Sudarshan Shetty / For Here or To Go / Contemporary Asian Artist - II (India)

Catalogue for a solo exhibition held at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, from September 1 - October 28, 2001.

'As a prominent member of the younger generation of Indian artists that came into its own during the 1900s, Shetty's project has been to create a new sculptural language premised on

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"hybridity". He has attempted to democratise the sculptural image, by mediating "high-art" idioms like heroic sculpture and monumental architecture with "low-art" expressive practices like puppetry, toy-making, the fairground game, the movie poster, the comic strip noi, the music video and the TV commercial. As a result of these decisions, Shetty very early moved away from conventional image-making practices and gravitated towards an assemblage-based idiom that is perhaps best described as "collapsible sculpture".'

(Abstract from essay by Ranjit Hoskote, art critic)

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