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March 7, 2007

India's Enfant Terrible of Art
(Guardian, February 20, 2007)

As India's art market continues to rise, mixed-media artist Subodh Gupta is enjoying international exposure. Gupta makes videos, paintings, and sculptures from found objects. He has gained notoriety for incorporating cow dung into his work, as in his video Pure, in which the artist is covered head to toe in bovine excrement before being hosed off. Gupta has shown at the Venice Biennale, London's Frieze Art Fair, and at shows in Moscow, Miami, and Japan. French billionaire François Pinault is one of his biggest supporters, having already purchased a one-ton sculpture of Gupta's — a skull fashioned from pots and pans — last October. He is represented by Geneva gallerist Pierre Huber, who has been instrumental in supporting the work of many contemporary Chinese artists. With six new private museums being built in India, Gupta's visibility — and selling price — is sure to rise.

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