sudershan shetty

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9 - 27 Aug

Sudarshan Shetty returns with a show in Mumbai after 5 years.

Prone to work with large almost monumental large objects making for a whimsical world in which he engages & inhibits, the current show made specifically for the small space of Gallery Chemould looks at smaller objects. Objects that are obstensibly domestic but at the same time distanced from everyday life. Objects that express the violence and anarchy around us…of drowning lives and submerged in plastic.

Objects of our immediate surroundings like the Irani Café chair, the bent leg table are rendered unfamiliar by the interjection of other objects - brass guns, eggs, velvet, blades and scissors. So dentured fruit in a gold-fish bowl, or chairs with wooden eggs are the latest in Sudarshan Shetty's present work.

Shetty who is a prominent artist of the 90's has consistently created a new sculptureal language based on 'hybridity'. Shetty makes certain that the viewer does not remain passive but teased to respond, provoked to be amazed and thereby participate in the 'mystery' of the objects.