SUBODH GUPTA


展览开幕：2008年5月17日星期六
展览时间：2008年5月18日至8月30日
地点：常青画廊 GALLERIACONTINUA / San Gimignano
Via del Castello 11 Tel. +39 0577 943134 Fax +39 0577 940484 ITALIA
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这次是印度艺术家Subodh Gupta 第二次展览在常青画廊。为了这次展览，艺术家制作了新作品。


印度艺术在国际艺术平台的位置现在越来越重要。而Subodh Gupta 已经变成南亚艺术平台的最重要艺术家之一。

关于Subodh Gupta 的过往作品
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出生于Bihar, 印度的最穷地区之一，Gupta 现在生活于新德里。就像农民文化慢慢地退出让城市文化铺展，Gupta 学习之后办到大城市里去。在这个快速发展里，国家通过艺术表达自己的身份而建造一个交流的桥跟世界其他地区。

Subodh Gupta 的艺术表达这个变化的过程。他用的物品变成象征、肖像，简单地反映社会和经济的复杂社会以及印度的目前文化和情况。艺术家的不锈钢用具大装置构成一种光荣的贡品，而同时传统文化和现代文化的漏电……

Subodh Gupta 在这次展览的作品代表他一直到现在做的工作。作品范围为录像、绘画、雕塑和装置。它们关注的主题跟以前作品一样而加一些新的因素。

画廊二楼作品为用厨房器具做的一个大装置 "5 Offerings for the greedy gods" （给贪心之神的5个贡品）。这个作品的理论很多。艺术家自己解释：“我对厨房特别有感觉。小时候，我看这个空间像看一个祈祷的空间一样，像一个寺庙。对我来说这个空间充满了灵性。当然它也是一个日常生活的象征：80%印度人用不锈钢的厨房用具。是一个很有矛盾的材料：它引起光，它很亮，但同时属于通俗文化。就是因为不锈钢是一个很丰富的材料所以用了它已经9年做作品。”


画廊一楼的作品关注食品的神圣性：小铜的桌子跟不锈钢碗碟和餐具。食物这个主题也在他的绘画里。现实风格、强调对比度、用亮色彩。

艺术家通过这些装置开始一个对话跟空间和历史：过去和今日不但占空间而且也占时间。

Subodh Gupta 属于印度艺术家最丰富之一而参加了许多国际艺术展览。出生于Khagaul, 而在Bihar长大，他用他生活里的经验来表达这个国家的矛盾：农民文化以及被全球化影响的城市文化共存。

Gupta 用不同媒介从巨大雕塑到绘画，从装置到摄影，从录像到行为。不过他最有名作品为用日常生活的费物品做的作品。

牛奶桶、厨房用具、小型摩托车、自行车，等材料都明显地表达印度目前社会变化而全球化。

他最近参加的展览为 2008: CHANEL Mobile Art, curated by Fabrice Bousteau, a project of Zaha Hadid, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow, Paris; 2007: Silk Route, The Baltic, curated by Jerome Sans, Gateshead, UK; India: Public Places/ Private Spaces, The Newark Museum (travelling exhibition), curated by Gayatri Sinha and Paul Sternberger, Newark, USA; New-narratives: Contemporary Art from India, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, USA; L’Emprise du lieu – L’expérience Pommery #4, curated by Daniel Buren, Reims, France; 2006: Venice-Istanbul, at the Istanbul Modern, curated by Rosa Martinez, Istanbul, Turkey; Nuit Blanche, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, Paris, France; 2005: Always a little Further, Arsenale, 51° Venice Biennale, curated by Rosa Martinez, Venice; Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, curated by Francesco Bonami, MCA, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London; Dialectics of Hope, The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Bimhaum, Lara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Roza Martinez and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Moscow, Russia.





SUBODH GUPTA


Opening Saturday 17 May i Via del Castello 11, 18.00-24.00
Until  30 August 2008, from Tuesday to Saturday, 14.00-19.00


Following his 2001 exhibition (which was the artist’s debut in an Italian gallery) Subodh Gupta returns to the Galleria Continua with a series of new works created especially for this show and these showrooms.

Indian art is now attracting the interest of the press, the critics and the market on the international level. Subodh Gupta occupies a central place in this scene as one of the leading figures in the flourishing of art in southern Asia.

Born in Bihar, one of the poorest regions of the Indian sub-continent, Gupta now lives in New Delhi, where he established himself immediately after finishing his studies. The artist’s personal career, his move from the country to the city, is in a way an allegory of the India of today, where the rural setting of the village is swiftly giving place to cosmopolitan culture: the city itself becomes a megalopolis, while the eager and growing middle class opens the way to global culture. In a process of accelerating transformation, the country finds in artistic expression a way to express its identity as well as a bridge of communication and mutual exchange with the rest of the world.

The art of Subodh Gupta expresses this moment of change in an exemplary manner. The objects he uses in his work appear as emblems, as icons which with extraordinary simplicity codify the complex social and economic, as well as the cultural, situation of present-day India. The artist’s monumental sculptures and installations, created by putting together hundreds of shining stainless steel objects, form a real and proper tribute to the glory, the dignity and the beauty of India today, while at the same time reflecting the short circuit between ancient and modern culture, between tradition and change.  ………

The works which Subodh Gupta is presenting in his one-man show at the Galleria Continua enable us to get an overall picture of the artist’s work. The exhibition is made up of videos, paintings, sculptures and installations. They reveal subject matter previously used by the artist but also some new formal solutions that open up various prospects of research and interpretation.

On the stage of the gallery is the imposing 5 Offerings For The Greedy Gods, a large installation composed of steel cooking utensils. It is a work with a wealth of meanings, as the artist himself explains: “I have a particular affection for kitchens. When I was a child I regarded this room almost as a place of prayer, a sort of temple. For me it is a space full of spirituality. But of course it is also an emblem of everyday life: 80% of Indians use stainless steel cooking utensils. It is a very paradoxical material: it attracts light, it shines, and all the same it  is deeply associated with popular culture. It is because stainless steel is a material so rich in meanings that I have been  working with it now for nine years”.

The main floor of the building display other works: the sacredness of food is celebrated around little bronze tables set with polished steel dishes and cutlery. The theme of nourishment recurs in his painted works, where the style is clear-cut and realistic, and the forms defined by sharp contrasts and brilliant colours.

The artist’s dialogue with space finds expression in the installation in which, by means of a series of brass objects, Gupta set up a relationship with the exhibition space itself and with its history: past and present come together in perfect continuity to occupy not only the physical site but a temporal space as well.

Subodh Gupta is one of the most prolific of Indian artists and has taken part in numerous much-admired international exhibitions. Born at Khagaul, and growing up in the rural area of Bihar, the artist calls on his own life experience to express the harsh contrasts typical of a country in which the simplicity of peasant culture and increasing urban globalization exist side by side. Gupta employs an ample gamut of means of expression and his production ranges from large sculptures to paintings, from installations to photography, from video to performance, although he is chiefly known for his sculptural works which raise the objets trouvés of which they are made from the status of objects of everyday use to that of works of art. In using materials such as cow dung, milk buckets, kitchen utensils, scooters, bicycles and pistols in his works, the artist makes unmistakable reference to the present condition of the changing social