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Manav Gupta (born 29 December 1967) is an Indian contemporary artist known for his paintings, installations and large-scale public art projects on environment consciousness and sustainable development. He has reinvented the identity of rural Indian clay pottery and redeployed various other material like construction scrap to create site specific, contemporary art and environmental installations and sculptures. He has been acknowledged as one of the most versatile and erudite contemporary artists to come from India and is widely regarded as a 'maverick genius' and a 'visionary'. He has conceptualised and created multiple layers of interdisciplinary engagements at his installations and exhibitions, with other art forms, and outreach programmes with students, educational institutes, the general public as all stakeholders of society, to raise awareness through his 'arth – art for earth' programmes on sustainable living with the message of "respecting the true wealth of life on earth", with recurring episodes of 'Dialogues at the waterfront' at his various public art projects. For the period of 2010–2019 the artist worked independently via invitations by institutions who hosted his work. He created the following consecutive solo public art projects that were critically acclaimed: 'unsung hymns of clay – shrinking river bed on museum floor'(2013), National Ditsong Museum, Pretoria, South Africa; "Rain the Ganga Waterfront along Time Machine"(2015), India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India;, "Excavated Museum in a Mall" (2017), DLF Mall of India Noida, India, 'arth – art for earth, travelling excavated museum'(2018) IGNCA, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India From Sand to Dust, 'Public art museum on Water, Water- the New Gold, City in a city'(2019) Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar. The decade ended with Gupta being credited with having created some of the most iconic and revolutionary public art projects in India. He has co-opted his art practices in paintings, poetry, music and sound to create one-minute films on climate change, sustainable development, ecosystems and alternate energy for public service messages commissioned by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India (2005–2006,2011). He has pioneered co-creation with his "Jugalbandis" (Collaborations) with musicians, poets and dancers across the world, where he translates a performing artist's oeuvre live on stage on his canvas (2003–2011). He has co authored a book of poems and paintings with former President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, published by Penguin India.(2002–2005). Gupta created single edition functional sculptures and public installations with varied media including iron, steel, wood, discarded roots of trees, glass, recycled scrap metal and clay for interior and exterior corporate and private spaces. Trained in Kolkata at the Academy of Fine Arts under Rathin Maitra and under his guru Vasant Pandit, the artist currently works in New Delhi. Life and career Childhood and early life Gupta was born to a middle-class family in Calcutta, and raised as a single parent since he was about six years of age. His mother was a professor in a college while his father was the deputy director of the National Library of Kolkata. At the age of thirteen, Gupta started teaching and giving tuition lessons for grades one to eight, to support his mother. He would do this for three to four hours a day right up to his graduation from Presidency college. Gupta's family resided in the staff quarters of the National Library Campus where he would spend his early childhood and formative years in the horticulture gardens. He found solace in Nature, which played a pivotal role in shaping his expression of art. He was gifted his first box of colours at the age of 1, where he started expressing himself in the form of poetry and paintings; by sketching and painting precise elements of nature by age 5: namely branches of trees and tree trunks. Gupta's talent was recognised early in his life. He received several awards and certificates in the field of painting from educational and cultural institutions from the period of 1977 to 1989. While exhibiting his artworks in four group exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts in the same period. Gupta gained attention for his poetry and art as he started getting published in newspapers and journals from the period of 1986 to 1991. Gupta's poem "Echoing Parables" was selected and published in the journal of the London Book Fair entry from India in the year 1988. In 1991, Gupta's poem was published in the Calcutta observer. Gupta graduated from Presidency College and worked in private corporate organisations to support his family before formally beginning his full-time art career in 1996. 1996–2002 In 1996, Gupta held his first solo exhibition at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata. While all the conventional halls were booked, Gupta chose to exhibit his paintings in the lawns of the academy. The location was unconventional because at the time, the idea of watercolours on paper being hosted outdoors was not heavily practiced. In the evening when the lights were lit, Gupta's artworks stood out, attracting visitors in hundreds. This also ended with his first solo being his first 'sold-out' exhibition. Amongst the attendees were B. K. Birla and Sarala Birla who purchased two of his artworks which later went to the permanent collection of the academy. In 1997, at his second solo, 15 to 17 August, The Taj Bengal, Kolkata hosted his exhibition "freedom to be different". It was his public dissemination of environment consciousness through art. A theme and project close to him as it had a vital effect on his childhood. The exhibit consisted of single edition sculptures and installations created out of discarded roots and tree trunks that were showcased alongside a series of Gupta's miniature artworks called the "earth series." He received critical acclaim from art critics and Indian media houses. Gupta shifted his base to New Delhi in 1998, where his breakthrough in the Indian contemporary art market occurred at the Capital, in the year 1999, when he had a sold-out solo exhibition called "India awaiting – Timeless Metaphors of Dreams" hosted by The Taj Palace, New Delhi. Following which, Gupta's works were showcased in the premises of the Dep. of Culture, H.R.D Ministry, Govt. of India. He was nominated on the Expert Committee, National Republic Day celebrations, Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, as a member to be a part of the committee. Gupta's works were exhibited at The Roosevelt House, U.S. Ambassador's residence in New Delhi in 2001. In the same year, he was invited on the formative advisory panel of the Museum of Natural History, Government of India. Gupta pioneered live performance art in India, as "Jugalbandis" where he translated the musician's performance live on stage from a blank to a finished canvas syncing his brush strokes to the performing artist's recital/i.... Discover the Kavita Kamath Vibrant Publishers popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kavita Kamath Vibrant Publishers books.
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