For years there has been a general consensus on the distinct nature of art and sciences Yet In Jitish Kallatrsquos ambitious new exhibition at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum they find commonality Presented by the Museum and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art KNMA and supported by the Saat Saath Arts Foundation and Nature Morte Jitish Kallat Conjectures on a Paper Sky was conceived as an evolving exhibition by the artist
alongside Dr Alexandra Munroe senior curator at Large Global Arts Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation New YorkEpicycles 202125 is a doublesided multiscopic photo series capturing the ephemerality of timeAiming for the MoonFirst presented at the Centre for Contemporary Art Bikaner House Delhi in February the exhibition has been lsquoreconfiguredrsquo for Mumbai Spread across the Museum Plaza Special Projects
Spaces and the main building the works were developed over a decade At the heart of it all is the Moon After all the showcase takes its name from a tenpart suite of paintings sparked by Project A119 mdash a 1950s American proposal for a nuclear test on the MoonMoon Treaty 2025 This collection of 53 sculptural forms is derived from a United Nations Agreement and will be placed in the Central Hall of the Museum beside
the statue of Prince AlbertKallat admits ldquoThe Moon appears through very different forms of human imagination a Cold War proposal to detonate a nuclear device on its surface and an international treaty imagining how we might share responsibility for itrdquo Dr Munroe elaborates ldquoWorking at the intersection of science historical memory and existential inquiry he Kallat renders the planetary as a shared yet
uneven condition provoking both awe before cosmic vastness and an acute awareness of our precarityrdquoFeb 21 Integer Study drawing from life 2021 This series features 365 drawings that were created daily starting from three algorithmic numbers mdash the global population at a said point births and deaths recorded till that momentExpanding on spaceThis examination finds form through diverse mediums the 53 sculptural
forms of the Moon Treaty 2025 mdash derived from the 1979 United Nations agreement about nationsrsquo activities on the Moon mdash to be displayed in the Museum Hall paintings like Lunar Redux 202426 Epicycles 202125 and the 365 original drawings of Integer Study drawing from life 2021 mdash a new element for the Mumbai iteration mdash to name a fewWind Study Hilbert Curve 2022 expands on Kallatrsquos extensive
engagement with drawing as an elemental and durational processExplaining the Integer Study works the artist says ldquoTowards the end of 2020 I found myself returning daily to an online population estimator which became my browserrsquos homepage On January 1 2021 I noted three figureshellip the estimated global population births and deaths that day and felt the impulse to draw This became a daily ritual for the
entire yearrdquo he elaboratesDr Alexandra MunroeCuratorial discretionThe disparate works are bound by a historical thread The artist shares ldquoAn exhibition allows you to discover relationships between works that were made separately sometimes years apartrdquo The colonial history of the Museum will lend a new perspective to creations As the new president of the Kochi MuzirisBiennale sums up ldquoIrsquom
interested in how something quite precise mdash a number a historical document a scientific proposition mdash can open into something much less settledrdquoFROM November 14 to February 14 10 am to 530 pmAT Dr BDL Museum Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo complex Byculla EastENTRY Museum tickets apply
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