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Subodh Gupta’s Anahad/Unstruck: A comeback exhibition after nine years in Mumbai

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Subodh Gupta has returned to Mumbai after a nine-year absence with a production that brilliantly combines his politics and evolving aesthetic style.   Subodh Gupta 's most recent solo exhibition, Anahad /Unstruck, is now being held in the renowned Studio Mahalaxmi, which has undergone another transformation into an art venue. The exhibition consists of four paintings and four installations, all of which were erected in two enormous film studios and all of which used different metal components, particularly Gupta's preferred alloy, steel. However, Gupta's recent explorations with form and structure provide a whole new world to many people in the city acclimated to his characteristic enmeshing of pots, pans, and other steel utensils prevalent in Indian homes.   "When an artist turns to his own roots and culture, he develops a distinctive style. According to Germano Celant , an art historian and creative director of the Prada Foundation, "His visualisations then pr
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Rhythms of Subodh Gupta's rural life

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His passion for cows is shown in the auspicious occasion of birth of Lord Krishna, Janamashtami . Numerous depictions of Lord Krishna, the gopas, and the cows who sit in rapt adoration constantly close to their Lord may be found in Indian miniature art.   Speaking of cows, installation artist and genius Subodh Gupta has relished the numerous cultural allusions that the word "cow" evokes. The Way Home, Gupta's first cow installation, was included in a show with the same name at Chemould Gallery in Mumbai. "My installation of the sitting cow, with all the different vessels surrounding, was about culture, it was about an ordinary living, but it was also about state of mind," he adds in a phone chat from London.   The items he employed in his work appear as ordinary vernacular symbols, elegantly simple icons that depict the complicated social, economic, and cultural context that exists in modern-day India.   Rituals and memories   Gupta provides the following examp
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