Jitish Kallat
(1974)
Onomatopoeia (The Scar Park)
Writing about another room-sized set of photographs by Jitish Kallat, art historian and critic Deepak Ananth explains "Displayed in serried ranks in a grid like structure, the framed, identically sized images appear to be a series of pictorial abstractions, variations on a brilliant color scheme, each 'unit' distinguished by the particular quality of its surface marking… Kallat has described the work as an inventory of daily quakes in urban...
Writing about another room-sized set of photographs by Jitish Kallat, art historian and critic Deepak Ananth explains "Displayed in serried ranks in a grid like structure, the framed, identically sized images appear to be a series of pictorial abstractions, variations on a brilliant color scheme, each 'unit' distinguished by the particular quality of its surface marking… Kallat has described the work as an inventory of daily quakes in urban existence, a seismographic record of a city's erratic heartbeat" (Deepak Ananth, "Delirious Entropy", Jitish Kallat: 365 Lives, Arario Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2007, p.14). Talking about his practice Kallat explains "I am interested in bringing together two or three contradictory elements, letting them snowball and gather meanings beyond their individual bandwidth." This approach is apparent in the present lot, where the viewer is bombarded with multiple images, each beholding a story, but together presenting a different narrative. This tool has also enabled Kallat to traverse multiple paths in a nuanced fashion, addressing his multiple concerns about globalization, culture, technology and the Indian urbanscape among others.
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AUTUMN ART AUCTION
24-25 SEPTEMBER 2013
Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000
Rs 15,25,000 - 21,35,000
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$26,400
Rs 16,10,400
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Jitish Kallat
Onomatopoeia (The Scar Park)
Signed and dated in English (verso)
2005
Photographic pigment prints on Hahnemuhle Photorag Archival Paper
15.5 x 21 in (each) 38.75 x 52.5 cm (each)
From a limited edition of five
(Set of sixty-eight)
PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist, 2006
EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED: Jitish Kallat: Unclaimed Baggage, Albion, London, 2007 (another from the edition) EXHIBITED: Bring Me A Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster Univeristy, St. Louis, 2010 Rickshawpolis - 3, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2007 (another from the edition) Passages: Contemporary India, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2006-07 PUBLISHED: Jitish Kallat: Rickshawpolis and other Mythologies, Nature Morte, Bose Pacia, 2007
Category: Photography
Style: Landscape