Langorous clay goddesses gaze indolently at gas-mask clad soldier heads in the frontyard of subodh's studio. We walk into the amusing scene and are arrested by its accidental irony; it is as if irony is always in prepration for Subodh's eye to fall on it.....
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"I know what's happening. It feels like you're walking in a beautiful breeze and you're afraid because you don't know when it's going to end. Good or bad. Success is frightening because you don't want
to lose anything and artists have to be fearless in order to create. Here's the dichotomy..."
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"Leher Kala: You are well known artists, but most of us know very little about your
work. Could you say a little bit about yourselves?
Subodh Gupta: I've been working, professionally, as a visual artist since 1988. I studied at the
College of Art, Patna, and in 1988, I came to Delhi. Since then, I have lived and worked here.
Bharti Kher: I came to India in 1992 and met Subodh. At that time, the art scene in Delhi—India
actually—was at a nascent stage. Not very much was going on and there wasn't any kind of space
for experimentation. Paintings were the only things that sold..."
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"Everyone everywhere is mad for Subodh Gupta.
At the Venice Biennale, at Art Basel, at Frieze Art Fair, at Chanel Mobile Art, in Shanghai, Zurich,
Paris and New Delhi, the name most readily dropped and sought out is Subodh Gupta (or "Goopta" to
those who don't know or can't pronounce the shortened "u"). Suddenly, like the limited edition bag
that the artist designed for Italian fashion house Fendi, Gupta, a small-town boy from Khagaul, Bihar,
has a waiting list..."
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"Through the haze of frontier dust where New Delhi fades into scrub and grazing land lies the lowslung, white-walled home of the country's most coveted conceptual art. Inside the workshop, a
sculpture of huge brass pots hangs from the ceiling. On the wall is a shimmering canvas of a stainless
steel urn. Nearby sits a 5ft metal bucket. The works' creator is Subodh Gupta, the current darling of the
booming Indian modern art market..."
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