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The duo of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra dabble in both fine and commercial art, design, production and application. Their collaborative work extends over a wide range of genres and media including painting, sculpture, installation, video art, music, graphic design, product design and interior design, and addresses several issues facing the growing urban population of India.

"The production of Thukral & Tagra [as they have branded... The duo of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra dabble in both fine and commercial art, design, production and application. Their collaborative work extends over a wide range of genres and media including painting, sculpture, installation, video art, music, graphic design, product design and interior design, and addresses several issues facing the growing urban population of India.

"The production of Thukral & Tagra [as they have branded themselves] strives for a rootless cosmopolitanism, an instigation to infect all manner of communication with an unexpected sparkle, in the process making life more marvellous. This strategy, inherently democratic, allows for both the most rarified of products (the unique painting) to co-exist with the most humble (stickers and buttons given away for free). Commodification is piously acknowledged and then made into a mockery of itself ("I Shop Therefore I Am")" (Peter Nagy, "The Alluring Snare of Deceptive Scenographies", Thukral & Tagra, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia exhibition catalogue, 2008, p. 9).

The present lot, an almost monochromatic diptych, offers a graphic representation of the two artists as their "signature video-game logo-types" surrounded by a tangled mass of motifs seen previously in the decals of their brand identity 'Bosedk', ranging from barstools and bananas to guns and gramophones. Through this cloud that seems on the verge of smothering them, the artists interrogate the notion of oversaturation - in production, consumption, and the images and goods we are constantly bombarded with.

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