T.V Santhosh

Artville Artist Of The Day
T.V. Santhosh
UNTITLED
2005
Oil on canvas
54 x 70 in.

Through a silky, infra-red lens Santhosh creates emotional portraits in which the subject is, interestingly, part of the middle ground of the composition. Smoldering in reds and orange, the texture and color of their flesh evokes metal that glows orange as it’s heated. Tending towards imagery sourced from media coverage of terrorism and war, Santhosh provides us with provocative and challenging pieces. The inverse, monochromatic quality of the shadows and highlights allude to film negatives, suggesting an element of supervision and subjection by the media. Santosh is also an accomplished sculptor, using white fiber glass and scrolling neon messages to evoke the “banality of evil”—term coined by Hannah Arendt.

Images presented through high contrast pearly filters are characteristic of Santosh’s work. In a series of paintings from the late 2000s, red-orange and light bulb yellow is puddled with waxy, minty green impressions; the air is ablaze and the message is feverish. In the foreground “X”s and crosses and distant suns float in space as if between the subject of the piece and us the viewer, an apparition witnessed by both.
courtesy:aicongallery

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