Art Basel Hong Kong is nothing short of a labyrinth with nearly 242 galleries and thousands of works on display. “This year under the theme ‘I am a part of all that I have met’, Encounters is an invitation to engage with the multiplicity of art, and an acknowledgment that experience shapes perspective.” I would not have believed it possible …
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 …
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 …