artwork varied from charcoal drawings of Naxalites killed by the police to psychedelic portraits of Indira Gandhi.

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The proverb " Deewaro ke bhi kaan hote hai" (even walls have ears) has been etched in our minds since childhood. Though we cannot tell exactly from where this proverb came from, we can tell you this: every wall has a story to tell.

Street art in India and values attached to it have changed over time: from wall arts that screamed revolution against the establishment to connecting aesthetic values to them.

The beginning: India did not have a starting point that can be pinned as the beginning of the street art culture here. However, between the 1960s and the 90s, West Bengal saw the uprising of street art as a form of resentment against the establishment. The artwork varied from charcoal drawings of Naxalites killed by the police to psychedelic portraits of Indira Gandhi.

Even though the trend of street art and murals slowed down in other parts of West Bengal, Kolkata picked up the trend very fast in the late 2000s.

Today, the trend is rising with more artists coming to the streets to display their talents on the ultimate canvas for them: Walls.

For artists, painting on the walls is the ultimate form of challenge; it means having the audience ready to give you spot-on feedback.

"I think my biggest achievement was when I was called for Prime Miniter's Mann Ki Baat, " said Yogesh Saini, founder of Delhi Street Art, while talking to DailyO. Mr Saini was describing the time when he was called on PM Narendra Modi's talk show, Mann Ki Baat, and was recognised for his efforts in making an area more appealing by painting the walls in support of India's Swachh Bharat Mission.

What started as a hobby outside of engineering career for Yogesh in 2013, with just wanting to paint some dustbins in Lodi district, has now more than 2000 artists attached to the cause. Delhi Street Art is one of the businesses that has played a leading role in developing a street art appreciation culture throughout India and not just in Delhi.

Stories and all the walls: Most artists today prefer working on the streets rather than in some fancy art museums. Senior artists Rahul Chauhan and Raj Kanojiya have been involved in Delhi street art for the past eight years, and for them, the immediate gratification that comes from working in public and receiving feedback from bystanders is sufficient.

It is not all easy.
"Not all the feedback is good. Sometimes people are agitated by looking at us working and ask us why we are working here, especially if it is a socio-political message we want to give," says Rahul.

Unique styles emerging up: The style in which street murals and graffiti have evolved even in India is marked noticing. UFO crew, a graffiti crew, has gathered a lot of attention because of its unique pop-culture painting in India. The crew was started by two young boys who go by the street name Zero and Bongster as a hobby to explore the city and paint walls to 'feel like superheroes'. However, with time they started giving more attention to social causes and they spread awareness through their work.

Bongster, while talking to DailyO, said: "A lot of new people are coming into graffiti. The style is becoming more mature and maybe in future India will have its own graffiti style."

Challenges faced by female artists: The paintings on the walls that these artists paint often give a strong message of feminism, still painting on the streets as a woman in the streets is no piece of cake.

Yahsika Gupta, mother of two, has been working with DSA for the last six years, says she does not feel unsafe because she "works with a team". However, she does think access to clean restrooms while working is a problem that she constantly faces.

Anpu Varkey, a female artist who works solo and has been in this industry since 2013, has a different experience in this. For her, working as a female artist on the street means working with pre-conceived prejudices and stereotypes.

"Men have not seen women in ladder. They would often bring their children and say Yeh dekho larki jaise dikhne wala painter (A painter who looks like a woman)," says Anpu.

This however does not stop Anpu to work on the streets, and having new experiences.

Today, several artists believe that working with clients who get involved in the creative process impacts their creativity. Artists like Apnu who work solo believe some of their best works come when they are asked to envision their project on their own.

Jyotsana Arya, who is working with DSA as an artist and event coordinator, says: "Working with a client and getting them to understand the ideology behind the wall design is a difficult task. Sometimes it is easy, sometimes they are rigid and want to have their own perspective on the wall, which makes our job difficult. "

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Charcoal drawings in Kolkata to Lodhi Art District in Delhi, the story of India's street art

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The proverb "Deewaro k bhi kaan hote hai" (Walls have ears) has been etched in our minds since childhood. Although we cannot verify the veracity of the proverb, we can tell you this: Every wall has a story to tell.

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IndiaChhattisgarh’s biggest art gallery in Khairagarh showcases state history, tribal life

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Chhattisgarh’s biggest art gallery has come up in Khairagarh town of Rajnandgaon district, showcasing the state’s rich history, traditions and tribal life, a government official said on Sunday. Various paintings, handicraft and sculptures prepared by students of the state-run Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya (IKSV) have been displayed in the gallery, set up in the university premises in Khairgarh, located 80 km from the state capital Raipur, he said.

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Raipur, Sep 4 (PTI) Chhattisgarh's biggest art gallery has come up in Khairagarh town of Rajnandgaon district, showcasing the state's rich history, traditions and tribal life, a government official said on Sunday. Various paintings, handicraft and sculptures prepared by students of the state-run Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya (IKSV) have been displayed in the gallery, set up in the university premises in Khairgarh, located 80 km from the state capital Raipur, he said.

One such artwork prepared by student Muskan Parakh using clay on a bamboo mat depicts the Ghotul culture of Bastar wherein tribal youth are shown sitting together and exchanging gifts.

Ghotul are places in Bastar villages where young tribal men and women gather, interact, sing and dance and they are free to choose a life partner there.

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the art gallery on Saturday, the official said.

Baghel was in Khairagarh to inaugurate Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai as the state's 31st district.

"Chhattisgarh's rich history, customs, tradition and tribal life have always been key aspects in the aesthetic folk art that has been created in the state over the years. This art gallery has been set up to treasure and promote the state's folk art," the official in Raipur said.

The art gallery has been named after late Sonabai Rajwar, the renowned artist and folk painter from Surguja district, he said. PTI TKP GK GK
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Chhattisgarh's biggest art gallery in Khairagarh showcases state history, tribal life

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Raipur, Sep 4 (PTI) Chhattisgarh's biggest art gallery has come up in Khairagarh town of Rajnandgaon district, showcasing the state's rich history, traditions and tribal life, a government official said on Sunday. Various paintings, handicraft and sculptures prepared by students of the state-run Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya (IKSV) have been displayed in the gallery, set [...]

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Youngsters In Goa Village Create Art On Lord Ganesha On Abandoned Pasture 

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In light of the Ganpati festival, a group of youngsters has created a major attraction at an abandoned pasture in a forest in North Goa by carving out Lord Ganesha on a bed of grass.

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In light of the Ganpati festival, a group of youngsters has created a major attraction at an abandoned pasture in a forest in North Goa by carving out Lord Ganesha on a bed of grass.

Youngsters from Nirancal village in Ponda taluka, led by artist Gitesh Gaonkar, created grass art on a pasture, measuring 22 meters by 15 meters, inside a forested area, some 400 meters away from the main road.

"This was our playground earlier. But after a dedicated ground was built by the government for villagers, this place was abandoned," Gitesh said.

Except for a few villagers who use the land for grazing their goats, the plateau was completely neglected. But it was a great place to create grass art, he said.

This is not the first time that the group has created grass art at the spot. Three years ago, they had tried their hand at a small carving of Ganesha, the artist recalled.

"When we received a good response for our efforts, we decided to go big this time around," said Gautam Borkar, a diploma holder in electrical engineering.

A team of 15 youngsters created the art after working non-stop for five days.

The initial sketch was drawn on a computer and the art itself was constructed block by block to its final shape, Gitesh said.

The initial inspiration was taken from a similar art done in Maharashtra's Kolhapur, where a group had similarly created Lord Vitthal three years ago, he said.

"Hundreds of people have come to admire the grass art since its conception," the artist said.

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In light of the Ganpati festival, a group of youngsters has created a major attraction at an abandoned pasture in a forest in North Goa by carving out Lord Ganesha on a bed of grass.