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Selected Works by Jitish Kallat

Jitish Kallat

Public Notice 2

2007
4,479 fibreglass sculptures Dimensions variable

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Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Jitish Kallat, Public Notice 2

Within my practice, 'Public Notice 2' (2007) links up with two key antecedents, 'Public Notice' (2003) and 'Detergent' (2004), both works wherein a historical speech is summoned as the central armature of the work. Blurred and sometimes forgotten due to the passage of time, the historical speech is fore-grounded and held up as an apparatus to grade our feats and follies as nations, as humankind.
'Public Notice 2' (2007) re-invokes the momentous speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of the historic 400-kilometer 'Dandi March' lasting about 24 days during the Indian Freedom Struggle. On the 11th of March 1930, prior to setting out to break the brutal Salt Act instituted by the British, Gandhi laid out the codes of conduct for his fellow revolutionaries. He called for complete 'Civil Disobedience'; the only fierce restriction being that of maintaining 'total peace' and 'absolute non-violence'.
The speech has within it several themes that may aid our ailing world, plagued as it is with aggression. In today's terror-infected world, where wars against terror are fought at prime television time, voices such as Gandhi's stare back at us like discarded relics. The entire speech will be constructed out of about 4500 recreations of bones shaped like alphabets. Each alphabet in this speech, like a misplaced relic will hold up the image of violence in clinical clarity even as their collective chorus makes a plea for peace.
Within the Indian context as well, we have the worst instance of subversion of Gandhi's words in the year 2002 within his own home state of Gujarat. The historic 'Dandi March' and the speech were delivered not far from the site where India saw one of the worst communal riots and bloodshed since the Indian Independence.
Jitish Kallat
Mumbai

 

Jitish Kallat

Eruda

2006
Black lead
on fibreglass

419 x 169 x 122 cm

Jitish Kallat, Eruda


Jitish Kallat, Eruda

Jitish Kallat, Eruda
 

Jitish Kallat

Death Of Distance

2007
Black lead on fibreglass, a rupee coin and five lenticular prints

Sculpture 161 cm diameter
Prints 46 x 60 cm


Jitish Kallat, Death Of Distance
 

Jitish Kallat

Death of Distance (details)

2007
Black lead on fibreglass, a rupee coin and five lenticular prints



 

Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance(details)
Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance(details)
Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance(details)
Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance(details)
Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance(details)
Jitish Kallat, Death of Distance
 

Jitish Kallat

Annexe

2006
Black lead, fibreglass, stainless steel base

(Including the base) 145 x 46 x 46 cm


Jitish Kallat, Annexe
 

Jitish Kallat

Untitled (Eclipse)
(and two details)

2007
Acrylic on canvas, triptych

213 x 500 cm

Jitish Kallat, Eclipse
Jitish Kallat, Eclipse
Jitish Kallat, Eclipse
 

Jitish Kallat

Rickshawpolis 4
(and detail)

2006
Acrylic on canvas with bronze gargoyles

178 x 274 cm

 


Jitish Kallat, Rickshawpolis 4

Jitish Kallat, Rickshawpolis 4
 

Jitish Kallat

Untitled (Eclipse) 3

2007
Acrylic on canvas, triptych

274 x 518 cm


Jitish Kallat, Untitled (Eclipse) 3
 

Jitish Kallat

Untitled (Eclipse) 5

2008
Acrylic on canvas, triptych

229 x 518 cm


Jitish Kallat, Untitled (Eclipse) 5
 



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