Manav Gupta is an artist from India who has pioneered collaborative art as performances and mega murals.He has co-opted his art practices in paintings, poetry, music and sound to create one-minute films on climate change, sustainable development, ecosystems and alternate energy for public service messages commissioned by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India .
He has won international acclaim for his first of its kind six floor high 5000 sq ft in facade and 10000 sq ft of total painted surface, commissioned mega mural at the headquarters of leading telecom corporate giant in Gurgaon near Delhi,India in 2010, where he painted Live for three months while involving thousands of employees’ brush strokes in his creation "The Tree of Life".
The Tree of Life is the tallest and largest three-dimensional indoor staircase mural by artist Manav Gupta. It covers approximately 5,000 sq ft of visible frontage through a glass façade and 10,000 sq ft of total painted surface. Its significance lies in the methodology of creation as a work of contemporary art, with the first of its kind simultaneous use of four different art practices in conceptual, site specific, collaborative and performance art.When commissioned by Bharti Airtel Ltd to create a "staircase artwork" at their headquarters, the artist introduced a unique sustainable development process in corporate entity, by establishing that art can contribute to the business environment as well, by refreshing the intangible quality of its soft power among employees.
Adding a collaborative dimension, he conceptualised the mural as a public art project by allowing thousands of employees the experience of putting brush strokes. In the process, a series of role plays of teaching and motivating employees took effect as performance art. In the second half of the project, a three dimensional site specific composition took shape. With Gupta working solo all through the day, live in front of 3500 employees and almost as many visitors at the corporate campus site, the mural took three months to complete as an evolving storyline of five elements in Nature. Keeping in mind the visibility of the staircase all over the campus through a 60 ft high glass facade, the site specific intervention amalgamated the background wall and the front face of the staircase perspectives of five floors into a single canvas merging surrounding sides and roof within one composition.
He has pioneered co-creation with his "Jugalbandis" with leading musicians,poets,dancers including Dr.L.Subramanium, Shubha Mudgal, Anup Jalota, Rahul Sharma where he translates a performing artist's oveure LIVE on stage on canvas.He has co authored a book of poems and paintings with former President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,published by Penguin India..
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“The change needs to be from within us otherwise the generations to come will suffer.”
As quoted in "Beyond Politics, Beyond Copenhagen, For Our Children" : Treatise, Travelling trilogy, Lectures and Films on Sustainable development by Manav Gupta (2009 -2010), as quoted in Hindustan Times (29 December 2009)
2000s
"Beyond Politics, Beyond Copenhagen, For Our Children" : Treatise, Travelling trilogy, Lectures and Films on Sustainable development by Manav Gupta (2009 -2010), as quoted in Hindustan Times (25 December 2009)
2000s
“Light, for me is Hope. Colour, the Universe in which it exists.”
Extract critique by Uma Nair, Asian Age (Sourced from Victoria Ross Blog http://manavguptaartist.blogspot.in/), 2012
2010s
Retrieved, Arist's statement (1997)
Rainforests and the Timeless Metaphors of Dreams by Manav Gupta (August 1997, May 1999)
Referenced in critique “exploring earth’s elements” by Uma Nair, Asian Age, 2006 Sourced from Victoria Ross Blog, 2012 http://manavguptaartist.blogspot.in/
1990s
“Let us stop a while, while doing what we are doing, and begin to change what we can change…”
"Beyond Politics, Beyond Copenhagen, For Our Children" : Treatise, Travelling trilogy, Lectures and Films on Sustainable development by Manav Gupta (2009 -2010), as quoted in Hindustan Times (25 December 2009)
2000s
Rainforests and the Timeless Metaphors of Dreams by Manav Gupta (August 1997)
"on my eyot, umbilical cords of earth" by Manav Gupta (May 1999)
One minute films on environment consciousness (Commissioned by the Govt. of India) (2005)
1990s
Referenced from TEDx Talk (19 October, 2012) http://lingayasuniversity.edu.in/tedx/?page_id=77
"on my eyot", Manav Gupta (Anthology of poems, 2012)
2010s
As quoted in "Indian Design and Interiors" IDI Magazine (October 2006)
2000s
