Las 9 pinturas más famosas de Sudarshan Shetty, cada una única en su clase

Amor

Una máquina de escribir Braille modificada reposa sobre una mesa de madera oscura, con su brazo mecánico moviéndose con una persistencia rítmica. Golpea incesantemente una hoja de papel, produciendo la palabra única «amor» una y otra vez. Este movimiento repetitivo transforma una profunda emoción humana en una producción mecánica y carente de conciencia. El dispositivo opera con una precisión clínica que despoja al sentimiento de su espontaneidad, reduciéndolo a una…

Love

A steel dinosaur fornicating with a Jaguar car. This is the work that took centre stage in Sudarshan Shetty’s 2006 exhibition Love. In this installation, Shetty makes use of two iconic symbols: the fibreglass cast of a 1972Jaguar car which is the symbol of luxury, and a relic from the past, a dinosaur, made of steel plates.The willing car has its rear cranked up, and the dinosaur has an exaggeratedly…

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Eight Corners of the World

In Sudershan Shetty’s Eight Corners of the World series, domestic furniture and objects turn into surreal organs leaking blood or milk. Collected in troughs placed under the cabinets, the liquids are pumped back to rejoin the endless, gushing, gurgling torrent. Shetty is fascinated by machines and toys. At the same time, his work shows a deep anxiety about technology. As he says, toys and machines also seem to have a…

Eight Corners of the World

In Sudershan Shetty’s Eight Corners of the World series, domestic furniture and objects turn into surreal organs leaking blood or milk. Collected in troughs placed under the cabinets, the liquids are pumped back to rejoin the endless, gushing, gurgling torrent. Shetty is fascinated by machines and toys. At the same time, his work shows a deep anxiety about technology. As he says, toys and machines also seem to have a…

Love

In this metal sculpture by Sudershan Shetty depicting the interaction of two bovine skeletons, one creature lying on his back appears to support a female alter-ego standing above. It appears as though their flesh has withered away while they were at play and hence, they have become fossilized for posterity – a monument of love, perhaps? Even though the creatures share minimal contact there is intimacy in the representation of…

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Over the years, the Taj Mahal has become an icon of immortal love. This is a work, composed of rows of miniature steel Taj Mahals which function as bricks that create a huge wall – a visual obstruction. Sudarshan Shetty asks us to consider what the making of a cultural icon does to the object that is iconicized. The monumental wall is composed of hundreds of souvenir Taj Mahals. In…

Love

Sudarshan Shetty’s Love shows a Braille typewriter incessantly typing the word ‘love’ on a sheet of paper. The repetitive production of the word, ‘love’ directs our attention to the mindless reproduction of the text in our daily life. As Shetty says, ‘Love begins with a basic human emotion, and at the other end of the spectrum it’s also a marketable phenomenon.’1 Using a Brailler to type the text, Shetty uses…

Love

A steel dinosaur fornicating with a Jaguar car. This is the work that took centre stage in Sudarshan Shetty’s 2006 exhibition Love. In this installation, Shetty makes clever use of two iconic symbols: the fibreglass cast of a 1972 Jaguar car which is the symbol of luxury, and a relic from the past, a dinosaur, made of steel plates. The willing car has its rear cranked up, and the dinosaur…