T.V. Santhosh at Saatchi Gallery, London

The Guild is pleased to announce the participation of T. V. Santhosh works in the exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. Do look up Saatchi Gallery site for viewing the works.

The Empire Strikes Back:
Indian Art Today
29th January - 7th May 2010

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/the-new-india.htm


T.V. Santhosh
Tracing An Ancient Error
2007
Oil on canvas
122 x 183 cm
Employing the themes of war and global terrorism, South Indian artist T.V. Santhosh paints in lurid greens and shocking orange, recreating the effect of a colour photographic negative. The artist charges his large canvases with figures in contoured and compromising positions. Like many of his politically motivated contemporaries, Santhosh lifts pivotal episodes from recent history and renegotiates their appearance with a shock-bulb of violent energy that eclipses the work. Santhosh’s paintings of impending doom, a world at the brink of an atomic end, are intentionally more apocalyptic than cathartic. Tracing an Ancient Error is an illuminated work of what appears to be a bearded man lain out, revealing his chest, holding onto something resembling a thread. An image from recent news events, Santhosh captures this scene and reinvents its value as a piece of anonymous and charged history.

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T.V. Santhosh Tracing An Ancient Error 2007 Oil on canvas 122 x 183 cm

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna, January 22 - February 15, 2010

T.V. Santhosh

BLOOD AND SPIT
T. V. SANTHOSH

Essays by

Shaheen Merali

Brigitte Ulmer

Alexander Keefe

Santhosh S.

Hardbound

148 pages with more than 85 colour plates
Pages with text 32

Publishers The Guild and Jack Shainman Gallery

Blood and Spit, a new volume on T. V. Santhosh covers works from 2007 to 2009, encompassing works from four of his solos – Blood and Spit, Living with a Wound, A Room to Pray and Countdown. The publication includes essays by prominent writers, cultural theorists and art critics- Shaheen Merali, Brigitte Ulmer, Alexander Keefe and Santhosh S.

T.V. Santhosh’s works have been exhibited at many international art galleries and museums. Some of his prominent museum shows are Dark Materials curated by David Thorp, India Xianzai, MOCA, Shanghai, China, Passage to India, Part II: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, at Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK and Continuity and Transformation, Museum show, by Provincia di Milano Italy.

While T.V. Santhosh’s work is conceptually based, Santhosh’s use of deeply saturated colour and fluid edges bring the viewer to an elevated state of mind and adds an unnerving quality to the paintings. The tightness of the frame and forcibly close vantage point harkens back to the film noir genre bringing the viewer to a reflective state. His images depict chaos and paranoia relating to current media coverage of contemporary events. His exploration demonstrates a reality on the verge of explosion as if time had been stopped. Simultaneously, the work is profoundly human and cerebral. Although the paintings are extremely current, they have become universal as we live with an over saturation of imagery and rapid exchanges of ideas. People of all contexts and backgrounds can relate to their pictorial approach.

Price Rs. 2,500/- + postage Rs. 500/- in India.

International USD 58 + USD 20 for supply.

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna

Ribbed Routes - G.R. Iranna

The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Ribbed Routes by G.R. Iranna from January 22 - February 15 2010.