A sizeable shiny bucket is turned upside down. The colorful things flowing from the bucket are some of the numerous articles that have washed ashore in this area. Since ancient times, the Sotoura coast, facing the Sea of Japan, has been hit by strong winds and rough waves that have brought all kinds of debris, including refuse from the continent. Formerly enshrined as yorigami, most of what washes up now are plastic waste generated from our consumer society. The artist sounds the environmental alarm bell through his works.
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Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, India. He studied at the College of Art, Patna before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he has gone on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. The artist oscillates between diverse media, collating disjointed nuggets of impressions and experiences, into a wholesome image, cast in metal, etched on a canvas, or as a recorded image. The inherently transient nature of memory builds in magnificently with the artistic urge to preserve for posterity the vestiges of what is seen, heard, felt, thought or believed. Gupta is best known for working with everyday objects that are ubiquitous throughout India, such as mass-produced stainless steel utensils, bicycles, and milk pails. From these ordinary items the artist produces works that reflect on universal issues including migration, globalization, and the cosmos. Subodh Gupta’s work exemplifies the iconography of a banal, precarious, edgy and bustling everyday life, often humungous in magnitude, blown out of proportions, peeled out of their ordinary skins by their sheer mass and volume.
Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, India. He studied at the College of Art, Patna before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he has gone on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. The artist oscillates between diverse media, collating disjointed nuggets of impressions and experiences, into a wholesome image, cast in metal, etched on a canvas, or as a recorded image. The inherently transient nature of memory builds in magnificently with the artistic urge to preserve for posterity the vestiges of what is seen, heard, felt, thought or believed. Gupta is best known for working with everyday objects that are ubiquitous throughout India, such as mass-produced stainless steel utensils, bicycles, and milk pails. From these ordinary items the artist produces works that reflect on universal issues including migration, globalization, and the cosmos. Subodh Gupta’s work exemplifies the iconography of a banal, precarious, edgy and bustling everyday life, often humungous in magnitude, blown out of proportions, peeled out of their ordinary skins by their sheer mass and volume.
Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, India. He studied at the College of Art, Patna before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he has gone on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. The artist oscillates between diverse media, collating disjointed nuggets of impressions and experiences, into a wholesome image, cast in metal, etched on a canvas, or as a recorded image. The inherently transient nature of memory builds in magnificently with the artistic urge to preserve for posterity the vestiges of what is seen, heard, felt, thought or believed. Gupta is best known for working with everyday objects that are ubiquitous throughout India, such as mass-produced stainless steel utensils, bicycles, and milk pails. From these ordinary items the artist produces works that reflect on universal issues including migration, globalization, and the cosmos. Subodh Gupta’s work exemplifies the iconography of a banal, precarious, edgy and bustling everyday life, often humungous in magnitude, blown out of proportions, peeled out of their ordinary skins by their sheer mass and volume.
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