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Subodh Gupta

Agnieszka Gratza

This review of Subodh Gupta’s ‘Everything Is Inside’ at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi appeared in frieze: Subodh Gupta, Ray, 2012, stainless steel and stainless-steel utensils, 6 × 4 × 4 m Curated by Germano Celant (with input from Delhi-based gallerist Peter Nagy) ‘Everything is Inside’, Subodh Gupta’s recent retrospective actually began outside of the museum with a monumental installation pointing the way to Jaipur House, the more remarkable of the two buildings in which the exhibition was housed. A cascade of gleaming pots and pans, tiffin boxes and jugs tumbling down from a stainless-steel bucket seemingly suspended in the air, … Continue reading Subodh Gupta

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Performa Through the Senses

Agnieszka Gratza

A review of Performa13: It’s not every day you get to see a saxophone being deep-fried on the High Line. The deed was done when I got there, but the smell of it lingered in the air. (A deep-fried saxophone smells much like anything deep-fried, only more so.) A friend gave me a blow-by-blow account of Jamal Cyrus’s Texas Fried Tenor, borne out by photographic evidence showing the crowd’s reaction to this jaw-dropping event brought to us by Performa, jointly with NYU’s Grey Art Gallery and The Studio Museum in Harlem (as part of the controversial Radical Presence: Black Performance … Continue reading Performa Through the Senses