August 29 - October 7, 2008




The Gallery Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich in collaboration with The Guild Gallery, Mumbai is presenting the Indian Raising Star T.V. Santhosh for the Season’s Opening on 29th of August 2008. The solo show entitled A Room to Pray will include paintings and one room size installation

At the turn of the 19th century, Baudelaire made a call to young artists il faut etre de son temps, which means, to be of their time.
T.V. Santhosh is one such artist.
His paintings have earned him front-place amongst the generation of Indian artists that emerged during the late 1990’s. In the earlier years Santhosh produced drawings and than moved over to works with historical references. Then came images of war – the photographs of wars have played a very significant role in formulating Santhosh’s language.His art is attentive to the specific idioms of contemporary global conflict, to the diabolical pact between knowledge and terror and the skewed antagonism between puissant globality and weakened locality.


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Avanthay Contemporary
AG, Limmatstrasse 275,
CH - 8005 Zurich
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