Sudarshan Shetty: 11 works

'Shetty seems to juxtapose objects to create dichotomies -- male and female, death and life, sacred and profane. He thus invites the viewer to create a third reality.'

'By adding motion Shetty makes the act of fornication something the viewer cannot avoid seeing.'

'The artist suggests, 'With my installations, I think the roles of onlooker and object become reversed.'Movement is an integral part of Shetty's work; and he often chooses to use old-fashioned and antiquated machinery.'

'This is the work that took centre stage in Sudarshan Shetty's 2006 exhibition Love. In this installation, Shetty makes use of two iconic symbols: the fibreglass cast of a 1972Jaguar car which is the symbol of luxury, and a relic from the past, a dinosaur, made of steel plates.'

'As Shetty says, 'Love begins with a basic human emotion, and at the other end of the spectrum it's also a marketable phenomenon.'1 Using a Brailler to type the text, Shetty uses an international symbol of blindness to restate the cliché, 'love is blind'.'

'Shetty converses with the memory-image that has entered public consciousness.'

'"It's the dystopia of the city where the tenses are confused and the unreal becomes real" says Shetty.'

'Shetty's art offers a subtle critique on the idea of the 'Museum object' as objects that were once markers of high taste or imbued with the sanctity of ritual, are now no longer relevant except as a "memory bank" as their meaning has been voided both in terms of use and symbol.'

'Shetty's work questions the premise of the Museum, any museum, its existence and the aura of authority it exudes. Shetty's art offers a subtle critique on the idea of the 'Museum object' as objects that were once markers of high taste or imbued with the sanctity of ritual, are now no longer relevant except as a "memory bank" as their meaning has been voided both in terms of use and symbol.'

'Shetty's work questions the premise of the Museum, any museum, its existence and the aura of authority it exudes.'

'Sudarshan Shetty's work employs an approach that entices the viewer through manipulations of symbolic meaning.'