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arth – art for earth
Public art | Sustainable Development | Climate Change
Time | Water | River | Rain | Rainforest | Trees
Thought Experiments
environment consciousness - innovations
"I am simply walking the path of infinity with a life dedicated to art. If my humble drop in the ocean can help bring about the change in thinking that is so needed in today’s crass, commercialized, mechanized existence, if it can add a dab of spiritual context to the world as it takes art and culture as a vehicle of change across boundaries, it makes my artistic process that much more fulfilling." -Manav Gupta
Sculpture Magazine
art |
taking art beyond art
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS CONCEPTUALISED & EXECUTED:
GAME CHANGING PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
"To his credit, Manav has six most iconic and revolutionary art projects in India this decade."
TIMES OF INDIA | Artist creates India's first public art museum on water and sustainable development | Jun 7, 2019
Water - The New Gold | 2019
Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
WATER – THE NEW GOLD
A versatile solo repertoire of sculptures, installations, murals, architecture-design using construction scrap material are all integrated and interwoven together in a beautiful story of museum like objects, in open public space, highlighting the importance of water in a city’s sustainability and narrating the benefits of imbibing the five elements in the modern way of life as well as paying tribute to the local rich heritage as ‘ode to Odisha’.
Half An Acre.
A public art museum on water & sustainability.
The Architectural Design & creation of City in a City.
Twenty Feet Tall – The Giant Sculpture of a Hand Pump.
Seven Tower Murals
Carved Sculpted Ground Paintings
The Sabhaghar
arth - art for earth | 2018
IGNCA, Ministry of Culture, 11 Mansingh Road, New Delhi 110001
A pioneering innovation of transforming rural craft of quintessentially Indian clay pottery into a cutting edge global language of contemporary art as environmental art installations over 23 acres of Lutyen’s Delhi.
Avant garde vision translated as ‘rain’ embracing trees and the ‘Ganga waterfront’ embracing the ‘matighar’ architecture to nurture them as a metaphorical message of
‘our city needs the river, we need our trees.’ Revisiting India’s ‘Chipko’ Movement.
Dialogues at the waterfront. Conceptualised Curated and Choreographed by the artist.
A unique call to all stakeholders of society in the city for a discourse to find transforming solutions for sustainable living.
rain – 25ft high. Half an Acre Dense
Ode to Matighar – Ganga Waterfront – 45ftx 30ft x 60ft, Rain, Rainforest & the Beehive Garden – punctuating in half an acre of ‘rainforest’, the bed of life – 10ft x 10ft x 5ft, Time Machines – the sound of AUM – 10ft x 3ft x 3ft
Sculpture Garden - a prototype | 2017 - 2018
Amrita Shergill Marg, New Delhi, India
World Premiere:
One Acre of a Sculpture Garden prototype. Created at the artist’s studio at a collector’s house.
Rain: 25ft x 50ft x 15ft, Waterfront 15ft x 30ft x 15ft, Connecting Rivers of the World, the bed 10ft x 10ft x 15ft, Time Machine 6.5ft x 4ft x 4ft, The Beehive Garden Single Edition Beehives 1ft x 1ft x 6in
Excavated Museum in a Mall | 2017
The Yamuna Project
Mega outreach on DLF Mall of India’s invitation:
The Beehive Garden Project: 6ft x 10ft x 5ft River Waterfront (The Yamuna Project): 15ft x 20ft x 30ft, Time Machine: 10ft x 5ft x 5ft, Noah’s Ark: 8ft x 4ft x 4ft | Water Spill: Site Specific, Meet me by the Riverside, the bed of love: 10ft x 6ft x 6ft
Rain the Ganga Waterfront along Time Machine | 2015
The Ganga Waterfront
along Time Machine
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Engagement with space and architecture
Bringing a river into the heart of a city
45ft x 60ft x 45ft: Site Specific Art Installation.
Unsung Hymns of Clay | 2013
South Africa
unsung hymns of clay | the shrinking river | rainforests and the circle of life
Hosted by National Museum Pretoria,
Indian High Commission
&
Incredible India.
Exhibition extended to Cape Town, Grahams Town by Lovell Gallery.
Extended as BRICS Summit outreach
Lectures at UNISA & Pretoria University.
7 ft x 9 ft: “the Shrinking River”
2ft x 2ft x 2ft: “Zen” – Sculpture
10ft x 30ft x 10ft: Site Specific Art Installation
Tree of Life mural | 2010
Dimensions: 11,500 Sq Ft: Total Painted Surface Area
5,000 Sq Ft: Glass Facade
Largest Indoor Staircase Mural
FOUR DIFFERENT MULTIPLE PROCESSES OF CONCEPTUAL, SITE SPECIFIC, COLLABORATIVE AND PERFORMANCE ART IN THE CREATION METHODOLOGY.
Painting LIVE for three months in front of 3500 employees, involving thousands of people to put strokes and idioms in the first phase and then weaving it all in the next phase to create a multi layered 3D-2D composition.
PERMANENT COLLECTION, Airtel Campus, New Delhi NCR, India. Site given Museum status by Limca Book of Records
Education Outreach
Lectures, Talks
Artist led student's
site-visits
Public Outreach
What they Say | People
Engagement with Masses
Panel Discussions
Inter-disciplinary programmes
Meditation
Lighting of the Lamps
IDEAS AHEAD OF TIME. INCLUSIVE. IMMERSIVE.
"Nature has a million answers. Even as I observe tree trunks, roots, branches, idling in some corner, to be burnt down as wood, it affords an excellent laboratory to the mind. It is exciting, sensuous and intoxicating. If one submits oneself to the form and the raw energy of the tree even when it can no longer bear fruit and leaves, one can see great poetry and lyricism in its intertwining branches and roots. The functional sculptures and paintings are a result of this experiment. The process takes over thereafter, but it is just an ode to nature's beauty." - Manav Gupta
Excerpt from Wikiquote
- Rainforests and the Timeless Metaphors of Dreams by Manav Gupta (August 1997)
- "on my eyot, umbilical cords of earth" by Manav Gupta (May 1999)
- One minute films on environment consciousness (Commissioned by the Govt. of India) (2005)
Filmography
Plant a Sapling on my Canvas
Rainforests & River - Paintings & Books - Climate Change - Copenhagen Wall of Hope, Kyoto Protocol
Infusing environment consciousness in corporate spaces. Workshops.
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