BEEHIVES
2010-2024
by
MANAV GUPTA
the
beehive
garden
project
BEEHIVES COLONY
by Manav Gupta
Twenty-Eight Years Retrospective Edition
World Bee Day | 20th May, 2024
Beehive | Honey Comb | Bees
The Beehive Colony | Worker Bees
Bees are an obvious or not so obvious link in the evolution chain and our sustainability. This global beehive garden project is an environmental statement by the artist about biodiversity and its crucial linkages to sustainable development. Manav’s art has always sought to play a bigger role than itself, in creating greater awareness on environemnt. And it reaches our senses and homes as a captivating reminder with its innovative deploying of “chilams” (earthen rural cigars) and “kullars” earthen cups to create beehives that can occupy every garden and home that keep acting as a gentle creative reminder to us each day to stop a while… and while doing what we are doing, try and add a drop in the ocean in the preservation of bees and biodiversity.
excavations in hymns of clay
Studio Lab by Manav Gupta
EARLY BEGINNINGS
Creation of Beehives
2010-2012
Clay has multiple possibilities and Delhi’s Manav Gupta unveils numerous installations in his explorations in clay. One of India’s most erudite and versatile contemporary artists, Manav Gupta has reinvented the language of clay by infusing true originality of thought and treatment in the humble produce of the potters wheel – deploying and transforming the readymade clay objects of everyday partisan use in India like the earthen lamps, cups and “chillam” – the Indian rural humble cigar into sustainable development metaphors of large scale installations.
the
BEEHIVE GARDEN
PROJECT.
FRESH, MINIMALISTIC, INNOVATIVE AND ORIGINAL
In this installation, with a minimalistic approach, the artist depicts his philosophy in understated tones that touch deeply and reverberate, lingering in the mind long after the visual engagement ends.
ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN