PAINTER, SCULPTOR ARTIST

Rakesh Kumar Gupta

"Art as language of communication is instinct with the need to express, to evoke or provoke feelings."

Artist Rakesh Kumar Gupta has now surpassed himself. Certainly, his work is crisp and bracing. Look at those robust lines in blue, and that is how he goes from work to almost sculpturesque work. Now, as to the artistic reason for these varied heads: All artistic language, qua expression, is concerned with inducing emotions, attitudes, volitions, connotations, desires, feelings, states of mind and all that- not to describe them so much as to give vent to self. So that art as language of communication is instinct with the need to express, to evoke or provoke feelings. Each head here has a distinct, expressive pictorial meaning. Each is a stimulus to the viewer. By oblique references, tones, visual color, imagery and other artistic devices the artist conjures in our minds vivid sensations. Such is the purpose of the work. These particular heads may be defined as pregnant with meanings in which the response (from the viewer’s point of view), or else the stimulus (from the artist’s poin...
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Artist Biodata

Rakesh Kumar Gupta born in 1960, Delhi; Qualified with MA – Drawing & Paintings. His Participation: State, National & International level exhibitions, organized by LKA, AIFACS, SKP & a few other organizations since 1986, including -1994 – Triennale India, by LKA, Delhi; 1994 – Exhibition on Drug Abuse, by UNDCP-UN Information center, Delhi. Solo Exhibitions – 1994 – 97 – 2009 – Dhoomimal Art Centre, Delhi; 1999 – Art Indus, Delhi; 2003 – In Hong Kong. Group Shows – Did many shows including – 2018 -India Art Festival, Mumbai, by Pioneer Art Gallery; 2016 – Affordable Art Fair, Singapore by Art Gallie; 2015 – India Art Fair, Head Show, Delhi; 2011 – Portrait of an Artist; 2000 – ‘The Millennium Mask; 2003 – ‘Kites’-Celebration of Freedom, All by Dhoomimal Art Center, Delhi; 1998 – Husband & Wife show; 1999- `Art&Cinema’; 1999 – Group show at Cork Street, London, all by Aarushi Arts, Delhi. Awards: 1987 – All India Youth Art Exhibition, Calcutta; 1989 – Yuva Mahotsava, by SKP, Delhi; 1989 -MF Hussain Silver Medal in All India Youth Art Exhibition, Delhi; 1991 – Honourable Mention in Annual Art Exhibition, by SKP, Delhi; 1996 – Biennale of Indian Drawing by The Solids, Chandigarh; 1999 – All India Exhibition [drawing] by AIFACS, Delhi; 1998-2000 – Jounior fellowship by Ministry of HRD, Govt. Of India; 2001 – First Northern Region Art Exhibition, at Delhi, by Camlin Art Foundation, Mumbai. Camps attended: 2005 – At Gangtok, Sikkim, by LKA, Delhi; 2006 – At Hotel Ashok, by ITDC, Delhi; 2008 – At Scindia School, Gwalior Fort by Pranjal Arts. Charity: 2019 – Art for Odisha, by Metaspace Studio, Delhi traveling show at Delhi, in collaboration with AIFACS, Mumbai, Bangalore; 2001 – Gujrat Relief Fund Show, India Habitat centre, Gallery Freedom; 1997 – People for Animals, Maneka Gandhi. Collections: National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi; Glenbarra Art Museum – Japan, SKP – Delhi, Park Hotel – Delhi & many Private collection in India & Abroad.

Artworks

Head, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU823

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Head, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU820

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Head, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU819

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Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU818

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Head 3, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU817

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Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU816

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Growth 8, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU810

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Growth 9, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU809

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Growth 3, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU808

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Growth 11, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU807

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Growth 4, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU806

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Growth 6, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU805

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Growth 2, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU804

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Growth 5, 2020

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU803

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Untitled, 2016

Fibre

ID: RKHD001

200000

Man & Woman, 2013

Acrylic on Canvas

ID: RKGU5091

50000

Drawing, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU2354

30000

Woman, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU824

30000

Drawing, 2019

Acrylic on Paper

ID: RKGU2311

30000

Couple, 2017

Acrylic on Canvas

ID: RKGU709

260000

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