Subodh Gupta « Adda » / Rendez-vous
Monnaie de Paris presents « Adda / Rendez-vous », the first retrospective exhibition in France of internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Subodh Gupta.
Gupta (b. 1964) lives and works in Delhi and had trained as a painter before going on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Subodh Gupta sees the exhibition as a place for meetings, rendezvous that would trigger discussions, exchanges and debates just like the indhi concept «Adda».

Showcasing the diversity of Subodh Gupta’s practice, the exhibition features iconic sculptures using stainless steels pots and pans, such as Very Hungry God (2006), for which Gupta is best known and cast found objects, such as Two Cows (2003), alongside very new works, like Unknown Treasure (2017) and the video titled Seven Billion Light Years (2016). While varied in material, the body of work is defined by the artist’s continuous exploration of ritual and spirituality in veryday life.


The range of works in the exhibition give insight into the considered use of scale, material, and “the readymade” in Gupta’s oeuvre. Selected pieces will be on display in conversation with the Monnaie’s permanent collection of metal artifacts to encourage reflection on the medium of metal both in terms of its symbolic value as well as the technical and artistic skill required to manipulate and bring meaning to it.

The exhibition is organized in 6 sections :
- The language of the ordinary
- Insatiable god
- There is always cinema
- The gods are in the kitchen
- Travel and exile
- Celestial bodies
An exhibition under the curatorship of Camille Morineau, Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Monnaie de Paris and Mathilde de Croix, exhibition curator at the Monnaie de Paris.

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Exhibition booklet EN | pdf | 62 Ko |
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