Sudarshan Shetty - Complete Video- Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi- National Art Week of New Media.wmv

Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (State Academy of Art) and Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi (National Academy of Art) organized National Art Week of New Media in Chandigarh from September 21 to 26, 2010. This was a 6 day event with lectures, slide shows and discussions on the new media involving most prominent signatures of art in India including Bharti Kher, Sudarshan Shetty, Thukral & Tagra, Raqs Media Collective and Art Hostorian Dr. Alka Pande along with a panel discussion with Rahul Bhattacharya, Vibha Galhotra, Dr. Awadhesh Misra and Dr. Rajesh Vyas. There are different video recordings of all of these days. All the videos are available on YouTube.

This is one of the Videos of this event.

About Sudarshan Shetty

Sudarshan Shetty (b. 1961), best known for his enigmatic and moving sculptural installations has long been recognized as his generation's most innovative conceptual artist in India. More recently he has become increasingly visible on the international stage as an important voice in contemporary art. Trained in painting, Shetty shifted to sculpture early in his career developing a sculptural language that entices the viewer by its grandiose scale and hypnotising movement while exposing the mechanics of its working in plain sight foregrounding the artifice and an aspect of 'fiction' that is involved in mounting a show.

Shetty's work engages with 'memory at large', playing with scale, multiplicity and mechanization that serves to draw the spectator into the world of the uncanny. Using an assemblage-based idiom Shetty explores the social life of objects and their capacities to offer new kinds of subjective experience. Shetty combines incongruous objects to create hybrid devices that engage with the idea of a philosophical 'loss of body' as a social and biological condition of our existence. His work often alludes to absence, not as a mere negation of presence but rather the idea of 'being elsewhere'- Empty jackets, vessels and circulating liquids all come to act for the absent body while they exhaust the viewer by the seeming futility of their repeated actions.

In 2010 Shetty opened his second solo exhibition The more I die, the lighter I get with the Tilton Gallery in New York, Shetty's work House of Shades commissioned by Louis Vuitton was unveiled at Galleria de Milano and he will have a solo exhibition this too shall pass at the Dr.Bhau Daji Lad Museum that opens this September. His work was also part of Contemplating the Void :Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, curated by Nancy Spector at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Indian Highway curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Gunnar B Kvaran at the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark, the work was earlier presented at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.In 2009 Shetty had a solo exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, and was part of a three man show India Contemporary at the Gem Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague. His work has previously been exhibited at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka and the Tate Modern, London. In 2007 the artist was a resident at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. In 2006 Shetty was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the New School for General Studies, New York.

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