Shilpa Gupta
Untitled (Jailed poets drawing)
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:21:00 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Shilpa Gupta
b. 1976
Untitled (Jailed poets drawing)
Executed in 2018.
Tracing on paper, wood
Edition 1 of 3 + 2 artist's proofs
8 5/8 x 12 x 1 1/8 in. (21.9 × 30.5 × 2.9 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Throughout her three-decade career, Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, Mumbai, India; lives in Mumbai) has examined how the processes of classification and censorship have been impacted by nationalism, commerce, and notions of security. Informed by Gupta’s keenly felt minimalist aesthetic, this exquisitely drawn work refers to the Turkish writer Aziz Nesin (1915–1995), who was jailed several times for his political views. Gupta’s work was included in the MCA exhibition Enter the Mirror (2022–23), and she has been the subject of solo presentations at international institutions, including a current exhibition at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai; Centro Botín, Santander, Spain; Amant, Brooklyn; Barbican, London; Dallas Contemporary; and M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, among others. In 2019, Gupta was part of the 58th Venice Biennale.