T. V. Santhosh

Guild Gallery, Mumbai
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

 

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is wear with associated paint loss to the edges of the upper left corner, and further wear to the left turnover edge beneath this and to the top edge 10cm. in from the upper right corner. Scattered hairline tension cracks are visible along the top and right extreme turnover edges. No restoration is apparent under ultraviolet light.
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"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 a universal significance and vice versa. Making 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 work deals with the kind of devised 'glimpse' of a much larger, unresolved stories of immediate happenings." 

the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, London, Grosvenor Gallery, T.V. Santhosh - False Promises, 2005, n.p