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180 - Jitish KALLAT (India, born 1974) Universal Recipient, 2008 A…
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Jitish KALLAT (India, born 1974) Universal Recipient, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, bronze 249 × 173 cm Signed, dated and titled on the back on the stretcher *** Acrylic on canvas, bronze, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, 98 × 68⅛ in. Painted in 2008. "These paintings of inhabitants carrying cascades of stories on their heads become double portraits: a simultaneous portrait of the city and its inhabitant," writes Kallat. In the Universal Recipient series, the artist erects monumental icons of Mumbai's security guards - migrant workers dressed in uniforms that resemble dress generals, guarding the city's most opulent enclaves while remaining among its most precarious inhabitants. Their hair - which Kallat calls urban turban - forms a labyrinth of silhouettes, vehicles and street scenes, a simultaneous double portrait of the man and the city that inhabits him. Two bronze supports in the shape of owls, replicas of the sculpted ornaments of Victoria Terminus station, anchor the work in the symbolic topography of Mumbai. Born in Mumbai in 1974, Jitish Kallat lives and works in the city. Trained at the Sir J.J. School of Art (BFA, 1996), since 2000 he has been developing a multidisciplinary practice - painting, photography, sculpture and installation - centred on time, memory and the human condition. His work takes as its starting point the urban reality of Mumbai, from which he extracts visual systems linking the everyday to the cosmological. In the series *Universal Recipient* (2008), anonymous figures from the city - guards, passers-by - are monumentalised into hybrid portraits in which the individual and the metropolis merge. Her photographic and luminous works subject ordinary materials, particularly food, to scientific imaging techniques to generate images that evoke celestial phenomena, establishing connections between the human body, food and the cosmos. His work has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Art, and in 2017 a major retrospective, *Here After Here 1992-2017*, was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
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About the sale Arab, African & Indian Modernities
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:30 PM
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