ARARIO Gallery presents a solo exhibition by internationally renowned Indian artist Subodh Gupta (b. 1964) in Shanghai and in Seoul simultaneously. Having opened a new exhibition space in Shanghai on August 29th 2014, ARARIO GALLERY Shanghai celebrates its opening and presents its first exhibition of master works by Subodh Gupta including his large-scale installations, sculptures and paintings. The gallery seeks to demonstrate its status as a leading gallery in Asia which supports its represented artist to unfold their art practices on a global stage. In conjunction with the exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY Shanghai, ARARIO GALLERY Seoul opened an exhibition on September 1st shedding light on the exquisite process through which Subodh Gupta‘s reflections on Indian history and religion — ingrained in Indian people‘s culture and everyday life of joys and sorrows — are visualized through the sophisticated contemporary art language.
Receiving international attention for his large symbolic monuments exploring subjects of Indian life and culture, Subodh Gupta‘s art and his visual language, which transcends borders, proclaims his firm philosophy that "The most banal is the most sacred". Essential in Gupta‘s work are stainless steel kitchen utensils seen in virtually all Indian homes, junk brassware, and sacred matters related to cow, such as cow feces or milk, which all reflect the Hindu culture. While the completely banal, religious and peripheral symbols offer a cross-section of India today shaped through rapid economic growth and westernization, they form the sophisticated, globally-celebrated sculptural language style unique to Gupta.
ARARIO GALLERY Shanghai presents This is Not a Fountain, a dynamic new form of installation work never seen in his art before. The exhibition also features Gupta‘s most important recent works including Love, a large sculpture of a brilliantly-glittering golden heart, and large paintings measuring over 3 meters wide.
In addition to over 30 paintings of food, ARARIO GALLERY Seoul presents works that focus on the political, religious and social ideologies imbued in the human food culture, including Two Bullets which is made of motorcycles that deliver water and milk in India, as well as works like oil drums in marble and symbolic objects in small glass boxes.
-Arario Gallery
Image: © Subodh Gupta
Courtesy of the artist and Arario Gallery