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Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Seven Billion Light Years’, an exhibition of sculptures, installations, film, and new paintings by Subodh Gupta. Spanning the New Delhi-based artist’s career to the present day, the exhibition emphasizes Gupta’s distinctive use of found, commonplace objects in his ongoing campaign to map the effects of cultural dislocation in our era of shifting powers. In particular, Gupta captures the everyday realities of life in India – its nearly surreal collisions between the inescapably earthy and the ineffably divine, between the current of masses and the path of private days – through works of art that address dichotomies between traditional values and the impact of globalization.
Hamid Ka Chimta, 2014
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‘Seven Billion Light Years’ will go on view 10 February 2015 at the gallery’s downtown location at 511 West 18th Street, and remain on view through 25 April. The exhibition coincides with the debut of a major work by Subodh Gupta in the much-anticipated exhibition ‘After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997’, opening 8 March 2015, at the Queens Museum in New York NY.
Known Stranger, 2014
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The exhibition title ‘Seven Billion Light Years’ makes reference to the earth’s current population of seven billion human beings – and its cosmic inverse, the unfathomable distance between our mortal lives and a mysterious cosmos. Gupta’s art asks what it would mean to address the world’s people not as an anonymous mob but as individuals who each possesses a piece of infinity. A centerpiece of the show is a series of new paintings called Seven Billion Light Years, which returns to Gupta’s signature subject of basic kitchen utensils familiar to every Indian. Utilizing three-dimensional objects affixed to canvas with resin, these paintings continue his investigation into the sustaining and even transformational power of the everyday. In them viewers can detect what anthropologist and writer Bhrigupati Singh describes as ‘the patterns we create through our diurnal scrapings, the marks we leave night and day, through rise and fall, joy and sorrow, on the surfaces of our ordinary domestic vessels that journey with us, sometimes for years. What we discover in the process are intricately crafted pieces of the cosmos’.
My Family Portrait, 2013
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This is not a fountain, 2011
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Untitled, 2014
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