Aarti Gupta Bhadauria is the talk of the art world of Bangalore these days. Aarti, who creates abstract artistic sculptures in terracotta, had a solo exhibition titled ‘Wave of Feeling’ at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad’s Gallery No-3 from 1st July to 5th July which was a success. Guests Of The Honor were Mr. Subramanya MR (Vice President, Siemens Technology), Ms. Kamala Naganand (Managing Partner Aarna Law), Ms. SpandanaAshwath (Advocate, Aarna law), and Mr. G. Subramanian (Eminent Artist). Aarti Gupta Bhadauria, who has been honored with many national and international awards and honors, has not only received great response from art connoisseurs, but her expensive artworks have also found buyers.
Aarti, who originally belongs to Gwalior, has had a special interest in sculpture since her student days and decided to choose it as a career after intermediate. So in 2004 she graduated in Fine Art from the Government Institute of Fine Arts, Gwalior and learned the finer points of sculpture.
During her college, she won the prestigious Sri DP Sharma Open Sculpture Competition twice and participated in several national camps. In 2006 she was selected twice for the International Sculptors Symposium at ITM Universe Gwalior and was encouraged by the then Governor Shri Balram Jakhar. Till the year 2009 she exhibited her sculptures in Delhi, Bhopal and Indore and received great appreciation from senior artists. One of her sculptures is still among the top female artists of Madhya Pradesh in the collection of Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal.
Aarti moved to Bengaluru with her husband Abhinandan Bhadauria after marriage in November 2009 and kept alive her passion for sculpture and continued to hone her skills of shaping ideas, concepts, emotions from clay. Aarti has so far exhibited her art at many national and international platforms where she has received appreciation, honors and awards from distinguished connoisseurs. Till now Aarti’s sculpture has been mainly exhibited at Garrison Art Center New York, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal, Jawahar Kala Kendra Jaipur, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Mumbai, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad Bangalore, Art Haus Bangalore, Durbar Hall Gallery Kochi and many reputed online platforms.
Aarti has received many international awards among them are three ‘Best in Show’ and three ‘Judges’ Choice’ awards from the Contemporary Art Gallery, USA. In March 2023, she received the ‘Best in Show Award’ from Gallery Omata, USA. The Light Space Time Gallery, USA selected Aarti as one of its Top 3D (Three Dimensional) Artists in the March, October 2022 and March 2023 competitions as well as among best artists in September 2022 for the Solo Art Showcase category.
TheArtist.com USA awarded Aarti an ‘Honorable Mention’ in its ‘Artist of the Month’ competition in March 2022, while she received second place in July 2022. In August 2022, she was selected for the ‘Public Choice’ Award at the Diversia-UN Calendar Exhibition hosted by Exhibition, Canada. Aarti was the only Indian among 69 artists selected for the 2022 Biennial smallWorks International Exhibition by the Garrison Art Center in New York. Her artwork was featured in the January 2023 issue of Canada’s Artistonist International magazine.
At the same time, she was selected for the 61st National Exhibition 2020 by the Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi and for the National Exhibition ‘Rang Amir 2022’ by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Received ‘Artist of The Year 2019’ Award from SACF Goa and Art Maestro-2018 “Highly-Recommended” Award from WWAN Kerala. Art Illustrated magazine in 2019 and Art Affairs magazine in 2022 published a feature on her. The Indian Achievers Forum honored her with the Indian Achievers Award 2022-23 for her achievements in the field of arts.
Crafting artistic sculptures is not an easy task. It is actually an abstract art in which the artist does not have a fixed model in front of her, but she has to shape her feelings and emotions imaginatively. This is the reason why it takes months to prepare each sculpture. Aarti says that it takes up to six months for her to prepare one sculpture. That’s why Aarti’s artwork reflects her thoughts, attitudes, feelings and skills. Sculptures are unique in that they present different images when viewed from different angles. It does not have to be kept upside-down, even if it is kept, it attracts from every angle.
If you look at Aarti’s family background, her inclination towards art can be understood. Actually the business of Aarti’s father and brothers is also connected with creativity somewhere. Her elder brother Vikas Gupta has a designer clothes showroom named ‘Kalaratnam’ in Gwalior city centre. At the same time, younger brother Abhishek Gupta’s designer bamboo furniture under the name ‘Planet Art’ and children’s designer clothes under the name ‘Abhishree Creation’ have showrooms in Gwalior City Centre.
