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Jitish Kallat
(1974)

Autosaurus Tripous



Jitish Kallat calls the streets of Mumbai, the city of his birth, his “unofficial academy”, with the texture of life in a metropolis deeply informing his work. The artist has said, “...the overcrowded and media-saturated street festooned with billboards, provided me with my themes as well as my artistic language.” (Artist quoted in Deepak Ananth, “Delirious Entropy”, June Y Gwak, Yulhee Kim, Dang Dan eds., Jitish Kallat: 365 Lives, Seoul:...



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Jitish Kallat
Autosaurus Tripous

2007
Resin, paint, steel, brass
53.25 x 102 x 66.25 in (135 x 259 x 168 cm)

Third from a limited edition of three and one artist's proof

PROVENANCE
Acquired from Albion, London
Property from an Important European Collection

EXHIBITED
Jitish Kallat: Unclaimed Baggage, London: Albion, 10 October - 19 November 2007 (another from the edition)
Sweatopia, Mumbai: Chemould Prescott Road, 8 December 2007 - 4 January 2008 (another from the edition)
Jitish Kallat: Aquasaurus, Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 25 October - 20 December 2008 (another from the edition)
India Contemporary, The Hague: GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 28 March - 21 June 2009 (another from the edition)
Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 31 May - 8 December 2012 (another from the edition)
Here After Here, New Delhi: NGMA, 14 January - 14 March 2017 (another from the edition)

PUBLISHED
Jitish Kallat: Unclaimed Baggage, London: Albion, 2007, cover and pp. 69, 71-75, 77-79, 81-82 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Jitish Kallat: Aquasaurus, Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 2008, p. 18 (illustrated, another from the edition)
India Contemporary, The Hague: GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009, cover and pp. 32-35 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Tami Freiman-Katz and Rotem Ruff eds., Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2012, p. 104 (illustrated, another from the edition)
Here After Here, New Delhi: NGMA, 2017, pp. 46-47 (illustrated, another from the edition)

Category: Sculpture
Style: Unknown


 


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