28 March 2013, 10:55 AM IST
Artprice.com gives us a chart that looks at popularity of Indian contemporary artists under 40 and Mumbai-based Jitish Kallat tops the list while Raqib Shaw of London comes a close second followed by Thukral and Tagra.
Jitish Kallat is among the most exciting and dynamic Asian artists to have received international recognition in recent years. He works across a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and installation, his work reflects a deep involvement with the city of his birth (Mumbai) and derives much of its visual language from his immediate urban environment. His subject matter has been described previously as 'the dirty, old, recycled and patched-together fabric of urban India'. Wider concerns include India's attempts to negotiate its entry into a globalised economy, addressing housing and transportation crises, city planning, caste and communal tensions, and government accountability.
Many of Kallat's works focus on Mumbai's downtrodden or dispossessed inhabitants, though treating them in a bold, colourful and highly graphic manner. His greatest works have been his series of 'Dawn Chorus' paintings, for example, depicts the street urchins who take advantage of red traffic lights to sell books to commuters in Mumbai. Rather than focusing on their reduced circumstances, Kallat celebrates their resilience and their enterprising spirit.
Traumanama (The Cry of the Gland)
Then there is Kashmiri roots but Calcutta born Raqib Shaw who is a London dweller and known for his historic work Garden of Earthly Delights. His paintings are fantasy worlds of animals and mythical creatures. Pulsing with suggestions of violence and eroticism, these works are rendered with extraordinary flair and detail. A vast range of sources, from English literature and Renaissance painting to Japanese kimono and Chinese cloisonné techniques, informs Shaw's hybrid imagery. Its visual opulence comes from the artist's unique process, which involves building up surfaces with stained glass paint and enamel, which is then teased into shape with a porcupine quill and finished with gems, glitter and rhinestones. This is so laborious a process that the paintings take months, even years, for Shaw to complete. These works reveal both the artist's highly resourceful imagination and his singular, innovative commitment to the process of painting.
Raqib Shaw, Untitled
Based in New Delhi, artists Thukral and Tagra work collaboratively under the alias Thukral & Tagra (T&T), bring a fresh wave of visual experimentation by fusing Indian, Japanese and Western pop icons into cheeky visual puns targeted at overblown contemporary lifestyles.
Cult design Wallpaper magazine named T&T among the top 101 emerging designers of the world, GQ magazine hailed them as style icons, who created an exclusive line of bags and clothing for Puma, Benetton and designed Pepsi cans.
Thukral and Tagra; Psycho Acoustics 01
T&T's art has found favour with celebrity collectors; Elton John trekked all the way to Sydney to purchase a steel dome painted with nostalgic childhood references and hedge fund billionaire and collector extraordinaire, Frank Cohen bought mock-trophy busts of Punjabi lads adorned in popular, foreign labels.
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