Manav Gupta
Manav Gupta is an Indian contemporary artist known for his paintings, installations and large-scale public art projects on environment consciousness and sustainable development. He has reinvented the identity of rural Indian clay pottery and redeployed various other material like construction scrap to create site specific, contemporary art and environmental installations and sculptures. He has been acknowledged as one of the most versatile and erudite contemporary artists to come from India and is widely regarded as a 'maverick genius' and a 'visionary'.
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1967
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