aquasaurus

Aquasaurus paint, resin, steel Jitish Kallat, 2008 At first I thought this piece by Indian artist Jitish Kallat was an oil tanker truck, and that it represented some sort of play on "fossil fuels" (and perhaps the morbidity of the behemoth domestic auto companies). But apparently that was my American bias at work. It's actually a water tanker, entitled Aquasaurus, and it represents the rapid transformation of urban India: Aquasaurus is a monumental seven-metre long skeletal sculpture of a water-tanker morphing to become prehistoric creature that personifies the radical transformation of…