Kishore Singh: Urban anxieties

Kallat does not set out to please as much to express his own subaltern voice, dictate his actions

Jitish Kallat’s current prestigious exhibition — it has opened at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and has been curated by the highly regarded Catherine David — is accompanied by a media blitz entirely in keeping with the artist’s eclectic career. But reading those accounts, most of them made up of lines extrapolated from press notes, makes one wonder: Does anybody get Kallat and his work? Contemporary artists, at the best of times, can be overwhelming with their social messaging and sub-texts, but Kallat is among the more interesting of his ...

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Kishore Singh: Urban anxieties