Beehives

BEEHIVES

2010-2024

by

MANAV GUPTA

the
beehive
garden
project

Manav Gupta, Rain Rainforest and the Beehive Garden, Art and Sustainability, Climate Change, Environment Consciousness, Manav Gupta Artist, Installations, Paintings, Works, Indian Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Manav Gupta Sculptures and Installations
Manav Gupta, Rain Rainforest and the Beehive Garden, Art and Sustainability, Climate Change, Environment Consciousness, Manav Gupta Artist, Installations, Paintings, Works, Indian Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Manav Gupta Sculptures and Installations

BEEHIVES COLONY

by Manav Gupta

Twenty-Eight Years Retrospective Edition

World Bee Day | 20th May, 2024

Beehive | Honey Comb | Bees

“He succeeds in creating something contemporary yet timeless in its ability to tell a powerful story. Massed in their hundreds and thousands, these humble items gain new significance, as tradition reimagined makes an eloquent case for sustainable practices that respect the earth’s resources while transforming the familiar into something completely unconventional, unexpected, and magical.”

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.

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RAINFOREST & THE BEEHIVE GARDEN

arth - art for earth by manav gupta

World Environment Day,
5th June - 15th December, 2018

across 27 Acres of land

Hosted by IGNCA, Ministry of Culture, Government of India

IGNCA, adj Kartvaya Path (Formerly Rajpath), 11 Mansingh Road, New Delhi, 110001

the Beehive Garden project

Sculpture Garden Prototype | "Prosaic can be Luxury" | Museum Laboratory by Manav Gupta

2017 - 2018

Amrita Shergill Marg, New Delhi 110001

the Beehive Project

Excavated Museum in a Mall | the Yamuna Project by Manav Gupta

6th January - 5th March, 2017

across one of NCR's busiest Malls

Hosted by DLF Group, Mall of India, National Capital Region

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.

Manav Gupta, Rain Rainforest and the Beehive Garden, Art and Sustainability, Climate Change, Environment Consciousness, Manav Gupta Artist, Installations, Paintings, Works, Indian Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Manav Gupta Sculptures and Installations
Manav Gupta, Rain Rainforest and the Beehive Garden, Art and Sustainability, Climate Change, Environment Consciousness, Manav Gupta Artist, Installations, Paintings, Works, Indian Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Manav Gupta Sculptures and Installations

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