Artist Jitish Kallat's exhibition comes to town

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Acclaimed contemporary Artist Jitish Kallat's latest exhibition is in town, reports CNBC-TV18. Whoever thought politics, art and deft craftsmanship no longer go together, hasn't seen Jitish Kallat's labour of love- sweatopia!

 

Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat's name and work should be nothing new for those who are following the contemporary art scene for the last decade. His current show in the city is definitely new in its innovative use of various media and in the way, it becomes a register for different historic moments in the city.

 

So the boy selling books on the traffic signal looms larger than life, a one rupee coin becomes the ironic common factor between two distinct India's inhabited by the haves and the have-nots and the over-burdened flyover wraps and collapses into a motionless circle, almost like a wreath mourning the tragic contrasts of this city. Hope & despair come together like never before to define sweatopia.

 

A life size recreation of an auto rickshaw and an accident hit car with simulated bones further foreground the macabre nature of the city while the grand '365 lives' with 365 close details of dented automobiles appear like visually seductive colour fields showing after 3 years in the city, Kallat has come back with a bang and rightly so, for its the city that's always central to his work.

 

Sweatopia sits across gallery Chemould and gallery Bodhi art in Mumbai till the 4th of January. Like all fine things in life, you can find out the price of each work on request, but going by Kallat's upward climb in the contemporary art market, don't expect it to be anything short of hefty.