Manav Gupta at his musing best – BLOUIN ARTINFO| One of India’s most erudite and versatile contemporary artists –Times of India | Iconic. – Uma Nair, Art Critic | Brilliant. Moving. – B. N. Goswamy, Art Critic |”An amazing perspective of the Ganga river with clay lamps, cups and chilams” – BBC.CO.UK| In its entirety it can fill the Tate Turbine Hall. – The Pioneer. | A solo biennale. – Millennium Post | Manav Gupta has stunned the art world with his latest installation – Outlook | Maverick Genius, Ambassador of India’s soft power, Manav Gupta has showcased Indian pottery in his avant garde installations across the world” – Indian Diplomacy, Ministry of External Affairs. | No other artist uses clay and pottery in public art like Manav Gupta. His works on nature and climate change are extensive, in harmony with themes and sites he chooses, and soul stirring. In the back drop of the recent Kerala floods, his series, ‘Arth’ (meaning), stands as the most gentle and revolutionary expression of art exposed to rain, trees and sunlight. Depletion of natural resources, recreating and sustaining, are at the core of the series. global in language and Indian in soul. – Swarajya | A first of its kind initiative by one of India’s top ten eminent contemporary artists. – Indian Panorama, NEW YORK | the artist makes the river an idiom – and takes it across the Nile or the Mississippi or the Thames as ‘water’ that relates to the commonality of environmental issues the world over. – PUBLIC ART REVIEW, USA | Breath taking. Contemporary in its very making. Aruna Bhowmik, Art Critic, The Statesman | A work of power and imagination. Manasij Mazumdar, veteran art critic | That the artist is able to create a visual image of a river, miles away from its shore, without any use of water speaks volumes about his talent.” Matters of Art |True originality of thought and treatment. – Times of India | This latest installation reflects the brilliant conceptualisation of the artist in his inverting the everyday humble utilitarian earthen lamp to encrypt it into the river of clay resulting in many considering it to be of calibre enough to juxtapose it with Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. What’s On, Johannesburg, South Africa. | Enjoyed the very serenity of the installation. Very well thought out and crafted. – Kiran Nadar, Chairman, Kiran Nadar Museum of Modern Art. | Wonderful Exhibition. Extremely creative! – Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Ayog. Manav ji’s Vision and Passion is beyond imagination. – Dr Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (I/C) Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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| The Indian Panorama, From Ganga to Mississippi , January, 2016 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, President’s Lecture Series : Manav Gupta , November 12, 2015 BLOUIN ARTINFO, Manav Gupta at his musing best , April 14, 2015 Hindustan Times, Eco-friendly: Art goes from earth to earth, April 10, 2015 Matters of Art, Exploring the Holy Ganges in Clay, March 15, 2015 The Pioneer, Message in Clay, December 23rd, 2015 BBC, Ganga using Diyas and Chillams, December 15, 2014 Exotica, Manav Gupta’s unsung hymns of clay August 2013 |
Public Art Review, Manav Gupta repurposes local pottery, Issue 53 : Leading the Way | Fall/Winter, 2015 Forecast Public Art, Weaving spirituality and environmentalism in public art, November 11th, 2015 Outlook, Excavations in hymns of clay, June 1st, 2015 Millennium Post, Exquisitely etched in clay, April 21st, 2015 The Statesman, River of Clay, April 2, 2015 Deccan Herald, Magnificent Public Art Installation, April 2015 Times of India, Exploring Identities in Clay, November 29, 2014 Classic Feel, Quest for life, August 2013 |