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 …
