MUMBAI.- Following book launches in Kochi, Delhi and Dubai, on the 23rd of April 2019 an elaborate monographic book covering 25 years of Jitish Kallat’s artistic journey will be launched in his home-city Mumbai.

Entitled Jitish Kallat, this specially commissioned monograph commemorates a retrospective exhibition of Kallat’s work at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, in 2017 curated by Catherine David.

Jitish Kallat will be in conversation with filmmaker Anand Gandhi and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote.

Detail: Date: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 6 PM, Visitor’s Center, CSMVS Museum Mumbai

One of South Asia’s most compelling artists, Jitish Kallat has built an immersive practice, ranging from ideas of time, recursion and historical recall to deliberations on the cosmopolis and the intertwined spheres of ecology and cosmology. The curator of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2014, his work has been exhibited widely at museums and institutions worldwide. Kallat’s vast oeuvre—spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and installation—reveals his commitment to unveiling the meditative concerns of the self, often simultaneously situating the metropolis while also relating to the cosmic.

This specially commissioned monograph commemorates a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, in 2017. A collection of illustrations map the contours of Kallat’s expansive corpus of artworks, exhibition displays and found imagery, exploring the visual culture from which the artist initiates his wide-ranging processes and activates an accumulating personal archive.

Edited by Natasha Ginwala and featuring an extensive interview with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, this volume includes essays and conversations involving curators, art historians as well as scholars in the fields of social theory and science.

Published in association with Nature Morte, New Delhi, Galerie Templon, Paris, and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

With contributions by Natasha Ginwala, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ranjit Hoskote, Girish Shahane, Dilip Chitre, Suhanya Raffel, Dilip Gaonkar, Jyoti Dhar, Bernardo Kastrup, and Shumon Basar.

Forthcoming launch event: May 2019 – NEW YORK @ Sperone Westwater - Conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jitsh Kallat