taking art beyond art

amidst the people, within communities, extending it to the masses.

"stop a while... we are all clay, dust to dust" - Manav Gupta

The artist's practice as a Travelling Museum Laboratory of Thought Experiments - conceptualising, building, executing: fresh ideas and innovations as visceral layers of creative processes, on and around the artwork itself, are compelling engagements that gently invite the viewers and audiences to not remain as mere spectators, but absorb and think, participate, and collaborate, act, co-create and take back solutions to environment consciousness and sustainable development.

His Public Art Projects are fresh enquiries into interconnectedness and existentialism.

Traversing the iconoclastic and exclusive while building new structures of democratising the essence and experience of art.

"To take charge of a space and create; infuse it with new thought, energy and vibrance, Redefine it. and then leave, in such a way that you leave the space abundant, replenished, nurtured, revitalized, contributing more than taking away, Leaving it in a way that leaves no pollution behind but a legacy of creation and positive addition that brings new meaning and memories, that create a legacy of value – this was/is my simple message and thought, my endeavour and vision, my purpose of public art practice as an artist and a human being."

- Manav Gupta

thought experiments

"my art and the journey is my message"

Embracing Architecture

Embracing architecture, while adding art - not intruding nor encroaching. but enriching the space with layers of creative energy , and while going, leaving no carbon footprints but endeavouring to gift the space with fertile life blossoming nature, in thought and in action, as much as possible individually, is a message of my art for sustainable development

The Ganga Waterfront along Time Machine

2015 | India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi | Ganga Waterfront | A Game Changing Solo Public Art Project in India

Matighar- deploying available scrap on site creating water - creating a double iteration of water with different mediums adding medium to medium

Ganga and Matighar - a thought experiment project

Ode to Matighar.
Engagement with Sustainable Architecture.
Earth and Clay.

Excavated Museum in a Mall - the Yamuna Project

DLF, Mall of India, NCR, India

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Shrinking River on the Museum Floor, South Africa, 2013

Converting the Red wall into the element of fire as part of the five elements

Shrinking River, Earthen Lamp as a Metaphor for a Droplet of Water

"main toh mai Ganga maa hoon, na maano toh beuta paani"
"if you consider me sacred I am pure, else mere water that flows"

Embracing Trees and Nature | Garden as a Museum Laboratory | Trees as Gallery Walls

Embracing nature, while adding art - not intruding nor encroaching. but enriching the space with layers of creative energy , and while going, leaving no carbon footprints but endeavouring to gift the space with fertile life blossoming nature, in thought and in action, as much as possible individually, is a message of my art for sustainable development

Embracing half an acre of Trees | Beehive Garden Project

Half an Acre of Rain and Beehives. Embracing Neem and Arjuna Trees and Nature. Chipko Movement. Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Environment consciousness. Nature as a Laboratory.

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rain, rainforest & the beehive garden

God is in the details

The Two Dried up Twigs - A Power of thought Experiment
The River and the Plant Pot

2015 | India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi | Ganga Waterfront | A Game Changing Solo Public Art Project in India

lighting of lamps | Power of Thought Experiments

Interdisciplinary Practices

Poetry, Dance, Music, Panel Discussions, Performance Art, Earthen Lamps Concerts, Lectures - Talks, Curatorial Walks, Thought Experiments, Climate Change Movement, Engagement with Students

Earthen Lamp Concerts at the Waterfront | Poetry as Performance | 'Jugalbandi' - Music, Dance, Recitation

Poetry

Music

Chanting and Meditation

Dialogues at the Waterfront | Panel Discussions | Discourses & Discussions

On Art and Design, Craft to Contemporary, Innovations and Possibilities, Climate Change and Sustainability, Taking Art to the Masses, Water Cycles, Interconnectedness and Existentialism, Excavating philosophies from Ancient Civilisations, Indology and Vedic Learnings, Spirituality and Anthropology, Connecting Rivers and Waters of the World, Nature as an Art Laboratory, Art and the Artist - Executing New Ideas

Engagement with all Stakeholders of Society

Education Outreach

Lectures and Talks | Inviting students from schools, universities and educational institutions to talk about climate change, sustainable development and environment consciousness

Education Outreach II - Lectures | Talks

Education Outreach III

Prosaic can be luxury - A Thought Experiment Discourse

Time Machine - Hourglass by Manav Gupta

Time Machine - the Hourglass

The bed of Love

Naoh's Ark

Punctuating in the Fountain of Water embracing space and architecture

Sound of Aum

Visual Iconisation of the sound of “Om”