Bringing a bustling city and its people into your home
Posted by The Art Ministry Team on June 7, 2007
With interior designers in the West using more and more colour, the work of artists such as Sunil Gupta has become a mainstay. Designers have understood that the discerning public wants to have a deeper experience when in the home environment. By incorporating works by artists like Sunil, they are able to satisfy an aspect of that need.
Very collectable, Sunil’s work is internationally acclaimed – his photographic stills from the film ‘Looking for Langston’ are selling in the region of $50,000 for a set of prints.
His Delhi series too has made a huge impact – a dedicated approach that has manifested in an unusual recording a complex city teeming with life, struggling for survival, love, and culture. Nizamuddin Area 1 works tells a story – a young girl holding a bikers helmet outside an educational institute – within a moment Sunil captures an entire lifetime.
“Gupta’s images traditionally document his own feelings of living as a gay Indian man in Europe, existing between the different cultures of Eastern and Western society. The Homelands series was inspired by where the artist lived. The Homelands (2001-2003) exhibition was produced when the artist was based at the University of Southampton. Gupta kept in mind his own HIV virus and all the different places he had inhabited when he created what he describes as diptychs. According to Gupta his “initial experiments in binary oppositions – the West versus India, inside versus outside,” seemed formulaic. Thus his East/West theme has continued but with the addition of other parameters that make the work more ‘spontaneous and intuitive.” 24 hour museum
