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22 August - 13 September 2008
at The Guild (new space)

02/32, 2nd floor, Kamal Mansion, Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005.

Forthcoming
ShContemporary, Shanghai

T.V .SANTHOSH

COUNTDOWN

24th January - 16th February, 2008

at NATURE MORTE

A-1, Neeti Bagh, New Delhi

T.V Santhosh’s paintings have earned him front-place amongst the generation of Indian artists that emerged during the late 1990’s. His art is attentive to the specific idioms of contemporary global conflict, to the diabolical pact between knowledge and terror and the skewed antagonism between puissant globality and weakened locality. The distinctive stylistic treatment, which makes Santhosh’s paintings recognizable without being predictable, subsumes three cardinal elements: first, a mode of representation that has erroneously been termed photo-realism; second, a tuning of chromatic scale that tends to the near-monochrome, or more often, bi-chrome; and third, an incremental transfiguration of the material, by degree and detail, that is all the more shocking for its unobtrusiveness with a mysterious undertone. He has been part of several group shows in the United States, India, Germany and Portugal and New York. He lives and works in Mumbai.