TV Santosh

Heavily inspired by cinema, news media, art history and popular culture, Santhosh’s art is centred on the exploration of present-day crises. He uses images from print media, television and the internet to create eerily realist canvases replete with meaning that make strong statements about the general socio-political situation in India. “The distinctive stylistic treatment, which makes Santhosh’s paintings recognisable without being predictable, subsumes three cardinal elements: first, a mode of representation that has erroneously been termed as photo-realism; second, a strict turning of chromatic scale; and third, an incremental transfiguration of the material, by degree and detail.