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Subodh Gupta

SUBODH GUPTA

Inner Garden Arario Gallery 4 September–12 October 2024 Seoul
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ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL will host Subodh GUPTA’s solo exhibition Inner Garden from Wednesday 4 September 2024 to Saturday 12 October 2024. In the exhibition, about 20 pieces of GUPTA’s new abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations will be displayed on levels B1, 1, and 3 of the gallery. Subodh GUPTA, a prominent contemporary artist from India, expresses his concerns arising from the socio-cultural realities of Asia through various mediums such as sculpture, installation, painting, video, and performance. His guiding principle is being the most ordinary is the most sacred, he transforms familiar objects into monumental forms that resonate with the global art community. GUPTA’s work delves into themes like rapid urbanisation, globalisation, and cultural hybridity, offering profound reflections on these issues.

These works reflect the artist’s spiritual process of developing a closeness with nature. GUPTA has a long practice of incorporating everyday objects found in India as materials, such as steel tiffin lunch boxes, thali pans, bicycles, and milk cans commonly found throughout India. GUPTA’s creative process explores specific objects, places, memories, senses, and experiences and by visually expressing these memories, he investigates ways to transform silence, minimalism, form, line, structure, and visual aesthetics through ordinary objects, revealing the inner qualities of natural elements. The composition and arrangement of these elements convey to the audience the inner emotions derived from the relationship with nature, symbolizing natural strength, endurance, resilience, and the ability to overcome adversity.

Subodh GUPTA was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, a location centered on Buddhism. After majoring in painting at Patna Art College (1983-1988), he now lives and works in New Delhi. His works have been highlighted in numerous major international biennales and exhibited in many solo shows across Asia, Europe, and America. Notable solo exhibitions include Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche (Paris, France, 2023), Monnaie de Paris (Paris, France, 2018), Mead Gallery (Coventry, UK, 2017), Hauser & Wirth Gallery (Somerset, UK, 2016), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia, 2016), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK, 2015), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2014), MMK Museum of Modern Art (Frankfurt, Germany, 2014), National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India, 2014), and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (New Delhi, India, 2012). GUPTA’s works are part of collections in renowned museums and foundations worldwide, including the Tate Collection (UK), Guggenheim Museum (USA), MMK Museum of Modern Art (Germany), National Gallery of Modern Art (India), Sara Hildén Art Museum (Tampere, Finland), Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (India), Centre Pompidou (France), Louis Vuitton Foundation (France), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Saatchi Collection (UK), François Pinault Collection (France), and ARARIO MUSEUM (Korea).

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About the Artist

Subodh Gupta was born in 1964, Khagual, Bihar, the seat of Buddhist learning. He studied at the College of Art, Patna before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work has stood out in major international biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions across Asia, Europe and America. Gupta is not only India’s most well-known artist, he has directed attention to some of the cultural concerns in South Asia. In a highly reductive language he combines formalism with a wry, incisive understanding of symbols and forms used in contemporary India. Village to city migration, the charged and unpredictable encounter with globalism and cultural hybridity are significant concepts in his work. As a sculptor, Gupta’s use of material is always strategic and deeply expressive of a conceptual context.

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ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL opened its doors in Sogyeok-dong in 2006. Since then, it has established its foothold as a leading contemporary art gallery in Korea and across Asia, continuing to be at the forefront of the international art scene through its efficient representation system and bold exhibitions. In March 2014, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL relocated near the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In April 2018, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL RYSE HOTEL, a second exhibition space in Seoul, opened in the Hongdae area. Running concurrently with its primary location until November 2019, the project space aimed to mirror the experimental spirit of the neighbourhood through its innovative programming. In 2022, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL ended its Sogyeok-dong era. However, the various experimentation and ventures carried out in the gallery’s previous spaces continue to shape its future at its current location in Wonseo-dong, which reopened in February 2023. Through the preemptive discovery of young artists, steady support of represented artists, and the realisation of meaningful and original exhibitions, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL aims to continually grow and contribute to the growth of the contemporary art scene in Korea.

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