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National Gallery of Modern Art
Subodh Gupta
Everything Is Inside
SUBODH GUPTA, Three Cows, 2003–08. Bronze, chrome, 98 x 252 x 118 cm. Photo by Ravi Ranjan. Courtesy the artist.
Subodh Gupta's art has regularly been hailed as an eloquent paean to the inconspicuous objects—and, through these, the actions and actors—that constitute a "real," often rural, India. On occasion, his work is also positioned as a challenge to society's totemization of these selfsame objects, coming as it does with sardonic titles that undermine their supposed authority and authenticity. A few critics…