Manav Gupta

Manav Gupta[9](born 29 December 1967) is an artist from India who has pioneered collaborative art as performances[10] and mega murals. He has co-opted his art practices in paintings, poetry, music and sound to create one-minute films on climate change,[11] sustainable development,[12] ecosystems and alternate energy for public service messages commissioned by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India (2005–2006,2011).

Manav Gupta
Born	(1967-12-29) 29 December 1967 Kolkata, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	Academy of Fine Arts
Known for	Conceptual art, installation art, Painting,[1] Murals,[2] Performance[3] Short Films,[4] Sculptures, Poetry
Notable work	Five floor(10,000 sqft)Tree of Life mural,[5] at Airtel campus[6] (2010) Indo Bhutan Friendship Mural(2011) One-minute Films as public service messages for Ministry of Environment,Govt. of India(2006)[7]
Movement	Performance Art Jugalbandi,[8] Collaborative Public Art
Awards	First Painter to get the Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti by French Ambassador (2006)

He has won international acclaim for his first of its kind six floor high 5000 sq ft in facade and 10000 sq ft of total painted surface, commissioned mega mural[13] at the headquarters of leading telecom corporate giant in Gurgaon near Delhi,India in 2010, where he painted Live for three months while involving thousands of employees’ brush strokes in his creation[14] "The Tree of Life".[15] The Tree of Life is the tallest and largest three-dimensional indoor staircase mural[16] by artist Manav Gupta. It covers approximately 5,000 sq ft of visible frontage through a glass façade and 10,000 sq ft of total painted surface. Its significance lies in the methodology of creation as a work of contemporary art, with the first of its kind simultaneous use of four different art practices in conceptual, site specific, collaborative and performance art.[17]

When commissioned by Bharti Airtel Ltd to create a "staircase artwork"[18] at their headquarters, the artist introduced a unique sustainable development process in corporate entity, by establishing that art can contribute to the business environment as well, by refreshing the intangible quality of its soft power among employees. Adding a collaborative dimension, he conceptualised the mural as a public art project by allowing thousands of employees the experience of putting brush strokes. In the process, a series of role plays of teaching and motivating employees took effect as performance art. In the second half of the project, a three dimensional site specific composition took shape. With Gupta working solo all through the day, live in front of 3500 employees and almost as many visitors at the corporate campus site, the mural took three months to complete as an evolving storyline of five elements in Nature. Keeping in mind the visibility of the staircase all over the campus through a 60 ft high glass facade,[19] the site specific intervention amalgamated the background wall and the front face of the staircase perspectives of five floors into a single canvas merging surrounding sides and roof within one composition.

He has pioneered co-creation with his "Jugalbandis" (Collaborations) with leading musicians,poets,dancers including Dr.L.Subramanium,[20] Shubha Mudgal, Anup Jalota,[21] Rahul Sharma[22] where he translates a performing artist's oveure LIVE on stage on canvas(2003–2011).He has co authored a book of poems and paintings with former President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,published by Penguin India.(2002–2005).