Shilpa Gupta
(1976)
BlindStars StarsBlind
Conceptual artist Shilpa Gupta employs new media and technology to explore the universal and confront the political, challenging mundane perceptions through her witty cynicism. The flashing lights of the present lot are structured to illuminate the alternating words "stars" and "blind" in a loop, highlighting contradictory aspects of human existence. "...a line of words that forms a circle of yellow light, words fading in and out, dancing with...
Conceptual artist Shilpa Gupta employs new media and technology to explore the universal and confront the political, challenging mundane perceptions through her witty cynicism. The flashing lights of the present lot are structured to illuminate the alternating words "stars" and "blind" in a loop, highlighting contradictory aspects of human existence. "...a line of words that forms a circle of yellow light, words fading in and out, dancing with changing partners to form a segue of shuffled meanings. The slow drug of poetry illuminates a simple but profound paradox: What are you looking at - it asks us - the corona or the eclipse?" (Nancy Adajania, Shaheen Merali ed., Shilpa Gupta: BlindStars StarsBlind , Heidelberg: Kehler Verlag, 2008, p. V - 5) This largescale installation compels the viewer to engage with deeper philosophical questions about the existence of humanity and the individual within the universe.
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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART: A SELECTION FROM THE AMAYA COLLECTION
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Rs 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
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Rs 12,00,600
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Shilpa Gupta BlindStars StarsBlind
2008
First from a limited edition of three
EXHIBITEDBlindStars StarsBlind , Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl and BodhiBerlin; Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 2008 (another from the edition)Shilpa Gupta - Second Moon , San Gimignano: Galleria Continua, 14 February - 2 May 2009 (another from the edition)Finding India: Art for the New Century , Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), 22 October - 12 December 2010 (another from the edition)India! (Side by Side) , Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), 25 October 2011 - 29 January 2012; Belenzinho: SESC, 25 February - 29 April 2012; Brasilia: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), 22 May - 29 July 2012 (another from the edition) Shilpa Gupta: BlindStars StarsBlind, Heidelberg: Kehler Verlag, 2008, p. 7 (installation view), p. 9 (illustrated) Shilpa Gupta, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery and Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2009, p. 220 (illustrated), p. 221 (installation view) L'Inde Nouvelle De Shilpa Gupta , Paris: Connaissance des ARTS, 2009, pp. 48-53 (illustrated, another from the edition)Beaux Arts Magazine , Paris: Beaux Arts, March 2009, pp. 82-85 (illustrated, another from the edition)The Indian Renaissance , Monza: Antonio Stellatelli Collection, 2011 (illustrated, another from the edition)India ! (Side by Side) , Centro Cultural Banco da Brasil, 2012 (illustrated, another from the edition)Follia Continua ! 25 Years of Galleria Continua , Prato: Gli Ori, 2015 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Category: Installation