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Rain, Rainforest & the Beehive Garden.

“Rain, spread across half an acre of embracing Neem and Arjuna trees. Gupta succeeds in creating a poetic depiction of rain. The viewer can feel the flow of drops. The pitter-patter is tapped in a drenching fall in the remarkable use of one element to depict another.”

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“Transforming the familiar into something completely unconventional, unexpected, and magical.”

-Sculpture Magazine

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Rain, his work comprising chilum -the traditional smoking pipe of clay associated with intoxication – strung meticulously into thin wires, succeeds in creating a poetic depiction of rain. The viewer can feel the flow of drops. The pitter-patter is tapped in a drenching fall in the remarkable use of one element to depict another. Clay for water. Diyas arranged most cleverly on wires define the sense of play in his own understanding of rain and its geometry. “Each strand is important. Each string is important,” he adds.

He catches the flow in broken geometry. He arrives, very close in his work, at the inner texture of the falling rain. It is understood and experienced best when one walks through the strings of clay chilum falling from tree branches. It is while standing between the falling wires studded with the chilum when Gupta’s fine handling of the most simple activity in nature and season, that of rain, arises distinctly. The effect is similar to what a viewer would experience when he sees an object kept between parallel mirrors. This, in particular, is more intoxicating than any intoxication associated with the chilum itself. 

-Excerpt: ‘Down To Arth: How Manav Gupta Uses Meaningful Artwork In Terracotta To Bring Clay Back To Nature’ | Swarajya | Sep 9, 2018 | Sumati Maheshwari

It is fascinating how his work grows and develops for months after he has put up the installations – out in the open. “Trees are my laboratory”, he says. Gupta has used fallen trees for sculptures in the past. In the current display, the falling of rain in Rain from tree branches has a symbolic significance. Rain needs trees, and trees rain. Rain invites life. Worms, insects, birds, creepers, climbers, and seedlings, live and play on and around this installation. Around Bee Hive – another installation. Around the Bed of Life, yet another installation that symbolises the concept of bed as bedrock of love, life, death. Around Ganga – the Waterfront, which symbolises the scared river, and the flowing of time. And then, there is Noah’s Ark, the intriguing piece in the thought chain and cycle. 

-Excerpt: ‘Down To Arth: How Manav Gupta Uses Meaningful Artwork In Terracotta To Bring Clay Back To Nature’ | Swarajya | Sep 9, 2018 | Sumati Maheshwari
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“No other artist uses clay and pottery in public art like Manav Gupta.”

– Swarajya | September, 2018

About
DESIGNFORM | Making

Scale. Depth. Strength. Durability. Juxtaposition. View. Positioning. Site-Specific.

Thirty feet high. Half an acre dense.

Rain. Embracing Neem and Arjuna Trees.

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“Brilliant. Moving.”

-Prof B. N. Goswamy
Art Critic, Scholar, Historian.

“Iconic.”

-Uma Nair
Art Critic and Curator, Researcher

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“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

Dialogues at the Waterfront

The artist’s 25 year old process of engaging with all stakeholders of society to have meaningful conversations through engagement with his art that brings awareness about climate change, environment consciousness and sustainable development.

Public Art | Engagement

People

Education | Schools

Outreach Programmes | Thought Experiments

"Why do drugs?
Let's get drenched in rain"

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2018

arth - art for earth by Manav Gupta | IGNCA, New Delhi | Ministry of Culture, Govt of India

2017-2018

Rain | Private Prototype Museum, Amrita Shergill Marg, New Delhi

2012

Etymology | The Making of Rain | Artist's Studio Laboratory