Jack Shainman Gallery
513 W 20th St
212.645.1701
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Subodh Gupta, Untitled, Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery
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Mar 13, 2008 – Apr 12, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Note: There is an opening reception on Thur Mar 13 (6-8pm). Gupta also speaks at the Asia Society and Museum on Mon Mar 24 (6:30pm).
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of Indian life. In his second solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery, Gupta constructs the gigantic bust of a masked militant from pots and pans, similar to 2006's skull sculpture Very Hungry God. By evoking specters of death and violence with objects of domestic utility, Gupta examines how these concepts are formed in the collective unconscious of a nation. In 1 KG War, meanwhile, he presents a hexagonal piece of 24-carat gold in a jeweler's display case. The conceptual work gives literal form to the "cost of war" — it's precious, finite, and carefully guarded.
