Sudarshan Shetty

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Sudarshan Shetty
No Title
(from "From here to there and back again")
Medium: brass, rubber pipe
Size: 45cm x 20cm x 8cm
Year: 2010

Sudarshan Shetty’s oeuvre has been defined mostly by large sculptural installations and multi-media works. Experimenting with innumerable materials and medium his installations or assemblages use quotidian objects juxtaposed in an attempt to open up new possibilities of meaning. Eschewing straightforward devices of narrative and explicit symbolism and displaying a fascination for the mechanics of toys and mechanized objects, Shetty infuses domestic, essentially inert objects with new life. The world of everyday contraptions, objects (especially those from middle class showcases, or shop-front show windows), continues to be reconfigured from moment to moment in his work)

He often uses simple, repetitive, mechanical movements and sound in kinetic works that explore aspects of temporality. Shetty says, “The ploy is to attract the viewer and then to disenchant them with the mechanical movement.” These mechanical pieces together with scenes of domestic interiority are conceived to create places of amusement or what Shetty refers to as a ‘fairground spectacle’. Things form a gaggle of actors, their movements become acts in a play.

“The idea is definitely to bring in the activity of a market place to the fore. This is also a ploy to bring in a passerby into this arena - to seduce with the familiar.”
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