T. V. SANTHOSH

One looks at the world through tinted spectacles of news reports, that unroll the stories of massacre of innocents, spectacular highlights of explosions, flux of faces of people who make headlines, spitting the words of hate and arrogance and the kinds of propaganda campaigns that just struggle to hide nothing but truth. It is a strange world exposed and manipulated. A world where, one does not know who the real enemy is, yet ‘terror’ is the common word for both those who resist and those who attack.

 It is one’s extended vision that construct and reshapes the perceptions of the ‘present’. And it is riddled with a number of eternal questions and a couple of ready-made yet elusive solutions, which I am interested with. It is the touch and smell of the ‘present’ I am dealing with in my works, in a process to find a solution, where the praxis of language becomes one with the perceptions of reality.

More recently, I have been appropriating in my works the logic of turning a positive photographic image into its negative. Negative images evoke the inverse aspects of the phenomena. As certain elements get deleted and become unrecognizable, they reveal an event’s hidden implications. In the process, the elements of ‘ local’ lose their specificity, attaining instead an universal significance and vice versa. Marking a shift from my earlier paintings and its linguistic concerns, which dealt with a world as seen through the pages of history that tells its stories through the images of metaphors, my recent works deals with the kind of devised ‘glimpses’ of a much larger, unresolved stories of immediate happenings.

Bio Data

T. V. SANTHOSH  

1968: Born in Kerala

1994: B.F.A in   Sculpture, Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal.

1997: M (Fine) in   Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U, Baroda.

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

1997                 : Kerala Lalit Kala Academy   State Award

1997                 : Inlaks Foundation (Indian)

1997                 : National Scholarship

1997                 : Kanoria   Scholarship

1994                 : Ramkinker Award

1990 to 94        : Viswabharathi Merit   Scholarship.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005        :  “FALSE PROMISES’ at Grosvenor Gallery, London in collabaration with The Guild Art Gallery.      

2004        :  ’UNRESOLVED STORIES’ at Nature Morte in Collabaration with the The Guild Art gallery

2003        :  'ONE HAND CLAPPING/SIREN'- at Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.

1997        :  At Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, MSU, Baroda.

PARTICIPATED SHOWS:

2005     :  Change of Address show at The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai

2004     :  Charity Art Show at India Habitat Centre,Delhi.

2004     :  'A JOURNEY' a Charity Art Show for Passages Breast Cancer Health Project, 
                at gallery Art &Soul, Mumbai.

2004     :  'A TRIBUTE TO BHUPEN KHAKKAR'at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.

2004     :  Group Show, at Viart gallery, Delhi.

2004     :  'Zoom!',Art in Contemporary India,Curated by Nancy Adajania & Luis Serpa, at Culturegest, Lisbon.

2004     :  'GENERATION I' at Saffron Art Gallery in collaboration with The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai,

2004     :  'RED' at Palette Art Gallery, Delhi,

2004     :  'LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD' at Sarjan Art Gallery,Baroda,

2003     :  Saffronart Online Auction & Show ,Mumbai.

2003     :  'Crossing generations: Diverge'-curated by Geeta Kapur & Chaitanya Sambrani, 
                 presented by Chemould  Gallery, at NGMA Mumbai.

2003     :  'NGMA Annual Show' at NGMA, Mumbai.

2003     :  'The Dual Path of Indian Art Today' at Galerie muller & plate,Munchen.

2003     :  'HIGH LIGHTS'-at Sakshi, Mumbai.

2003     :  Group Show, at Sakshi, Bangalore.

2003     :  Works on paper, Saffronart Online show.

2002     :  'ART EDGE'- curated   by   Anupa Mehta, Presented by Fine Art Company, at NGMA, Mumbai & India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

2002     :  'TRANS-FIGURATION'- Curated by Yashodhara Dalmia, Presented By Art Inc, 
	at India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

2002     :  'WORDS AND IMAGES'-by The Guild Art Gallery, at  NGMA, Mumbai.

2002     :  Saffronart  Online  auction.

2002     :  'QUOTABLE   STENCIL'- Curated by  Himanshu Desai, at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.

2002     :  'CROSS CURRENTS' - Curated   by Anupa Mehta , at  Jahangir  Art Gallery.

2002     :  'CREATIVE   SPACE'- by Sakshi Gallery, at India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

2002     :   The Contemporary Asian Art Fair- by The Guild Art Gallery in Singapore.

2002     :  'MELA-A   CARNIVAL   OF   INDIAN ART', Curated  by  Anupa Mehta, RPG Show, at Jehangir Art Gallery.

2002     :  'TRIBUTE   TO   PICASSO'   at The Guild Art Gallery

2002     :  'THE HUMAN   FACTOR' by The Guild Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery.

2001     :  'EXCERPTS FROM MY DIARY PAGES' Curated by Sasha Altaf, at Fine Art Company Gallery?

2001     :  'ENGENDERING IMAGES OF WOMEN' at The Guild Art Gallery.

2001,02,03&04: 'HARMONY SHOW' at Nehru Center.

2000     :  'EXILE AND LONGING' at Lakeeren Art Gallery.

2000     :  Kala Ghoda Show on 'FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS' by The Guild Art Gallery.

1997     :  Group Show; Visual arts Centre, Ahmedabad.

1997     :  Kerala State Exhibition.

1996     :  Bombay Art Society.

1993     :  Group Show; at Birla Academy for Arts and Crafts, Calcutta.

1993     :  AIFACS Exhibition- Delhi.

Lives and works in Mumbai

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