Jitish kallat antumbra
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Installation View, Sperone Westwater, 2018
Born in 1974 in Mumbai, where he lives and works, Jitish Kallat is one of India’s leading contemporary artists. His wide-ranging practice, imbued with autobiographical, political and artistic references, forms a narrative of the cycle of life in a rapidly changing India. Weaving together strands of sociology, biology and archaeology, the artist takes an ironic and poetic look at the altered relationship between nature and culture. Kallat received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai (1996). Kallat has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including “Order of Magnitude” at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2022); “Epicycles,” a survey at Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden (2021); and “Return to Sender” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2020). In 2017, The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, mounted “Here After Here,” a major retrospective of Kallat’s work, which received the India Today Award for Best Solo Exhibition of the Year. The first U
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More recently, Kallat has extended beyond the scope of painting to create sculptures, installations and new media work which have been celebrated for their attention to detail and monumentality. Epilogue (2011) — based on an earlier work, Conditions Apply (2007) — is an assemblage of 22,500 chapattis labelled through months and years, tracing out the 753 lunar cycles that quantify his father’s lifetime, where the chapati in its varying stages of consumption and roundness is symbolic of the moon. His sculptural elements are also used in framing, such as the bronze gargoyles depicting details of the colonial era Victoria Terminus railway station and holding artwork such as Haemoglyphics (Archipelago of Ashes, 2009).
He uses text in several of his works; in The Lie of the Land and Humiliation Tax (2004), he appeals for religious tolerance and fraternity by using the transcript of a speech made by the Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda in 1893 in Chicago. His seminal installation Public Note3 (2011) once again recontextualised Swami Vivekananda’s speech, but this time in
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Jitish Kallat
Indian artist
Jitish Kallat | |
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Jitsh Kallat at the Experimenter Curator's Hub 2015 | |
| Born | (1974-07-14) 14 July 1974 (age 50) Mumbai, India |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Website | https://jitishkallat.com/ |
Jitish Kallat (born 1974, Mumbai) is an Indian contemporary artist.[1] He lives and works in Mumbai, India.[2] Kallat's work includes painting, photography, collages, sculpture, installations and multimedia works. He was the Artistic Director of the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, held in Kochi in 2014.[3] Kallat is currently represented by Nature Morte, New Delhi, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, ARNDT, Berlin and Galerie Daniel Templon in France and Belgium. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the India Foundation for the Arts.[4] He is married to the artist Reena Saini Kallat.[5]
Education
Jitish Kallat was born in 1974 in Mumbai, India.[2] In 1996 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai.[6]
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