Art@Site www.artatsite.com Subodh Gupta Ray
Artist:

Subodh Gupta

Title:

Ray

Year:
2012
Adress:
Jing’an Sculpture Park
Website:
The essence
(Reclycling of) everyday objects play an important role in the work of Suboth Gupta and in this work this appear to be an essential necessity of life. Pots and pans flow out a mug like the water.

Compared with other artworks
In Reflections From Sky, Helidon Xhixha (Milan, picture 1, more information) disrupts a shiny surface, the area is on a special reflected in the artwork and reflections and distortions occur in the area.

Suspicion and anxiety come to me at the work Airplane Part by Nancy Rubin (Los Angeles, picture 2, more information) which is a kind of plane made of old airplane parts.

I suspect John Camberlain (Thurm von Klythie, picture 3, more information) is having fun playing with a large number of inconsistencies, without the intention to say much about it.

The role of vanity in our finite lives is made clear by Gino de Dominicis in his Calamita Cosmica (Milan, picture 4, more information) on a humorous way.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com

www.touch.shio.gov.cn:
Subodh Gupta, an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist from India, is best known for incorporating everyday objects into his creations. By making ordinary items artistic and aesthetic, he expresses his sympathy for the vulnerable and his reverence for traditional Indian values. In his work Ray, the artist captures the tensions between urban and rural, rich and poor, and traditional and modern, reflecting on the social breakdown that India has experienced on its quest for modernization against the backdrop of globalization.

www.theartnewspaper.com:
culptures by Wim Delvoye, Subodh Gupta and Jaume Plensa among many others go on display in a public park in Shanghai in September as part of the Jing’An International Sculpture Project Biennial (20 September-30 November). The exhibition is part of an effort to build a permanent outdoor sculpture collection for the Jing’An district in central Shanghai, which began two years ago when the first edition of the biennial was held to coincide with the World Expo in the Chinese city. In that edition, works by Jim Dine, Arman, Jan Fabre and others were dotted around the 110 acres of the Jing’An park. Over 20 of these sculptures were then purchased by the district and they remain on permanent display, including the Belgian artist Arne Quinze’s Red Beacon, a wooden pavilion that rises from stilts before unfolding into a complex undulating form that weaves through the treetops. The 2012 biennial will include two massive steel sculptures in faux Gothic style by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. One of them, entitled Tour (Paris), 2010, is an intricately-detailed 40-ft-high steel tower which was placed in front of the Peggy Guggenheim collection on the Grand Canal in Venice during the 2009 Venice Biennale and in Paris in front of the Musée Rodin the following year. The other is a huge steel pergola. The Indian artist Subodh Gupta is sending Ray, 2012, a giant steel bucket with a cascade of smaller ones falling out of it. According to Natacha Xu of the Purple Roof Art Gallery, which has helped plan the show and which represents many of the artists included in it, several sculptures from the 2012 biennial will also be purchased by the city and remain in the park permanently. The show has been organised by Huang Du, an independent curator based in Beijing, whose previous projects include the Chinese pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and the São Paulo Biennial the following year.

www.publicartonline.org.uk:
2012 Jing’an International Sculpture Project (JISP) Shanghai, China chose ‘Pride of City’ as its theme and sought to explore stories about today’s cities, whose history, modernity, creativity and visual representations are a source of pride and inspiration for their inhabitants The 2012 exhibition continued the effort to build a permanent outdoor sculpture collection for the Jing’An district in central Shanghai, which began two years ago when the first biennial was held to coincide with the city’s World Expo, exploring the theme ‘City Fantasy’. During the 2010 biennial, works by artists including Jim Dine, Arman and Jan Fabre were displayed around the 110 acres of the Jing’An park. Over 20 of these sculptures were then purchased by the district and remained on permanent display. These included Red Beacon by the Belgian artist Arne Quinze - a wooden pavilion rising on stilts, unfolding into a complex form that weaves through the treetops The 2012 exhibition addressed urban experience, aesthetics of daily life, and human personality and creativity. 18 artists from 10 countries – China, South Korea, Australia, Israel, India, Belgium, Colombia, Turkey, Singapore and Spain – were invited to exhibit, bringing with them 59 sculptures, which were divided into 23 groups. Sculptures by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, Indian artist Subodh Gupta, Chinese artist Ding Yi, South Korean artist Kim Byong-Ho and Spanish sculptor and conceptual artist Jaume Plensa among many others went on display in a public park in Shanghai. Subodh Gupta, a contemporary artist from India, is known for incorporating everyday objects into his creations. Through the use of ordinary items, he expresses his sympathy for the vulnerable and his reverence for traditional Indian values. In his work Ray (pictured here), a giant steel bucket with a cascade of smaller ones falling out of it, the artist sought to explore the tensions between urban and rural, rich and poor, and traditional and modern, reflecting on the social breakdown that India has experienced on its quest for modernisation against the backdrop of globalisation. According to Natacha Xu of the Purple Roof Art Gallery, which helped to plan the show and represented many of the artists included in it, several sculptures from the 2012 biennial will also be purchased by the city and remain in the park permanently. The show has been organised by Huang Du, an independent curator based in Beijing, whose previous projects include the Chinese pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and the São Paulo Biennial the following year. Pride of City’ was a further development of the 2010 Expo JISP, with the goal of improving regional/community culture and contributing to making Shanghai a better platform for international cultural exchange. JISP aimed to set an example of how to create a successful public art experience within the city, with the artists being asked to delineate their interpretation of the theme ‘Pride of City’, giving the public easy access to enjoy and to engage more with public art.