by Onasill ~ Bill Badzo

SJMA to Current Jitish Kallat: Epilogue Sep six ‘2013’ to Apr 20 ‘2014’

About the Table: food, creativity, neighborhood

SAN JOSE, California (August 2013)– The San Jose Museum of Artwork will kick off its multi-stage exhibition Around the Table: food, creativity, community with the perform of internationally acclaimed artist JitishKallat. In JitishKallat: Epilogue, on see September six, 2013 – April twenty, 2014, the Mumbai-based artist honors his late father by way of a deeply personal installation. Epilogue (2010-11) comprises 753 photographs that depict progressively eaten roti, the round, conventional South Asian flatbread. Each roti represents 1 of the 22,500 moons that have been in the sky throughout Kallat’s father’s 62-yr lifespan.

“JitishKallat focuses on universal themes of birth, death, survival–what he calls the ‘endless narratives of human struggle,'” explained Susan Leask, interim senior curator at SJMA. “In Epilogue, he pays respect to his father, with whom he undoubtedly shared a lot of roti all around the loved ones table. Kallat reminds viewers of life’s all-natural ebb and flow and of the issues that nourish us–bread, the workers of lifefamily and celestial rhythms.”

Kallat will communicate about his perform at the India Local community Center in Milpitas on Thursday, October 3, at eight PM. Tickets will be obtainable at SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.

Close to THE TABLE

JitishKallat: Epilogue is the 1st stage of SJMA’s exhibitionAround the Table: meals, creativity, neighborhood.Thisseries and accompanying festival of routines presented by 31

partnering organizations
celebrate and
check out the part that foods plays
in our lives.
The agricultural bounty
of the region
has brought waves of immigration
(Italian,

Japanese, Portuguese, Mexican, Vietnamese) and shaped a rich background of cultural diversity, which right now we share in element by means of foods. From food trucks to molecular gastronomy, food helps define the Bay Area’s communities. Around the Table unfolds in 3 phases at SJMA this fall, and extends far beyond the Museum’s walls. Thirty partnering organizations are participating in the comprehensive community festival of meals,

creativity, and local community. Actions include gleaning tours, farm visits, performances,
and exhibitions. For a calendar and far more details visit aroundthetable.org.
Participating organizations are: 18 Reasons, San Francisco Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco Café, Too!, San Jose CBRE Home Management Co., San Jose Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), San Francisco City of San José Workplace of Cultural Affairs Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose CommUniverCity, San Jose de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, San Jose Historical past San José India Neighborhood Center, Milpitas KQED Public Media for Northern California Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville Palo Alto Artwork Center Peninsula Open Room Believe in, Palo Alto San José Downtown Association San Jose Institute of Contemporary Artwork San Jose Museum of Quilts &amp Textiles Santa Clara County Farm Bureau 2nd Harvest Meals Financial institution of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, San Carlos SPUR, San Jose Team San Jose Teatro Vision, San Jose The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose Valley Verde, San Jose Veggielution Neighborhood Farm, San Jose and ZERO1, San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF Artwork

The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates new ideas, stimulates creativity, and inspires connection with each visit. Welcoming and believed-provoking, the Museum rejects stuffiness and delights site visitors with its surprising and playful standpoint on the artwork and artists of our time.The San Jose Museum of Art is situated at 110 South Industry Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday via Sunday, 11 PM to 5
Pmand right up until eight PM or later on the third Thursday of each month. Admission is $ eight for adults, $ 5 for students and senior citizens, and totally free to members and kids under
6.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Recent solo exhibitions, have taken spot in galleries in Beijing, London, and Mumbai.
His perform is incorporated in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern day Art, New
Delhi The Artwork Institute of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Artwork, Los Angeles
Singapore Artwork Museum FAAM (Fukuoka Asian Artwork Museum), Japan the Sigg
Assortment, Switzerland and other institutions about the planet.Kallat was a single of the artists highlighted in SJMA’s exhibition Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern day and Modern Art from India in 2010.