Artist Jitish Kallat's 10 most memorable works Jitish Kallat, 49, has used rotis to represent the moon and a fogscreen to play with ideas of hate and harmony, creating a vivid and unique visual vocabulary that deploys the most everyday materials to tell his stories. As Kallat marks his 25th year as an artist, take a look at Riddhi Doshi's …
Renowned Mumbai artist Jitish Kallat is one of 73 artists from 35 countries participating in the ongoing 2022 Bangkok Art Biennale ending this month. So do the two great works of the late legendary Thai artist Montien Boonma, which includes a giant Buddha head and a sanctuary-like “Aarogyasala” in the same temple. “Chaos and Calm” is the symbolic post-Covid theme …
Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:25 IST Every day in 2021, Jitish Kallat woke up and drew something. The resultant drawing filled up one wall, like a huge wallpaper, at Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai as part of Kallat’s solo exhibition, Otherwhile, which ran from December 4, 2022, to January 4, 2023. As a commemorative exhibition, Otherwhile—consisting of painting, sculpture, …
Weaving one’s way through a Jitish Kallat exhibition affords a staggering range of visuals: a mechanical engineering workshop replete with lathe machines and high-speed steel tools, wide canvases with in-line drawings reminiscent of a master of architecture studies, images collapsing into each other to form a numinous whole, and mathematical equations twisting into linear sculptures. “The medium follows the impulse, …
At the Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, a series of 365 drawings can be seen embracing the longest single wall in the gallery. This wallpaper, of sorts, represents artist Jitish Kallat’s Integer Study —it draws forms from three sets of numbers, which algorithmically estimate the human population of the planet at a particular moment, as well as the estimated births and …
At the Norrtalje Konsthall, Sweden, two concurrent solo exhibitions are taking place—of artists Reena Saini Kallat and Jitish Kallat. Norrtälje Konsthall participates in this vital scene by presenting simultaneous solo exhibitions by two of India’s most successful and interesting artists,” writes Helén Hedensjö, director, Norrtälje Konsthall in the exhibition note. “The rotis transform slowly and as each one completes its …