An acrylic on canvas with cloth appliqui on AIDS by New Delhi-based artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra went under the hammer for USD 234,252 at Sotheby's auction.
BEIJING: An acrylic on canvas with cloth appliqui on AIDS by New Delhi-based artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra went under the hammer for HKD 1,820,000 (USD 234,252) at Sotheby's auction of Asian paintings here.
The total sale recorded last night was HKD 117,117,500 (USD 15,074,193) while about 40 per cent of the lot went unsold.
'I Prefer My Man Covered Too' was part of the duo's first exhibition in New York that addressed the problem of HIV and AIDS in India.
Thukral and Tagra use contemporary viral marketing tools, social conscious branding and super graphics. The title itself is a play on words imitating the slogans of contemporary advertising.
The project presented a range of probable solutions for HIV awareness in India by exploring different avenues for the dissemination of information to the vast population of India.
Jagannath Panda's acrylic 'The Desirescape II" fetched HKD 680,000. The artist from Orissa presents a vision of the quiet rural idyll inhabited by goats and cows being invaded by developers' cranes and diggers.
The consumer driven dream of the wealthy middle class urban family is represented by the pristine white cubes of modern flats on the skyline but the flaws in the dream are only too evident in the polluting pools of effluent and oil that leak into the surrounding lush landscape, where signs of further development encroach even upon the polluted wastelands left by the previous urban expansion.
'Together for Life Whether We Like it or Not', an oil and acrylic work on canvas by Chintan Upadhyay where he uses the taboo subject of Siamese twins to highlight the potential malfunction in the cloning process of the designer baby, went under the hammer for HKD 1,100,000.
Jitish Kallat's 'Rickshawpolis - 3', an acrylic on canvas with bronze gargoyles, sold for HKD 1,460,000. The painting addresses some of the classic themes of art: birth, death, survival and the endless narratives of human struggle.
'In God's Name', where T V Santhosh focuses on his preoccupation with the distortion of science and technology into monstrous tools of destruction, the laboratory and the battlefield which become the venues for his paintings, fetched HKD 1,460,000.
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