Jitish Kallat

Kallat's large-scale canvases tend to be semi autobiographical but hint at more universal themes. Jitish says of his works,  "Although the works are in the manner of a personal diary they are often modelled after and made to simulate the weather beaten walls of a city. The wall is a carrier of graffiti and posters: a public pin-board on which the community displays its emotions and protests. It is like these shared muniments that I choose to make my inscriptions: by giving a public dimension to private records." The works appear to be pictorial quests that seek to answer the riddles of contemporary urban India. Jitish states, "my art is more like a researcher's project who uses quotes rather than an essay, with each painting necessitating a bibliography."